A book of Persian ethical poetry organized around the virtues required for just rule and humane conduct. Read beside the Gulistan, it shows Sa'di teaching through sustained verse as well as anecdote.
Sources for Sa'di — The Bustan of Sa'di
Sa'di — The Bustan of Sa'di in Wisdom Literature
Held in the Wisdom Literature chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Maxims of Ptahhotep (Egyptian) (−2400)
- The Instructions of Shuruppak (Sumerian) (−2600)
- Instructions of Amenemhat (Egyptian) (−1900)
- Disputations or Literary Debates (Sumerian) (−2000)
- The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer (Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, Babylonian) (−1300)
- The Story of Aḥikar (Aramaic) (−500)
- Counsels of Wisdom (Babylonian) (−1000)
- Dialogue of Pessimism (Babylonian — "Nothing Is Of Value") (−1000)
- Instructions of Šūpê-amēli (Akkadian) (−1100)
- Instructions of Kagemni (Egyptian) (−2300)
- Nig-Nam Nu-Kal — "Nothing is of Value" (Sumerian) (−2000)
- Maxims of Ali ibn Abi Talib (c. 660)
- Buddhism — The Dhammapada (−300)
- The Book of Proverbs — King James Version (1611)
- Ecclesiastes — King James Version (1611)
- Bhartrihari — The Śatakas of Bhartrihari (1886)
- Sa'di — The Gulistan; or, Rose Garden (1852)
- Seneca — Moral Epistles to Lucilius, Volume I (1917)