A collection of twelve stories from the "Tales of a Parrot", that normally includes 52 stories in total. This work in its Persian rendition was composed in 730 A.H., 1330 C.E., by Z̤iyā al-Dīn (d. 1350) whose takhalluṣ (nom de plume) was "Nakhshabī". The work was subsequently rendered into a more simple style in the 17th century C.E. by Muḥammad Qādirī. It is based on a Sanskrit work entitled Śukasaptati (Seventy Tales of the Parrot) dated to the 12th century C.E., in which the stories featured are narrated by a parrot to a woman, one story each night during a period of her husband's absence to prevent her from going out and committing adultery.