 The Persian text used was redacted in 14th century AD in Iran from an earlier anthology ‘Seventy Tales of the Parrot’ in Sanskrit compiled under the title Śukasaptati (a part of "katha" literature) dated to the 12th century AD.In Iran, as in India, parrots (in light of their purported conversational abilities) are popular as storytellers in works of fiction.The adventure stories narrated by a parrot, night after night, for 52 successive nights, are moralistic stories to persuade his female owner Khojasta not to commit any adulterous act with any lover, in the absence of her husband.