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A

CATALOGUE
OF THE

ARABIC, PERSIAN

AND HINDU'STANY

MANUSCEIPTS,
OF THE

LIBRARIES OF THE KING OF OUDH,

COMPILED

UNDER THE OEDEES OF THE GOVEENMENT OF INDIA

BY
A.

SPRENGER, M.

D.

OF THE BENGAL MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT, TRANSLATOR TO THE

GOVERNMENT OF

INDIA, ETC.

VOL.

I.

ImT a'i CONTAINING PERSIAN AND HINDU'STANY POETRY.

CALCUTTA:
PRINTED BY
J.

THOMAS, AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS.

1854.

^0 66^

4
PREFACE.
On
the 6th December, 1847, I was honored with the orders

of the Government of India appointing

me an

Extra Assistant to

the Resident at Lucnow, as a temporary measure, for the purpose of cataloguing the extensive collection of works in Arabic and

Persian literature in the king of Oudh's libraries.

was the following, " you need not confine yourself exclusively to the king's libraries, but you can undertake, as opportunity offers, the examination of some of the best

Among my

instructions

private collections in that city,

which are supposed to contain

and valuable works." I arrived at Lucnow on the 3rd of March, 1848, and I left it on the 1st January, 1850. One month I had other duties to perform and near three months I was sick. The time which I devoted to cataloguing was about eighteen months. During this
rare

many

time I examined about 10,000 volumes. .Very many of them were duplicates; but as no kind of arrangement exists, particularly in the
lect

Topkhanah

library,

and as

it is

impossible to recol-

whether or not a note has been taken of a book, duplicates

took just as
defective

much time

as

volumes which

after

new works. There much search for

are also

many

a name, date,

or title, I was obliged to throw away. Supposing then that I had worked every day ten hours (and to do this day after day in a
tropical climate is a physical impossibility) I could have devoted

only half an hour to the examination of each volume.

I was assisted in

my

labour by 'alyy Akbar of Panypat.

He

was a pupil of the Dilly College, and had not yet completed his course of study when I took him to Lucnow. I did not expect more of him than that he would copy for me such passages
as I

might mark

but he soon entered into the

service.

spirit

of the work
return from

and was of very great

Some time

after

my

iv

PREFACE.
I

recommended him to the. late Lieut. Governor of the North Western Provinces and he appointed him first Professor He died in that post in 1852, of Arabic of the Agra College.

Lucnow

about thirty years of age.

record
trious

I take this opportunity publicly to

my

sense of gratitude and esteem to this talented indus-

The Royal Library

and conscientious young man. at Lucnow was originally kept in the old
,

Palace (Purana Dawlat-khanah) which stands on an eminence between the Riimy Darwazah and the iron bridge over the Gumpty and is now nearly in ruins. It contained the whole
of the literary treasures of i/afitz

RaAmat Khan, and was

subsequently
iJaydar.

much
it is

enriched more particularly by Ghaziy aldyn

At

present

divided into three collections.

The valuable

works upwards of three thousand volumes are preserved in a garden house of the Moty Ma/tall Palace, and elegant books are kept close to the FaraA-bakhsh Palace in which the
literary
late

king used to
Majesty.

reside.
less,

This collection contains about one

thousand volumes or
late

and formed the private library of His The Daroghah thereof superintends the other

librarians.

Books, in these two collections were kept in shelves,

when
lately,

I was at Lucnow, and were in tolerably good order, but

I hear, they have been given up to pillage.

third collection
to the house
is

The
close

in the

Topkhanah or

arsenal,

which
is

is

of the British Resident.

The

arsenal
filled

an

extensive building including a large square which

is

with
are

guns.

Three sides of the building are devoted to military

up-stairs
is

stores,

and in the northern wing

at the

the library.

The books
;

kept in about forty dilapidated boxes

camel

trunks

which are
and any
visit

same time tenanted by

prolific families of rats

admirer of oriental lore

this collection will

who may have an

opportunity to

do well to poke with a stick into the boxes,

hand into them, unless he be a zoologist as well At the end of the hall there are bags full of books completely destroyed by white ants. Even new books have not been spared by these destructive insects, nearly the whole
before he puts his
as

an

orientalist.

and most of the remaining copies of the Haft Qulzum have had the same fate. The number of volumes in this collection is very great, and among
edition of the Taj alloghat has been destroyed,

PREFACE.
them
It

V
for the brave

are

some Pashtu works written with great care

chief.

and learned Rohilla

is

unfortunately the habit of the king's people merely to

count the volumes, and to

make

the librarian responsible for the

numbers not diminishing. The consequence is that many good books have been abstracted and bad ones put in their place. There arc at least one hundred copies of the Gulistan and as many of Yiisof u Zalykha in the Topkhanah, which apparently I have heard that a late fill the places of more valuable works. librarian sold in one week eleven hundred Rupees worth of books
to provide funds for the marriage of his daughter.

to speak highly of the present

In making this statement I beg to say that I have every reason Daroghahs or librarians, and that

I consider

them

perfectly honest.

They
like

are very civil

men, more

particularly one of the

two

librarians in the

much
library

to be regretted that

men

Topkhanah, and it is him had not charge of the

from the commencement.

strictly

Though not

connected with the subject, the reader will

perhaps be glad to obtain some information regarding the

printing offices.

Lucnow

Ghaziy aldyn Uaydar founded a typography

at great expense,
it

and one of the works

the Haft Qulzumwhich issued from

it

has attained a greater celebrity in Europe than

enjoys in India.

Besides this Dictionary, the following books have been printed

Lucnow v-^W, The praise of Ghaziy aldyn Zfaydar, by A^mad Shirwany, 1235, small folio, 200 pp.
in types at

%>*i^J

in Arabic,

Akhtar oos^

by 288 pp. Ai^o^tf. An account in Persian prose and verse of the meeting of Lord Hastings and Ghaziy aldyn i/aydar, by Akhtar,
(see

^iijp.

a^Ls^ a

similar

work

in Persian prose and verse,

folio,

page 599 infra), 1238, small

1239, 8vo. 131 pp. Panj surah or the

prayers,
s.

a.

Surahs of the Qoran usually repeated in 4to. printed in the form of a Toghra.
five

Taj alloghat, an Arabic

Dictionary explained in Persian, in

seven volumes, large

in types,
;

folio,

only four volumes have been printed

I.

s.

a.

the remaining three have been lithographed, Vol.

725 pp. Vol. II. 624 pp. ; Vol. III. 252 pp. ; Vol. IV. 176 pp. Vol. V. 594 pp.; Vol. VI. 408 pp.; Vol. VII. 138 pp.

VI

PREFACE.

lithographic printing office at

About the year 1830, Mr. Archer who had established a Cawnpore came at the request of Nayr aldyn 1/aydar to Lucnow with his press and entered his
service.

The first book lithographed at Lucnow is the *J^/ % being a commentary on the Alfyyah, by Soyiify, 1247, 8vo. 247 pp.

When

was

at

Lucnow

there were twelve private lithographic

Mohammad f/bsayn and Moctaf a Khan were by far the best. Some editions of the former In 1849, Kamal aldyn iJaydar, Munare particularly correct.
presses in that city.

Those of #ajy

shiy to the observatory, wishing to ingratiate himself at court,

wrote a history of the Royal family of Oudh.

abolished and printing was forbidden at

Two

passages hap-

pened to displease His Majesty, and instantly the observatory was

Lucnow,

lest this objec-

tionable production might be published.

The

proprietor of the

MasyMy

press

went on the suggestion of the author of these pages

and most otherprinters followed him. Some however, among them Moctafa Khan, managed to keep at the same time an establishment at Lucnow. As they usually put, on the title page only, the name of the press and not of the place, it is not
to Cawnpore,

always possible to determine whether a book was printed at Lucor Cawnpore if it has been published after the Exodus. The number of works lithographed at Lucnow and Cawnpore may amount to about seven hundred. Some of them have gone through more than ten editions. The books most in request are of course school books and such other dialectical and religious tracts as every Mawlawy reads or pretends to read. But we already observe symptoms that the press is enlarging the narrow cycle of learning, and, what is more important, that it extends education to all classes and even to ladies. Twenty years ago verses of the Qoran were repeated as prayers and charms, and even the whole book was learned by heart, but without being understood, and the Sunnah was almost unknown in our days
;

now

people are gradually beginning to study the book, and I shall have
to describe several commentaries

on

it

in Arabic, Persian

Hindustany which have

traditions or

lately

been published.

and The study of the

that of the Qoran.

published in

Sunnah is making even more rapid progress than Not only have the principal collections been Arabic but we have Persian and Hindustany trans-

PREFACE.
lations of the

vii

Mishkat and Mashariq alanwar which have gone through more than one edition. After the Musalmans had,
several centuries ago, entirely lost sight of the original idea of
their religion, they are
intelligible to all.

now beginning

to

make

their sacred

books

This must lead to results, analogous to those

which the translation and study of the Bible produced in Europe. One of the most remarkable results of the progress of printing
is

the rapid increase of periodical and light literature.

is

India is the
entirely free,

only country in the old continent in which the press

and there
religious

is

hardly a town in the upper provinces in which there

are not several newspapers published.

Of

late, several tales

and

works written expressly

sale.

for ladies

have been printed, and

literature

seem to meet with a rapid

is

Though the new

which
art of

rising has not

much

intrinsic value, things are progressing

as rapidly

printing

and came

as healthily as they did in Europe,

first

when the
is is

into vogue.

The tendency

oriental

and

Mo^ammadan, but
itself,

already a spirit of liberality

manifesting

which

is

the natural result of progress from school-learn-

ing and court refinement to a general civilization.

It

was

originally intended that this

volume should comprise

was to contain Persian grammars, dictionaries, letters and letter-forms and works in elegant prose, the fifth, the corresponding Hindustany books, and the
last three, translations

eight chapters, the fourth of which

from the Sanskrit and Hindy into Persian or Hindustany, and Turky (Chaghatay) and Pushtu books. It was further intended to add an appendix containing omissions and a
table of the contents of Walih,

to conclude the

Khoshgu, the A'tishkadah, &c. and volume with three indexes, one of proper names, one of book-titles, and one of initial lines. But before the third chapter had been put to press the compiler was obliged to apply
for leave of absence

on
is

sick certificate for

its

two

years,

and to content Should

it

himself with publishing the book in

present form.

be continued, what

wanting in this volume will be added to the

second ; which in addition will contain the biographies and writings of Arabic lexicographers, grammarians, poets

and elegant

prose writers.
sciences

The remaining volumes will be devoted to the of the Musalmans in the third, for instance, will be
:

described the biographies and works of

lines

or mystical philo-

sophers and theologists.

Vlll

PREFACE.

In transcribing oriental names and words into English, I have adopted the principle which is followed in transcribing from one European language into another. A Frenchman spells
Pile and Gueute and however erroneously they may pronounce these names, know what persons are meant. This is the object. Writing is a symbol for the eye, aud pronunciation must be acquired by
his readers,

Brougham, Peel and Goethe, and not Broum,

the ear.

I have substituted for every Arabic and Persian letter

letter, in

Roman

have new types

cast, it

some instances however, as I did not choose to was unfortunately necessary' to employ
;

two

Roman representatives for one oriental symbol, as ch= ^ sh= cA zh= J dh= <> th= & dz= > tz= . The
j
;
;

hamzah
at
all,

is

rendered by a

diaeresis, alif
if

where

it

is

of any use

and the quiescent w,

;

preceded by an u, are represented

by an accent
vowel, the
i

<^

is

which precedes

always expressed by y and if it is a long it is omitted as " fy." For expressing

(')

the 'ayn an apostrophe

is

used, and with a view to impress

like

upon the reader that in words

and the vowel the second

'amr or

'ysa,

'ayn

is

the

first

letter, I

do not use a A.

capital a or y.

SPRENGER.

THE FIRST CHAPTER.

BIOGRAPHIES OF PERSIAN AND URDU

POETS.

(0
hammad
in

^ > *** <-*a^ ^UH\ vM

5

(?)
by Mo-

The marrow
'awfy.

of the productions of intellect

He

tells

us in folio

155 that he was

Nasa and met Majd aldyn the author of a Shahanshah-namah, and we have from him besides this
600
at

work, a collection of historical anecdotes

which,
in 625.
it

ei>l>Ks'l

jmU*

is

stated in the preface thereto, he compiled

It is therefore clear that

he flourished towards

the end of the sixth and in the beginning of the seventh

century of the Hijrah, and wrote this book after the

year 600.
It

would appear that he was a native of

the Seljuq Princes was the capital
is

Marw which under

of Persia.

In the seventh chapter

an account of his
copy of Marw,

grandfather and of one of his maternal uncles, both of

whom

were according to Mr. B.

Elliott's

but according to mine of Ma-wara-lnahr.

dedicated to

The book

is

the

Wazyr
calls

'ayn

almulk Abu-1-Makarim
Ash'ary.

i^osayn

b.

Radhyy aldawlah Abii Bakr

/Zajy

Khalyfah No. 2821,

the author erroneously

Moham-

mad //awfy.
B

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
This
is

[CHAP.
I

I.

the most ancient Tadzkirah that

believe the author, the first

have seen,

and,

if

we

that has been

compiled.

As
The

the

title

indicates,

it is

rather an antho-

logy than a biographical work.

chapters.
first

It is divided into

12

four chapters treat on the meaning

fill

and origin of poetry and

only 8 pages.

The

fifth

and sixth chapters contain notices of Kings, Princes

and
32

Wazyrs who have written

and the
latter

poetry, the former

fills

60 pages.

7th Chapter:

Imams and

other eminent

men who
but

distinguished themselves by their poetical talents

were not poets by profession, 70 pages.

8th

Chapter:

(twelve)

Poets
families,

of the

courts

of the

^ahir, Layth and

Saman

8 pages.
;

9th

Poets of the court of the N&cir family, (28 poets

28 pages.)
1

Oth

Poets

who were

patronized by the Seljiiq princes

;

to the pages.)

end of the reign of Sul/an Sa'yd, (39 poets

92

11th Chapter:

Poets from the time of Sanjar (who

died in A. H. 552) to the present reign.

12th

Chapter: Poets

at

the

court

of the

present

sovereign.

A
Vol.

very

full

and learned notice of this work has been

given by Mr. N. Bland, Journ. Royal As. Soc. London,

IX

p.

112.
first

Beginning of the
The
tion.

chapter

&**

,#*

M*yt

only copy which I have seen of this book

It is a 4to of

is in

a private collec-

in

336 pp. 23 lines an elegant hand and tolerably correct

in a page.
;

It is old, written

but of the preface two or

It

three and at the end

line of the

many pages

are wanting.
is

ends with the

first

biography of Nitzamy and

probably the same copy

No.

1.]

MOHAMMAD
copy
is

'AWFY.

3
Besides

which has been used by the author of the Khizdnah 'amir ah.
this only one

known

to exist,

it

belongs to Mr. B. Elliott and has

been described by Mr. Bland, loco

cit.

Contents of the 8th, 9th and 10th Chapters.

Eighth Chapter.
1.

Poets of the

Tdhir, Layth

and Sdmdn Dynasties.

Layth.

/Zakym Zfantzalah Badaghysy.

/Zakym Fayruz Mostawfiy,
flourished

2.

under 'amr

b.

Poets of the Sdmdn Dynasty.

3.
4.

Shaykh

Abii-1-JYasan

Shahyd Balkhy.

5.
6.
7.

Abu Sho'ayb QaliA b. Mohammad Herawy. Ustad Abu 'abd Allah Mohammad Riidegy.
Shaykh
Abi'i-1-' abbas

al-Fadhl b. 'abbas

^^jJf

Shaykh Abu

Zarra'at Mo'izzy Jorjany.

8.
9.

10. 11.
12.

Abii-1-Motzaffar Na^ b. Mohammad ^jUa^i Nayshapiiry. Ami 'abd Allah Mohammad b. 'abd Allah /onaydy. Ami Man^r 'omarah b. Mohammad Marwazy. Abii Mowayyad Balkhy. Abu Mowayyad Bokhary.

Ninth Chapter.
13.
14.
15.

Poets of the Nd^ir Dynasty.

b.

Abii-1-

Qasim /Zasan

AAmad 'on^ry.
T

Abu-1-Qasim Firdawsy 7 usy.

i/akym Kasayiy Marwazy.

Zynaty 'alawy MaAmiidy, a lady.

16.
17.

Kisby Radyny Adyby.

Abii Soraqah 'abd
Najjar.

18.

al-RaAman

b.

AAmad Balkhy

Amyny

19.

Abii Sa'yd

20.
21.

Abii-l-Motzaffar

Abii

AAmad b. MoAammad Manshury Samarqandy. Makky b. Ibrahym 'alyy al-Najhyr. MoAammad 'abd Allah b, MoAammad called Riizdih
Abii-1-.ffasan 'alyy b.
b.
Jiilii'

Balkhy.
22.
23.
24.

Ustad

j-Jj*

Farrokhy Sanjary.

Abii Natzar 'abd al'azyz

Man9iir 'asjady Marwazy.

Abii-lnajm

AAmad

b. ^s-y b.

AAmad Manuchihry,

25.

Ustad Abu-l-//asan 'alyy Bihramy Sarakhsy.

B 2

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
26.

[CHAP.

I.

27.

Imam 'abd al-RaAman b. Mohammad Abu 'abd Allah Ruziyah (Euzbeh ?)

Lahor.

'uMridy.
b. 'abd

Allah

J&J\

of

28. 29.

Abu Zayd
Al-#arith

b.

MoAammad
-

'alyy 'acayiry (Ghadhayiry).

Hb^y^

b MaAqid l/aqiiry Herawy.

30.
31. 32.

Abu Mancur

'abd al-Rashyd b.

AAmad b.

Abii Yusof Herawy.

The daughter of Ka'b Fardary.

Mas'iid Razy.

33.
34.

Motzaffar ByAaddy.

Kawkaby

Bariizy iSJlr!

35. 36.
37.

Holaylah Faniy.
Nac^r Laghwy.
Abii-l-Layth Tayry.

38.
39.
40.

MoAsin Qazwyny.
Ibn

AAmad Badry Ghaznawy.

Bihriiz Tayry.

Tenth Chapter.
I.

Poets of the Seljuqians.

Poets of Khordsdn.

41.

Mo'izzy.

42.

JSakym Abu-1-MaAasin Azraqy Herawy.

'abd al-Wasi' Jabaly al-Adyb.

43. 44.
45.

Fakhr aldyn Khalid

b.

al-Eaby'

Makky.
(or Samayiy)

iZakym Mafamid
Fotti&y

b. 'alyy

Samany

Marwazy.

46.
47.

Marwazy Athyr

aldyn.

Shihab aldyn Abu-1-lTasan TaUah.

Taj aldyn Isma'yl of Bakharz.

48.
49. 50.
51.

Hakym

'alyy b.

AAmad

Sayfy Nayshapury.

Bafyqy Marwazy.
Abu. iZanyfah Iskaf of Marw.
II.

Poets of Md-ward-lnahr.

52.

Ustad Abii

Mohammad Arshady Samarqandy.

b. 'alyy Stizany.

53.
54.
55.

Shihab aldyn 'am'aq (5*** Bokhary.

Mohammad
Dihqan

'alyy Shoratfy.

56.
57.

Najm

aldyn Nitzamy 'anidhy Samarqandy.

J2amyd aldyn Jawhary Mostawfiy.

NO.

1.]

MOHAMMAD
III.

'AWFY.

Poets of the Hrdq.

58. 59.
60. 61. 62. 63.

Tzafar Hamadany.
Qafartin 'adhodhy Tabryzy.

The .Hassan of the Persians Khaqany

Athyr Akhsykaty.

iZaqayiqy.

Badr aldyn Qiwamy Eazy.

Abii-1-FaraA (Faraj ?)

Eumy.

64.
65.

Sa'yd Tayiy.

Fakhr aldyn As'ad Jorjany.

66.

Kuhbary Tabary.
IV.
Poets of Ghaznah.

67.

Abii-1-Faraj b.

Mas'ud Biiny ^)J\ was born and educated

at Lahor. 68.

Sa'd aldawlah Mas'ud (b.) Sa'd (b.) Solayman.

69.
70.

Majd aldyn Adam Nasayiy Ghaznawy. TJstad 'imad aldyn Ghaznawy 'imady.
Sayyid Jamal aldyn

71.

Mohammad
b.

b.

Nacir 'alawy.

72.
73.
74.

Sayyid Ashraf aldyn .Hasan

Nacir 'alawy.

Shihab aldyn 'alyy Ghaznawy.

75.

76.
77.
78. 79.

Abu Bakr b. Mohammad b. 'alyy EuAany. Mohammad b. 'othman *J$&\ >l| Sa'd aldyn Mas'ud Nawky

J^

'abd al-Majyd 'abhary.

Isma'yl b. Ibrahym Ghaznawy called ik*+**iu*ty)

Jamal aldyn Nacir Shamsah called Kafirake Ghaznyn.

Tenth Chapter,
I.

Poets of Khordsdn.

80.
81.

Tzahyr aldyn Faryaby.

Shams aldyn MoAammad

JBTakym

b.

'abd al-Karym Tabyby.

82.
83. 84. 85. 86. 87.

Mohammad

b.

'omar Farqady.

Majd aldyn Abu-1-Barakat. Mo'yn aldyn Sirajy Balkhy.

Jamal aldyn

Mohammad

b. 'alyy Sirajy.

Dhiya aldyn 'abd

al-Eafi' b. al-Fat&

Herawy.

Majd aldyn

Abii-1-Sanjary {jj*~^\ y.\ {Sic) fandaly.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
88.

[CHAP.

I.

Faryd aldyn
Sayyid

'attar
i.

Nayshapury.
e.

89.
90.

Bu

'alyy,

Abu
b.

'alyy b. iZbsayn

Marwazy.

Majd aldyn iss~^\ iSj>^\

Abu-1-Fadhl 'othman

91.

AAmad Herawy.
b. al-A'azz Sanjary.

92.
93. 94.
95.

Faryd aldyn Jasus

alaflak 'alyy Sanjary the Astrologer.

Shams aldyn Mobarak-shah

'ajyby Juzjany.

Bady' aldyn Turku J> Sanjary.

96.
97.

98. 99.

Majd aldyn Grhayraty. Shams Dihistany. Ifamyd aldyn Dihistany. IZakym Abu Bakr b. Mohammad Balkhy
II.

"Wa'itzy.

Poets of Md-ward-lnahr.

100. 101.
102.

Mowayyad aldyn Mowayyad.

Shihab aldyn

AAmad

b.

al-Mowayyad Samarqandy.

Baha aldyn Karymy Samarqandy.

Latyf aldyn Zakyy of Maraghah.
Sa'd aldyn

103. 104.
105.

Kany Bokhary.
b.

Shams aldyn Mohammad

aJIa &*aJl. this is

Mowayyad IZaddady
L* {^j*>

called

explained by

106. 107.

Bokhary IZakym Shamsy. Majd aldyn Fahymy Bokhary, though an illiterate man was

IZakym Shams
a good poet.

ala'raj

108.
109.
110.

'ajyby Khojandy.

Sayyid Ashrafy Samarqandy.

Acyl aldyn Najyb.

III.

Poets of the

'irdq.

111.

iZakym Nitzamy of Ganjah.

(2)

^cU
on his
life

U^S J^Jy
who
see the next chapter).

(P.)

The

spring garden of Jamy,

died in A. H. 898,

(for a notice

It is divided into

eight chapters &#

or rules
:

each of which

contains eight

Ayyns

Anecdotes of Saints

Nos.
2.

2, 3.]

Anecdotes and sayings of Sage9

and anecdotes of them

5.

On

love

3.

Advice

to rulers

4.

On

liberality

and generosity

6.

On kindness

and amiability

biographies of twenty-eight poets

7.

Short

8.

Fables.

Beginning

jfjpi

1**^****^#&))**

j^j^J^t^s'^j^^j^^
lines,

As. Soc. B. No. 500, 8vo. 158 pp. of 17

an old copy.

Ex-

tracts from the last two chapters are contained in the Anthologia

Persica, Vienna, 1778.

tion has been published

The whole of the text with a Grerman translaby Baron Schlechta Wssehrd, Vienna, 184G.

(3)
Tadzkirah,
'ala
i.

aladjd
e.

lJu^J

U& \f
He
and wazyr

(P)
b.

Memoranda
it

of poets by Dawlat-shah

aldawlah Bakhty-shah.

completed this book in

A. H. 892, and dedicated

'alyy Shyr.
It appears

to the poet

Myr

from the preface that Dawlat-shah

this labour.

was

fifty

years of age
is

when he commenced

The book
c^UaI?

divided into a preface *^>^&< which con-

tains notices of nine Arabic poets

and seven chapters,

poets and

answering to the spheres of the seven planets, and a

conclusion.

Each chapter contains about twenty

are J amy, 'alyy Shyr, A'cafy

the conclusion contains the lives of six contemporaries,

among them
This
is

and Sohayly.

one of the
It

best

known

and most useful

historical
details

Tadzkirahs.

contains valuable

besides the biography of poets.

this

Ilahy p. 121, says on

:

book and

its

author

" Dawlat-shah
is

his

tadz-

kirah contains

180 biographies and

very celebrated.

Though he does not quote many good

cal

verses, the histori-

and biographical portion of

his

work

is

done in a

masterly manner and shows informs us in his

much

research, 'alyy
is

Shyr
of

Tadzkirah that he

the cousin

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Isfarayiny,

[CHAP.

I.

Amyr Fayruz
Initial line

who was
is

a distinguished man.

The Takhallu9 of Dawlat-shah

'alayiy."

ls^^^

***>}

/$%

*&

yU*U

*$

^s^^
Mafoill.

Copies are not frequent, yet there are five in the

Moty

The best *s*

is

written in Naskhy, and has 626 pages of 17 lines.

is

beautifully written but incorrect copy

*i^*- /i3
is

inscribed

ji

ail&AA

e^-b

The preface
title.

differs

from that of other copies and

it is

the book

defective, but in other respects

a copy of Dawlat-

shah under a different

B. No. 537.
siens

There

is

also a copy in the As. Soc.

Hammer's

Geschichte der schbnen Bedehiinste Per-

may be

considered a free translation of Dawlat-shah.

De

Sacy

has given a notice of this Tadzkirah in the Notices et Extraits. IV.

pp.

220

272.

Vullers has published the

life

of Hafitz from

it,

Giessen 1839, and J. H. Harington the Life of Sa'dy in his edition

of the works of that poet, Calcutta, 1791.

(4)

^sCn$*

{sfi^

A lJu^J> cb>J^'

J*==^

(P)

The mirror

of souls or spirits, probably

by i/osayn
in the

Mo'yn aldyn Maybodzy who flourished

tury of the Hijrah.
preface but
it is

in the tenth cen-

His name does not occur

found towards the end of the book.

These

are selections

from Persian and Turky poets

without biographical notices except in a very few instances.

The

Persian poets are Firdawsy with a short

vocabulary, 'accar,

Nitzamy, Kamal Khojandy, Sa'dy,

Salman Sawajy, i/asan Dihlawy,

Amyr Khosraw,Anwary,

Shaykh-zadah Lahijy (Commentator of the Gulshane Raz),

Faryd aldyn
ry, Jainy, &c.

'a#ar,

Khaqany, Tzahyr aldyn Faryaby,

Isma'yl Ispahany, Jalal aldyn

Rumy, Ma^miid

Shabishte-

No.

5.]

ladies' biography.
Poets are;

The Turky

Myr

'alyy

Shyr Nawayiy,

Yiisof Beg, Warily,

Beginning cu-l

^ &f

Fodhuly Baghdady, Nasymy, &c.

^j&rtf
')

*^

^)
old correct

As. Soc. Beng. No. 577, 8vo., 824 pp. 17

copy.

lines.

An

(5)

\>yv\

^ \Jtj& L_ft~^J
of Herat.

\*J&*P\ jAj*

(P.)

Gems
Fakhry
he

of curiosities being a Tadzkirah of poetesses

b.

by

Amyry

The author

informs us that

with the intention to perform the pilgrimage to Makkah,

came during the reign of Shah Tahmasb -HTosayny

930
to 984) to Sind, the ruler of that coun'ysa

(reigned from
try

was then
it

Mohammad

Tarkhan
this
this

(died in

974,)

and

would appear that he wrote

book

at his Court.
title

Ilahy

who

frequently
or "

quotes

book under the

of iUjJI

%jS<>

Biography of Ladies" gives the follow:

ing notice of Fakhry

"

Fakhry Herawy was a

this is the
article.''

friend of

Myr

'alyy Shyr.

Some say

same Fakhry who

In the

has been mentioned in the preceding

preceding article he says, " Sul/an

whose takhalluc

is

Fakhry, was a distinguished

and lived to the time of

this sovereign in his

MoAammad Amyry, man Shah Tahmasb. He praised

is

poems and he

the Translator of

Amyr

'alyy Shyr's

Tadzkirah

called

Majdlis alnafdyis*

from Turky into Persian.

He

added notices of some

Myr

'alyy

Shyr the author of the Majdlis completed

in

it

in

903 ac-

cording to
906.

Hammer, and

896 according to iTajy Khalyfah, and died in

441 biographies.
it,

The Chagatay text is divided into eight parts Majdlis and contains Baron von Hammer-Purgstall, who possesses a copy of has given a notice of the work and a list of the biographies in the cata-

logue of his library.

W.

Jahrb. Vol. 74, Anzbl.

p. 11, 1836.

10
poets of the

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
second period.

[CHAP.
the

I.

He

is

also

author
the

of the Bostan alkhayal

J^' ^^. which

contains

ma/la's of the ghazals of various poets of his age."

It will

be observed that Fakhry and

Amyry

are one

and the same person according to this passage, whereas according to the Tadzkirah under notice, Fakhry was the
son of Amyry.
that

In a note to

p.

263 Ilahy says

equally,

Fakhry Sultan Mohammad was a son of Amyry, that he translated the Majdlis alnafdyis and that he gave The author to the translation the title Latdyif ndmah.
of the Kholacah says of this work, "

Among

the works of

Myr

'alyy

Shyr

is

the Majdlis alnafdyis which he wrote

in the

Turky language. Mawlana Sul/an Mohammad

has translated
it

Amyry
many

into Persian

and has added

at

the end one Majlis.

This book contains an account of

poets and learned

men who

flourished from

the

reign of Sa'yd
It will

Shahrokh
Majdlis
is

to the time of

Shah Isma'yl."
probably

be observed that according to this author the transof the

lator

was Amyry.
'alyy Shyr,

This

is

correct,

Amyry

the translator of the Majalis, and a

contemporary of

Myr
is

and

his son

Fakhry

is

the author of this Tadzkirah.

In the preface
*&i w^^aS/o

the following chronogram y?

t/*
**id

j,

j^i.

wJli T*J& &y^j I SUSpeCt there is a mistake in it and would propose to read the M As I saw mysecond micra' *J^o ^o'^k j ^ a*a Mfi
^ +C <UA;

self

absent from myself on account of you, in like

I

man-

ner

saw the date of

yiAj

all sorrow without misfortunes!'

This would make 1090143=947.

Beginning

^\

Jtfl*

^&a>

JL&

e^*J^ ^s"
MSS.

Topkhanah, 8vo. 143 pp. of 17

lines,

a neat but incorrect

No.

5.]

ladies' biography*

11
ladies,

It contains the

names of the following

most of

whom
1.

are of Tatar origin, and

some of them have written

Turky poetry
By by
iZayat
ci>Ixa.

^^ the wife of Qiwara aldyn iZasan, she

was witty and

2.

initiated in ma'rifat (theosophy).

Mihry lsj** a
Moghtil

favourite wife of Shahrokh Myrza. See Kholdg.

N. 634.
3.

Khatym

f*^ Jj**

wife of

Mohammad Khan

Shay-

bany and mother of

Mohammad BaAym

Sultan.

Only Turky verses

are quoted of her in the Tadzkirah.

4.

Abaq Bygah Jalayr J4&A

a brother of 'alyy Shyr.

*%

<j^ daughter of the

Amyr

'alyy

Jalayr and sister of .Hasan 'alyy Jalayr, was married to

'alyy,
5.

Darwysh

Nihany
is

^^

a sister of the poet

Khwajah Afdhal, whose

is

takhalluc
6.

Dywan.
(? in

Byby Pycha

one instance the name

spelled *^~J

and

in another **>,)
7.

was acquainted with Jamy and knew astrology.

'icmaty t^***^ was of Khaf, of which place her brother,

is

who

was equally a poet and whose takhalluc

8. 9.

Hakimy, was governor.

Bydily

^^ the

wife Shaykh 'abd Allah

Dywanah
at

of Herat.

The

daughter of the Qadhiy ^r^j**** of Samarqand.

10.
>bLp,,>.

The daughter of the Amyr Yadgar, who resided

Dughabad

Her name was Fakhr

alnisa

and her Takhalluc Nisay ti"^

11.
12.

Partawy isAi f Tabryz. Sayyid Begam ^. ** a daughter of Sayyid .Hasan Karih tJ6
is

of Astrabad. She was married to Shah-Malik whose takhalluc

13. 14. 15.

Malik.

daughter of Grhazzaly Yazdy (who was equally a poet).

Xrzuy \S>)& of Samarqand. Dha'yfy u*i*" a contemporary of Byby Arzuy.

16.
17.
18.

Atun oyt
Hijaby c^

wife of the poet Baqayiy.

a daughter of Badr aldyn Hilary.

'iffaty &*** of Isfarayin a slave woman of Xdzory. Fatimah Khatun, a daughter of Darwysh-zadah, who was a brother of Qiyam aldyn Sabzwary and whose takhalluc was Dusty.

19.

20.

Nizdy

lS*s> a relation of

Mawlana

A'hy (or Ahly ?) wrote in

Turky.

c 2

12

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

(6)

lsjx\

y?j*

cJu^J <^aJ| &**

b.

(P.)

present for

iiZabyb (friend) being a collection of

ghazals from the best authors by Fakhry

Amyry who
A^af.
alphabeti-

has been mentioned in the preceding notice dedicated to the

Wazyr i^abyb Allah who had the title of The poems are chosen with great taste and
Beginning/^
J*> *+*>
]

cally arranged.

? $H **/** ) b *rr^* *S^* y f U ^

;

Moty Ma&all

a splendid copy 8vo. 640 pp. 14 lines

lines.

Topkhanah

about 700 pp. 17

(7)

^L
present of

W
Shah Isma

(P.)

The
Myrza

Sam being
yl in

a biography of the contem-

poraneous poets of Persia, compiled

b.

by the Prince Sam

yl the father

Shah Isma

957

of the author was the founder of the

Cafawy Dynasty.

This book has been described by de Sacy, in the Notices

et

Extraits des
It
is

MSS.

Vol. IV. pp.

273308.

divided into seven

notices

chapters ^.=z*.

four

contain

of Princes, Nobles,

The first Wazyrs and

learned

men who have

occasionally written poetry, begin-

ning with Shah Isma'yl, 184 pages.

5th Chapter.

On

professional poets and

It

men

distin-

guished by eloquence.
6th.
7th.

begins with Jamy, 162 pages.

written Persian poetry.

Tatars

who have

Appendix.

This and the preceding chapters

together have only 34 pages.

The book

is

valuable for containing contemporaneous

accounts, and

may

be considered as a continuation of
;

Dawlat-shah's Tadzkirah

it

contains in

all

664 poets.

NO.

8.]

TAQYY ALDYN

KA'SHY.

13
*U

Beginning

^1

J%*!

ia>U*aj
is

^ Ji J# jW)
Moty
Ma7jall.

In the FaraA-bakhsh library

of 15 lines.

an elegant copy small 8vo. 350 pages

is

Another good copy

in the

(8)

JMjd\j6Uh^j6V\to>j)J*iM\l'!te>

p -)

The mad

butter of poems and the cream of conceits being

a Tadzkirah of Persian poets by

b. Sharaf aldyn 'alyy

Taqyy aldyn MohamHosayny Zkikry. He was

born at Kashan about A. H. 946.

in giving us the dates

He is

very particular

on which he completed various

In

portions of his

work.

985 be completed

in four

volumes notices of the poets who had lived before his

time and in 993 he added a volume containing biographies of contemporaneous poets after he had spent fourteen years on the completion of his work.
his

friend of
:

embodied

this date in the following

chronogram

When

the five books of the Biographer

Taqyy were
letters of the

deposited in volumes like a treasury I added to fix the

date five to the Jive books of Taqyy."

The

Persian words forJive books of

value 988 and
if

Taqyy have

the numerical
date.

you add

five,

you have the above

After the completion of the work he made

many additions
*j}

and in 1016, he informs

a
i.

us,

he found

it

necessary to publish

new edition
e.

in six

volumes and the words

o'di^

o~

six volumes are required give precisely the date of

this

new edition. The book is divided

and a conclusion

into an introduction four chapters

lj>j

*JU>.

14

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

The

introduction treats on the utility of the

love.

work and

on mystical

The

author enters on the latter sub-

ject at great length.

1st

Chapter.

Fifty-four

ancient

poets

beginning
chiefly

from the time of Sabaktegyn.

qacydahs.
century.

They composed

The

latest of

them

flourished in the eighth

2nd.

Poets

who

excelled in the ghazal (Lyric poetry)

and some of the

later of that class of poets

who com-

posed chiefly qacydahs.

Forty-two poets, most of

whom

flourished in the eighth century but

some

at the begin-

ning of the ninth.

3rd.

Forty-nine modern poets most of

whom

wrote

ghazah and were of the ninth century; some few of

them

are of the tenth century of the Hijrah.

4th.

One hundred and one

poets

who

flourished from

the time of Sul/an ii/bsayn Mirza to the time of the author.

The appendix &*JU. contains notices of contemporaneous poets, many of whom the author knew personally. They are divided into twelve chapters, according to the
towns or provinces in which they were born.
Second Edition an alphabetical
list

In the
is

of poets

added,

who

sent to

him specimens of

their compositions after the

book had been completed.

This work contains the
thousand verses and in
est critical

fullest biographical details, the

less

most copious and best chosen extracts, (seldom

all

than a

350,000 couplets,) the sound-

and most exact and complete bibliographical

;

remarks on the Persian poets

instances, to

the author seems, in

all

have consulted their Dywans, and to have

collected all the information respecting

them he

could,

the only fault

is

that he dwells at too great a length on

No.

9.]

TAQYY ALDYN

KA'sHY.

15

the love

adventures of the subjects of his biography

which are generally most disgusting.

of this
Soc. London, Vol. IX. p. 126.

very

full

account

work has been given by Mr. Bland, Journ. As.

&$

Beginning -^ -ja*
In the Moty Ma^all
of the
first

^UJ y

s^^yt}^.
last,)

library,

two volumes, (the third and the

edition are preserved.

1004, and therefore

They were executed before the second edition was made.

in A.

H.

They are

in 4to., have 25 lines in a page, the writing is small but very correct,

and there are two

distiches in a line.

The

third volume, which

contains the second chapter, has 860 pages, and the last, which contains the whole of the conclusion, has 750 pages.

Mr. Hall of

Benares possesses a copy of the

first

edition of the appendix, which

was copied A. H. 993.

It

is

a splendid

MS.

folio

622 pp. of 24

lines,

two bayts

in a line.

(9)

(P.)

An

abridgment of the second edition of the preceding

himself.

work apparently made by the author

abridgment
differs

This

only so far from the original work

that the specimens of poetry are omitted.

The
^

biogra-

phical details, introduction, &c. are literally the same.

Beginning of the

first

volume ~j**

*$

ef^

*u^a)ja>

Beginning of Appendix

\j

<sj^^^ ^*&

i/^i*" ) *****

Moty
and

Ma&all, small

folio,

868 pages, 25

lines in a page,

good hand

correct, copied in 1040.

Table of contents.
First Rokn.
1.

Abu-1-Qasim ITbsayn IZakym 'ongory died in 441.

2. 3.

IZakym Abii-lnajm Manuchihry died

Abu-1-IZasan 'alyy
b.

in 483.

Qulu'

^y

Farrokhy Sanjary Systany

died in 470.

16
4.
5.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Hakjm Asady
Abii-1-Mo'yn
p.

[CHAP.

I.

Tuny.
JST&gir b.

Khosraw

b. iZarith b. 'alyy (in the

A'tishk.

265

is

'ysa instead of 'alyy, see also Bland, Journ. As.

Soc. L. VII. p. 360) b. iZasan b.

Mohammad

b. 'alyy b.

Musa

Eidha,

(according to Khiishgu his takhalluc was Hojjat).

6.

Abti-1-Faraj

Euny.

7.
8. 9.

Abii-1-Fadhl

Mas'ud

b.

Sa'd Salman

d.

525.

Abu-1-iZasan Lom'y Jorjany.

jffakym Zayn aldyn Azraqy
d.

527.

10. 11. 12.

Abu

Manciir Qataran Ajaly Amtiry

(Ormawy

?) d.

485.

Shihab aldyn

Adyb

Cdbir

d.

540.

Amyr Mo'izzy Samarqandy, his name was Abu Bakr Mohammad b. 'abd Malik Mo'izzy d. 542.
13.
14.
15.

Badzil aldyn 'am'aq <J*** Bokhary d. 543.

Shaykh Abu Majd Majdud

Siraj

Mohammad

Sandyiy.
d.

aldyn
first

'othman

Mohhtdry

Ghaznawy
d.

554

(his

takhalluc was
16. 17.

'othman and subsequently Mokhtary).

569.

Shams aldyn Mohammad Suzany Samarqandy

d.

'abd al Wasi' b. 'abd al-IZamiy b. 'omar b. al-Eaby' Jabaly

555.
d.

Sultdny
18.

Sayyid Ashraf aldyn Hasan Ghaznawy

565.

19. 20.

Amyr

'middy

Ghaznawy Shahriyary
al-Jalyl

d.

573.
d.
d.

Eashyd aldyn 'abd

Wntw&t 'omary
d.

578.
577.

21.
22.

Abu-1-nitzam Jalal aldyn Falaky Sharwany

Aw/^ad aldyn 'alyy Anwary

Afdhal aldyn Khdq&ny.

587.

23.
24.

Qiwam aldyn Afanad Qiwdmy

of Ganjah.

Second Volume.
(Containing chiefly Qacydah writers.)
25.

Abu-1-Fadhl Tahir

b.

Mohammad Tzahyr
d.

aldyn Paryaby

d.

598.
26.
27.

Eadhyy aldyn Mohammad Nayshapiiry

Athyr aldyn
Jarndl aldyn

598.

Mohammad Akhsykaty
Mohammad
d.

d.

608.
d.

28. 29. 30.

Abu-1-Makarim Mojyr aldyn Baylaqany

b. 'abd

594.
d.

al-Bazzaq Ispahany
d.

588.

Sharaf aldyn Ashrafy Samarqandy

595.

31.

Dhiya aldyn Khojandy

622.

NO.
32.
b.

9.]

TAQYY ALDYN KA'SHY.

his

17

9afyy aldyn Zakyy Maraghy

name was 'omar b. Abu Bakr

Abii-1-Wafa but he was simply called Zakyy.

He

died 607.

Nitzdmy of Granjah usually called Nitzdmy Motarrizy, his 33. name is Abu Mohammad Nitzam aldyn AAmad b. Yusof d. 606. Kafiy aldawlat Haybat Allah Ibrahym Kdfiy altzafar Hama34.
dany.
35.

Sharaf aldyn 'abd al-Mumin Shufurdah (in the very correct

copy of Maybodzy's Tadzkirah and in the preface to the Kholacah

this

name

is

spelt

tj>j&*>)

36.
37. 38.
39. 40.

Abu-1-Makarim Shams aldyn Darkany d. 600. Sayf aldyn A'raj Isfarangy born in 581 d. GQG.
Eafy' aldyn 'abd al-'azyz Labnany
d.

603.

Faryd aldyn 'attdr of Nayshapiir.

aldyn Qomry d. 625. Kamal aldyn Isma'yl Ispahany.
Siraj

41. 42. 43.

Najyb aldyn Churbadqany

d.

665.
d.

Qadhiy Shams aldyn MaAmiid Tabsy

626.

44.
45. 46.

Faryd aldyn AAwal Isfarayiny.

Kamal aldyn Zanjany

Abii

d.

687.

Mohammad

'abd Allah b.

Abu Bakr Imdmy Herawy

d.

d.

686.
47.

Khwajah Majd aldyn Hibat Allah Ibn Hamkar

Badr aldyn Jajarmy
d.

686.

48.
49.
50.

686.
702.

Jamal aldyn Munshiy

d.

Qadhiy Eokn aldyn Da'wy Dar-Qommy.

51.
52.

Athyr aldyn 'abd Allah

Dzu-lfiqar

Awmany
d.

d.

665.
'alyy

Sharwany Qiwam aldyn iZbsayn b. ^adr aldyn

661.

53. 54.

Mawlana Jalal aldyn Eiimy

Afdhal aldyn Kashany
d.

707.

Second Rokn.
55. 56.

Third Volume.

Sa'dy of Shyraz

d.

691.
d.

Shaykh Eokn aldyn Aivhady Maraghy

697

57. 58. 59. 60. 61.

Fakhr aldyn Ibrahym

'iraqy d. 709.
d.

Khwajah

Homam

aldyn Tabryzy

714.

Nacyr aldyn Bachayly

Taj aldyn b.

u%^

d.

715.
d.
d.

Baha aldyn Jdmy

732.
909.

Eadhyy aldyn JBdbd Qazwyny

18
62.
63. 64.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Sayyid .BTosayny.
.Hasan Kashy
d. 710.

[CHAP.

I.

Na'ym aldyn

b.

Jamyl aldyn Nizdry Qohistany

d.

d.

720

65.
66.

Sayyid Jalal aldyn Ja'far Farahany

736.

Amyr Khosraw
Sa'yd aldyn
Sirajy Sikzy

of Dilly d. 725.
d.

67. 68.
69.
70.

Herawy

741.

iSJ^> d- 652 Sayyid Shams aldyn 'adhod Yazdy

JNajm aldyn

d.

740.

Hasan Sanjary

of Dilly d. 745.

71.
72.

Jalal aldyn b. 'adhod aldyn Jalal aldyn 'atyqy d. 744.

Yazdy

d.

793.

73.

Kamal aldyn Abu-aTatfa Mo7*ammad

d.

b.

'alyy b.

MaAmud

Murshidy Khwajah Kirmany

74.

745.
b.

Nitzam aldyn
763.

b. Jalal

aldyn

'ahhod aldyn iZosayny Shy-

razy

d.

75.

Myr Mohammad Kirmany.

Fakhr aldyn MaAmud Ibn Yamyn aldyn Mohammad Faryud.

76.

mady
77. 78.

745.

Khwajah Nacir aldyn Bokhary. Khwajah Jamal aldyn Mohammad Salman Sawajy
d.

799

(?)

79. 80. 81.

Khwajah 'obayd Zakany

'izz

d.

772.

aldyn Karjy (Karkhy

?) d.

788.
d.

Amyn

aldyn i/ajy Dada Tabryzy

?)

758.
d.

82.

Khwajah 'imad aldyn (Ibn

Jalal aldyn

Faqyh Kirmany
795.

793,

(ac-

cording to Ilahy he died in 773.)

83.

Tabyb Shyrazy

d.

84.

Grhiyath aldyn

Mohammad

called

Shaykh Kajajy ,*<fr

d.

778.
85. 86. 87. 88.
89.

Shams aldyn Mo7jammad 'aggdr d. 784. Khwajah Fadhl Allah Ibn NaciU Tabryzy

d.

793.

Eokn aldyn Bekrany. Najm aldyn b. MaAmiid b. Zangy d. Motzaffar Herawy d. 728 (probably
Ustad .Hasan Motakallim
d.

806.
782).

90.

741.

91.
92.
93.

Eokn aldyn Qdyin

d.

785.
d.

Shams aldyn Mohammad Kafiy

750.

Sharaf aldyn Fadhl Allah Shyrazy.

94.

Eokn aldyn Herawy

d.

764.

No.
95. 96.

9.]

TAQYY ALDYN

Ka'sHY.
d. 758.
d.

19

Jamal aldyn Abu lsAaq Shyrazy

Jalal aldyn

Shah Shuja' Kirmany

Third Rolen.

786.

Fourth Volume.
d.

97. 98.
99.

Khwajah Shams aldyn Mo7*ammad Hdfitz

Shaykh Kamal aldyn Khojandy
d.

791.

792 or 803 or 808.

100. 101. 102.

Mo'yn aldyn Jowyny ^V^Shams aldyn Mo/jammad Maghriby d. 809. Sayyid 'imad aldyn Nasymy d. 807. Sayyid Niir aldyn Ni'mat Allah Walyy d. 827.
Shaykh

103.
104.

Mo% aldyn iZosayn Kafi'y d. 825 or 830.

d.

Abu

Is/^aq JEfallaj Shyrazy.

105.
106.

Sayyid Qdsim Anwar.

Khwajah Fakhr aldyn 'icmat Allah Bokhary

Siraj

829.

107.

aldyn

Bisdty

Samarqandy nourished under SuUan

Khalyl.
108. 109.
JJafitz Sa'd called 8a' de

Gul
866.
d.

d.

868.

Burhan aldyn A'dzory

Khayaly Bokhary.

d.

110. 111.
112.

Kamale Giyath Shyrazy

848.

Shams aldyn Mohammad Kdtiby Nayshapiiry

Fattdhy Nayshapiiry
d.

d.

838.

113. 114. 115. 116.

117.

852.
d.

Badr aldyn Shashy Sharwany

Sharaf aldyn 'alyy Makhdiim

754 (854

?)

d. 858.

Lutf Allah Nayshapiiry

d.

816.
d. 834.

Khwajah Nitzam aldyn Eostam Bostamy

Taj aldyn iZasan Salymy Sabzwary.

118.
119.

Shams aldyn Mohammad

called

Ibn Hosdm

d.

875.

120.
121. 122. 123. 124. 125. 126. 127.

Baha aldyn Baronduq.

Qafyy aldyn
(b.)

Masy aldyn

Qiishanjy d. 853.

Nitzam aldyn Afanad Shyrynkar.

Xqa, Malik
Tkli'y

Amyr-shahy Sabzwary.
d.

Samarqandy

858.
d.
d.

9^ib Balkhy
Shihab aldyn

Sharyfy

860.

Kakymy
d.

881.

'abd Allah Tusy

869.
d.

128.
129.

Shaykh-zadah Tahir Bokharayiy

869.
d.

Fakhr aldyn Aw&ad Mostawiiy Sabzwary

868.

D 2

20
130.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Amyr Yad-Beg
Sayfy
d.

[CHAP.

I.

870.
d.

131.
132. 133.

Khwajah Ma7miud Borsah

Shiyuny Qalandar.

878.

134.
135.

Buhy Nadiry (or Yadory.) Khosrawy Herawy d. 879.

Zayny Sabzwary.
KawtJiary Bokhary
d.

136. 137.
138. 139.

880.

Ma^mud Mushky
Sayyid Ashraf
d.

Tabryzy.

Khwajah Eokn aldyn Mas'ud Turk.

884 or 854.
d. d.

140.
141. 142.
143.

Biyddhy Sainarqandy
Qqfdyiy Samarqandy

884.

940

(?)

Khdky.

Shams aldyn Mo7*ammad Asyry.

'ala

144.
145.

aldyn 'alyy CdnVy.

Amyr Kamal

aldyn iZbsayn Fatdyiy

d.

893.

Fourth Bokn.
146.
147.

'abd al-Rafanan

Jdmy

d.

898.

148.
149. 150. 151. 152.
153. 154.

Amyr Nitzam aldyn 'alyy Shyr Fdniy d. 906. Amyr -Hbsayn Shafy'y Mo'ammayiy d. 904. Nitzam aldyn AAmad Sohayly d. 907.
Sayfy 'ariidhy Bokhary.

Darwysh Deheky. Masyh aldyn 'ysa Sawajy

d.

896.

Amyr Humayun
Uahy Zfosayn
d.

Isfarayiny d. 902.
d.

^Tasan Shah Hazzdl

905.

155. 156.
157.
158.

933.
d.

Facy aldyn Q&hib Dara

906.
d.

Shihab aldyn 'abd Allah Marwaryd Baydny

922,

Shaykh Najm Taquby.

159.
160.

Gulkhany

Qommy
d.

d.

913.
d.

Amyr Nagyby
Baba Juzwy

Niir-bakhshy
915.
d.

914.

161.
162.

Dhiydyiy Urdu-baghy

927.

163. 164.
165.

Bartawy
Shohudy
Caddyiy.

d. d.

928.
927.

NO.
166. 167.
168.

9-]

TAQYY ALDYN KASHY.

d.

21

Da iy

915.
d.

Mithdly Kashany

924.
d.

Abii-1-Barakat Firdqy

913.

169.
170.

Banndyiy.

Khwajah Agafy

d.

920.

171.
172.
173.

Kdmy

d.

921.
d.

Darwysh Uosdmy Qara-Kiily

Baba Humdyiy
d.

922.

923.

174.
175.
176.

Amyr Jah

TInsy d. 923.
d.

Nitzam aldyn Mo'ammayiy Astrabady

925.

Baba FigUny
'atdyiy d. 925.

d.

925.

177.
178.
179.

Amdny

Shyrazy.
d.

Shaykh-zadah Lahijy FidAyiy

Niddyiy Nayshapiiry.

927.

180.

181. 182. 183.

184.

Ahy

d.

927.

Myr Shams

aldyn

Mohammad
928.

Majlisy

d.

927.

Jimmy dy Teherany.

Mahwy Herawy
Farughy
d.

d.

185. 186. 187.

Tdyiry Astrabady

d.

929.

949 or 959.
d.
d.

Arshad Kazaruny

920. 920.

188.
189. 190.
191.

Eashyd Kazariiny

Mo% Lary

d.

933.
d.

Hayrdny Hamadany
Wafdyiy Shyrazy.
Zuldly Shyrazy
d.

930.

192. 193.
194.

948.
d.

Myr Maqbul Qommy

Sayyid Mdyily
d.

934.

931.

195. 196.

Kishwary of Eudbar or of

Qomm.

Ahly Khorasany

d.

934.

197.

Mahdiy
Hddiy.

d.

931.

198.
199.

Fakhry Mashhady
Shaky dy

d.

932.

200. 201. 202.

203.

Qommy

d.

935.

Hildl Qazwyny

d.

934.

Nddiry Marwy
A$ly (or

(or

Herawy)

d.

936.

Acyly) Qommy.

22
204.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Nargisy
d.

[CHAP.

I.

937.
d. d.

205.
206.

Myr Hashimy Bokhdry

Dust-Mohammad Kdly
Badr aldyn Hildly.

908
939.

(?)

207. 208. 209.

210.
211.

Ndmy d. 940. Myr Mohammad

Ahly Shyrazy
Hazy.
d.

Qali/* d.

941.

942.

'abd Allah Lisdny.

212.
213.

Baba

JSTa?yhy
d.

Gylany

d.

944.

214.
215.

Bahy

945.

Dhiy&yiy Nayshapury.
Tzdhiry (Tdhiry ?)
d.

216. 217. 218.

946.

Fadhly Herawy
'alyy

d.

947.

Faydhy

d.

947.
d.

219.
220. 221.
222.

Qazwyny Torbaty
Sdyil

949.

Hamadany

d.

950.
d.

Sayyid ITosayn Qodsy

951.

Mazdry.
Sultan

223. 224.
225.

Mohammad

Qidqy
d.

d.

952.

Qadhiy YaAya Gylany

953.
is

Shawqy was of Tabryz but

Fagyhy Tabryzy
d.

usually called

Herawy

d.

954.

226. 227.

956.
is

Qdyily (or Qabily) of Sabzwar

d.

the author of a Tadzkirah

of Poets
228.
229.

955.
d.

Shah Mo'izz aldyn Tdhir

JZbsayn Kashy
d.

996.

951.
?) d. 959.

230.
231. 232. 233.
234. 235. 236. 237. 238. 239. 240.

ifaydar Koluj (KoluA

Sharyf Tabryzy

d.

957.

Hslqy Kashy

d.

960.
d.

Sayyid 'alyy Acghar Mashhady

960.

Hayraty. Sayf aldyn MaAnnid Bij&yiy

Motzaffar Shifdyiy Kashy
d.
d.

966.

963.

Mirza Sharaf Jehan

Malik Qazwyny
d.

d.

968.

968.
d.

Fodhuly Baghdady

970.

NitUry Tuny

d.

971.

NO. 9]
241. 242. 243. 244. 245.
246.

TAQYY ALDYN KA'sHY.

d.
d.

23

YaAya Jan Gylany

CorCy Nayshapiiry

970.
972.
d.

Dhamyry Hainadany

973.
d.

Sharaf aldyn 'alyy Bafiqy

974.

Sayyid 'azyz Qalandar

d.

972.

Ghazzdly Mashhady.

Appendix containing contemporary poets.

I.

Poets of Kdshdn.
to say, poets

1.

Living poets, that

is

whose biography the author

of

took down during their

life

time.

Many

them were dead

in

993

when he

first

published this book, and he consequently mentions the

date of their death.

247.

Mawlana MoAtasham teacher of the

first
is

author, wrote three

dywans the
**?t*.

called

**U* the second

**J&*>

and the third

Besides he wrote a dywan of Qacydahs, in praise of the

princes of about 8000 bayts. and a Eisalah of

Imams and

Mo'am-

mas and chronograms.

There

is

a qacydah quoted on the succession

consists of

of Shah Isma'yl to the throne,

it

66 Micra's, and every

Micra', contains a chronogram for 984.

248.

Amyr

Eafy'

aldyn iZaydar Bafy'dyiy Mo'ammayiy com-

posed more than 12,000 bayts of chronograms,

did not collect them.
249.

Mo'ammas, &c. but

Myr

Mo'izz aldyn

Mohammad was

so exquisite a caligra-

pher that a thousand verses written by him sold for 10,000 dynars.
250.
zals.

Khwajah Amyr aldyn Mohammad writes

A'qa

occasionally Grha-

251.

Salman called Myrzd Hisdby

is

the author of a comlines.

mentary on the Preface of the Gulistan of about 3000

devoted himself to Qufism and wrote a treatise thereon.
said to have compiled
treatise

He
also

He

is

an Arabic commentary on Qiishchy's Persian

his is called a%Jl oUjt.

on astronomy; another work of

men, &c.

It

treats

on geography, on the wonders of the creation, the

lives of

poets, learned

252.

Mawlana Dhiya aldyn Mohammad.

253.

Myrza

Jalal aldyn

Mohammad Hakym

died in 970.

24
254.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

&J| *kjU which

Mawlana Eokn aldyn Mas'iid Masy&y is the author of is an Arabic work on the practice of medicine.
Talib

He

seems also to have been a good poet.

255.

Myrza Abu

Masyhy

died at the age of thirty.

256.

Myr

Eafy' aldyn ZZbsayn a Sayyid of the Tabafctba caste,

used his name as takhalluc.

257.

The author met him

in 1010.

Myr MoAammad Hashim

by Akbar.

Sihr went to India and was very

well received 258.

259.

Abu Torab Beg. Myr Burhan aldyn Mohammad

Baqir Qadhiy of Kashan

wrote a dywan of near 5000 verses.

260. 261.
d. in

Myr Eokn aldyn Mas'ud BoTcny went to India in 987. Myr Ya'quby a native of Qomm, was settled at Kashan,
Mawlana Jamal aldyn Mohammad was a friend of i/ayraty. Myr Nitzam aldyn Hdshimy went from Kashan to Ispahan. Mawlana MoAammad Fahmy left a Mathnawy called oj^*

988.

262.
263. 264.

ui**; and Qacydahs, Grhazals, Satyres, &c.

265.

Amyr Akbar

'alyy Tashbyhy

was the son of a washerman.

as he is
soul.

He

went to India, and turned a Faqyr, but

be of much use to his

an

infidel his

ascetic exercises cannot

He
at

left

dywan
but

of about 8000 verses and a

Mathnawy

called H-*>^j Xji

266.

Mawlana Dhiya aldyn Grhadhanfar was born

Besides

Qomm

educated at Kashan.
a

many Qacydahs,

Ghazals, &c. he left

in the

Mathnawy
267.

called

^y^j

ji* of about

3000 verses
original

measure

of Yiisof 6 Zalykha.

Mawlana Kamal aldyn ~Rdtim, his

first

name was Haybat

Allah and his

takhalluc Haybat.

He

had great poetical talents

and a corresponding opinion of himself.

268.

Mawlana Motzaffar aldyn Hasraty a

Mawlana Ridhayiy was Mawlana Nadzry, his
tribe.

pupil of

MoAtasham

in

whose praise he composed some Qacydahs.

269. 270.
in

990 in Kirman.
was a Shamlii Turk, and
in
his

father

mother of the Olds

He

was born

Kashan, but went to

Khorasan, thence he came to Qazwyn and returned to Kashan.

271. 272.

Faryd aldyn Sho'ayb.

Mawlana Afdhal Dutdry was put to death

for infidelity in 904.

NO. 9]
273.

TAQYY ALDYN KA'SHY.

Sharaf, a native of Ardestan, which
is

25
near Ispahan,

Mawlana
Kashan

came
274.

to

as a

tailor,

but became one of the most distinwrote chiefly Grhazals.

guished poets of his age.

He

i/aydar Dzihny wrote chiefly G-hazals and some humoristic

pieces of poetry in the dialect of Kashan.

275.

Maqgud went

in

971 from Kashan to Shyraz, and subse-

quently he performed the pilgrimage to Makkah.

276. Haydty was originally a water-carrier, subsequently owing to some disgusting adventures he was obliged to take flight to Qazwyn, where he joined some devotees. They were apprehended on the

charge of
soned.

infidelity, their

books were examined, and they were impri-

After two years' confinement he returned in 986 to Kashan.

verses.
-ffajy.

He

composed a dywan of about 2000

277.

Mardumy,

his original

name was

His father being a

tradesman, he was brought up for the profession of book-binding,

nevertheless he received a good education and was for some time

Qadhiy
ed

at Niyasir, a place near Kashan, but subsequently he return-

to his original profession.

278.

'abd al-Grhaflar a brother of 'abd al-Fatta and an accom-

plished calligraph and musician.

279.

Qadhiy

Mohammad

a descendant of 'abd al-Eazzaq the

author of the Tawylat.

'ocfiir.

According to the new edition he was called

280.

Khwajah 'inayat Saltaq Khwdjagy,

his forefathers

were Salta-

qyyah Turks.
his time there.

He had landed property in Myasir and spent most of He imitates the style of Acafy. He was alive in 975.
is

281.

Fakhry wrote a dywan of 10,000 verses in which he imitates

most of the ancient masters, but as he has not much education he

not acknowledged by other poets.
outside the Ispahan gate and
his grave every Friday.

He

dug a grave

for himself

made himself a tombstone.

He

visited

282.

Samdyiy was a distinguished oculist and chess-player.

i/osayn Khigdly a pupil of MoAtasham had
first

283.

the takhal-

luc of Wicaly.

284.

Sho'ury was one of the most talented poets of Kashan at

that period.
285.

Khwajah
Baqir.

Jalal aldyn Mas'iid a son of Sayyid

Shams aldyn

Mohammad

His father was a merchant, and died in Turkey,

26

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Jalal aldyn

[CHAP.

leaving a considerable property.

went

to Constantinople

with a view of recovering

286.

it,

and died of the plague in 982 or 988.

Grhadhanfar a son of

Pahm (Fahmy

?)

a talented

man who

gave himself up to profligacy and died in 993.

287.
288.

Wahshy Khwajah Uosayn

imitates 'orfy

and Ghayraty.

Kisra lj~? a grandson of Ahly (Khorasany).

Went

to

Tazd

in 999.

289.

Sharyf was originally a

tailor,

he possessed considerable

poetical talents.

Went

in

994 to India and was well received by

(or Sortiry) the son of a shoe-

the Khan-Khanan.
289.

Mohammad Qasim Sarwary

maker, had so excellent a memory, that he knew more than thirty

thousand verses by heart.

He

composed a dictionary
difficult

called *=F

/0

cr^
2.

and a book

in

which he explains the

words of Nitzamy

and other poets.

Poets of Kashan

who

are

dead but with some of

whom

the

author was acquainted when young.

290.
for
it.

Shuja', called

Kur, was a great drunkard and was imprisoned

He

died in consequence of his intemperance in 981 and left

a dywan of about 5000 verses.

291.

Hamdamy Myrza

'alyy

Dabbagh

(i.

e.

the tanner) was a

dissolute character.

He

visited India

and on

his return to Persia

collected his

poems

into a dywan.

He
;

died in 982.

292.

Myr

Mas'iid a Tabafaba Sayyid.

He
this

imitated Acafy and

spoke depreciatingly of other poets turned to him.

293.

and

compliment was

re-

Mushjiqy a brother of Jamaly Kirbas-ferush died in 972. Gulshany imitated Tusy and Sayfy.

294.

He

visited India
(

when
)

aged and was there imprisoned by the Portuguese

aUil

>Siy *j*

when he
295.

obtained his liberty he returned to Persia and died in 974.

Haydar

called

Ikhmasy died 970, or

in 971.

His poetry

was much esteemed.

296.

Adham

*aj| though a native of

Kashan resided mostly

at

Baghdad and Tabryz.

297. 298.

He

was a bigotted Shy'ah and died in 969

(according to the other copy in 999.)

Ni'maty Maddaft died 966.

Nigahy of Aran near Kashan died 979, and

left

Mathnawy

No. 9]

TAQYY ALDYN

KA'SHY.

27
Shahnamah

called AolijUi* of about 30,000 verses, in the metre of the

and one called and lsj*"Jj

299.

/<>

in.

imitation of 'accar's

Mathnawy.

Mohammad Komuzy

of Naslaj near

Kashan put books ou

of this kind
is

law and other sciences in Persian verses.

his glj&Jl

A labour
He was

v ^. He
1

was eminently

skilled in the superstition called

Bamal and invented some new methods.

eccentric character

generally a very

and

for

some time perfectly mad.

He died in 972.

300.

Myr iZamyyat

Allah QdnVy was an accomplished archer

and caligrapher but not much of a poet.

II.

He

died in 958.

Poets of Ispahan.
alive,

301.

Kama! aldyn iZbsayn Dhamyry was

when Taqyy

Kashany wrote and had composed upwards of 70,000 bayts of He Ghazals, and near 30,000 bayts of Mathnawies and Qacydahs.
left

the following six Mathnawies.

(j^olj

1.

)^ j $
6.
*/eU

2.

^y^jj-tf

3.

t)**l

4. j *U/l
l

&*

5.

\&*4ff*

j^V

j& And

one
title

dywan of Qacydahs

in praise

of the Imams, which has the

is

J I**

sJulsr*

and another which

called

J^/oIa^i

Zayn aldyn alyy Nyky was a very holy man and upwards of seventy years of age in 993. He is the author of a dywan of Q-hazals
302.
of about

10,000 verses

of a

Mathnawy

called

J&M i&j

in the

metre of the Makhzan alasrar

taining about

and of a dywan of Qacydahs con-

4000

verses. his time.

303.
at

Hayraty was the greatest poet of

He

had studied

Ispahan and was alive when Taqyy Kashany wrote his Tadzkirah.
liberal allowance
it

Though he received a

from the Persian Governinsufficient for

ment, owing to his extravagance,

was quite

his

support, and in 989 he went to India, being attracted by the prodigality of the Qofobshahians of Golconda.

304.

Amyr

Riizbahan Qabry had

first

the Takhalluc of Faris.

He

was a descendant of the celebrated Qadhiy Ruzbahan. Qadhiy Niir aldyn

305.

Mohammad

was born

in

Ispahan and

brought up in Qazwyn.
306.

Khwajah Afdhal aldyn Mohammad Turkah, the Qadhiy,

son of iZabyb Allah Turkah, and a descendant of Khwajah Q&jin

aldyn Turkah,

who had been a

great Qiify under Shahrokh and had

written a commentary on the Focuc and on a qacydah of Ibn Faridh.

Afdhal aldyn after having completed his studies at Ispahan repaired

E 2

28

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

to the 'iraq and Syria to perfect himself in the traditions and

sciences and then he

other
re-

made the pilgrimage

to

Makkah.

In 967 he

turned home from his travels and went to Qazwyn to Shah Tahmasb

him

and eventually the high office of Court Qadhiy was conferred upon He was after some time however he was obliged to resign it.
;

very learned, and pupils flocked to him from

307.
learning,

all

parts of Persia.

Amyr
was

Shuja' aldyn

Mohammad

Khalyfah, a

man

of great

alive

in 1010 and had written a dywan of 3000 bayts.

308.

Amyr

Jalal aldyn iZasan (according to one copy iZbsayn),

a nephew of a

Wazyr

of Shah

^ahmasb had

first

the takhalluc of

Hozny, and subsequently that of Caldyiy.

309.

aldyn

Myr Burh&n aldyn Mohammad Baqir Ishrdq a Mohammad Astrabady who is called Damad. He

son of Shams
is

the author

of glosses (Aashiyah) on various treatises on Philosophy and other

school-books.

He

also

wrote Mathnawies in the style and metre of

Nitzamy and
310.

several Qacydah.

He

was

alive in 993.

Myrza

Taj aldyn ifosayn Cdyidy a descendant of

at Ispahan,

Khwajah

Eokn aldyn fayid was born

and brought up

at Shyraz.

He

wrote a Persian treatise to prove that Shah lahmasb would reign

until the time of

Mahdiy.

He

died in 1000.
at

311.

Myr Mortadha
fifty years.

Bafyqy of Kaz near Ispahan, died in 990

an age of
312.

A'qa

Shahaky Fandyiy Ranany, that

is

is

to say a native of

Eanan which
313.
314.

near Ispahan.

He

was a

rich

man and

well versed

in music and left a

dywan of about 5000

verses.

A'qa Malik, he held the office of Mo'arrif.

Khwajah Mohammad Ridha Fikry wrote about 1000 bayts

of Qacydahs, Grhazals, &c.

315. 316.

Mawlana Kaldmy.

Mariana Myrak Dd'iy a son of Dhamyry had first the takhaluc of MaArumy. 317. Darwysh Ghdziy was born at Ispahan and brought up at
i

Samnan.

He

was a wandering cynic and spent rarely more than one

month
318.

in the

same town.

He

was

alive in 993.

Mawlana Baba-shah but not much of a poet.

319.

KMy

was a distinguished

calligraph,

jfiTakym Sharaf aldyn .Hasan Shifdyiy.

320.

Mawlana

Shi/cyby a relation of

Myr 9abry

Euzbahan.

NO.

9*]

TAQYY ALDYN
III.

KA'SHY.

29

Poets of Ispahan who are dead.

is

321.

Hzr/y though born at Ispahan, he

at

usually called JTirfy

Mashhady, because he resided mostly

did not arrange his dywan,
322.
it

Tm.

He

died in 971.
verses.

He
and

consists of about

6000

Mawlana

Talib was of Ispahan.

He went

to India

died in Gujrat in 984.

323.
324.
is

Mawlana Addyiy of Ispahan

d.

955.

BaMry

a brother of the preceding.

The date of

his death

not known.
325.
326.

Khalyfah Shah MaAmud. Myrza Ibrahym a son of Myrza Shah iZbsayn Ispahany

He is the author of a Persian Dictionary. Amyr Taqyy aldyn called Shah Myr Taqyy went to and Qotobshah conferred a high office upon him. He died in
died in 989.
327. 328. 329.

India
991.

Mawlana Cddiq

d.

944.

Mawlana Mazdqy was in his younger years a humoristic poet.

Mqflih.

Died in 987.
330. 331. 332.

Khwajah Fadhl Allah

S&liJc.

'dmiy.

333.
334.
335.
called

Shah IZbsayn Sdqiy wrote good

satyres.

Died

in 941.

Shah iZbsayn Yaqyny.

Pyry a
*i*fl*

friend of

Dhamyry and author

of a

dywan which he

336.
337.

Khwajah

Jalal aldyn

Mohammad CdHdy

died in 942.

Ayaty was

alive in 993.

338.
339.

Wdhid died in 971. Moqymy died in 963

at the early age of forty.

His dywan

has about 3000 verses.

340. 341.

MoAammad Qasim Bdzy was murdered

Khwajah Grhiyath aldyn
Khawfy.
'alyy Firdqy.

in 979.

342. 343.
344.

mimy.
Wacly.
Allah Quly Qasamy.

345. 346.
347.

Lawhy

died in 989 at an age of 80 years.

Myr Ramzy

gave himself during his youth up to profligacy,

life.

but when older he led a pious

He

died in 978 and left a dywan.

30
IV.
348.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Poets of

[CHAP.

I.

Qomm and its

travelled

neighbourhood.
at

Myr

'azyz Allah

Hodhury resided

Mashhad.

He

was a

man

of great learning.

He

much and made

three times

the pilgrimage to Makkah.

349.

at Dilly in 972.

Myr Ashky a brother of iZbdhiiry came to India and died He left according to some more than 12,000 verses
lived for

but Taqyy thinks only 2000.

350.

at Kashan.

Mawlana Hijry a sword manufacturer He left more than 10,000 verses.

some time

351.

jHakym Boshdy a distinguished physician, was much patro-

nized by Shah Isma'yl352.

visited

Mawlana Malik was distinguished

Qazwyn, and
in

in the

G-hazal.

He

985 he proceeded to India and resided at

A^madnagar.
353. 354.
355. 356. 357.

Myr Yusof Walihy was alive in 1003. Sultfan Mohammad a son of Shihab aldyn Qommy.
Mawlana
'dridhy

was

alive in 1000.

Myr

H&shimy.

Shikyby of

Qomm

has lately

(1016)

come

to

celebrity

for the great facility

with which he makes verses.

358.
359.

Khorramy.

360.
361.

Myr Myr

Kisdby.
Jalal aldyn

MaAmud

Acly.

Angary travelled much, and made the acquaintance of most

poets of his age.

362.
treatises

Wa^ydy

a contemporary of Ancary, died in 938.

He

left

on Metre and Ehyme.

V.
Poets of Sdwah.
the takhalluc of Micra'y.

363.
ascetic

Haryfy had
and died
very celebrated.

first

He

was an
poems,

in 971.

His dywan contains

chiefly mystical

and

is

364.

Maqcady.
'ahdy a brother of the preceding, left a

365.

mathnawy
Grhazals.

in the

style of Ttisof 6

Zalykha called c5^J j

fd

and many

366.

Cobhy a travelling darwysh died at Qazwyn in 973.

Suzy a native of Sawah resided mostly at Ispahan.

367.
first

He

had

the takhalluc of Jifakash.

He

composed two dywans, one of

No.

9.]

TAQYY ALDYN
of Qacydahs in
all

KA'SHY.
about 20,000 verses.

31

Ghazals and one

He

wrote a beautiful hand and most of the copies of dywans of the

ancient poets used by learned
368.

men

at Ispahan are written

by him.

QalaA aldyn Carfy came to Kashan

in order to profit

by the

instruction of
in 988.

Mo&tasham. "Went twice to Grolconda the second time

369.

Juddyiy a son of Hidayat Allah who was called Arukh and

held a very high post at the court of Persia, and was put to death in
936.
370.

Judayiy died at Qazwyn in 984.

Tzaryfy of Sawah a mystical poet was a pupil of iZaryfy came

with a nobleman of the name of "Walyy Sultan Turkman to Kashan.

371.

JPayrawy a native of Sawah lived

many

years in India.

372.
373.

Myr

Qodsy his name

is

'abd al-Qoddus, he died in 992.

Bddzily known for his wit.

374.

Kamdly, his name

is

Kamal aldyn iZbsayn, he

studied for

some time in Kashan.

375.
at

Myrdky the

father of

9 arfy was

a tailor by profession died

Sawah in 991.
376.

Mancury a merchant by

profession, wrote a

Dywan

of about

5000

verses.

VI.
377.

Poets of Qazwyn which was then the capital of Persia.

Sultan Ibrahym
in 989.

Myrza a son

of Tzahyr aldyn Bahrain

Myrza afawy died

378.
in 984.

Sultan Mocfofa

Myrza was put

to death

by Shah Isma'yl

379.

Bady' alzaman Myrza a son of Bahrain Myrza was a long

time governor of Systan.

in 985.

He

was put to death by Shah Isma'yl

a son of the Padshah Abu-1-Motzaffar

380.

SuUan .Hasan Myrza

Siu7an
381.

Mohammad was

put to death by Shah Isma'yl in 985.

to the dignity of

382.

Myrza Salman was of a noble family of Ispahan and rose Wazyr. He was put to death in 991. Myrza Ja'far a son of Myrza Bady' alzaman left' Persia

during the tyrannical reign of Shah Isma'yl and came to India. Akbar conferred an important post upon him.
383.

Qadhiy

jEfasan 'abd al-Razzaq his takhulluc is

Qddhiy he

is

a learned

man and

a fertile poet.

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384.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
iZajy Isma'yl

[CHAP.

I.

Bahthy a man of wonderful memory.

intention of going to India, but at

In 985

he

left

Qazwyn with the

Mashhad

he saw

Imam Eidha

in a dream, he

was prevailed upon

to stay in that

holy place and died shortly after.

385.

Farughy of Qazwyn kept an apothecary's shop.

Qadhiy Myrak JLamdy
is alive.

386.
387.
388. 389. 390.
391.

Tabkhy a relation of Farughy and Kaka

is alive.

Shaykh

Mohammad Amyn

is alive.

Padshah Quly Jadzby a son of Quly SuUan Naranjy.

Myr

Farighy died in 969.

at

Mawlana Afanad Sharafy resided in 1003 392. Darwysh Kaka was of Shyraz, though an was a good poet. He died at Qazwyn in 980.
393.

Qazwyn.

illiterate

man he

Mohammad Beg Kachar Badyhy.

Qadry was originally a
tailor at

394.

Qazwyn.

Set up as a poet

and came to Kashan and subsequently to Ispahan.

takhalluc into Ghadry.

He

changed

his

395. 396.

Sdhiry of Turky origin, spent his

-ffajy

life

in travelling.

Beg known by the name

of

Khwajagy a
Kashan.

native of

Qazwyn, spent the greater part of

very good musician.
397.

his life at

He

was a

Myr Faydhy
~Kayraty of
ago,

a Sayyid of Mar'ash

{J^y

died long ago.

398.

Qazwyn was

a saddler by profession, flourished

some time
399.

and

is

mentioned in the Tadzkirah of Samy.

left

Sdtify a contemporary of JZayraty, died in 921 and

Dywan.
400.
'azyz Allah a

contemporary of iZayraty.

VII. Poets of
401.

Gyldn.
of Gylan resided in 992
at

Khan ^Amad Myrza, Euler

Lahijan his capital.

402.

Myrza Qardry Niir aldyn Mohammad a son

of 'abd al-

Eazzaq Gylany was in 992 in India.

403. 404.

Amyr Holy

a Sayyid of Lahijan.

Qadhiy 'abd Allah Yaqyny son-in-law of Shaykh-zadah Lahijy

Fiddyiy, left a
405. 406.

Dywan, died previous to 992. Mawlana 'arif of Lahijan resides at Shyraz.

'inayat Allah

Fikry

d. in

973.

NO.

9-]

TAQYY ALDYN

KA'SHY.
verses.

33

407. 408. 409. 410.

411.

Majdzy of Lahijan wrote more than 5000

Kdjiy of Grylan a pious man.

Thandyiy was a pious man, and inclined to mysticism.

Awjy a mystical
Hzzy of Rusht.

poet.

412. 413. 414.

Mdyily of Rusht.

Haydty of Rusht was a merchant and

visited India.
all

Masyhy

Grylany a clever physician, after travelling over

Persia he settled at Rustamdar in Mazanderan.

415.

Dawdyiy of Lahijan came

in

990 to Kashan with the inten-

tion of going to India.

416.
417. 418.

Nijdty of Rusht was a merchant

who made many

travels.

Qdyimy of Mazanderan

visited India.

Mohammad

(jufy of A'mol a mystical poet

life

who enjoyed
in Persia

great celebrity during his

also visited India.

time, he travelled

much

and

learned in law.

He was accused of being a free-thinker by men He was alive in 1010, and had written, besides many

other poems, a Saqiy-namah.

VIII.
419.

Poets of Tabryz and Adzarbdyjdn.

in his days, died in 992.

Haqyry the most celebrated of the poets of Adzarbayjan His Dywan contains about 6000 bayts.

420.

Nithary of Tabryz spent nearly twenty years at Qazwyn

imitated the
421.

Dywan

of

Myr
is

Shahy.

Khwdry was

of Herat and his father was of

Marw, but he

was

settled at

Tabryz and

usually called Tabryzy, his style resem-

bles that of Lisany,

he died in 974.
of Tabryz died in 971 and
is
is

422.
423.

Shikyby

is

buried at Surkhab.

Khwajah MaAmud Beg Sdlim

Tawfy (Tawqy
of Tabryz

of a noble family and distin-

guished in the Mathnawy, he has written a Yiisof 6 Zalykha.

424.
?)
is

the author of a Tadzkirah

which contains a great number of poets.

425.

Wicdly of Tabryz died in India.

426.

Hay dory

of Tabryz was originally a saddler and turned

subsequently merchant, spent

seven years ago a
427.

428.

much of his time in India, completed Dywan of Grhazals containing 7000 verses. Mohammad iZosayn Cabury, it is said that he is of Tabryz. Mohammad Sharyf Woqtiy.

34
429.
430.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
ZTasan

[CHAP.

I.

Beg 'ajzy of Tabryz a contemporary of the preceding. MaAmiid Beg Fosuny of Tabryz was alive in 998.

431.
432.

Myr

Ja'fary a Sayyid of Tabryz.

H<%

a poet of Adzarbayjan was in 1001 at Kashan.

at Ispahan in

433.

Sukan Mohammad 'azmy of Tabryz died

1010

at the age of forty.

434.

Mawlana Talib (according

to the

new copy iZakym Abu

Talib) of Tabryz

was a good physician.

He

collected his

poems

(chiefly Ghazals) in 994.

435. 436. 437.

Qadhiy Wdfiy of a great family of Tabryz was

killed in 992.

-Ha/y Beg of Tabryz studied at Shyraz under Myrza Jan.

Myr

iZbsayn Sare-muy (Sarmady

?)

of Tabryz, was in 990

at Kashan.

438.

Fdniy of Tabryz had the same takhalluc as

Myr

'alyy

Shyr

and therefore most of the poems of the former are ascribed to the
latter.

He

was a rich and very

liberal

man, he was dead in 993.

439.

440. 441.
442.

Mawlana Cayrafy of Adzarbayjan imitated A'cafy. Mawlana MaWuf was given to the superstition called Eamal.
Jdniby Tabryzy.
Tofayly.

443. 444.

Qawsy an uneducated man.

Khwajah Amyr Beg Mihr obtained an important
office

from

Shah ^ahmasb, perished in prison in 983 into which he had been

cast

on the suspicion of his being versed in the occult

sciences, of

which the Shah was in very great dread.

445.

Myrza KAJly of Ardubad

in A'dzarbayjan a distinguished

Insha writer.
446.

Myrza Cddiq

of

Ardubad went

in

980 to

India, in

988 he

was in the Deccan.

447.

Thab&ty of Ardubad.
BaraJcy of Tabryz was dead in 993.

448.
449.
Shyraz.
450.

Fardy of Ardebyl was in 989

at

Kashan on

his

way

to

JSazmy of Ardebyl a merchant spent some time in India.

He

was much given to eating opium, and died in 987.

Wariihy of Ardebyl lived in 989 at Astrabad.
'abdy of

451.
452.

Sharwan a mystical poet, died in 985

at

Tabryz

NO.

9.]

TAQYY ALDYN
IX.

KA'SHY.

35

Poets of Yazd and Kirman.

at Bafiq

453.

Mawlana Wahshy was born

;

and is a pupil of Sharaf

aldyn Bafiqy Qacydahs), a

he wrote, besides many other poems (particularly

called i^ij^Aj

Mathnawy

^j*

in the

metre of Nit-

zamy's Khosraw 6 Shyryn.

454.

He

died in 992 or 991.

Qasim Beg Qasmy a son of 'abbas Beg Afshar a pupil of

killed in 989.

Wahshy was
455.

Tahmasb Quly Beg

'arshy of

Turky

origin,

had

first

the

takhalluc of 'ahdy.

456.

Myr

'abd al-Wahhab JVajdy a Sayyid of

Yazd is a merchant

by

profession.

He

visited India.

457.

Mumin
was

iZbsayn a pupil of Myrza Jan was in his youth

given to profligacy,
life.

when he became
Yazd went

older he changed his course of

He

alive in 1007.

458.

Zamdny

of

in 1001 to

Qazwyn composed Qacy-

dahs and a Mathnawy in the metre and style of the Makhzan alasrar. 'abdy of Aberquh was uneducated but witty and strong in 459.
the satyre and humorous poetry.
460. 461.

Kdsib of Yazd flourished a long time ago.

Myr

Shah IZbsayn Sdqiy (according to the new copy Kamy)

a Sayyid of Yazd.

of

Yazd died in 954.

462. 463.

Myr Zub&ny
Shah
'izz

aldyn Ghawwdcy of Herat was settled at Yazd, he

verses.

composed nearly 100,000

About A. H. 950,

this fertile poet

wrote in a work, in which he says

"The

poetry which I have written amounts to 1950 books."

He

made 500 verses a day, and it would appear that he put the Eawdhat alshohada, the History of Tabary, the Legends of the Prophets, Kalylah wa Damnah, and the medical work called Dzakhyrah Khwarezmshahy and many other works into
age of more than one hundred years.
464.
465.
verse.

He

died in 960 at an

Mawlana Shams aldyn of Yazd died in Fosuny of Yazd spent the greater part
981
to

988.
of his
life

in India,

came

in

Kashan.

466.

Qdsimy of Ardestan a place between Yazd and Ispahan and

Kashan, he lived for some time at Ispahan, where he died in 976 or

986.

F 2

36
467.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Jalal Sipihry of

[CHAP.

I.

Azwarah

lived mostly at Ispahan.

He

is

mystical poet and imitates 468.

Mawlawy Jalal aldyn Rumy. Mo/*ammad MursUdy a brother of Sipihry is

'atdyiy of Ardestan.

equally a

mystical poet.
469.

Mawlana

470.
471.
post of

Qufy ^ Ardestan.

Myr Shams aldyn Mohammad Qadr obtained in 986 the Qadarat. He had first the takhalluc of Fahmy and subseShah Abii-1-Qasim known by the name of Qafiy
is

quently of Faqry.
4i72.

of

Bomm

in Kirman.

He

was

alive in

1016.

473. 474.
475.

Myr

Fadhly (or Fa^ly) of

Bomm
b.

was

alive in 1016.

'ayydry was alive in 999.

Shaykh 'abd
(i.

al-Salain

Faydmy

Shams aldyn Mohammad

Maqtul

e.

the

man who

has been executed) b. Shaykh Thahyr

alive in 998.

aldyn Ibrahym Najrany.

476.
at

"Was

Fiddyiy of Kirman was a good poet and Insha writer, died

Yazd.
477.
'alyy

Nawydy a

pupil of Shah

Tahir Anjedany went to

India,

where he was patronized by Abu-1-FatA Nitzam Shah.

in disgrace with his patron

Tor
his

some time he was

takhalluc into

and changed

Nawmmydy.

He

died in 975 at Afanadnagar.

478.
san,

'dshiqy is originally of a village

left

between Systan and Khora-

he

Dywan

of Ghazals and was in his native

town

in 988.

Another poet of

this takhalluc is of the

II. to

town of Systan, and came

under Shah Isma'yl

479.

Qazwyn.

Qadhiy Afanad LAghiry of Zabulistan, flourished under

Shah Tahmasb.
480.
481.

Myr Jonuny

of Qandahar.
it

Sayyid Abu-1-Qasim called G-ahy of Ispahan, though

is

usually said that he was of Kabul, died at

Agra

in

988

at the age of

one hundred and

Bostan.
482. 483.

ten.

Left a

Mathnawy

in

which he imitates Sady's

Dakhly of Kabul.
Yadgar Beg Hdlaty of Kabul.

About 970 he

lived

some

times at Labor and some times at Agra.

484.

Mohammad ifosayn JBaqdyiy

a son of the preceding, imitates

Ghayraty.

No.

9-]

TAQYY ALDYN
Amyr Mohammad
Ma'ciim

KA'sHY.

37

485.
486.

Faydhy of Agra, the poet of Akbar.

Ndmy

of

Bakkar was one of the

nobles of Akbar, and wrote five Mathnawies containing 10,000 verses,

one

is

in the

measure of the Haft Paykar, one in the measure of the

is

Sekandar-namah, one

called <ayye

^j and
is

is

in the

measure of Layla
of Yiisof 6
alasrar.

Majnun, one
Zalykha,

is

called j^
is

^~^

and

in the metre

and one

in the measure

of the

Makhzan

He

also wrote
visit

two Dywans of Grhazal and two Saqiy-namahs.

Shah
'abbas, bringing

He
fol-

paid a

to

no

less

than one thousand

lowers with him.

487. 488.

Bayram Khan

(see

Badawny N.

16).
it,

Myr

Niydzy

is

of Bokhara, but he will not allow

and

alleges that he

was born in the Hijaz.

He

is

well versed in metric,

poetic, music, &c.

and compiled forty-two works.

his

489.
(i. e.

Matzhary of Kashmyr, some say

name

is

Bute Khandan

the smiling idol) he visited Persia, and in 984 he went to India.

490.

Mohammad Zaman
X.

Cdni'y of Badakhshan.

Poets of Shyraz.

491.

Sharaf aldyn Ghayraty after visiting Qazwyn, he went to

India and lived at Lahor, but returned to Persia.

tains about

His Dywan con-

5000

verses.

492.

Qaydy of Shyraz came under Shah Isma'yl to Qazwyn, thence

he went to Makkah and stayed there one or two years, subsequently

he went to India where he died in 990 (see Badawny. No. 112).

493.
494.

Qadry of Shyraz a contemporary of Qaydy.

'orfy

went in 994 by water

to India

and

settled first in

A/imadnagar.
495. 496. was,
it

He

died in 1002.

'dlimy ('dtiy ?) of Darabjard resided at Shyraz d. 975.

Lutfy of the province of Paris composed

chiefly Grhazals,

and

would appear

alive in 1016.

He

seems not to be identic with

Lutfy Monajjim.
of Shyraz a modern poet. Nutqy resides at Shyraz and is a jolly companion. 499. Khwajah Zayn al'abidyn 'alyy "dbdy Beg Nawydy of Shyraz was for many years Mostawfiy. He was particularly distinguished in the Mathnawy, and composed two Khamsahs in imitation of Nit-

497.

Myr Ma&mud Tarhy

498.

zamy, he

is

also the author of other works,

one

is

called

* &> eh*

38
and he
left

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
three Dywans, the
first
is

[CHAP.

I.

called \j* Ijf in this he uses

takhallu9 of

Nawydy

in the second he uses the takhalluc of 'abdy.

He

died at Ardebyl in 988.

500.

Amyr Mo'yn

aldyn Afanad called Myrza Makhdiim Sharyfy

a descendant of Sayyid Sharyf Jorjany resided in 990 in Qora

iTamyd, and some times at Baghdad.

learning.

He

was distinguished by

his

501.

Shaykh Abu-1-Qasim of Kazerun

b.

Abu IZamid came

in

992 to Kashan.
502.

He

was very learned more particularly in Tafsyr.

aldyn MaAmiid

HaMz

'iinad

Namy

Shyrazy was alive in

1016.
503.

Catyfy of Turky
Anysy.

origin,

was born

at Shyraz, the author

met

him

at Ispahan in 987.

504.

505. 506.

Panahy

of Darabjard died in 966.

MaJctaby of Shyraz a contemporary of Ahly.

He left

<^V

507.
his

Mawlana Ahmad of

Shyraz, during a year of dearth he left

home and was devoured by

cannibals in the neighbourhood of

Ispahan.
508.
509.

Forugly of Shyraz died in 963.

Hdmdy

of Faris was as distinguished for his liberality as

for his poetical talents.

510. 511.
512.

'aysJiy of

Shyraz

d.

967.

Muswdyiy of Shyraz.
Cabuhy a tradesman of Shyraz.
C&Jiy a celebrated poet of Shyraz,

513.
514.

some say he

is

of Tabryz.

Sayyid Haybat Allah

Myr

Gharyby of Kazeriin.
for

515.
miiz.

Nawruz-Shah Bahary, was

Died
in 952.

some years governor of Hor-

516.

Hamidy of a

village in the

ulkah (province) of Garmsyr,

distinguished poet.

Ktih Kylu, was a well educated

travelled in Khorasan,

man and

He

Qazwyn, &c.
he was of Shyraz, he composed Qacydahs in

517. 518.

Mdyily of A'mol a contemporary of Shah Tahmasb.

Rfaty
it is

said

praise of the

Imams, flourished in 987.

Shiishtar resided at Shyraz, d. in 961.

519. 520.

By-Kasy of

"djizy of Lar.

No.

9.]

TAQYY ALDYN
Kamal aldyn IZbsayn

KA'SHY.

*39
Daw-

521.

of Lar a pupil of Jalal aldyn

wany.
522.

Kdtib of Shyraz a pupil of the preceding.

XI.
523.

Poets of

Hamadan and

the adjacent countries.

Haldky of Hamadan a great

Bashky of Hamadan

poet,

he went to Qandahar and

was well received by the Sultan iZbsayn Myrza.

524.
lived for

some time

at

Qazwyn, but in

988 he returned to
525.

his native town.

is

Buhy

of

Hamadan

a very witty poet and not without

learning, wrote Persian

and Turky poems.

lives at

526.

A'qa Molla

Zahyy of Hamadan

the Court at

Qazwyn
Ha-

visited Kashan in 1005.

527.

-Hajy A'qa Baba Midargar (Madadgar ?) was "Wazyr of

madan under Shah Tahmasb, d. in 1000. 528. Khwajah 'abd al-Baqiy son of the preceding.
529. 'abd al-Baqiy Shiquhy a son of

WaAyd

aldyn Wafady, the

author saw him in 1001.

530. 531.
532.

Miisawy Eidha of Hamadan.

Asad Allah

H% of Hamadan
life

d.

1005.
to

Khwajah Maliky Beg of Sarkan which belongs

at Najaf

Hamadan,
of

spent the evening of his

533.

and died in 1004.

Khwajah

A'qa

Myr

of

Hamadan obtained the post

is

Wazyr

under Shah Tahmasb.

534.

Sayyid Mortadha Fdniy of Artiman which

not far from

Tawy and
under the
535.

Sarkan, a mystical poet, was Shaykh Alislam of

late king.

Dynawar
of
at

Myr Moghyth
is

aldyn

Nayshaptir, but he

usually called

Bazmy of Asadabad, some say he is Hamadany because he resided

Hamadan.
536. 537.

He

visited India.

He

was

alive in 1005.

Monyry of Nohawand

in the province of

Hamadan.
in

Cayqaly of Barujard in the district of

Hamadan came

991 from Ispahan to Kashan.

Appendix
538.
:

Poets of Baghdad.
originally a boot-

Shamsy a contemporary of Fodhiily was

"ahdy wrote

maker, died 964.

539.

many Turkish and

Persian verses.

40
540.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Wajhy
is

[CHAP.

I.

a licentious poet, and suspected of infidelity.

He

wrote a \*j*f olifjjpkj

otr^

%*tj*b*oj& &)l~j
is

541.

'abbas Tarzy of Shushtar resides at Baghdad,

the best

poet of that part of the world.

542.
543.

'ayn alzaman of flillah.

Sayyid Shams aldyn

Mohammad went

to India

many

years

ago, lived first in the

Dakhan and subsequently

at Agra,

where he

was patronized by Akbar, but

as he dared to contradict his majesty

when speaking

of the metre

of verses, he was sent to prison at

Gwalyar where he was in 994.

takhalluc and sometimes his

He

uses sometimes Ghandyiy as his

own name.

544.

Khwajah

Siraj

aldyn Ya'qiib Acaf of Najaf resides

now

in

998

at

Qomm.
Taqyy of Shushtar.
Second Appendix
:

545.

Poets of Churbadqan.
at Kashan, has

546.

'alyy

Naqyy of Kamarah was brought up

is

written about 2000 verses.

547.

Lutfy of Khwansar a brother of Wacly

distinguished for

his facility of

composing verses.

Visited India and remained for

some time
548. 549.
550.

at Agra.

Hijdby of Churbadqan was killed in 988.

'alyy

Wdgily a mystical poet of Churbadqan,

village of MaAallat

is alive.

Fikry of the

was an

infidel

and belonged

to the school of

Ma&mud

Pasa Khwany.

He

stabbed a
it.

man

of the

name

of Birky and was long imprisoned for

died.

When
is

released he

went to Gylan where he

551.

Qadhiy Myrak Jan of Karahrud which

near

Qomm,

very learned

man

particularly

in

metaphysics.

"Was in 982 at

Bacrah.
552. 553.

Qadhiy

'alayiy a talented

but profligate

man

died in 936.

'abd al-Grhanyy Dd'y of Anjedan was educated at Qazwyn,

he

is

a good Arabic scholar.

He

studied at

Kashan

in 978,

and

again visited that city in 995.

554.

Malik Tayfdr elder brother of the preceding, had for some

time the takhalluc of Kisra, (Kasry ?) when he went to Qazwyn he used Malik as his takhalluc.
555.

Wag ly

of

Khwansar educated

at

Kashan was

first

a banker.

No.

9.]

TAQYY ALDYN

KA'SHY.

44

Visited India and lived for some time at the court of Qofob-shah at

Golconda,

Qofob-shah, being displeased with him, forced him to

eat a very large quantity of Anjeers (Indian figs) and he died of

them.

Third Appendix
556.

Poets of Khwdnsdr.
distin-

Qadhiy Kamal aldyn iZbsayn of Khwansar was

guished in the
557. 558.

Ta'ty of

Mathnawy and Buba'yKhwansar is a fertile poet. Tdby of Khwansar resided for some time

at

Yazd and
poems

in

990 he went to Qazwyn.

559.

Fardy of Khwansar a darwysh has collected

years ago.
in

his

into

Dywan some
560.

"Was dead in 992.

Shukhy was

993 more than eighty years of

age.

He

was a farmer and a most ingenious mechanic, he made

curiosities as a pair of

all

kinds of

wooden

scissars of the size of a Pistachio nut.

He
now

wrote mystical verses under the takhalluc of Pyr Dihqdn.

Tdjiry of

561.
is,

Khwansar was a merchant,

visited India

where he

unable to return to his home.

562. 563. 564.

Khidhry a son of the preceding.

Hashniaty of Khwansar a contemporary of Tabi'y.Hafitz

Murad

of Khwansar, in the science of music he

is

second only to the Khwajah Qabir Adwary, in 996 he came to Kashau.

565.

Sorudy was equally well versed in musical composition.

the takhalluc of Arnyny.

He

had

first

566.
alive

Zuldly of Khwansar

is

one of the most distinguished poets

and author of Maykhanah and other Mathnawies.

Ghiyath aldyn Mancur Mungif the son of a Qadhiy of
in the district of Zakurah, Ispahan. to his

567.

Hirand on
his

Was

at

Kashan

in

1010

way from India

Poets of

home.
the neighbouring towns.

XII.

May and Astrdbdd and

1.

Poets of Bay.

568.

Kasim Beg

'S.dlaty

was of Turkish origin and born

a

at

Teheran.
569.

Shah 5 afyy a Nur-bakhshy Sayyid was

life

first

man

in power.

Subsequently his brother was put to death and he went to

Makkah

and led the

of an ascetic.

He

died in 968.

42
570.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I,

Shah Ridha a son of Baha aldawlah and a descendant of

Qasim Nur-bakhsh.
Qadhiy

He

was born

at

Ray where he

died in 980

(ao

cording to the old copy in 978).

571.

Mohammad
'aa

of

Deramyn he was a

courtier and

died in 978. 572. 573.

Qadhiy

Allah a brother of the preceding.

for

Khwajah Mohammad Sharyf Sijry was

of Ispahan died in 984 and left a

some time
is alive.

Wazyr
574.

Dywan.

Qadhiy 'abd Allah a son of Qadhiy

Mohammad

575.

Amyr Qadhiy Asyry

a son of Qadhiy Mas'iid of Teheran

after his return to Persia

visited India

when young and died soon

in 982.

576.

Khwajah Sharaf aldyn Shapur Qaryby a

relation of

ITmmyd

and of Hijry was in 996 engaged in imitating the

577. 578. 579.

Dy wan

of Fighdny.

Mohimmy

of Durusht visited India as a merchant in 973.

Mosayyib Khan a son of Nawab

Mohammad Khan.
Makkah.
nourished

Nafys aldyn Shdny a Taklii Turk born at Teheran, one of

the best poets of the time.

580.

Was

in 1002 going to

Afdhal

Ndmy

of Ibheran a pupil of

Ummydy,

some time
581.

ago, left a

Dywan.
Shamlii Turk, lived for some

'alyy

Beg Dadah Zohdy, a

is

time at the court.

582.
is

In 991 he was at Kashan.

called

Yamyny, he

Samnany, but he said himself that he

10,000 verses and
is

of Shyraz.

in the Grhazal.

He composed nearly He died in 981.

2. Poets of

strongest

Astrdbdd.
of Astrabad
is

583.
scholar,

Myr Mohammad Mumin

was
at

a good Arabic-

Kashan

in 987, subsequently he

went to India.

584.

Myr Murddy

of Astrabad resided chiefly at Yazd, died in

976

(or 979).

585.

Bawghany was born

at

Damaghan but

is

considered as a

poet of Astrabad.
586. 587.

Fdrighy of Astrabad. Sahaby of Astrabad

is

settled

at Najaf,

composed about

12,000 verses of Euba'ys.

588.
589.

Ndtiqy of Astrabad went twice on commerce to India.

Dust MoAammad a

tailor.

No.

9.]

TAQYY ALDVN

KA'stfY.

43

590.
591.

Ohiydthy of Astrabad visited Kashan in 991.

Niydzy of Astrabad went to India and was shot by tbe

Franks.
592.

Myr Mohammad

Yiisof of Astrabad went on pilgrimage to

to India

Makkah and thence by water

593.

and perished

at sea in 967.

Baydny of Astrabad

flourished long time ago and

was well

versed in the superstition called Eamal.

594.
595.

Fiddyiy of Astrabad.

596.

Myr Wdlihy a Sayyid of Astrabad. Myr Sayry called Myr Naqah on account
Ddyimy in the
'iraq

of his tall figure

and long neck, died 972.

597.

he

is

called Dayimye-lang,

he died before

.ffayraty.

598.

Myr Hashimy

of Astrabad was well versed in history.

XIII.
599.

Poets of Kkordsdn.

Myrza Quly Mayly of Herat went in 983 to India but died on

the road.
600.

He

was one of the best poets of his age and

of Mashhad.
left

left

a Dywan.

Walyy Dasht Bayddhy was a friend of Nithary Tuny.

Khwajah iZbsayn Thandyiy
of Sultan
called j*i*f 4*
(J&lihy

601.

He

and

his father

were proteges

Ibrahym Myrzd,

Qacydahs and a

Mathnawy
602.

Khwajah Mohammad Myrak

of

Mashhad

is

a de-

scendant of Khwajah 'abd Allah Marwaryd (see No. 157).

'abd Allah was called Marwaryd,
prince sent his father
i.

Khwajah
BoAayrah

e. pearls,

because a Tymurian
to

Khwajah Mohammad Kirmany

and al-Qatyf to plunder the inhabitants and he brought back some

very splendid pearls.
603. 604.

Khwajah AAmad Myrak Cufy a brother of the preceding. Qadhiy Afonad Figdry of Jowayn visited in 984 Kashan and

died at
605.

Mashhad

in 994.

Myr Mohammad Hashim Mardtmy

of

Mashhad was

killed

by an Uzbek in 995 or 996.

606. 607.

Nisbaty of Mashhad died at Ardebyl in 1005.

(Jabuhy of Herat,

some say he

is

of Badakhshan,

went to

India where he died in 970.

608.
'abdy of the Janabid of Tun had a predilection for

Mathnawies

G 2

44
and
is

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
the author of

[CHAP.

Makhzan alasrar. Myrza Qasim a Sayyid of one of the Janabid of Khorasan 609. xl *W*tf and of a Mathnawy in the measure of is the author of a * Makhzan alasrar and of one in the measure of Majnun 6 Layla. Mohammad Amyn Dzawqy of Tun died in 969 (or 977) at 610.
>>

the^^U^A^ which is in the style of Nitzamy's He came to celebrity in Khorasan about 950.

Lahijan.

611.

Sayyid
*s

Mohammad Jamah-baf MTcry

of Mashhad, a cele-

brated Qiify,
is at

distinguished in the Euba'y, visited India where

he

present in 985.

612.

Shaykh Maqcud Shawqy of Herat

is

usually called

Mash-

hady because he resided at Mashhad

like

a friend of the preceding and

is

him a Qufy and distinguished

Shaykh Euba'y.
at

in

the Euba'y he

therefore ge-

nerally called

He was an

arrow maker by profession

and died in 977

613. 614.
.Hafitz

an age of near 90 years.

#asan (or JZbsayn) Himmaty of Mashhad. Sharaf Bashky of Sabzwar a profligate man and a
Died
at

protege'

of Shah Isma'yl.
615.

Eusht and

left

a Dywan.

-Hajy iZosayn Mokhligy of Sabzwar a son of -STajy

TaAya

Ta'al died at the early age of 25 in

996 and

left

about 1000 bayts.

616.

617.
618.

Jamal aldyn MoAammad Waqi'y composed good Ghazals. Myr Mohammad Tahir Hazyny is a Sayyid of Mashhad.

Kamdly

is

a native of Sabzwar wrote in 1005 the history of

the victories
619.

o^jii

^G

Shah 'abbas in

verse.

Nur aldyn Mohammad Tzohury of Tarshyz went

at an early

age from Khorasan to Tazd and in 988 he proceeded to India and

resided at Byjaptir.

Natzyry of Jowayn was a merchant, he visited India and sent in 1013 his Dywan to the author containing about 4000 verses.
620. 621.
622.

Ghobdry of Jowayn visited Kashan in 984.

Aqdasy of Mashhad came in the beginning of the reign of Shah 'abbas to Qazwyn and died in 1002.
923.

Shohudy of Sabzwar a mystic poet

Visited

is

the author of a book

on

ethics.

Kashan

in

1000
Mashhad.
There was an oilman

624.

Mohammad

'alyy Cdbir of

who was a contemporary

takhalluc of Cdbiry.

of 9abir and

wrote poetry under the

NO.

9-]

TAQYY ALDYN

KA'SHY.

45

625.

a learned
626.
at

Myr Mohammad Akbar Badyhy a man and a good Insha writer and
Yiil

Sayyid of Mashhad was

calligraph.

Quly Beg Anysy a Shamlu Turk resided

for

some time

Herat and went subsequently to India where he was in 1002.

627. 628. 629.

Maldly resided at Mashhad.

Khwajah

'alyy

Wdqify of Mashhad.
at

Haydary of Khorasan resided

Sabzwar and was

called

.Haydar
630.

Byny on account

of his large nose.

left

Nikuyiy of Herat

Dywan

of Ghazals of 3000 bayts.

631.
632.

JBykasy of Sabzwar.

Rawnaqy, some say he

is

of Mashhad, others say of Nayshaservice of Qotfob Shah,

pur, visited India and

was received into the

died 979.
633.
634.

Mawlana

'ysa of Herat.

Shd'ury of Nayshapur.

635.
636.

Ablahy of Tarbyt

d.

972.

Asyry of Tarbyt

the author met him in 987.

637.
638.

Myr of Sabzwar. Myr Mohammad Kaskany

^dhdy
is

is

of Sabzwar.

639. 640.

of Nayistan.
is

Hamdamy

of Mashhad.

641.
642.
643.

Wigdly was of Bostam.

Khwajah Mohammad Khawafy

late reign to

is

of Khawaf.

Qdsimy Khawafy, a convert to the Islam, came during the

end of the
644.

Qazwyn but returned

to Khorasan.
lived mostly in

Humay

of

Nasa some say he was of Herat,

Ma-wara-lnahr.
645.

ShayMy

of Herat was given to pleasure and died in 968 at

Yazd.
646.

Mihry the daughter of a Qadhiy of Herat

a son of Bady' alzaman

fell

in love with

Mohammad Mas'ud Myrza

647.

Myrza who took

her into his zananah (see p. 11 supra.)

DhiyAyiy of Bokhara an old poet and a contemporary of

ZTayraty and Lisany and Qabily. (or Qayily ?)

648.

Ohazzdly Junbak

^^

of Herat, a pupil of iZaydar KaliU

(Kaluj ?) died in 967 at Mashhad.

649.
left a

Moicaliy

Tuny a man

of good birth died in 949 or 959 and

Dywan.

46
650. 651. 652.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

posed a
653.
cian

Wirdy of Samarqand died at Her6t. Harymy of JNTayshapur flourished a long time ago. Myr Karym aldyn Hashimy a Sayyid of Nayshapur comDywan of 3000 bayts. Died in 968.

Mohammad Kidha
fair

called

JZakym Mashhady a

clever physi-

and

poet was alive in 991.

654.

Abu-lwajd Fdrighy visited India.

Eidhayiy of Mashhad.
tyriaty
is

655.

656.
657.

of Mashhad.
of

Kamal aldyn iZbsayn Zrynaty

Mashhad
list

resided for several

years at Kashan.
It will be observed

from the preceding

that

many of the poets

whom

it

contains were freethinkers.

It

would therefore appear,

not the invention of

disregard for the doctrine of

Mohammad was
it

the genius of Akbar but that

imigrated into India from Persia.

(10;

J>>J* '*/&}

^^^rU^jUl uJ
poets

(P.)

Gems

of distinguished actions
of Persian

being a biographical
'ala

Dictionary

by Mirza

aldawlah

tions

Qazwyny whose Takhalluc is Kamy. Badawny menhim among the poets who flourished during Akbar's
life.

reign but gives no details of his

It

would however

appear that he was alive

The

title is

when Badawny wrote, in 1004. chronogram for the date when this compiviz.

lation

was begun,

973

it

was completed according to

a Postscript in 979, but there occur

It contains notices of

much

later dates in

it.

about 350 poets in alphabetical

order.

Most of them

flourished in India during the reign

is

of Akbar, to
decessors.

whom

the book

dedicated, or of his pre-

The author used

besides

the tadzkirahs of

Dawlat-shah, 'alyy Shyr, &c. several historical and geographical works which enabled

him

in

many

instances to

No.

10.]

nafa'yis alma'thir.
and he made
it

47

state the date,

a point to give details on

the geography of places which he mentions.

Beginning

^J^

$ j^ ^"
232 pages of 27

H^t/^ u/**^ *^'

^
is

Moty Maa]l
but
it

4to.

lines

Naskhy, the copy

his

old

bears no

date, a former

owner wrote

name

in

it

in 1071.

Correct though not without errors.

I

allowed the opportunity to escape for making an

abstract of the

work

can therefore insert here merely

dates.
It appears
it

an index to

it

and the most important

that the author of the

therefore
details.

Atishkadah has used

refer

and

some times

to

this

work

for

farther

Xshuby Nafonzy ypj&j (Khushgu that he was of the "Wilayati Natzar.)

A'cafy,

calls

him Natzary and says

Khwajah-zadah (see Dawlat-shah). Abii-1-Barakah Qadhiy.

b.

Abu-iTasan
Ajal,

AAmad.

Abu

'alyy b.

ZZakym Khabbaz Ispahany.

958
(A'tishk p. 114).

Myr Zayn

al'abidyn.
d.

A^mad, Qadhiy A^mad Laghir Systany

AAmad, Qadhiy Afanad ghaffary

d.

975.

AAmad, AAmad-Khan.

AAmad, Abywardy.

Adayiy

^M Ispahany.
(see A'tishk. p. 299).

Adham Kashy (see A'tishk, p. 321). Adham, Adham Beg b. Khwajah Murad Beg Arslan, Qasim Arslan Tusj (A'tishk. p. 29).
Asad, Asad Allah (A'tishk. p. 43).
Ashraf,

Myr

Asyry.

Mohammad A9ghar
Afsary.

Ashraf Khan.

Ashky.
Ulfaty,

Afdhal.

Afdhaly, Khwajah Ulfaty Yazdy.

Ashky Qommy. Mohammad.

Mohammad

Qulyj Khan.

Ummydy

(Atishk. p. 278.)

Amyr, Amyr Sultan Mohammad Rashy Myr Amany Amany, Amyr Sharyf. Amyr, Amyr Kalang -&tf died in 953. Amyry, Myrza Myrak Radhawy.

^j
d.

(Rushty

?)

981.

Amyny, ZTasan Sanjar

died in 485.

Unsy, Mo/*ammad-Shah.

48

PERSIAN TADZK1RAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Anys, IZaydar Beg of Tabryz died 964.

Shaykh AwAady Kirmany

Baqiy,

d.

697.

Baqiy Kulaby
Behar).

^V

Myr

'abd al-Baqiy (see

Hamyshah

Baqiy Qazwyny.
Baqiy,

Baqiy,

Myr

'abd al-Baqiy of Ispahan.

Mohammad
(or

Baqir of Balkh.
?),

Bakbty

Bafahy JhsJ

Molla Isma'yl Qazwyny (see Kaliinat).

Bady'y (see Atishkadah,

p. 44).
p. 20.)

Bady'y, Bady' al-zaman Mirza governor of Systan (Atishk.

Partawy Shyrazy.

Bazmy
Sabzwar.

Bismilly

Bazmy Qazwyny (see Hamyshah friend of Humayun. Kallah-paz i. e. the man who cooks goats'
Bannay

B.)

heads, of

Bacyr Qadhiy of Systan.

(see A'tishk. p. 200.)

Shaykh

Bii-1'ajab of

Kabul.

Bihriiz,

Mohammad Khan.

Bayany Tuny.
Bayany, Khwajah 'abd Allah Marwaryd (Atishk. 164 and supra
pp.

20 and 43.)
(Atishk. 21.)

By-Khudy Balkhy
Bayram Khan.

By-Dily Qazwyny.

Pyrah tj%, Molla Pyrah of Qomm.

By-qaydy died in 950.

Tarkhan, Niir aldyn

By-Kasy Ghaznawy.
d.

Mohammad Khan

975.

Turdy Kiidah.

Ttiryqy Torbaty

^y^y

Turyqy Damaghdny died 963. Jakiryi^ 'alyy-Khan Kulaby.

Jany,

Thabit" Thabit Khan.

Jamy, 'abd al-Ka^man (see Dawlatsh, &c.)

Yatmyan

cj 1**-^

Another Jany.

Judayiy,

Myr

Sayyid 'alyy was alive in 956.

Jadzby, Badshah Quly.

Myr

Ja'far.

Ja'fary Ispahany (see Atishk. 44.)

Shaykh

Jalal.

Shaykh Jamaly died

in 976.
b.

Jamyly, Jamyl aldyn

Shaykh

Jalal.

Shaykh Jonayd Khalkhaly Jinny Qazwyny. JBTajaty.

J^^
iZafitz,

^^

.Hacily Tabryzy,
.Hafitzy, JFa'itz
JBTalaty,
.ffalaty,

is alive.

Mohammad
p. 22.)
.ffirfy

JTosayn

d.

991.

Kirmany d. 635. Qasim Beg is alive (Atishk. Yadkar Mohammad is alive.

.Halaty, Lahijy.

Ispahany.

No.

10.]

nafa'yis alma'thir.
Farrash Sawajy (Atishk.
p. 292.)
is alive.

49

.ffaryfy, 'alyy

ifaryfy,

Khwajah Yadgar MoAammad

Natzary
is alive.

iZbzny Ispahany.
is alive.

JZazyny, 'abd al-iZayy Katib.

jfiTisaby

JZazyny Tazdy

Khwajah iZasan Qandahary.

Molla IZbsayn.

Qadhiy

Myr

iZbsayn

d.

956.

Amyr

Sayyid iZbsayny (Dawlatsh.)

IZbdhury.
p. 45.)

jffadhraty Kirmany.
JEfaqyry

Tabryzy (Atishk.

jffallawy Shyrazy.

ZTamdy, Qadhiy Qofob aldyn

Abu

Sa'yd Khalidy

d.

969.

jHamdy Astrabady
Tiinyan

is alive.

iZaydar Tiinyany was a good musician.

is

He

was

alive in 966.

a village near Herat.

iZaydary was alive in 962 (Atishk. 25).

Saydary Sabzwary
iZaywany Qommy.

(Atishk. p. 111.)

.Hayraty Qazwyny.
d.

Khane A'tzam Ghaznawy

975.

Khanamy

is alive.

Myr

Khirad (Khord

?)

Myr Khosraw
Kholqy.

Dihlawy (Dawlatsh.)

Khicaly Kashmyry.

Khidhry Astrabady.

Kholqy,

Myr Mohammad

Yiisof (Atishk. p. 285).

is alive.

Khanjar Beg.

Khwajah-zadah Kabuly

Damy.

Danahy
Dawry,

^t

Dardy

(Atishk. p. 24.)

Du'ayiy Mashhady.
is alive.

Dawayiy, iZakym Shams aldyn 'alyy Shyrazy

Myr Sultan Bayazyd Herawy is Myr (Pyr ?) Biidaq is alive. Dzawqy, Mohammad Amyn Ispahany.
Dzawqy,
Eijayiy, Sayf aldyn

alive.

Dywanah.
alive.

Dzawqy Tuny

is

MaAmiid

d.

962 (according to the Kholacah, he

died in 966.)
Eijayiy, iZasan 'alyy

Kharras

u-^ was a good composer of music

in 960.

and

left

a didactic

poem on music. He was alive

p. 286.)

(Atishk. 202.)

EaAymy.

Buswayiy Sirkany.
of this takhalluc are mentioned.
this

Eidhayiy Niir-bakhshy (Atishk.

^fyqjj two poets

of them, Qadhiy

EuAy, three poets of

name

are mentioned in the Nafayis, one

EuA

Allah Qazwyny, died in 948.

Eawshany Mashhady.
Eihayiy, Sa'd aldyn

Eawnaqy Bokhary
d.

d.

964.

Khawafy

980.

Eazy,
Zary,

Mohammad Qasim is alive. Mohammad Qasim is alive.

Zulaly,

Herawy

d.

931.

50

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
b. A'qa

[CHAP.

I.

Zayn, A'qa Zayn aldyn

Kamal.

Zayny Mashhady a son of Darwysh Rawghangar.

Saqiy
b.

Ibrahym Jazayiry.
(see Atishk. p. 25.)
d.

Salim

MaAmud Beg
Myrza Beg

Samiy 'azyz aldyn Jabaly

Sipihry,
d.

956.

Sayil d. 940.

979.

SaMby Astrabady
Sultan, 'alyy

(Atishk. p. 206.)
b.

Sa'ydy Badakhshy.

Quly Khan
d.

iZaydar Sultan Uzbek Shaybany had

the title of

Khanzaman

951.
d.

Saqqa Chaghatayiy.

Khwajah Salman Sawajy

Sohayiy

799.

Sam'y Lary.
978.

Sangy.

Jl+*

Sahl, 'alyy
b.

Qazwyny.
d.

Siyahy Khoda-dust

Khwajah Kalan Beg

Sayyidy, Sayyid Jalal d. 597.

Sayry jPeherany (distinct from Siyary or Sayry Ghaznawy).

Myr

Sayry Naqah.

Myr Shady
Domawand
d.

Juybary.

Shahy Beg Khan a son of Btidaq Sultan was born in 844.

Shuja'y, Sayf almulk of
is alive.

Sharaf Yafiqy
Sharaf,

(sic,

Bafiqy? see Kholac. No. 244).

Myrza Sharafe Jahan

d.

971 (according to the Kholac. No.

237, he died 968).

Sharyf Mahdiy
Sharyf Tabryzy

951.

Sharyf Bokhary

d.

950.

d. 950 (according to the Kholac. No. 231, he d.957).

Sho'tiry, Abii-1-Qasim

Torbaty

is alive.

Shukry,

Myr Shukr

Allah

is alive.

Shikyby Tabryzy.

Shawqy Yazdy
is alive.

d.

963.

Shihaby, Molla 'abd Allah

Shahdy, Shah Abu-1-Ma'aliy.

Shayda.
is alive.

Shyry

b.

'abd al--Hayy Hindustany

all

Molla Qubhy.

9abry in

three poets of this takhalluc are enumerated, one of

them

is

Qabry

Mohammad Qasim

Grtih-paz

y$

ijf

Qabuhy.

9aliAy, Mohammad Myr Beg. 9 a ^cDr Qandahary. Qadre Jahan Qannawjy. Qi&qy, Sultan Mohammad Astrabady.

9arfy,

Shaykh Ya'qiib Kashmyry.

?afyy, Shaykh

Mohammad.

Myr

9' ny Nayshapury.

9 a^ rafy

Tabryzy.

9ayfy b. Shah Qasim Nur-bakhsh. Dhamyry Ispahany. Dhamyry Hamadany. Dhiyayiy, Qasim d. 954.
^arimy,

Myr

Dust.

^arimy, 'alyy
^ali'y.

d.

981.

Talib Gylany d. 977.

Qadhiy Tahir.

No.

10.]

nafa'vis alma'thir.
Tabkhy Qazwyny.

51

Shah Tahir.
Tab'y, Darwysh

MoAammad.
d.

^aryqy.

Ibfayly Ispahany.
b. Sirajy.

Another Tofayly

952.

^awqy Tabryzy
Shah Ityyib.
is alive.

Shah Tahmasb
'abid
'adil,
'adil,

d.

956.

Tzahyr Faryaby.

Ispahany Wa'itzy
Isma'yl

Myrza

b.

Shah Tahmsb
alive in 952.

d.

943.

P&dshahe Lar was

'arif

Shaykh Bayazyd
Abu-1-Khayr
d.

b.

Sultan

Abu

Sa'yd Burany.

'alim 'arif Kabuly.

'ashiqy,
d.

'ishiqy Syst&ny.

957.

'akify Lahijy.

'alimy Darabjardy

973.

'abd al-Grhaffar

is alive.

Khwajah 'abd Allah Farankhiidy (S dJ*l>* 'abdy of Baku d. 965.

'obaydy, 'obayd Allah

Khan

b.

Ma&mtid SuUan
'itaby,
is alive.

b.

Shah Badagh
Allah.

SuUan

b.

Abu-1-Khayr Khan
Sayyid

d.

947.

Habjb
'izzaty

'itaby,

MoAammad
Khan

Najafy

Hamadany.

'izzy Lahijy d. 962.

'azyz,
b.

Myrza Kokah.

'azyzy, 'abd al'azyz

'obayd Allah

Khan

d.

959.

'azyzy
'azyzy,

Ghaznawy.

Myr

azyz Allah. In the Nafayis are two poets of this

alive

name
pro-

and takhalluc, one was

in 999. (979?)

when the book was compiled and

is

bably identic with the one mentioned by Badawny, and the other died

Mirza 'askary.
'ishqy,

'ishraty Yazdy.

'ishqy Sawajy.

'alayiy

'ishqy Khan. Khwajah Ma' cum. Qadhiy Kahrudy **#& d. 936.

Sayyid

'ala aldyn.

'ilmy ('alamy?),

Myr Mortadha. Mohammad b. iZasan Lary. Myr 'alyy A9ghar Mashhady. 'alyy Beg. 'ahdy, Khwajah Mohammad RaAym is alive.
'ilmy ('alamy?),

'ahdy Nayistany.

Qadhiy afyy aldyn 'ysa

Ghayiby.

d.

980.

Qadhiy 'ysa Tabryzy

Ghazzaly Mashhady
is alive.

d.

981.

Ghazzaly Juubak.

d.

981.

Ghaznawy,
Ghayraty.

Myr Mohammad Kalan

Farighy Shyrazy.
b.

Ghanayiy Lary.

Farighy Qazwyny Sayfy

Myr
b.

Sa'd almulk ifosayny.

Farighy, Shaykh Abu-1-Wajd

Shaykh Wajyh aldyn

d.

940.

Fadhil Andejany

^^^1
b.

Fayidhy

Mohammad Miimin

Myr Dust

jfarimy

is alive.

52

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

1.

FatAy Qara a contemporary of Humaytin. Myrza A9ghar of Mashhad. Fatyayiy

^^M

Fakhry

called Molla-zadah, his

name

is

Fakhr aldyn

b.

IZbsayn

"Wa'itz Kashify, sometimes he used the takhalluc of

9 afyy*
Lahijy.

Fiday Shaykh-zadah a son of Shaykh

Mohammad

Forughy Samarqandy.
Firyby Bokhary
d.

Forughy Qazwyny.

944.

Fosuny Tazdy.
Fadhly Sabzwary.
Figary
is alive.

Faryd Katib Shyrazy

Fodhuly Baghdady.

is alive.

Facy^y Tabryzy a pupil of Lisany.

Faqyry Bokhary.
Fikry, Nur-bakhshy.
Fikry, Sayyid

Fadhyl Khalkhaly.
Fikry,

Myr

'alyy 'arab d. 964.

Mohammad
is

Jamah-baf called

Myr Ruba'y came

in

969 to India.
Fikry

Domawandy

now

in India.
is alive.

Fanayiy, Afanad Khalkhaly

Fanayiy Chaghatayiy.

Fahmy Herawy d. 963. Fahmy Astrabddy a brother of Myr iZamdy. Fahmy Kashy the carbasus seller, is alive.
Fahmy, Shams aldyn Khabycy
is alive.

Fahmy b. Myr Nadiry is in India. Fahmy Qazwyny was called Amyr Mohammad Wazyr-zadah. Fahmy, Shah Qasim Qazwyny. Fahmy Teherany. Faydhy, Myr Mo'izz aldyn Mohammad d. 942.
Faydhy Qazwyny Mar' ashy.
Qabily Sabzwary d. 954.

Faydhy Fayyadhy
Mirza Qasim Myraky

is alive.

d.

932.

Qasimy, Mirza Qasim Junabady.

Qani'y Qazwyny.

Qodsy of Farghanah.

Qodsy Ma-wara-lnahry.
Grylany

Qadymy Mazanderany lives in the Deccan. Qarary, Nur aldyn Mohammad b. 'abd al-Eazzaq
Qoradhah
is alive.

is alive.

Myr Qorby
d.

G-ylany.

Myr

Kafiy Ardubany
(Grahy
?),

969.

Kaka Urdu-bazary.
(?)

Kahy

Qasim.

Gadayiy Kabuly.
Bokhary.
d.

Kasby Qazwyny.

Kashyry

Kalamy,adr aldyn Mohammad, had the title of AfdhalKhan

Kalan, Khwajah Kalan

977.

Beg Andejany.

Grul-baba Balkhy.

Gul-Baqiy Baniy Samarqandy.

Kamal, Khwajah Kama! aldyn iZbsayn Shyrazy

d.

975.

No.

10.]

nafa'yis alma'thir.
Kawkaby of Ma-wara-lnahr. b. Abu Sa'yd Sultan b. Kiinjy-Khan

53

Kamteryn Shyrazy.
Abu-1-Khayr Khan
Lisany Shyrazy.

Kiihkan, Abu-Fat^ Sultan

d.

b.

337.
Liqayiy Astrabady.
d.

Lawwamy, Pyr-zadah Qiyam Sabzwary

975.

Many

Shyrazy.

Motayyamy.

Mayily Ibn Khwajah

Mohammad Zaryn-kamar
Mojriy (Mojrayiy

Teherany.
?)

Majazy Majnun Lahijy.

Majnun, 'alyy Dust Tarimy.

Systany.

Motosham

Kashy.

MoAsiby Ardebyly.

Mohammad Yusof b. Myr Mohammad Baqiy d. 970. Myr MoAammad Yusof b. Qadhiy Astrabady d. 977. Mohammad Zahid Jamy d. 979. Myr Mohammad Kaskany. Qadhiy Mohammad Eazy b. Qadhiy Shukr Allah iZbsayny.
MiAnaty iHcary.

Mi&naty Systany.

MaAwy, Myr Mafanud Munshiy d. 980. MoAyiy, Solayman I. Turkish Emperor called Khwandaka &*J>^
born in 900
d.

974.
is alive.

Modamy Badakhshy

Madzaqy Ispahany.

Murad Qazwyny d. 943. Madzaqy Nayshapiiry, Nitzame Badr. Murady Astrabady died in India in 972. Mortadha is alive. Mardumy, Mohammad Hashim.

Marwy Khwajah

IZbsayn was

alive in 978.

Myrza Mas'iid b. Myr Shams aldyn 'alyy Sabzwary. Masyty Tabryzy. Masy^y a Christian merchant of Tabryz. Ma'ciimy Kashy is alive. Moshfiqy. Khwajah Mo'atztzam d. 971. Mo'yn Astrabady. Moqbily Qazwyny (^abuny. Molla MofliA Ispahany. Maqciid Qazwyny b. Fadhl Allah. Maqciid the arrow-maker.
Maqciid Kashy.
Molla Maqciid died 977.

Moqymy, Mohammad Moqym.

Makarim, Qadhiy Abu-1-Makarim Ispahany.
Malik, MaAmiid

Khan Daylamy Qazwyny.

Mantzary Samarqandy.
is alive.

Malaky Serkany.

Munshiy, Adham.

Munyry Hamadany
Mawaliy Lary
called

Khorasan-Khan.
'abd Allah
d.

Mawaliy Tuny.
962, his

Myrak Daylamy, Myr

verses.

Dywan

has 6000

54

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Mawjy, Mohammad Qasim-Khan Badakhshany, author of a Yiisof

6 Zalykha in 6000 verses
;

died at

Agra

in 979.

Mawzun, Molla Bihkary.

Mahjiiry
b.

.Hasan

d.

967.

Mayly Qazwyny.
Nariqy.

Mayly, Myrza Quly Herawy came in 979 to India.

Nadiry Samarqandy.
Nithary Qazwyny.
Nithary Tuny
Najaty.
d.

Naciry.

Nithary Bokhary, Baha aldyn JZasan.

Nithary Astrabady.

Nithary Tabryzy.

Nasym.
b.

962 (according the Kholac N. 240 he died 971), Nishany Hindiistany, 'alyy AAmad.

Khwajah Nacyr
Nuqy,

Mohammad QaM

Khwajah Mafaniid Hamadany. b. Khwajah Ghaziy.

Natzmy Tabryzy, Nitzam aldyn 'alyy is alive. Naf'y. Naqqaby Teherany. Niir aldyn. Niiry, Myr Mohammad Sharyf. Nury Dandany Herawy. Nawydy. Nury. Naw'y, Mohammad Sa'yd Herawy.
Nafys Ibn Qasim Jiisaqy.

Nawydy

Kazy.

Nihany Samarqandy.

Niyazy Tabryzy.

'alyy Niyazy.

Niyazy, 'abd al-iZaqq FarisAyny ^j^xx^jls

Niyazy Bokhary Ibn Qadhiy Sayyid 'alyy (see Badawny.)

WaAid, Shah Mirza Taqyy. Nyky, Zayn aldyn. Wacify Kainal Wada'y Herawy came to India. Wacily of Marw. d. 968.

WaMdy.
aldyn.

Wafiy a son of Qadhiy Shukr Allah Tabryzy.

Wicaly
Wacly,

Mohammad Amyn
different
d.

d.

967.

from the one mentioned in Badawny.

977.

Molla Wacly

Wafayiy, Shaykh Niir aldyn the

Wazyr

of

Humayun.
in 941.

Wafayiy Astrabady.
Woqii'y Tabryzy.

Wafayiy, Mirza Ibrahym born

Woqu'y, Myr Wa'itzy.

d.

Woqu'y, Mohammad Sharyf

Hatify Qazwyny.

977.

Walyy Dasht Bayadhy.

d.

Hadiy, Abu-1-Hadiy
is alive.

996.

Hadiy, Shaykh Hadiy Astrabady

Hashim, Shah Hashim

b. 'azyz

aldyn Jabaly Qazwyny.

Hashim, Amyr Khwajagy Qazwyny d. 947. Hashim, Myr 'alyy Kamal Herawy. MoAammad Hashim was at Lahor in 969. Hashimy a son of Khwajah 'icmat Shaykh alislam Hashimy, Myrak Hashimy b. Khwajah Hashimy.

d.

945.

No.

10.]
called

bada'wny.
Shah Jahangyr
d.

55
948.

Hashimy Kirmany
Khwajah
Hijry.

Hijry Samshyr-gar

Qommy.

Hijry Andejany.

Hijry Bazy, Khwajah

Mohammad

Sharyf.

Molla Hidayat Qazwyny, a physician d. 960.

Molla Hilal. Halaky Hamadany. Khwajah Hidayat. Humayun Samarqandy. Myr Humayiin Isfarayiny. Hilaly.

Hamdam

Beg.

Hamdamy.

Hindal Mirza

Mohammad

b.

Bar Padshah.

Yarak Qazwyny a physician.

Yar Mohammad Sowalah My'abd

Yary Tabryzy.
Allah Yaqyny.

YaAya Qadhiy Nur-bakhshy, a brother of

Myr YaAya

iZbsayny Sayfy a son of the author of the Nafayis.

Yaqyny, Qadhiy 'abd Allah.

Yaqyny, Qadhiy 'abd Allah Hasany Badhiy
b.

Qadhiy Mohammad.

Yamyny Samnany Shamshyr-gar.

Yiisof

Beg Chawishhi.

Yusofy Narsabady.
list

In order to complete the

of poets

who

flourished

under Akbar

add here an abstract from the appendix to

(see Sir

Badawny's History which was compiled in 1004

H.

Elliot's

Indian Hist.)

Badawny

says that he has

greatly used the Nafayis in drawing

up

that Appendix,

and that he knew most of the poets personally

he mentions.

whom

Atishy of Qandahar came to India with Babor and became his

historiographer.

He

died in 973 at Lahor.

Ashraf-Kkdn,
calligraph but a

Myr Munshiy
bad poet.
of Bay.

.Hbsayny of Mashhad was a great

Amyr Qadhiy Asyry

As
(?)

the climate of India did not

agree with him he returned to his native town where he died.

Myr Amdny,
981 and
left

called

Mykhchah

was a Sayyid of Kabul, died

in

a Dywan.

Amdny; Myrza Sharyf Ispahany lived twenty years in India. Qadhiy Ahmad Grhaffary Qazwyny was a descendant of Najm aldyn
'abd al-Grhaffar the author of the i?awy on Shan' law.
to

Afonad came

India and

died in 975.

He
f~*

is

the author of the Nigaristan

is

c>lx*)& and of the

Of-u^

a general history which

usually

56
called

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Jehan
ara,

[CHAP.
(for

I.

but as the

title is a

chronogram

971) the word

~j ought not to be omitted.

Myr Ashky Qommy

Amyny was
takhalluc of

died at Agra.
left

Anysy Lawlaqy was a Shamlu Turkman

a young

a Mathnawy.

man when Badawny

his
it

wrote.

He
?)

had

first

the

Khawfy but

patron Nitzam aldyn

into

AAmad with whom

he lived at Ghijrat changed

Amyny (Amny

When Badawny

wrote he was attached to the service of a royal prince.

Ahtary Badakhshy
Ulfaty, Qalyj

is

also called

Wakyle Fir' awn.

Khan

a noble resided at Qabul

when Badawny wrote.

Ulfaty Yazdy was dead

when Badawny

wrote.

Ulfaty 'iraqy has several times been at

Ytisof Khan.

Kashmyr with Mirza

Bayram-Khdn, the Khan-Khanan was

Babor.
a

originally in the service of

left

He

was a great patron of learning and

a Persian and

Turky Dywan.

He

died in 968 in Gujrat whence his body was

agreeably to his will carried to

Mashhad

for interment.

By-kasy Ghaznawy went to Makkah and studied there several

books on tradition.

In his old age he returned from India to

Afghanistan and died there in 973.

Baqiy Kulaby was killed during the rebellion of Ma'ciim Kabuly.

BayMhy ^/^
and
left

resided at Agra.
as well as a poet, he died in India

Payrawy Sawy was a painter

a

Dywan.

He

imitates A'cafy.
to Gujrat

BaqAyiy came from

Qomm

where he was attached to Thence he went to Agra and

the service of Nitzam aldyn

A^mad.

when Badawny wrote he had the

takhalluc was
first

intention to go to Lahor.

His

Maftuny.
is

Tarlchdn, his

name
is

Molla

Nury.
Jagyr.

Sufaydan

the

Nur aldyn Sufaydany and his takhalluc name of a place in Sirhind which was his
in favour with

He

was a good Mathematician and stood high

the emperor

Humayun who

conferred upon him the

life

title

of a Tarkhan,

but towards the end of his

alive in 979.

he

fell

into great poverty.

He

was

He

is

the author of a Dywan.

Turdy a native of Ma-wara-lnahr. Tawsany his name is Manohar and though he was a Hindu he
also called
his father

is

Mohammad Manohar and Mirza Manohar.

Lon-karn
(salt

The name of

is

manufacturer), he was Kajah of Sambhar

No.

10.]

bada'wny;

57

India.

Tadzrawy CS9J& Abhary a nephew of Nargisy came from Rum to He is the author of a memoir *JUj (or Mathnawy ?) called
+x? cft^.j j ^^-a. the
first

cLk

verse of which
is

is

lsjj

***f

j-Uj

^+~yzj

e^^-

He

died in 975 and

buried at Agra.

Tashbyhy Kashy came twice or three times to India and returned

again to Persia,

when Badawny wrote he was

in India.

He

was of

doubtful orthodoxy, has written a Risalah which he dedicated to

Abu-1-Fadhl and which contains irreligious theories

he also

left

Dywan.
Taqyy aldyn Shiishtary was
just
skilled in almost all sciences

and had

come

to the court

when Badawny

wrote, he put the

Shahnamah

into prose.

Thdniy Khun Herawy his name was 'alyy Akbar, he put the Kafi-

yah into Persian verse and

"tr*

left

a treatise in verse on Arabic

grammar

and a prose

treatise

on pantheism.

He

was

alive in 990.

Thandyiy Mashhady, Khwajah JETosayn.

nothing of after he had come to India, he

His poetry was much

it

esteemed in India before he came to this country and

left

was thought
a very

Dywan and

good Mathnawy.
Jiddly,

Myr
in a

Sayyid 'alyy was a most distinguished painter.

It is in sixteen volumes.
is

He

painted the history of iZamzah.

Every
alive in

volume

is

box and every leaf

a cubit long.

He

was

A. H. 956 and had written a Dywan.

Jadzby his name
is

Padshah Quly son of Shah Quly-Khan Tarykhy.

i.

Jamyly Kalpy-wal,
his brother

e.

of Calpee, a son of Jalal "Wacil.

He

and

Fadhyl were both poets of some repute.

left

The

latter also

wrote Arabic poetry and

a commentary on Faydhy's sentences

without diacritical points.

wrote.
Chishty,
ciple of

They were both

alive

when Badawny

Shaykh IZbsayn 5 u fy Dihlawy was

in mysticism a dis-

Shaykh Islem p*S~ Chishty. He was in the Khanqah of FatApur Sykry. He left a Dywan and several other works among
in verse called

them one

Heart and Soul

c^J

J>

which

is

an

imitation of the

J* j

^-^

of TofaAy the teacher of

Myr

'alyy Shyr.

Ja'far a Sayyid of Herat.

far-Beg was called A'caf Ja?

the late Paymaster of the forces, says Badawny,

praises of him.

Khan Qazwyny he was a nephew of who speaks in high

58

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Haydary Tabryzy was a Hajy and came twice to India but left it again. His Dy wan in which there are but few good poems has about
14,000 verses.

He

was a pupil of Lisany.

Hozny

of the 'iraq intended to

come from Herat

to India but died

before he could carry out his plan.

TLaydty Gylany a friend of Dardinand wrote a

Dy wan.

Hah/ was

at Gujrat with
is

Mirza

Mtzam
own

aldyn AAmad.
opinion a descendant of

Halaty Tadgar

according to his

Sultan Sanjar, but according to the Tarykh JSTitzamy he was a Cha-

ghatayan.

He

left

a Dywan.

Kh&ne A'tzam Khanjar Beg

account of his

flourished under

Humayiin and Akbar.

a relation of Turdy

Beg Khan

is

a Chaghataian

by birth and wrote a Mathnawy of 300 verses in which he gives an

own

life

and eelebrates the praises of the emperor.

Khosrawy came from the Makkian pilgrimage to India were he

was patronized by one of the Royal
princes.
his title

Myr Dawry
Katib almulk.
fair poet.

his

name

is

Sukan Bayazyd Herawy and

He

was the best calligraph in Akbar' s

time and a

Dakhhj came from the

Danahy, Danah
a peasant.
is

'iraq to India.

a village near Nayshapiir of which this poet was

to India

He came

and made poetry, but as

his

language

was

rustic

and uncultivated

his verses

were not much admired.

is

Dawwdny, IZakym 'ayn almulk.

His mother

descended from

Dawwany. Bqfy'y, Myr iZaydar Mo'ammayiy of Kashan was distinguished by his skill in making chronograms. He was drowned when returnthe celebrated Philosopher Jalal aldyn ing by sea to Persia.

He was

in charge of copies of
also lost.

Faydhy's works

for distribution in Persia

and they were

Bihdyiy

is

a descendant of Shaykh Zayn Khafy and wrote a cele-

brated Dywan.

Sa'd aldyn Bihdyiy Khawafy

is

mentioned in the

Nafayis, he died in 980.

Bawghany was a Jester

in the service of the

emperor and

left

Dywan
by

of about

3000

verses,

he died in 981.

The

following chro-

nogram on

his death expresses the estimation in

1

which he was held

his contemporaries ^U-vj ***/*^ ur**

^ ^'^

Zayn Khan Kokah was the best musician of the time of Akbar but a bad poet. He played chiefly Hindu tunes.

No.

10.]

bada'wny.

59
is

SulUm Mohammad Saplaky

^^^,

Saplak

a place in Qandahar.

The common people of India pronounce the word with an i after s * s tne name of an the p if thus pronounced it means a*^?
;

animal which lives on carrion.

There was another poet, MoSultan, his title was Khan-zaman. hammad, who had the takhalluc of Sultan the Khan-zaman offered him one thousand Eupees if he would change it and when he refused to do so he threatened to put him to death but promises and threats
;

were unavailing with the poor poet, he kept his takhalluc.

Sayry Ghaznawy was versed in law, metric and other sciences.
Sipihry, Myrza.

Beg died

in India in 979.

Sihiqy was in the service of Bayram-khan

who

sent through him

seven thousand Eupees to the shrine of

spent the money and was punished for
it

Imam

Eidha.

The poet

by Shah Tahmasb of Persia

with imprisonment, but in 974 he again obtained his liberty.

Sahmy Bokhary.
his takhalluc.

His father was an arrow manufacturer, hence

grew up
in the service of

He

Myrza

'azyz

Kokah.
to the

Saqqd Bahram belongs

Silsilah of IZajy

to the school of

Darwysh Faniy and

Mohammad

Janiishany

jJW y*>.

He

lived at

Agra
he

and having given every thing he possessed to a son of

travelled to Ceylon

his Pyr,

and died on the road.

He

left a large

Dywan.

Siydhy Khoda-dust a grandson of Khwajah Kalan Beg died in

978.

(According to another Tadzkirah his takhalluc

first

is

Sipdhy.)

Sarmady Ispahany had

in Bengal.

the takhalluc of Faydhy, he resides

Sdqiy Jazayiry a native of Mashhad.

His father who was of

In the

Arabic extraction was considered as a doctor (mojtahid) of the Shy'ah church.

Nafayis
it is

Saqiy held in 1004 an office in Bengal.

stated that his father's

name was Ibrahym

first

Jazayiry.

Sayyidy a

9 u fy was

a disciple of Shaykh Islem (f^-! apparently

a corruption of Islam) Chishty.

is

Was

settled at Kalpy,

now he

at Kabul.

Shahdy

(or Shohdy),

Shah Abu-1-Ma'aly.

Shyry of the village of

Kokwal

in the Panjab.

His father was of

Machyn. He late the Mahabharata

execute the task.

was a very celebrated poet and was ordered to transinto Persian, but
it is

not clear whether he did

He

died in the Yusofjay country in 994 and left

a celebrated Dywan.
I

60

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
is

[CHAP.

I.

Shikyby Ispahany came to India and

patronized by" the

Khan

Khanan

the son of

Bayram Khan.
Sayf almoluk

Shujd'y,

Hakym
is alive.

Domawandy was

a clever physician.

Sharbaty

Molla
he
is

Cjddiq

Halwayiy Samarqandy was in 988 in Ma-wara-lnahr,

the author of a

Dywan.

Qabuhy was of Chaghatyyah origin lived at

Cdlihy

Agra and died

in 972.

Herawy was

in India but returned to his home.

Qddiq (according to the Nafayis Qddiqy)

for

Qandahary Herawy was

some time

in India, he is dead.
left

tyrfy,

Shaykh Ta'qub Kashmyry a learned man who

several

works on Qufism.

He commenced
like the
it.

the compilation of a large com-

mentary on the Koran

Tafsyr

Kabyr

(of

Kazy) but died

before he could complete

Qarfy Sawajy was for some time at Gujrat with Khwajah Nitzam

aldyn AAmad, subsequently he went to Lahor, he wrote a Dywan.

(Jabury

Hamadany was

cast in prison

when the Khan-zaman was

put to death.
Qdlih

Was

dead when Badawny wrote.

the
title

Dywanah obtained

of 'aqily from the emperor.

Tdrimy, Molla 'alyy was very

studied this science in Arabia.

strong in the traditions having

in 981.

Died

Taryqy Sawajy died on a pilgrimage to Makkah.

Tdlib Ispahany resided the last twenty years in

Kashmyr,

first

he

was a Qalandar, subsequently he entered the

and was sent on an embassy to Ladak.

service of the

emperor

TdWy Tazdy
Tifly a son of

an elegant calligraph resided at Agra.

Molla Darwysh FatApury was so precocious that he

read the Shamsyyah on Logic

when only
left

ten years of age.

Was

in

the service of one of the princes.

Tzoliury resided in the

Deccan and

Dywan.

Myr

"abd al-Hayy

Mashhady a brother

of

Myr

'abd Allah Qaniiny

who was
Sayyid

a courtier of Humayiin.

Mohammad

Najafy wrote good Persian and Arabic poetry,

and

his poetical talents

were
it

fully

acknowledged in the Deccan.

He

came
and

to Ilahabad

and

was reported that he had written a satyre

the charge, his papers were searched,

on Pat^ Allah.
as satyres

As he denied

were found among them he was ten years imprisoned

wrote a Dywan.

at Gwaliar.

He

No.

10.]

bada'wny.

61

'obaydy was a
'ishqy

Khan

a Turky Pyr-zadah.

young but promising poet when Badawny wrote. His father was BaAman Quly
in accounts
left

Sultan.

He

was well versed

and

filled for

some time the

place of Myr-Bakhshy.

He

Dywan

of a thousand Qacydahs

and many Ghazals and a very large Mathnawy.

Hlmy

(or 'alamy)

Myr Mortadha
was
for

a Sayyid of Diighab was for some

time lord of Badawn.

"azyzy

Myr

'azyz Allah

some time Dywan (Minister of

five crores of

Finance) of Akbar but

finally his

property was confiscated and he was

imprisoned because he could not account for

Bupees.

He
A

left
,

a
A

Dywan
'azyz

of Ghazals and

some Mathnawies

like

U^j 0$ and
to write

Mirzd
poetry.

Kokdh A'tzam Khan attempts now and then

'ahdy Shyrazy was for some time in Gujrat with Nitzam aldyn

AAmad.

Subsequently he came to Dilly and entered the service

of the iZakyin 'ayn almulk.

'inayat Katib Shyrazy
'orfy Shyrazy.

was

librarian of

Akbar when Badawny wrote.

life

His Dywan was even during his

time very

popular and sold in every street.

Ghaznaioy

Myr Mohammad Khane Kalan

a large

held a very high appoint-

ment.

He

left

Dywan.
'iraq

Ghazzaly Mashhady fled from the

where he had been in

danger of being put to death into the Deccan.

sent

The Khan-zaman

him one thousand Eupees

to proceed from the

for the

journey and prevailed upon

After he had been some
his service

him

Deccan to Agra.

years with the Khan-zaman, the emperor took him into

and

conferred the title of king of poets *lj*&J\

&Lo upon him. He died at

AAmadabad on Thursday evening 27th

Nafayis in 981.
left

of Bajeb 980, according to the

He
a

was deeply versed in mystic philosophy.

He

Dywan and

Mathnawy,
b.

in all from 40,000 to 50,000 verses.

Ghohary Qasim 'alyy

(his father

iTaydar Baqqal rose from a humble station

was a green-grocer at Agra) to the dignity of a Khan.

He

died in 1000 or 1001.

Bedawny who
c; -^
1

writes a very spiteful

is

article

on him says that

ejla.

*A*t

cUU.
966.

^U ^m#U
left

f**

v^

in the former

and

is in

the latter case, the chronogram of his death.

Ghorbaty -Hicary travelled in Ma-wara-luahr and died at Agra in

He

Dywan.

62

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Ghayraty Shyrazy came to India but returned to Shyraz.

Shaykh Faydliy died

in 1004.

Sir

Henry

Elliot has given a very

spirited translation of this article in his Ind. Hist. I. 255.

Fiirighy Shyrazy a cousin of

Fat^ Allah.

He came

twice to India,

and

died.
?)

Fahmy Tabarany (Teherany

also India.

was a great

traveller

and

visited

Fahny b. Nadiry Samarqandy came Fdhmy Astrabady died at Dilly.

Fikry, Sayyid

to India, but left

it

again.

Mohammad Jamah-baf nicknamed Myr

title

Euba'yiy

is

the

Khayyam

of his age. of Khan.

Fandyiy Chaghatayiy had the

He

was some time

imprisoned, which affected his mind so

much

that he turned mad.

He

left

Dywan.
teller

Fosuny Yazdy a story

by profession.

Came from

Tatah,

and was received into the service of the emperor.

Fyruzah Kabuly a slave of Myrza
musician, and a fair poet.

Mohammad iZakym was a clever

He

was admitted into the society of the

emperor.
Fdrisy, Sharyf a son of the painter

Khwajah 'abd al-^amad was a

great calligraph and a good painter, he left a

Dywan.

Qardry Gylany, Niir aldyn son of Molla 'abd al-Kazzaq and brother of the

iZakym

Abii-1-FatA, died in Bengal during the days of

left

Motzaffar

Khan and

a Dywan.

Qawsy was

in the service of the

he was without equal in the art

Khane Kalan, and it of making tooth-picks.

is

said that

Qaydy Shyrazy came to India on

his return from the

Makkian
fell

pilgrimage, and entered the service of the emperor, but

into

disgrace for having said that his subjects were greatly suffering.

He

died at EatApur.

Qandy came
to India.

at the time of

Bayram Khan from Ma-wara-lnahr

Kabuly was a Q u fy and

Qdsim Gdhy {Kahy from Kah grass

skilled in the explanation of the

?)

Qoran, polemics, music, &c. but he

was an atheist and a disgusting cynic.

Qdsim Arsldn was
wara-lnahr.
in 995.
originally of Tiis, but

was brought up
left

in

Madied

He

was a very good poet and

Dywan.

He

No.

10.]
'ala

bada'wny.
aldawlah, author of a Tadzkirah.

63

Kdmy, Myr

Kalamy, Afdhal-khan came from the Deccan to Hindustan, he was

learned in most sciences, more
particularly in
law.

Died in the

Deccan.

Kdmy Qommy,
come
to India.

a young

man who had

shortly previous to 1004

Liqdyiy Astrabady a most distinguished

or 975.

man

died at Lahor in 979

Ldly Myrza

La'l

Beg son

of Quly Badakhshy a most gentle

young
very

man, who was admitted into the society of the emperor.

well versed in history

He

is

and writes occasionally poetry.

Lutfy Monajjim was for some time with Mirza Nitzam aldyn

AAmad

in Grujrat.

"Was well acquainted with ancient poetry and

Sharyfy Shyrazy grandson of

repeated one night, one thousand verses from memory.

Myr Mortadha

Myr

Sayyid Sharyf

Jorjany, surpassed all his

philosophical sciences.
ditions

contemporaries in the mathematical and

He

under Ibn

-ffajr,

went to Makkah, studied there the traand obtained a licence ojL^I from him.

From Makkah he went

into the

Deccan and thence to Agra.

He

Mashhad for interment. Khwdjah Hosayn Manvy a descendant of Eokn aldyn 'ala aldawlah Samnany was in Philosophy a pupil of 'icam aldyn and Molla
died in 974, and was conveyed to

iZanafy and in law of Ibn -Hajr II.

In 979 he

left

India and

returned to his

home and

died there.

into Persian verses, but did not

He put the Singhasan Batysy complete it. He left a Dywan.

twenty-five years

Mahwy, Myr Mohammad Munshiy was Munshiy of India.

Head

Myr Mohsm Eadhawy Mashhady.

Mawjy, Qasim Khan Badakhshy was a high
of the emperor, and
left

officer in

the

army

poem of 6000 verses in the style of Yusof d Zalykha. He died at Agra in 979. Myr-z-idah 'alyy Khan a son of MoMaram Beg was killed in Kashmyr in 996. Mathnawy Herawy was of the Taba^aba family, lived nearly fifty
a
years in India.

Died

in 982.

MurAdy Astrabady was

and died
in 979.

a Sayyid of that place.

He came

to India

64

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
his family is of

[CHAP.

I.

Mushfiqy Bokhary,

Marw, he came twice

to India

but returned again to Persia.

Mayly Herawy
Malik

his

guished poet in the service of

name was Myrza Quly. He was a very distinNawrang Khan. He died at Malwa.
Malik alkalam or the king of poetry.

Qommy

called

He

lived in the

Deccan

in a

humble manner.

It is to be observed that

Faghfiir adopted some times the takhalluc of Malik.

His poems

must therefore not be confounded with those of Malik Qommy.

Molla

Moddmy

of Badakhshan was for some time in the service of

Myrza

'azyz

Kokah.
left

Molld Maqgud Qazwyny was a good poet and

Dywan.
first

Mihnaty ificary a man of considerable learning was

Dilly

in the
died.

Madrasah and subsequently Qddhiy of Sirhind where he

'ayshy.

The emperor gave him the takhalluc of

Musawy Mashhady. Khwdjah Mo'atztzam, he murdered

it in

his

wife and was executed for

971.

Mawzun
this art.

the son of a celebrated calligraph was also well versed in

Mohammad Yusof was born

at

Kabul and brought up

in India.

Was

killed in the siege of Stirat in 980. (970 ?)

Mantzary Samarqandy was

Khan.

at

Agra

in the

service of

Bayram

He

wrote a poem called

J^
&c.

ju>Ua& which contains an

amount of the war of Iskander

Stir,

Modamy Hamadany was known in Moqymy Sabzwary was for some

A'tzam.

India by the

name

of iZaydary.

time in the service of Khane

of Grujrat to his native country.

He

returned after the

fall

Ma' gum

a son of the Qadhiy

Abu

Ma'aliy died at Lahor.

Mahwy came
Makkah.

to India shortly before 1004,

was

for

some time

in

the service of the Khankhanan, then he went on a pilgrimage to

Matzhary Kashmyry wrote a Dywan.

Shaykh
family, but

Was

in

Mohammad Bokhary Dihlawy was

Kashmyr in 1004. man of very good

seems not to have been much of a poet. Nawydy Torbaty left a Dywan which contains a very biting satyre against Kychak-Beg the Bakhshy of Bayram Khan. Nishany, Mawlana 'alyy A^mad son of iZbsayn Naqshy Dihlawy,
a seal engraver by profession.

No.

10.]

bada'wny.
is

65
dead.

Ndgfay Jamil Khan son of Miyan Mangan of Badawn

NiMly

a lady of Agra, a relation of

Mihry Herawy.
of the

Nijdty Grylany came to India and died.

Nawydy a young man in the service Navfy was in the service of one of

Khan Khanan.
fellow.

the princes.

Niydzy of Bokhara, was a most insolent and shameless

He

died at Tata.

Namy is the takhalluc of Myr Mohammad Ma' cum afawy of Bakar. Natzyry Nayshapury was in 1004 in the service of the Khan
Khanan.

Nawydy Nayshapury died 973 at Ojayn on his way Natzmy Tabryzy. His Dywan is celebrated.
WoqiCy Nayshapury a
was
relation of Shihab

to

Makkah.
his

AAmad Khan,

name

Mohammad

Sharyf.
died.

Wadiiy Herawy came to India and

Waqify Herawy Ibn 'alyy was in the service of the emperor.

Waqfy

Myr

'abd Allah a very good calligraph.

He

was the

pupil of Shah 'abbas and

Mawlana Eaqimy

in

this art.

He

wrote

sometimes poetry.

Wagly went from the

India.

'iraq to

Makkah and thence by water

to

The ship was wrecked and most of the passengers were

drowned, but he was saved and went to the Deccan.

He

was favour-

ably received by the king, this excited the envy of the courtiers and

they poisoned him in 977.

Woqufy Herawy
to Lahor.

is

called

Myr

Wa'itz.

He

resides in Badakhshan.

Wafdyiy Ispahany lived for a long time in Kashmyr thence he came

Hamad&ny
and
left

called

Khane

'alam

is

a son of

Hamdam

Beg.

Rijry a descendant of the Shaykh

a

Jam was

a very sanctified

man

Dywan
(or

of 5000 verses.
?),

Rdshimy

Hdshim
Unsy.

Mohammad Hashim a

cousin of

Mawlana

MoAammad Shah

He

sometimes used the takhalluc of Sollamy

^A** and sometimes

of Wafiy.

He

was

at

Lahor in 972.

60

PEHSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

(ii)
Ilahy's treasury,

\^ V

^^M
S

>

containing the biography of about

four hundred Persian poets alphabetically arranged

by

'imad aldyn Ma^miid Ilahy i^osayny.

The
life

title

of the

book and name of the author occur in the

Ilahy
is

of Adzory.

mentioned by
p.

T'ahir

Nacrabady and in the was a

that he spent a great

A'tishkadah

34 1 and

it is

stated there that he

native of Asadabad in

Hamadan and
and died

part of his
that he

life

in India to India

there.

Sarkhiish says

came

under Jahangyr, but neither of

According to the Ha-

these authors mention his name.

name was Myr Cadr aldyn Mohammad 'alyy, he was the son of the physician Mohammad Shyrazy and was a native of Hamadan, he came to
myshah Bahar
his

India

in A. H.

1010, and found

great

favor

at

the

Court of the emperor

skill

and on account of his medical

title

he received the

of the

Messiah of the age.

Either this statement refers to

it is full

a different individual or
p.

of errors.
in

Ilahy himself informs us in

to

112

that he

went

1010

Ispahan for the sake of prosecut;

ing his studies and stayed there three and a half years

and in page 365 he says that in 1015 he went to Shyraz

for the

same purpose, and

from
Siraj

in

one passage he mentions

is

that he was at

Thaneser which

one hundred miles

N.

W.

Dilly.

mentions

Myr Ilahy Hamadany

and

places his death in 1064.

left

His poems are much ad-

mired and he

a considerable
in this

Dy wan.
chiefly poets of

The author mentions

uJLjL*
ii/

Tadzkirah

the 9th and 10th centuries of the Hijrah

whom

he

calls

^}^X

He

also

mentions some of the eighth

No.

11.]

ila'hy.

67

century on the authority of Dawlat-shah.

ties

The

authori-

which he uses are principally the Samy

(see p.

12

supra),
(see

Myr

'alyy

Shyr

(see p. 9),
(p. 9).

and Taqyy AwAady

the Tadz<sfi> (in

below), and Fakhry

He also quotes

kirah of

Khwajah

Amyn

aldyn

Hasan Nithary

one passage he writes iSjty) but gives us no information

respecting him, except

that

he wrote his work in Mafive poets of this

wara-lnahr.

In Tadzkirahs
1.

takhalluc

are mentioned,

Nithary

and

is

the author of a

Tuny who died in 971 or 968 Dywan of Ghazals and Qacydah

same measure
3.

and of a Mathnawy
the Beggar;
4.
2.

in the

as the

King and

Nithary Tabryzy;
is

Nithary

Nithary Bokhary, his name

is

Baha aldyn

Qazwyny Hasan and

5.

he

most likely the author of the Tadzkirah.

Nithais

ry Astrabady.

He

also quotes the

j[ffi)

&&< which

biography of

Ciifies

and the Majalis of 'abd al-Qadir

has no preface and has never
therefore perfectly

MaraghahT.

The book
it is

been completed and

unknown.

Beginning Jyy^ Aj^ss^jXa)

The rough copy of the author
368 pp. of 19
the
lines.
is

^jJl-usJa^j.** e^lxkL*

^^U

is

in a private collection, large 8vo.

it.

There are many blanks in

written, a space
is

Sometimes only

name

of a poet

left for

the biography and

is

then follow extracts from the Dywan.

given and a space
is left

Sometimes the biography

for extracts

in

many instances additions

are

made

in the margin, these additions are

different hand.
:

sometimes by another author

and in a

Table of the contents

Amyr Ma^mud Ibn Tamyn

Ibn
Sayf.

d.

749.

Ibn Taj Kyi Qufy.

the author of

Ibn Faraj.
'alyy b. jffbsayn b. 'alyy called 'alayiy
1

Ibn Hildlj

is

the eHrfJ^'s *^* which

is

also called

yj%* ^j^ and

is

dedicated

to

Shah Shuja' Kirmany.

K 2

68

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
a brother of Motzaffar aldyn

[CHAP.
Abu

I.

MaAmud Ibn Zangy

A'tabuk Sa'd b. Zangy.

Shuja'

Ibn 'igdm, some say he was a son of 'icamy Samarqandy. Khwajah Kamal aldyn Ibn Naguh. dedicated a Dah-namah to the "Wazyr-zadah Khwajah Ghiyath aldyn Mohammad b. Khwajah Eashyd

Hamadany, he resided mostly

Jamal aldyn Ibn Hosdm

at

Baghdad.

d. in

730

at Herat.
d.

Mohammad Ibn Hosdm

author of the a^jIa.

875.

Qadhiy Ibn Jaldl probably of Nayshapur.

Abu-l-Fadhl Mahnah, a descendant of

Abu

Sa'yd.

Abu

Sa'yd Mahnah, a son of

Mowayyad Dywanah was

equally a

descendant of

Abu

Sa'yd

(b.)

Abii-1-Khayr.

Khwajah Abu-l-Nagr Mahnah a son of Mowayyad Dywanah.

Ibn Badr aldyn Jarjarmy a contemporary of Sultan Abu Sa'yd

Myrza Gurgan, resided mostly at Ispahan. Ibn Qotob a friend of Afdhal Na'yiny.
Ibn Jaldl died probably in 750.
an associate of Athyr

He
of

was a darwysh and probably

Isma'yl.

Umany and

Kamal

Ibn Ahmad.
Abu-l-Ma? dly of Khawaf was a neighbour of 'abd Allah Ancary.

Khwajah Abu-l-Qdsim a son of Shihab aldyn Khawafy.

Abu Ishdq

called Yas/*oq at'imah ***^t &*"** Shyrazy, contemis

porary of a grandson of Tymiir,

the author of a

Mathnawy

called

Najm

Abu Tdhir Sharwany. aldyn Abu (]dlih. Myrza Abu JBakr Ibn J2uky-Shah *& ^y*. was killed

in 852.

Sultan
in 736.

Abu Sa'yd Khan

b.

Sultan

MoAammad Khoday-bandah

died

Myrza Abu Bahr b. Sultan Abu Sa'yd was put to death Myrza Ibrdkym b. Solayman Padshah born in 941 d. 967
Ibn La? I son of La'ly-shah Badakhshany.

in 885.
(?)

Abu 'alyy used to behave like a mad man. Khwajah Ibn 'imdd left a Dah-namah or Decalogue.
Sayyid Ibn
'alyy.

Ibn Mo'yn a poet of the middle period. Ibn Khatyb Hushang panegyrist of the Kart family more cularly of Fakhr aldyn Kart.
iZafitz

parti-

Ibrdkym of the country of Karmiyah *>*J.

No.

11.]

ila'hy.

69

Sayyid Ibrdhym a descendant of Khwajah Baha aldyn, had the

appointment of (Jadarat at Kabul.

Amyr Nitzam
was

aldyn Abii-1-Baqa Baqdyiy was a contemporary of

the Sultan IZbsayn Myrza, he came to India under

killed in 947.

Humayun, and

Khwajah Abu-l-Wafd a 9"fy f Khwarizm d. 835. Ibrdhym Kandah of Khorasan was a teacher in the Madrasah of
Farjak.

Abddl Ispahany was in the service of Sam Myrza.

Qadhiy Abd-l-Barakat Samarqandy mentioned by 'alyy Shyr.
Abu-l-Khayr Samarqandy a good Mathematician came to Herat

under Myrza Abu-1-Baqayiy

b.

SulMn IZbsayn Myrza, Mohammad

Khan Shaybany took him to Balkh.

Khwajah Abu Ishdq
is

mentioned by

Myr 'alyy

Shyr.

Khwajah Abu Tahir a son of Khwajah 'abd Allah. Amyr Ibrdhym Qaniiny a son of Khwajah Musa.

Mawlana Ablahy. Mawlana Sharaf aldyn Ibrdhym

Shaykh Abu-l-WdsV a ufy.

of Bokhara.

Amyr Abu-l-Fath Junabady c*?^ some with Amyr Abii-1-FatA whose takhalluc was
Abu-l-Mojdhid Iskuyiy
,jljZ~*\

say that he

is

identic

lathy.

the younger brother of

Amyr adr

aldyn Iskuyiy and a contemporary of Shah Isma'yl.

Myr Ibrdhym

Teherany

b.

Ntir Allah.

Mawlana Ibrdhym Astrabady.

IZajy Abu-l-Masan a

Turky

poet.

Aby

(from db water) of Khorasan a

contemporary

of Sultfan

IZbsayn Myrza.

Abu-l-Mohsin Myrza

b.

Myrza Abii-1-Baqayiy

b.

Sultfan

IZbsayn

Myrza Bayqara. Byby Attm.

A'tishy nourished at the close of Sultan

iZbsayn Myrza' s reign

and

in the beginning of that of

Shah Isma'yl.

Prince Sayyid

Jalayir d. 895. Myrza Ahmad Daylamy. Ahmad Myrza. Sultan Ahmad king of Kalbarga, Khwajah AAmad Mojallid of Khorasan. IZafitz AAmad H inna-tarash of Herat. Mawlana Ahmady. IZafitz Ahmad Kha/yb.

Sultan

Ahmad

70

PERSIAN TADZK1RAHS.
'ala

[CHAP.

I.

Myrza Ahmad a descendant of Shaykh

Shaykh ^lAmad iZasan Balkhy 5ufy.

aldawlah Samnany.

Mawlana Ahsan a poet

of the middle period,

is

called

A^san

Nadym.
Shaykh Ahmad Miisawy.
Qadhiy Ahmad Grhaffary Qazwyny d. 975. Amyr Ahmad iZajy was for some time Euler
quently of Samarqand.
of Herat, and subse-

Ahmad Atf'imah
called j^^l

a mystic.

Ahmad Tabsy
left

d.

932.

Khwajah Ikhtiydr Zawahi y)

Mathnawy, or perhaps two,

Jte"j vaU-Uiil he nourished under Shah Isma'yl.

Qadhiy Ikhtiydr Torbaty lived to the time of Shah Tahmasb.

Sayyid Akhfash Shyrazy.

AAmad Tabsy
Isma'yl,

called

Mawlana

A'tiin

was the teacher of Shah

for 897.

went

later to

Turkey.

we have a chronogram, J^J*^*, by him Mawlana Akhy Zihgyr-tarash e^L^ J^J Akhtamy came to India under Humayun.
Ikhtiydr

Myr

Addyiy Ispahany nourished from Shah Isma'yl to Shah Tahmasb

Addyiy Bokharayiy, a contemporary of Sultan iZbsayn Myrza.

Myrza Adham Baghdady, a contemporary

Turkey
;

of Sultan Solayman of

wrote in Arabic, Persian and Turkish.

Ibrahym Shah Adhamy.

Adham Kashy.

Adham Qazwyny.
Adam, left a Qacydah on the Elixir. Shaykh Jalal aldyn Adzory d. 866 at an age of eighty-two
years.

By by

Arzuyiy.

Ardebyly, nourished under Sultan iZaydar afawy.

Azy.

Shaykh Mohammad Lahyjy

Shah Ismd'yl

dj^

6'^

sic)

Asyry, author of a com-

mentary on the Gulshane Raz and father of Fidayiy.

b. Sultfan

-Haydar Qafawy was Dorn

892, and was

acknowledged as sovereign at Tabryz in 906, in the same year died

Myr

'alyy

Shyr and

in

911 died Sultan .Hbsayn Myrza Bayqara.

left

Shah Isma'yl died at Baylaq on Monday, 19 Bajab, 930, and

Turqy Dywan in which he uses the takhulluc of Khitfaby.

Myr
of

Islam a descendant of
'ala

Mohammad

Grhazzaly and a panegyrist

Myrza

aldawlah died under SuUan

b.

Abu

Sa'yd.

Khalyfah Asad Allah

Khalyfah Hidayat Allah Ispahany.

No.

11.]

ila'hy.

71

Sayyid Asad Allah.

Mawlana Ismy Herawy.

Sayyid Jalal

Mawlana Asriiry. Khwajah Ashraf'of the 'iraq. aldyn Ashraf Kashy flourished under Buqa-Khan

son of Hulakd.

Darwysh Ashraf flourished under Sultan Mohammad b. Baysankar. Khwajah Agafy d. 928. Mawlana Agly of Mashhad.
Agyl aldyn

Mohammad

b.

Tahir b. Abu-1-Ma'aly Nahjbary (or

Hanjbary

?) of

Shyraz, contemporary of Sulten

Abu

Is7*aq,

Moham-

mad

Motzaffar and Shah Shuja'.

Amyr Agly Qommy. Myr Siraj aldyn Agyly

Myrza.

of Herat, contemporary of Sultan iTosayn

Khwajah Afdhal aldyn Mohammad Kirmany a son of Dhiya aldyn and a Wazyr of Sultan iZbsayn Myrza, to be distinguished from the elder Afdhal aldyn Kirmany.
Afdhal Sarany, Saran
Teheran.
is

the

name

of a quarter of the

town of

Afdhal Beg of the Qipchaq came to India under Humayun.

Khwajah
is

Iftikh&r,

some

identify

him with .Hakym

Iftikhar,

who

an ancient poet. Afsary Bokhary.

Amyr

Afdhal son of

Sultfan alyy

Afdhal Allah Shyrazy. Khwab-byn.

Afaty Samarqandy.

Afsary a contemporary of Sultan Babor.

Af&q Jalayir a Afchangy

sister of
'

Mohammad
Herawy

'alyy Jalayir
is

Mthary.

^^

A'yahy

older than

Agahy Yazdy.

Mawlana Agahy Qayiny a grandson Myrza Ulugh Beg the astronomer.

of Jalal aldyn Qayiny.

Myr
Alf

IZbsayn TJlfaty of Torbat was under

Humayun

in India.

Ildhy a contemporary of Sultan /fosayn Myrza.

(?)

Abddl Ispahany had

first

the takhalluc of Moty'y was a

contemporary of Sultan Ya'qiib.

Amciny a panegyrist of Humayun.

Molla Amyry Astrabady.

is

Mawlana Amyry Khorasany, a contemporary of Shah Isma'yl j the father of Fakhry the author of the w*u* &=?
l

Amyr

aldyn

Mohammad Amyny
'alyy

of Khorasan.
is

Nitzam aldyn

Shyr

d.

906, the chronogram

*^j

jly*>

Mawlana Dhiya aldyn Yusof Amyry, was "rokh. Mawlana Amyry.

at the court of Shah-

72

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
lived to the time of

[CHAP.

I.

Khwajah Amyr Beg Natzary

Shah Tahmasb.

Khwajah Amyr Beg Mohr. Amdn Allah Qohistany mentioned by 'alyy Shyr.
Khwajah Amyr Beg.

Amdn

Allah Qazwyny, a nephew of

Adham Munshiy, was

crisis in fevers

ten

years in the service of

Sam Myrza, and wrote

ne on the

a treatise on the pre-

servation of health c*s" JaA^ j*,

eJi/^ ji,

and one containing Mo'ammas.

Amyny Samnany Sa'd-gul. Amyr Snl^an Ibrahym Amyny d. 941. Ummydy Razy a native of Teheran d. 925. Amyr MaAmiid Grylany is of the family of the Rulers of Lahijan. Amyr Amyr-khwand a son of Khwand-Shah Balkhy the historian. Mohammad Amyr Balkhy died at Astrabad. Sayyid Qotfb aldyn Amyre IZajj TTnsy a Sayyid of Herat, left a set
of
*fc4*)1
i-

e.

forty Grhazals.
lived long in

Any Herawy

Kashmyr and

died there.

Anysy Kharizmy ij*)j^- was in the service of Sultfan Ya'qiib. Anwary Balkhy made a chronogram on Jamy.

Anwary Mashhady. Anwary Samarqandy a

Samarqand.

friend of

Amyr AAmad

-Hajy the Ruler of

Anwary Bokhary a calligraph in the service of Myr 'alyy Shyr. Shaykh Anwar Hamadany. Shaykh Angary Herawy.
Molla MoAammad-shah
TJnsy

Qandahary came to India under

Humayiin.

Mawlana Ingdfy a contemporary of Sultan Ya'qub. Khwajah Awhad Mostawfiy Sabzwary a physician, and generally a
learned

man

d.

868.

Sultan Oways b. Shaykh

iTasan Ntiyan

diy

succeeded to the

throne of Adzarbayjan and the Arabian 'iraq after the death of his
father.

He

died in 765.

Alily Khorasany.

Ahly Shyrazy.

Ahly Chaghatayiy.
the
title

Ahy.
d.

Mohammad Bayr Am Khan who had

Bayany Tabryzy.
Jahanshah
822.
Isfarayiny.

Khan Khanan

968

Baydn BaArabady. Baydny Astrabady. Myrza Pyr Buddq (he spells this word OI'V and <3'^ ) son of
d.

Amyr By-Khudy
Paydmy Herawy
him

By-Khudy Balkhy.
Babor Myrza raised

Bayddhy Astrabady mentioned by Samy.

lived in Ma-wara-lnahr until

to the post of Qadarat.

No.

li.]

ila'hy.
thirty years at Herat.

73

By-Kasy Shushtary spent

Myr

Taj Gylany.
to India

Mawlana Tadzrawy Abhary a nephew of Nargisy came

and dedicated a Dah-namah, or Decalogue to the Khane A'tzam.

TabVy Herawy, and Tarkhan Khorasany and TawAydy are mentioned by Taqyy AwAady.

Tarzyqy (see Tadzkirah Samy).

Mawlana 'alyy Kalawy 45^ Tkawry Bokhary mentioned by Shyr. Myrza Jan Mohammad Thdniy.
'abd al-KaAman

'alyy

Jamy

(he gives a

list

of his works which will be

inserted in the next chapter).

Mohammad Jany

a brother of

Jamy

died before him. to Herat

Sayyid JcCfar brother of

Mohammad Nur-bakhsh went

under Myrza Sultan IZbsayn.

Sayyid Jaldle 'adhod of Yazd a son of 'adhod the "Wazyr of

Mo-

hammad

Motzaffar.
Jaldl aldyn ^abyb, his takhalluc was Shah ShujcC he flou-

Mawlana

rished in Faris under the Motzaffar family, another physician of the

name

of Jalal aldyn

is

mentioned by Sam.

Jaldl b. Ja'far Farahany left a

Dywan

of 3000 verses and a

Math-

nawy in the measure of the Makhzan. Khwajah Jaldl aldyn MoAammad Tabryzy mentioned by Sam. Mawlana Jaldl aldyn Mohammad Dawwany the philosopher, a son of Sa'd aldyn As' ad Dawwany. Ilahy says that Dawwany died
under Shah Tahmasb, at the end of the notice
is

a chronostichon for

903
fix

viz.

U^c ^iei jj^acj^\S

it is

however not said that it is intended to

it

the year of the death of Dawwany, on the contrary

it

would appear

that

has been made by

is

Dawwany on the
margin in a

death of Sultan
different

Abu

Sa'yd,

yet there

a note to

it

in the

hand

to the effect

that as Shah

Tahmasb came
in 908.

to the throne in 930, this chronostichon

contradicts the above statement. iZajy Khalyfah

N. 11210 places the

death of
fJ**,

Dawwany
i**>

He

has written three glosses, the Old

New

and Newest *^l to Qushchy's commentary on Tusy's

Tajryd, and in like

manner he has written

glosses to the

commentary

on the
,\j

Matfali'

0^1
(i. e.
;

he is also the author of the Jt&Q 6^', c^V &*, (on the existence of God), \jjj ^Lyon Cufyism, *^
glosses to Qotfby's

Logic)

commentary on the Shamsyyah on

and *&l

yyK
L

74

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Myrza

[CHAP.

I.

Jaldly a contemporary of SiuVan IZbsayn

of Shah Isma'yl.

lived to the reign

Shaykh Jaldl Herawy

Jaldl

fiify.

Hindy

left

Dywan

of upwards of 2000 verses.

JSafitz Jaldl aldyn

MaAmiid.

Pyr Jamdly Ardestany brought the autograph of Sanayiy's iZadyqah from Ghaznyn to Ardestan.

Shaykh Jamdly Dihlawy contemporary of Jamy. Shaykh Jamdl aldyn Bariijardy Niir-bakhshy.
Jamdly Kashy a son of -Hajy Shah JallaA
(iZallaj ?).

Jamshyd Monajjim Herawy.

Jonuny Andakhiidy.

Jonuny Hamadany.

Amyr
iZafitz
iZafitz

Jahdn-shdh

b.

Qara Yusof a Qara Qynlu Turkman, his

*Jy Samarqandy.
at Herat.

takhalluc was

Haqyqy

(see 'alyy Shyr).

Khamush a mystic. -Hajy Fu^ah Kakkdk a native of Kirman resided

;

Qadhiy Myr Hosayn Maybodzy, the Philosopher, left a commentary on the Dywan ascribed to 'alyy a commentary on the **arl Ajioa ; commentaries on the Kafiyah and on the ^\jio and on the Shamsyyah, and glosses on the

Daqyqah

*&*>

^ly*.

Mawlana Kamal aldyn IZbsayn Wa'itz Kashify of Bayhaq in

Sabzwar resided twenty years at Herat.

Myr

'alyy

Shyr and died in 910.

He was a contemporary of He is the author of the^*-*&y*^

1

in one

volume being a commentary on the second Surah of the Qoran,

>

of theJTafsyr .ffosayny, of the L&3I &J**, of the **** v*L>*> of the * j~s: (3^1, of the ajx( &**$ (the seven Eevealers are the seven i
planets, the

work

treats in seven books, which

is

it

seems are also called

Kashifyyah Eevealers, on astrology, and

Shyr),of the

dedicated to

Myr

'alyy

\^J\ *j)andof the

is

c5

*~ *jlrw, ,andofa book on alchemy.

l

HaJcymy Khorasany
identic with

mentioned by Taqyy Aw^ady and probably

a contemporary of Sultfan JZosayn Myrza.
in

Sayyid HaJcymy

Mbyb

Darwysh Haydor Tiinyany was

Akbar's reign.
~E.aydar Koluj

India in the beginning of

Tahmasb,

Herawy nourished in the commencement of Shah visited India and left a Dywan of about 10,000 verses. Kabyb Allah Qapzy isjJ a son of Myr Sar-barahnah who flou-

rished under Sultfan /fosayn Myrza.

No.

11.]

ila'hy.

75

Sayyid Hazyny,

Amyr

i7asan of Astrabad was Qadhiy of Herat.

Hijdby the daughter of Badr aldyn.

Myrza Abti-1-Baqa Sultan Hosayn

b.

b.

Mancur

b.

Myrza Bayqara

Myrza 'omar Shaykh

b.

Tymtir came to the throne in 861 and

died in 911, and left Persian and Turky poetry.

Mawlana Myr jffosayn Mo'ammayiy d. 904. Sayyid Hasan Motakkallim Nayshaptfry a

pupil of Motzaffar

Herawy and a panegyrist of Malik Ghiyath aldyn Kart. Sayyid Hasan Shihab. Khwajah Hasan Qandahary. Hosdmy Qalandar of Khwarizm resided at Qara Kill near Bokhara. Mawlana Hasan-shdh Herawy a contemporary of Jamy. Mawlana Hayrdny Hamadany left several Mathnawies as Bahram
and Nahyd, Dispute between heaven and
fowl (see Sam).
earth, Dispute

between

the candle and the moth, Dispute between the roasting spit and the

Hayraty Qazwyny.
Hayraty Marwy,
Khdlidy .Hicary.
i.

e.

of

Marw, he

is

known by

this

patronymic

though he was of Tun.

Khorramy Herawy.

Khizry was

originally a slave.
b.

Mohammad
Tymur
d.

Khilwaty.

Sultan Xhalyl b. Myran-shah

814.

Khalyl Allah Monajjim.

Amyr Kamal

aldyn /Zosayn Kholqy a son of iZakymy.

Kholqy Bokhary.

Kholqy Tabryzy.

Sayyid Khanjar studied at Herat.

Khw&nd Amyr the historian.

about 20,000 verses.

Khwaju Kirmany
Khiydly Bokhary
Bokhary.

d.
is

742 and

left

said to have

been a pupil of Khwajah 'icmat

Khiydly Herawy.

Khiydly Khojandy.
is

Shah Dd'iy Allah Shyrazy a pupil of Ni'mat Allah Walyy

mystical poet.
is

He

is

a great saint, and his tomb which

is

at Shyraz

a place of pilgrimage.

Ddghy Sarakhsy lived to the time of Shah Isma'yl. Ddnishy Bokhary. Daghy Astrabady. Ddghy Herawy. The daughter of the Qadhiy of Samarkand, her name was Khayr
al-Nisa Khatun, and
it is

said that she lived in Khorasan.

The daughter of the Amyr Yadgar

resided in Dughabad. pupil of

Darwysh Maqciid Tyrgar a Q"fy and a

#ajy Mohammad.

L 2

76

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
is

[CHAP.

I.

Darwysh Dihahy Qazwyny, Dihak

Qazwyn.

a quarter of the town of

He was

originally a weaver, flourished

under Sultan Ya'qiib.

Darwysh Sarakhsy, a felt-maker.

Khwajah Darwysh a brother of Khwajah Motzaffar and a son of Khwajah Eakr aldyn Tabkchy 5 ? Darwysh Torbaty, Torbat (Tarbit ?) is the name of a place.
i

<

Du'dyiy of Mashhad.

Amyr Qasim Dilddry was an Amyr of Sultfan Mawdud Myrza. He fled from Ma-wara-lnahr to Sultan ifosayn Myrza. Myr Khanzadah called Myr Bulbul-baz Dilyry was falconer to
Humayun.

Myr Dawry,
Dust

the calligraph, was during

Humayun, and during the

beginning of Akbar's reign in India.

Mohammad Jdny

of Sabzwar in Khorasan.

Ddst Mohammad

Isfarary probably identic with the preceding.

Amyr Ddst

ITasan son of .Hasan Kingirah,

Dusty Naqqash of Yazd.

Myr Dust Tarimy of Chaghatay was in

the service of Babor Myrza.

Sultan 'alyy Dawayiy a brother of Halaky Herawy.

Darwysh Bawghangar wrote a satyre against Jamy, Dust Mohammad Sultan b. Nawrdz Afanad Khan b. Sywanj Khwajah Khan
Dawlatshdh.
b.

J^

Abu-1-Khayr Khan was a great patron of learning.

'alyy

Mawlana Sultan

Dawayiy.
school.

Dihqdny of Bay kept a

Dywdnah Nayshapury.

Dywcmahe

'ishq.

Dzdty mentioned by 'alyy Shyr.

Dzdty Lary carried on the profession of a book-binder at Tabryz.

Dzihny Tabryzy.

Dzihny Kaghadz-farush.

Dzihny Artukhany.

Mawlana Bdziy.
'alyy Shyr.
d.

Amyr

JRdzy

Herawy.

Mawlana Edzy Shyrazy.

Bdzy Baghdady mentioned by
Sharaf aldyn

Mmiy (Bam% ?)

795 and

left

&&J\

<>*'**

which treats on metric and poetic, and has been written in imitation
of,

or competition with, Kashyd Wawa's

ys^\ J^l^.

Bijdyiy

Herawy wrote a Mathnawy,

containing the rules of musi-

cal composition.

Sayf aldyn Mafanud Bijdyiy of Ispahan (see Sam),

Mdhmdny Khorasany.

Busivdyiy Hamadany,

No.

11.]

ila'hy.

77

Bashyd aldyn Afanad Kazeruny a contemporary of Jamy and

author of a Persian commentary on the Fociic.

Bashydy.

Bidhdyiy Sabzwary

d. 856.

Bidhdyiy Hazar-jaryby.

Amyr

Bidh&yiy.
of

Jalal Bafyqy.

Khwajah Bohn Qayim Samnany panegyrist

tzaffar Shah-Shuja', hia

Mohammad MoTymur

brother Shah-MaAmiid and Togha

Khan.

Bawnaqy was

in the service of

Myrza Kamran the brother of the

left

emperor Humayiin. Biyddhy MoAawwilaty of Zawah died in 921 and

a

Mathnawy

of 8000 verses containing an account of the reign of Sultan i/osayn,

he also began a poem on the exploits of Shah Isma'yl, but did not
finish
it.

Zuldly Tabryzy mentioned by

Sam Myrza.
Zcvywy Siyah.

Zul&ly Khorasany mentioned by 'alyy Shyr.

Zayny Mashhady a son of Darwysh Bawghangar.

Zayn aldyn Abu Bakr Taybady a Kart dynasty.

Zyraky mentioned by
'alyy Shyr.

saint

who

flourished during the

Shaykh Zayn aldyn Khawafy a ^ufy

d. 833.

Sam Myrza son

Shah
Sdyily Qiishchy
Sayil

of Shah Isma'yl.

.ffosayn Sdqiy

Ispahany died at Damaghan in 941.

the falconer).

(i. e.

Hamadany

of Ah. in

Domawand

d.

940.

Sdyhiry a friend of Jamy.

Sdmy of Damaghan a contemporary of Sultan IZbsayn Myrza.

Sakiny Samarqandy.

Myrza Shah Ifosayn Arghun Sipdhy a son

Dzii-lnun.
.Hafitz

of Shah

Beg

b.

Amyr

Sarwy a son of IZantz 'alamy Birjindy.

IZafitz

Sarudy a son of

Myrathy was

for

some time historiographer

of 'obayd Allah Khan.

Sarwary (Soriiry?).
Seraj aldyn

Qumry, some say he

is

of Shyraz, others say he

is

of

Qazwyn, he was a contemporary of Salman Sawajy.

distinguished from two more ancient poets one of

He
is

must be
Nitzam

whom

aldyn

MaAwmd Qumry

Ispahany and the other Qamary.

Sa'd a disciple of Qasim Anwar.

Surkh Wadtiy.

ZZafitz

78

PERSIAN TADZK1RAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Khwajah Sa?d-gul Shyrazy.

Sctydy Gholamy mentioned by 'alyy Shyr.

Abii-1-FaU Sultan Sa'yd Khan.

Darwysh Saqqwyvy Chaghatayiy of Bokhara

India during the beginning of Humayiin's reign
;

travelled

much

in

Taqyy AwAady saw

Dywan

of his containing about 4000 bayts.

Sultan 'alyy
as a poet as he

Mashhady
was

this

man was

not so

much

distinguished

as a calligraph.
is

The author
:

" 'alyy Mashhady was Mawlana Atzhar, and Atzhar was a pupil of Ja'far and Ja'far was a pupil of Mawlana Myr 'alyy the inventor of the Naskh-ta'lyq. The pupils of Mawlana Sultan 'alyy, are Maw-

celebrated calligraphs which

in calligraphy, a pupil of

of interest

gives here a list of

Mohammad and Sultan Mohammad Khandan, and Mohammad Nur, and Sultan Mohammad Abryshumy, Qalandar Katib, and Mawlana Shams aldyn Mohammad, who was the teacher of Myr 'alyy the second. Mawlana Sultan 'alyy lived at the court of Myrza Bayqara and found a patron in Myr 'alyy Shyr."
lana 'ala aldyn

Sultan

Sultan 'alyy was upwards of sixty-three years of age in 957.

Sultan

Ma^mud Myrza

son of Sultan

Abu

Sa'yd Myrza sovereign

of the greater part of Ma-wara-lnahr and Badakhshan.

was

Tzilly c

^. He was

called

His takhalluc Ma&mtid Ghaziy in Ma-wara-lnahr.

Sultan Mas' ud Myrza, a son of the preceding, and a brother of

Baysanqar, succeeded his father to the throne, and

when dethroned,
is

he took refuge to Sultan IZbsayn Myrza.

His takhalluc

Grhaziy

and he

left

a Turky and a Persian Dywan.

of Shams aldyn

Khwajah Sultan Mohammad a son

Tabkchy

ij^r***

Khwajah Sahndn Sawajy Jamal aldyn Mohammad.

#asan 'alyy Salymy of Tun resided

Saldmy,

at

Sabzwar where he died in 854.

Salymy Shushtary of the time of Shah-Ikhmasb.

Shah-MoAammad son

of .Hasan-shah of Herat

is

men-

tioned by 'alyy Shyr.

Baba Sawddyiy of Abyward had

d. 853.

first

the takhalluc of

Khawary

Myr

Sawddyiy.

Amyr Nitzam
Sohayly under

aldyn Shaykham Sohayly

is

left

a Turky and a Persian

Dywan, the Anware Sohayly

dedicated to him.

There was also a

Abu

Sa'yd.

Symy

besides being a good poet was a distinguished calligraph,

(see Dawlatsh).

No.

11.]

ila'hy.
Sayfy, his grandfather

79

Amyr Yadgar Beg

was a high
officer of

Amyr

//abban Malik

Tymur.

Sayfy Bokhary author of a compendium on prosody and rhyme,

was a contemporary of Jamy.

Amyr Shdhy Sabzwary

Kiihy died in 857.

A'qa

Malik

b.

Jamal aldyn Malik

Firiiz-

Myrza Shah JJosayn Ispahany

Madrasah
at Ispahan.

d.

929, founded the Qimaryyah

Sayf almoluk

Domawandy Shuj&y was a

distinguished physician,

and a contemporary of

Myr

Sayyid

Mohammad

Jamah-baf.

Sharaf Khayabany a darwysh imitated the Khamsah.

Sharaf aldyn 'alyy Yazdy author of the Tzafar-namah
of 4000 verses.
left

Dywan
left

Sharaf aldyn 'alyy Bafiqy a panegyrist of Shah jTahmasb,

Dywan

of 5000 verses.

WaAshy

Bafiqy

is his pupil.

Myrza Sharaf a son

under Shah Tahmasb.

of Qadhiy-Jahan

Qazwyny who

flourished

Ca&ib al-Balkhy familiarly called Sharyfy, panegyrist of the kings

of Badakhshan

who were

destroyed by Sultfan

Abu

Sa'yd.

Qadiq iZalwayiy Samarqandy descended (or a son?) of Shams

alayimmah Halwayiy flourished under

called ^^ v'^ *Nj

Humayun at Lahor and Kabul

left several

and died under Akbar in Ma-wara-lnahr, he

is

works, one

Sayyid Ja'far Qddiqy a brother of Shah Qasim

b.

Sayyid

Moham-

mad Nur-bakhsh. Myr Mohammad aM Herawy ono Myrza, his Dywan is celebrated.

of the

Amyrs

of Sultfan ifosayn

aM Badakhsy.
Myr fadr
rished cJj

Baba q&lihy. Khwajah Kamal aldyn i/osayn Qabury was

aldyn

at the court of

Akbar.

Mohammad
i.

a son of

Myr

Qafyy aldyn Abutime when he

flou-

lcafa the following

chronogram of
e.

his , fixes the

^j

uiQjI-tfe&jl

971

40=931 or 970.

Myr Qadr alislam. Molla Mohammad

^Fahmasb.

Qidqy Herawy.

-Hbsayn tydqy of Astrabad a courtier of Shah

Cidqy Astrabady resided long at Kashan

Sultan

Mohammad

d.

952.

Qadhiy Qafyy aldyn 'ysa flourished under Shah Isma'yl.

Shah Qafyy aldyn

Mohammad Nur-bakhshy

a son of Shams aldyn

80
b.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Shah Qasim Ntir-bakhshy.
fyfayiy Ispahany.
life

[CHAP.

I.

Qafdyiy Khorasany, became towards the end of his

acquainted

with Jamy.

Baba Qafdyiy Qommy.

Baba Cafdyiy Qalandar of Astrabad mentioned by Sam.

Qafdyiy Kirmany.

Qafyy aldyn

Mohammad
which
is

son of ffosayn "Wa'itz

is

the author of a

book

called

o ^"*^
1

a chronogram for 909,

it

seems that

it

contains the sayings of his

resided at

Pyr Khwajah 'obayd Allah Afaar who

Samarqand

(see p. 83).

ufy Ardestany.

Mawlana Dha'yfy.

Byby Dha'yfy.
treatise

Dhiydyiy Ardiibady nourished under Sultan /Zosayn Myrza.

Dhiya aldyn Nakhshaby author of the Tuty-namah and a

entitled L-^i

5^
d.

Qasim Dhiydyiy of Ma-wara-lnahr.

jTalib

Jajarmy

854

is

the author of
b.

uj^^j
b.

iSJ^ l/^ ** which

1

he dedicated to SuUan 'abd Allah

Ibrahym

Shahrokh.

Taqyy Bokhary.
Tdli'y

Tdyiry of the time of Sultan /Zbsayn Myrza.

e.

MaddaA

(i.

the panegyrist) of 'alyy.

Ustad Tdhir Kamandar.

Shah 2ahir Dakany was born in Ankwany near
the

Qomm, and was

Wakyl

of Nitzam Shah of the Deccan.

He

died in 952.

Tdhiry Eazy a son of

Ummydy.
a shoemaker and subsequently he gained

Tahir Bokhary flourished at Herat under Sultan Babor.

Tdhir Herawy was

his livelihood

first

by copying books.
left

H&kym
Tiity

Ibghrayiy

a Qacydah on the

elixir

and on alchemy.

Tarshyzy was in the service of Babor Myrza and died in 866.

Taryqy of Tabryz.

Tusy composed a Qacydah in praise of Sultan Babor rhyming in

Sarw, after the
fall

of this prince he was patronized

by

Amyr

Ja-

han-shah and Pyr Badagh.

He

died at a very advanced age ('alyy

Shyr says that he was upwards of one hundred years old) during
the reign of Sultan
'drif Astrabady.

Hosayn Myrza Bayqara.

verse.

Mafaniid 'drify composed chiefly panegyrics on great personages,

and put the IZanafy law into

calogue, to

He
is

dedicated a Dah-namah, De'arify

Pyr Afanad
is

b.

IsMq and

probably identical with

Herawy who

mentioned in the Persian translation of 'alyy Shyr's

NO.

11.]

ILAHY.
who
is

81

Tadzkirah, and

the author of a poem called

it

c>^^j

c5>*

it

has

510 verses and he composed

'dbidy
it is

within a fortnight.

said he is of Khorasan, he

was one of the poets who

survived Sultan 1/osayn Myrza.

'dlim

Bayhaqy.

Shah

'adil

Lary nourished about 1011.

Myr

Nitzain aldyn 'abd al-Malik.

Baba 'abd Allah Chashmah-malan a darwysh.

Khwajah 'obayd Zakany.

'abd al'alyy Najaty

Mashhady

left

Mathnawy

in the

metre of

the Makhzan

alasrar.

'abd al-Qadir Maraghy, born in 754, was exceedingly precocious

and

particularly distinguished in music.

'obayd

Khan

b.

MaAmud

Sultan b. Shah Badagh Sultan b. Abii-1his

Khayr Khan, the chronogram of

concealment

(<V^

death

?) is

j&t^ c^=940.
'abd al-Jalyl a descendant of Jalal aldyn Qayiny.

'abdy Nayshapury uncle of Shah Ma^miid Zarryn-qalam.

'azyzy contemporary of

Myrza Shahrokh.

Mawlana

'izz

aldyn Jabaly a learned

man

of Qazwyn.

Abu-1-Ghaziy 'abd al'azyz

Khan

'azyzy.

Myrza Mohammad 'askary a son of the emperor Tzahyr aldyn

Mohammad

Babor.

Khwajah 'abd Malik 'igdtny. Khwajah 'icmat Allah Bokhary

Kalan was a Sayyid.

a descendant of

Khwajah Hafitzy
919, and
*flj

Hgmaty a lady.

Amyr Burhan
left

aldyn 'aa Allah a Sayyid of JNayshapur

a treatise on poetic and the figures of speech

g ^ j j*j&

d.

'iffaty Isfarayiny a lady.

Amyr

Taj aldyn

'aqyly Shyrazy

a Sayyid of the Daste-ghayb

family, died

under Shah Tahmasb.

'ala

Shaykh Eokn aldyn

b.

aldawlah Samnany, his name was

AAmad

Mohammad

Biyabanky, a contemporary of 'abd al-Bazzaq Kashy.

In 687 he became a pupil of the Shaykh 'abd al-RaAman Isfarayiny,

and died on Friday the 20 Kajab, 736.

Shaykh Zayn aldyn 'alyy Kuldh Shyrazy a saint, Shams Aldyn 'abd Allah Shyrazy who died in 872.
'alyy

disciple

of

Dardzad Astrabady
'alyy

d. in

854.

Myr

whose takhalluc was Katib, a contemporary of SulMii

82
.ffosayn

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Myrza, was a very distinguished calligraph, and in

this

art a pupil of Siu7an 'alyy

Mashhady

(see p. 78).

Baba 'alyy-Shah Abdal Herawy

contemporary of Jamy.

called

Akhtah was a

saint,

and a

Ustad

'alyy

Karmal a composer of music.

Tarshyzy a friend of Shaykh Adzory.

Khwajah

'alyy Shihab

'alyy Shaghal was skilled in making mo'ammas.

Myr Myr
Sam.

'alyy

Acghar of Samarqand mentioned by

'alyy Shyr.
is

'alyy

Akbar a son of Amyr Hadiy MoAtasib

mentioned by

Sayyid ala aldyn

Awadhy

a mystical poet

is

of Khorasan but

is

called *2wy (sic) because

he lived in Oudh.
d. 773.

Khwajah 'imad aldyn Faqyh Kirmany a great ufy

has seen about 12,000 verses of

Ilahy

and

**ti cu-xac-o

^fc

^^o Qf

his,

and he mentions a **^

ac

oak*

^mg

tnat ^ e wrote

m a^ a
He
is

j&

g*J that

is

to say, five

Mathnawies.

Ghob&ry Herawy was strong in musical composition.

mentioned by 'alyy Shyr.

Ghorbaty of Ma-wara-lnahr, Taqyy
bayts of his at Ajmyr.

AwAady saw

a Dy wan of 2,000

Gharyb Sabzwary of the time of Sultan iZbsayn Myrza.

Shah Gharyb Myrza a son or descendant of Sultan iZosayn Myrza,
his takhalluc

was Gharyby.
in praise of the

Ghawwdgy Tazdy wrote odes

time of Shah Tahmasb.

Imams,

lived to the

Ghayury Kabuly was

first

in the service of

Myrza MoAammad

.Hakym, and subsequently of Akbar.

Khwajah Ghiyath aldyn Mo7iammad

ryzy.

(^adr

(Some say Mohr) Tab-

Ghiyath Balkhy NcCymy mentioned by 'alyy Shyr.

Ghiyath aldyn
Acyly.

Ghiyath aldyn
is

Fdniy, this

Mohammad Eangryz of Mashhad a brother of Mohammad Qon'y. the takhalluc of Myr 'alyy Shyr in his Persian poems.
Padshah Tabryzy Farighy.

Mawlana Fdniy Herawy.

Fdniy a son of Darwysh
Shyr.

AAmad Parwanachy mentioned by

'alyy

Fattdhy Nayshaptiry had also the takhalluc of Asrary and Kho-

mary

d.

852.

No.

11.]

ila'hy.
b.

83
Fakhry Herawy.

Sultan

Mohammad

Amyry Fakhry.
called )b\

Fakhr aldyn

'alyy Qafyy a son of iZbsayn Kashify author of the

ol*"*^ and of a

Mathnawy

j oj^^ in the metre of Lay la

Majnun

(see p. 80).

Myr

Fiddyiy mentioned by Alyy Shyr.

Fiddyiy of Ma-wara-lnahr was in the service of Shaybak Khan.

Shaykh-Zadah Lahijy Fiddyiy a son of

is

Mohammad
Shyraz.

Asyry.

He

the author of a commentary on the Grulshane Raz and of a

Dy wan

of more than 2000 bayts.

His Khanqah

is in

Farydun iZbsayn Myrza a son of Sultan iZbsayn Myrza.

Khwajah Abu-1-Barakat Ferahy Firdqy came

ed the service of Humayun.

to India

and enter-

Khwajah Abii-1-Wafay Firishtah was a man of importance

time of Humayun.

at the

Fadhly Zabaty (Zubany or Zayyaty

Siraj

?)

Baba Figh&ny.

aldyn Myrza Qasim Junabddy a brother of the governor of

is

Junabad imitated the Khamsah, and

the author of a Shahan-shah-

namah which
three parts

is
1

in the

metre of the Shah-namah and divided into

exploits

v^

containing the

of Shahrokh

and Shah

Isma'yl and Shah Tahmasb.

dedicated
it

He

also wrote a

Layla Majnun and

to Shah Isma'yl

and a Kar-namah.
died in 837.

Sayyid Qasim
to the school of

Anwar born in 757 and Aw^ad aldyn Kirmany.

He

belonged

Darwysh Qdsimy Ispahany. Qdni'y Kamar-duz. Qasim Khan Mawjy Badakhshany was at the court of Humayun. Mawlana Qdliby Qalib-tarash.

Mawlana Qobuly Herawy, there were two poets of the takhalluc

of Qobuly at the time of 'alyy Shyr.

Qadymy Naqqash Gylany. Shah Qodsy, Taqyy Aw^ady saw

Qodsy of Herat.
Qassdmy.

Dywan
is

of 2000 verses of his.

Qob aldyn Khosraw Shah of Yazd

of the Motzaffar family.

Qunbury Nayshapury.

Qiwam aldyn Abu IsMq

teacher of

b.

Abu-Tahir

b. Abii-1-Ma'aliy

l^?^^'

a cousin of Shams aldyn 'abd Allah

who has been mentioned, and the

Shams aldyn Mo^ammadkilled

Khwajah

TZafitz Shyrazy.

Shah Qiwam aldyn

Mohammad

a son of

shah and a grandson of Shah Qasim Razy

who

Ummydy.

Kdtiby Nayshapury a contemporary of Badr Jajarmy.

84
K&kuly.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Lalah Khatiin Kirmany a lady.

[CHAP.

I.

Qadhiy Ldghir Systany.

Luf Allah Nayshapiiry.

Lisdny Shyrazy.

Khwajah Lohrasb.

M&ny Many Mashhady.

Majlisy had
first

Shyrazy a courtier of Shah Isma'yl.

Mqjdzy.
the takhalluc of Gharyby but altered
it

by the

command
Shaykh
of

of Sultan .Hbsayn Myrza.

MaAmud

b.

Shaykh

'alyy b. 'imad aldyn

Qiify,

^'j*^*

a disciple

Shaykh iZbsayn Khwarizmy a

and

author of the

i^j^Lk-'i

^l+a*.

Khwajah Mafanud Bursah, and Khwajah Ma^mud Torbaty Hazzal,

Ma^mud Langrudy were poets of the middling period. Khwajah Mohammad Kakhgy Qohistany was a contemporary
Shah.

of

Myran

Sultan

Mohammad

b.

Baysanqar

d.

855.
iZafitz

Khwajah Mohammad Parsa grandson of Ma^mud went to Makkah in 822.

Bokhary

Mohammad Tebabkany

^^

Vx>

a successor of Shaykh

Zayn aldyn

a 9^fy nas rendered the Qacydah Bordah in Mokhammas's and has written a commentary on the ^ji^J\ JjU* of Khwajah Ancary.

MoAammad Kuhmarahe tj+Aj*. MoAammad Jfosayn Myrza a son of Sultan iZbsayn Myrza. Mohammad Miimin Myrza a contemporary of the preceding. Mohammad Mo'ammayiy a contemporary of Babor Myrza built
dome over the grave of IZafitz. Ma\\wy Herawy a contemporary
Khwajah Mas' rid Bak,
it is

of

Myrza (Sultan IZbsayn

is

?)

said he

was for some time a king in

author of
&c. and of a

Ma-wara-lnahr, but he was a Darwysh at heart and

several works on Qiifism as ,Jle^\
called \*)y**}\jj*
f'

Dywan which he
verses.

and which contains more than 3000

Bak

is

the

name of a place near Bokhara. Mas'ud Turkman an amyr of Sultfan Yaq'ub, some identify him with Mas' lid Qommy. He is the author of a Mathnawy called
Mas' lid Sharwany
d.

905 and

left glosses

on the li^f

learned

Makhdum Shaykh Sayyid Mohammad b. Savyid Shah ... a most man went from Rum to Khorasan and proceeded thence to

Mul tan.

He

was a contemporary of Jamy.

'alyy Shyr.

Mushtary Astrabady mentioned by

No.

11.]

ila'hy.

85

Moshriqy Mashhady was originally a potter.

Mashrahy Mashhady.
Motzaffar
times he
is

Herawy
called

is

of a village of

Kh&f

called Faqrdab, some-

Khidrdaby ^-Ma

j*x*>.

He

was a panegyrist of

the Sultans of Kart more particularly of Mo'izz aldyn

Mohammad.

Mo'yn aldyn Jowayny a

the c^^j^.
in

native of

Awah

near Jowayn author of

He

was a

disciple of the

Shaykh Sa'd aldyn ZTamawy

Qufism and in the sciences of Fakhr aldyn Khalidy Isfarayiny who

called Bihishty,

was

and who wrote a commentary on the Farayidh.

is

Mo'yny Jamy, that Mo'yny ^affar.

Shah Mo'izz aldyn

to say, a native of Jam.

Ma'riif of Khiljan near Tabryz was versed in Eamal.

Mohammad had

the takhalluc of Faydhy.

Moghul
poetry.

J^
5

'abd al-Wahhab was attached to Shaybak Khan.

wife of Shaybak

Moghol J** Khanam the

Khan wrote Turky

left

Myram Siyah Qazwyny a disciple of Baba 'alyy-shah Abdal a ufy a Dywan of about 2000 verses consisting chiefly of humorous
Khwajah Dhiya aldyn Myram Badr
b. 'ala

poems.
aldyn
b.

Afdhal aldyn

Kirmany.

Khwajah Qadhiy Myrak Kazwyny flourished under Shah Isma'yl. Darwysh Nacir Bokhary a darwysh and a contemporary of Mo-

hammad
Shyraz.

Parsa.
is

Nacir Bachchah Shyrazy knew Sa'dy, Bachchah

a place near

Mohammad Ndgir Myrza

Yadgar Nfyir Myrza.

a son of Sultan iZbsayn Myrza.

Shaykh Najm aldyn Hayawy lsj*

i.

e.

the astronomer, was a

contemporary of Myrza SuUan iZbsayn and a good mathematician.

JVajmy, there were two poets of this takhalluc one of

Mashhad

and the other of Sharwan.

Najm aldyn Najmy

is

the author of a

Mathnawy
cated to

called a-*^ &*>.

left

Niddyiy Gylany

among other poetry a long Saqiy-namah

is

dedi-

Myr Hashimy, who

usually called Shah Jahangyr.

Nargisy Herawy a contemporary of Hil&ly.

j* .ffakym Nizdry iS) r Qohistany.

Sayyid Jalal aldyn

Nasymy

of Shyraz

is

a disciple of Shah Faclhl

86
Na'ymy, when
at

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Aleppo he imitated Manciir, and claimed to be God

one of the poets of the time of Myrza.

and was sentenced to death.

Nasymy Herawy

is

Baba Nagyby Gylany. Shaykh Nagyby Nur-bakhsh a mystical

poet.

Natzmy Khorasany of the time of Nitzdm aldyn Astrabady.

his

Sultfan

-Hbsayn Myrza.

Shaykh Nitzdm Qariy Shyrazy was usually

called

Nitzam Albisah
of Albisah, gar-

name

is

MaAmud b. A^mad.
poem

He had the name

ments, because he wrote a

in imitation of that of

Abu

IsAaq

At'imah, in which he takes his similes, &c. from garments.

Sayyid Fadhl Na'ymy a 9^fy a contemporary of Tymur and Shahrokh was well versed in Eamal or Cabala and other occult sciences,

and wrote several treatises on them.

He

is also

the author of the

j&f

cj'dLjla.

and a Saqiy-namah, and a Qacydah of predictions most

of which were borne out.

He

had many

disciples,

Nasymy who
The
l*>

has just been mentioned and

among them were MaAmiid Pasykhany.

latter

was expelled by Na'ymy and founded a sect of impostors

of his own, and he (Pasykhany) wrote no less than seventeen volumes

and one thousand and one Eisalahs on Eamal or Cabala.

Sayyid

Nur

aldyn

NVmat

Allah

Walyy a

disciple of Yafi'y d.

827

at an age of 79 years..

Nur

Allah Tunaqtar j IJ&y a witty poet of Herat.

Niir MoAammad of India. Amyr Nawydy Nayshapiiry

one of the poets of Sultan iZbsayn

Myrza, came subsequently to India and was well received by

Humayun
is

d. in

948 and

left

Dywan of upwards
of

of 4000 verses.

He

the panegyrist of

Humayun,

Bahadur SuUan and of Khoday-

Burdy SulMn Euler of Nasaf.

Nawydy Eazy. Nawydy Torbaty. Nawydy Shyrazy left a Mathnawy in the metre of Khosraw Shyryn. Nury Dandany Herawy a son of Mawlana .Hasan-shah and a
contemporary of Grhazzaly Mashhady.

Mohammad
Wcigify of

Yiisof Niydzy of Herat was called

Mah

Beg.

He

is

mentioned by 'alyy Shyr.

Tashkand brought up at Herat was a friend of Acafy,

Ahly Khorasany and Bannayiy.

Walaliy

(^1? from

^\j

"by God") Herawy

a poet of Myrza.

No.

1 1 ..]

ila'hy.
called

87

Walahy Bokhary

Khwajah

'a^ar.

W&liJiy j Samarqandy the panegyrist of a Myrza Babor. Khwajah Ibn 'alyy Wdqify of Mashhad studied at Herat and went
l

^
(or

subsequently to the Deccan.

Wdqify Ispahany.

WaAyda ?) of Khorasan was well versed in history. Wagly a brother of Anwary Samarqandy mentioned by 'alyy Shyr. Amyr -flajy A^mad Waf&yiy a son of Sultan Malik Kashghary
was ten years Ruler of Herat.
Wafayiy a friend of Shaykh-zadah Lahijy.
Molla IZbsayn Waf&yiy author of a celebrated Persian dictionary,

Wahyd

some say he

is

identical with "Wafayiy Shyrazy.

Walyy Beg Qalandar mentioned by Dawlat-shah.

Myr Waysy

one of the amyrs of Humayun.

of the time of Myrza,

Waysy Herawy a poet

he and Saghiry
did

intended to perform the pilgrimage to

Makkah with Jamy, but

not carry out their intention.

Myr Hdshimy
Lary lived
for

usually called Shah Jahan-gyr a contemporary of

Myrza Shah /Tosayn Arghun and Jamy and MocliA aldyn Kalamy
some time
in Sind

and Mekran.

Khwajah Hashimy Bokhary is mentioned in the Persian translation

of 'alyy Shyr.

Khwajah Hdshimy Kuft-gar.

d.

'abd Allah Hdtify

929, iZabyb Allah

made the

following chro-

nogram on

his death:

v^

oir*^

**>

fe>Ul js\JZ jl o.if

J&c

Hdtify Qazwyny.

Sayyid Hddiy Naqshbandy.

Myr Hadiy
Pyl of Jam.

Astrabady a 9"fyKhwajah Hijry Jamy a grandson of the Shaykh alislam Zandah

mydy, was

Khwajah Mohammad Sharyf Hijry of Teheran a nephew of Umfor some time "Wazyr of Ispahan under Shah jTahmasb.
Haldky Herawy a pupil of Jamy and a panegyrist of Sultan

/Tosayn Myrza.

Molla Hilal Qazwyny.

Mawlana Hamdamy Hamadany.

of

Hvmmaty Khorasany. Amyr Humayun is of the 'iraq and not Humayun Padshah. AwAady asserts.

Samarqand as Taqyy

88

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

(12)

iftyx*^/**
The
full

( p -)

Nacrabady's biographies of poets.

the author was

name

of

Mohammad

Tahir, he was born at Na-

crabad which
1027.

is

in the district of Ispahan in

1025 or

He

lost his father before

he was twenty years of

age and gave himself for some time up to pleasure, but

poverty, which was the
his

more painful because some of

ancestors

had been so wealthy as to be able to

build schools and colleges, brought

him

to his senses,

and
His

henceforth he led a pious

life.

He wrote this book about

in

1083, but added eight or nine biographies in 1092.

grandfather had been settled

India and his uncle

Myrza Cadiq had been

this

in the Indian

army and

died in

country in 1061.
tells

The author mad

toisM

us in the preface that the lives of

former poets were recorded in the Tadzkirahs of

'awfy, of

Moham12), of

Myr

'alyy Shyr, of

Sam

(see

page

Dawlat-shah and in that of Molla Cufy which was called

,

*ils** (*)

and

in

the Tadzkirah of

Myr Taqyy

Kashy, and as there was no merit in copying the labours

of others, he resolved upon writing the biographies of con-

temporaneous poets and giving way to the wishes of his

friends,

he added at the end, a chapter a*jU. containing

chronograms, logogriphs, &c. of modern and ancient poets.

The book

is

divided into five chapters

first

**-&<*.

The

intro-

duction and the

three chapters contain the lives of

princes, Sayyids, learned

* Mawlana

men and

calligraphs

who were
a But-

MoAammad ufy

the author of the

May-khanah

khanah or the Wine shop and Idol-house, was a native of Mazanderan and
in

A. H. 1038 he resided at AAmadabad in Gujrat, and afterwards

for

some

time at Kashmyr.

He

was a distinguished follower of Cufism.

p. 165.

Bland,

Journ. Boy. As. Soc. Lond. IX.

No.

12.]

ta'hir nacra'ba'dy.

89
by-

not poets by profession, the fourth contains poets

profession,

and the

fifth

a short autobiography and an

account of the poets of his

own
ej;^

family.
'I

Beginning
JI43 ^yxvtj*.

L^J ^j^

J^ &

Jo itkj -s^
y

A^cli.

One copy is in the Top Khanah and another in the Moty Ma/iall. The former is a quarto of 100 pages one copy does not contain the
;

eight biographies which the author added in 1092.

Table of contents of the second and third parts of the

third chapter, and of the whole of the fourth chapter.
Second part of the third chapter : Calligraphs. Molla 'abd al-Baqiy B&qiy of Tabryz was settled at Baghdad, he

was a learned man and designed the inscriptions round the large dome of Ispahan. He died one year after Shah 'abbas, j^ahir was a
pupil of his, but
'alyy

made not much progress

in calligraphy.

Ridha of Tabryz was not equal to the preceding, he designed

the inscriptions on the masjid of Shaykh Luf Allah and on the

'abbasian Jami' masjid.

Myr

'imad of

Qazwyn a most

exquisite calligraph particularly in

Naskh-ta'lyq, some prefer

at Ispahan

him even

to Molla

Myr

'alyy.

He

resided

and was murdered during the reign of Shah 'abbas.

Myr

Mo'izz of Kashan distinguished in the Naskh-ta'lyq went to

India during the reign of the late Shah 'abbas and died there.

Toraba of Ispahan, a pupil of Molla Fayiqy, to

is far

whom however

he

superior, he

was an acquaintance of

^Tahir.

Myr

Sayyid 'alyy a son of Myrza

a calligraph, and a grandson of

'abbasabad in Ispahan.

Moqym Tabryzy who was equally Myr Shah Myr who resided in

Sayyid 'alyy went with his father to India,

and

is

now

in the service of the emperor, his father died in India.

Third part

Darwyshes, devotees.

Qadhiy Asad was born in Dayr Qahpayah, but as he resided mostly

at Kashan,

he

is called

Kashy, he was a disciple of Shaykh

Mumin

Mashhady and had many followers. Darwysh Mohammad <iM had first

his

Takiyah in the Labnan

is

masjid, and subsequently on the banks of the river, where he

buried.

Myr
Eokn

Mo'izz of Ispahan, his Takiyah

is

at the

shrine of Baba

aldyn.

90

PERSIAN TADZK1RAHS.
a son of

[CHAP.
'alyy

I.

Myr Mohammad
who had been

Shaykh MoAammad
some time

Mashhady

a ufy, and resided for

is

at Ispahan.

Myr

Mohammad succeeded his father, but A'qa Mumin Ispahany is the father
a friend of Tahir.

now

probably dead.

of iZajy Qadiq Qdmit

who was
His

He
his

resided for

some time

at

Shyraz.

biography has been written by Myrza QaliA Daste Grhayb.

Darwysh Qadiq has

Takiyah at Ispahan at the shrine of Baba

Eokn

aldyn.
at Shyraz. at Shyraz of

Baba Acly of Domawand resides

Shaykh Qamada a descendant of Sa'dy Shyrazy died

a surgical operation which he performed on himself.

Fourth chapter: Professional poets.

First part

Foets of the Hrdq, Khordslm,

I

Sfc.

Sharaf aldyn JZasan (or IZbsayn) Shifdyiy of Ispahan died in 1038 or 1027, left a Mathnawy called oJkL* &\Z+i and one called
***** Jj* K

and one called j

>#

1*0.
physician, died in 1066, left

^Takym Koknayiy Kashy Masyhy, a

near one hundred thousand verses.

Myrza MoAammad 'alyy Qdyibd, his father was a merchant of He went to India when young, and was well received by Tzafar Khan. He now resides at Ispahan. His complete works
Ispahan.
contain about one hundred and twenty thousand verses.

Myrza Abu Talib Kalym is of Hamadan, but

Kashan he
died at
is

as he resided

much at

called

Kashany.

He went

to India

and was a court

poet of Shahjahan, whose history he relates in an epic poem.

He

Kashmyr and left about 24,000 verses. Tdlib Amoly of Mazanderan went to India and entered the service of Salym-shah and subsequently of Shahjahan, who conferred the title
of king of poets

upon him.

He

died young, Tahir has seen a

Dywan
is

of his of about 14,000 bayts.

IZajy

Mohammad Khan Mashhady

Qodsy died in India, but

in

buried at Mashhad.

He

left

Mathnawy

which he describes

Kashmyr and the wars of his patron, and a Dywan. Mo7*ammad Quly Salym of Teheran wrote a Mathnawy in which he describes Lahijan when he came to India he altered the heading
.

and

called

it

a description of Kashmyr.

He

died in 1052 or 1057.

IZakym

Zuldly of

Khwansar

is

distinguished in the

Mathnawy he

No.

12.]

ta'hir nacra'ba'dy.

91
it

spent nineteen years in composing hisjtyj &J**** having begun

in
it.

1001 and completed in 1020, but died before he could arrange

This was done with

much

trouble in India and Molla Ibghrayiy

it.

Mashhady wrote a

preface to

The author saw a Dywan of

will

hia

which had about 10,000 verses and some Mathnawies which

be

enumerated in the next chapter.

Shaykh

'alyy

Naqyy Kamarah'i

died in 1030.

Molla Zakyy Hamadany died in 1030.

Aqa SMpur of Teheran

visited India as a merchant.

Tahir saw a

Dywan

of his of about 4000 bayts.

Ghiyathayiy .Halwayiy of Shyraz died under Shah Qafyy.

has seen a

Tahir

Dywan

of his of about 3000 verses.

Molla Shikuhy of Hamadan a friend of Ilahy.

Molla Nadim of Lahijan visited India, Tahir only saw about 1000
verses of his.

Myr
he
is

'aa MontaTiiy is

a poet of Teheran.
lived

Qadhiy Y&hya was of Lahijan, but having

called

much

at

Kashan

Kashy.

Visited India and held an appointment under

old man.

Shahjahan.

The author saw him when he was an

as long as he

Myr Y&hya of Qomm. Myr FagJifur of Lahijan,

takhalluc of
in 1030.

was
it

in

Persia he had the

Rasmy,

in India he

changed

into Faghfur.

He

died

The author saw a Dywan of about 4000

iZafitz.
left

verses of his.

Molla Zamdny Yazdy imitated

Molla Sakhyy Kirmany.

a

Myrza* Malik Mashriqtj Khorasany

verses.

Dywan

of about 10,000

Myrza Fagyhy of Herat left a Dywan of about 6000 verses. Myr Ma'ciim Kashy a son of Myr iZaydar Mo'ammayiy died
India.

in

Molla Awjy

left

Dywan

of about 10,000 bayts.

Isma'yl

Mungifa son

of Shamsa of Shyraz lived

much

at

Teheran

and

is

therefore called Teherany.

He

visited India but returned to

Persia and lives

by commerce.
is

Sharyfa Kdshif a brother of the preceding

the author of four

Mathnawies

i.

e> o!>^

2.

c^^F*

^V 3.
Siraj

**U

^U^

4.

^j o,aa

and two prose works^* '^Lr* (perhaps

aMibr) and

c^-^j^

Moqymd

a brother of the preceding died at Teheran.

of Mashhad.
for a

Myrza Eadhyy Banish a Sayyid

Torab died in India.

His father Abu

Dara Shikoh gave him

poem one thousand

92

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I"

at Golconda,

Tomans, subsequently he entered the service of the Qofobshahians and at present he lives at Mashhad.

Murshid

(or

Murshida) of Barujard died in India.

Myr

'ayn 'alyy.

Myr

Ildhy (see

p.

66 supra).

Myrza Jany 'izzaty Shyrazy died at Mashhad. Molla Mawnaqy of Hamadan died in India.
Molla Waqifoi Khalkhal imitated Nitzamy and
aldyn Biimy.

Mawlawy

Jalal

He

died in Turkey.
visited India

Ibrahym Tasalliy of Shyraz

and in 1034 or 1026 he

made the pilgrimage to Makkah and died soon after. Tayib Kirmany. Myr Moghyc Mahwy died in India.
Fakhr Thabit Tafryshy died
in India.

Ummaty

of Khorasan wrote Qacydahs in praise of Shah 'abbas.

tailor,

Molla Sharafy Qazwyny was originally a

obtained a pension from Shah 'abbas.

subsequently he

Molla Qaydy Shyrazy a pupil of Ghayraty.

Qaydy Kirmany.

Myr Fosuny

a Sayyid of Samnan.

Fadldy Churbadqany a pupil of iZakym Shifayiy.

Myr

'abd al-Ghanyy Glianyy Tafryshy a pupil of Abu-1-Qasim

Kazeriiny and a friend of Molla ^ufy.

the Shah died soon after.

He

cursed Shall 'abbas and

Ta^ya Sabzwary a

distinguished

Munshiy

d.

1028.

Molla Molhirny Tabryzy died at Shyraz.

Tahmasb Quly Beg 'arshy Yazdy of Turky

about 12,000 verses.

origin left a

Dywan

of

Molla Barley
verses.

Qommy
is is

died

many

years ago and left about 20,000

iZasan

Beg Bafy'

of

Qazwyn but

is

called

Mashhady from

his

place of residence, he

a distinguished Insha writer and was therefore

come to India. He conferred the appointment of Munshiy upon him but subsequently discarded him, and
invited by Shah-jahan to

now he

lives in great

poverty in India.
of Ispahan a contemporary of -fiTakym

Mohammad Bidha Fikry

Shifayiy.

Molla Sayry Churbadqany died on his way to Makkah.

Myr

Bafy' Dastur went with Shaykh

Mohammad Khatiin to
in

India,

subsequently he returned to Persia and died at Ispahan.

Myrza Nitzam a Daste-Ghayb Sayyid of Shyraz died

1029 at an age of thirty years and
left

1039 or

about 3000 verses.

No.

12.]

ta'hir nacra'ba'dy.
Daate Ghayb
it

93
appears was the
called so because

Myrza adiq Daste-Grhayb.

name of a
'alyy

family of Sayyids at Shyraz.

They were

on one occasion one of their enemies questioned

and they miraculously
(literally,

their descent from

from a mysterious hand,

^^xp o**.a) obtained a copy of their pedigree.

at Lar.

Myrza adiq

died

Myr Eadhyy Artymany. Tusofy Churfadqany. Dzawqy of Ardestan left few, but good verses. Dzawqy Kashy a Turkman resided at Kashan.
Molla,

Molla Fathy of Ardestan.

Myr

Abu-1-iZasan a iZbsayny Sayyid of Farahan wrote a com-

mentary on Anwary, was put to death at Shyraz.

Shaykh Shah Katzar of Ispahan

visited India.

Molla Mumin Myr 'aql (or 'aqyl) Kawthary of Hamadan is alive, and has
Hzzy of Fyrtizabad.

written a
^

Molla Makhjly Eushty. i^Lrt^J *bjs . Molla Hashry was of Tabryz where he died. Molla Qawsy Shiistary wrote an introduction
of Khaqany.

*^ja

to the

Dywan

Molla Qawsy Tabryzy studied at Ispahan.

Myr Afsar, a son of Myr Sanjar Kashy, visited India. Kdmy Sabzwary visited India and died at Mashhad.
Madzaqy Ispahany (according
to one copy his patronymic
is

tjkfi)

a distinguished composer of Music.

Sdyir Ardiibady or Mashhady died in India.

Qasimy Cayrafy (according to the other copy Qadhiy ayrafy) son of a banker. Khidhry Lary. Khidhry Qazwyny is a good poet.

Khidhry Khwansary a friend of Zulaly.

Sa'yddyiy Ardestany (in one copy

Nohawandy) resided long

?)

in

the Deccan and died after his return to Persia.

Baba Sultan
years ago.

Qommy

JNawayiy (Liivdyiy

an ascetic died some

Ahhtary Yazdy

lived long in India

and died there.

Myr

'ysa

Yazdy resided

for

some time

in India, died in Persia.

Molla 'dmiy Nohawandy went to India and probably died there.

Molla Nawydy an old poet
lives at Shyraz.
first

Nawydy Teherany.

Natzmy Yahyany
Shyraz.

(?)

resided

at

Ispahan subsequently at

-Hajy 'abd al-Wasi'

Aqdas

is

now

in India

and

fills

the office of

Daroghah of the goldsmith's shop of Awrangzeb.

Mohammad

iZbsayn Beg Ma'lum Tabryzy a merchant.

94

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Jamala Wdlih of Shyraz died in India.

Myrza Khagmy

visited India

and died at Ispahan.

.Hasan Beg Girdmy.

Mohammad

iZbsayn a son of .Hakym Boknay Kashy.

Kaldwiy Ispahany a brother of Salamy.

Molla Glwrury probably of Shyraz died towards the end of Shah

Qafyy's reign and left a
al'iraqayn.

Mathnawy

in the metre of the

ToMat

Myr

Ghorury Kashy died in India.

Sorury (Sarwary
?)
is

Mohammad Qasim
Dictionary.

the author of a Persian

is

The copy which he wrote

in Persia

small, but

when

he went to India he used the Dictionary -&*^

f jyjyr

Jamal aldyn

Anju js?\ and enlarged the work

greatly.

Myr Mohammad Mumin Addyiy Tazdy

'dqild

about thirty years ago

Siirat.

being suspected of infidelity he went to India, and died at

Mohammad Taqyy
of Tazd.

of Taliqan died under Shah 'abbas II.

Myr Ajry

Fdrighy Astrabady.
in

Mashhury of Ispahan was strong

Eamal, the author saw him

when he was more than seventy years of age. Myr .Haydary Dzihny Kashy went to Byjapur, he was
painting.

clever in

iZbsayn (jarrdfoi Ispahan a Banker, was

eighty years of age.

still full

of energy

when

Nctymii of Shyraz a tailor by profession.

of Molla Shany Taklii died young.

-Hasan

Beg a son

His father

was so distinguished a man that Shah 'abbas weighed him up in gold.

Molla Girdmy (Karamy
resided chiefly at Kashan.
?)

a Turk,

is

called

Kashy because he
verses and five

Wrote about 50,000

Nitzamy.

Mathnawies

in imitation of
left

Sho'ury Mashhady.

Sho'ury Kashy

about 6000 verses of Qacydahs and Grhazals.

Zamanayiy Naqqash of Ispahan.

DMydiy Teherany a

friend of the late QabiUy.

Kashy a school master. Aqa Khafyy Khwansary d. 1028. Myr Burhan a Sayyid of Abrqiih a mystic and a Asad Allah Kashy.
Ja'far Mo'allim

Myr

pupil of Qadhiy

Myrza Hadiy a brother of the preceding resided mostly

at Shyraz.

He is dead. Myr Ghiyath

Qaygar
called
is

aldyn a son of the preceding died young at Abrqiih.

is

of the Yl Shamlu resided mostly at Herat, and

therefore

Herawy.

No.

12.]

ta'hir nacra'ba'dy.
a friend of

95

iZasan

Beg Unsy

/Zakym

Shifayiy, he wrote a Tadzit.

kirah of Persian poets, but has not completed

Molla Moqymayiy Hilmy ('ilmy

prince Dara-Shikoh.

?)

Kashy was

in the service of

He

died at

Makkah.

Taqyy AwAady was born at Ispahan he was descended from Sayyid

Aw7*ad aldyn 'abd Allah Bulyany.
at

A friend of

the author saw

him

Afanadabad in Gujrat.
Tajalliy Lahijy

He

is

the author of a Tadzkirah.*

first

was brought up in India he had

Ta'by of

the takhalluc
Shifayiy.

of Khawary.

Qazwyn a

friend of

iZakym

Cjahyfy Shyrazy

his son was Asyry.

Ummaty
Torbaty, died young.

Qafyya Ispahany, a friend of JETakym Shifayiy.

Tahir 'a#ar Mashhady a pupil of

Amyna
of Najab.

a son of Molla

Mafamid who had the keys of the tomb

Molla 'agry Tabryzy brought up at Yazd settled at Ispahan.

Baqiyayiy Tayiby a distinguished composer in music visited India

but died in Persia.

Najdty Bafiqy.

Molla Bykhudy Junabady a contemporary of the late Shah 'abbas

* The Genealogy of AwAad aldyn 'abd Allah Bulyany or Baly&ny

'abd Allah b. Mas'iid b.
b.

is

MoAammad

b. 'alyy b.

AAmad
life is

b.

'omar

b.

Isma'yl

Aby

'alyy

al-Daqqaq and he died in 686. His

in

Jamy's Nafdh&t

No. 322.

Taqyy

derives his patronymic Aw/*ady from him.

Taqyy was

born in 973.

He

compiled an anthology of Persian poetry which he called

a chronogram for 991) and which contains the verses

JkA-UVtj9
collected

(this is

by him

in six years

from Shyraz to Gujrat.

Afterwards when

Agra one of the nobles of Jahangyr's court induced him to remodel his work and to accompany the extracts with memoirs of the He undertook the task and named his Tadzkirah several authors quoted. ^jj^U i>lcje ) o loj* j ^a.&U ol^ij e^s The Biography is
staying at

divided into twenty-eight 'arcahs, each containing one letter of the alphabet,

and the general division

is

into three 'urfahs, viz. the ancient poets

those of the middle age and the modern poets.

He composed
it

also ano-

her Tadzkirah abridged from the larger one and called

&\sj* ixxf

He

also

composed a Persian Dictionary

called ^jUjJ** k<j*

;

and found-

ed on the Burhane qaft' and he wrote about 30,000 verses poems are his Mathnawies uujJj *-?/&*i andj *=-J j^o.
l

among other
co Py of his

Tadzkirah

is

in the

East India House.

It

is

a thick folio and goes only

to the letter

(Bland, Journ. Royal As. Soc. IX. p. 134).

96
was a Shah-namah
epos.
Molla.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
reciter,

[CHAP.

I.

and wrote a poem

in the

metre of that

Molla, Afdhal Bafiqy a son of the calligraph Molla Ya'qub.

Qadhiy Bashydy a brother of the preceding.

Molla 'inayat Nojumy Kashy a good astronomer.

Qadhiy Diiwary Ayany.

Mohammad
Molla

faliA Sattdr went to India and died there.

Darwysh K&hin of Tabryz.

Mohammad

iZbsayn Ashub of Mazandaran went to India

and died there.

Molla 'abd Allah Amtiny of Kirman went to India but died at
Ispahan.

His Dywan has about 10,000

verses.

Kamilayiy Kashy a nephew of

Tadzkirah.

Myr Taqyy

the author of the

Myr Asad

Allah of Ispahan died in India.

Myr Mashrdb a son of Myr iZbsayn who is called Shishah-gar of Qomm, he is usually called Kashy having mostly resided at Kashan,
he died at Tabryz.
Sa'yda Sarmad probably of Kashan went to India under Shahjahan

and behaved

like a

mad man.

Mumindyiy Kunabady went

at Byjapiir.
died.

to India.

Taby'y Systany a friend of Molla Zamany Tazdy.

Eashyd Nawras of Qazwyn died

(jiify

Shyrazy

is

of

Kirman where he

Cufy Hamadany lived chiefly at Ispahan where he died.

Qobad Beg KawJcaby a Turk,

lived at ZZaydarabad.

Haydty Gylany has been brought up

in India.

Mohammad Qasim Qismat Mashhady died some time ago. Myr Zayn aldyn Shaykh Jannaty (?) of Ispahan. It is only lately His Dywan contains about 20,000 that he calls himself a Sayyid.
verses but
is

not arranged.

One

of his Mathnawies

is

called

"^ J JJi^'

Molla Afldky Tabryzy.

Molla Lutfy Nayshapury the son-in-law of Molla Qaydy. Molla Wdthiq Nayshapury visited India and died at Ispahan.
'atzyma
is

a grandson of Molla

Qaydy and a nephew Qaydy

visited India,

of Molla

Natzyry.

Moqyma Fawjy
at Nayshapur.

a son of Molla

and died

Karyma, the younger son of Molla Qaydy

Tolu'y of

lives

now

at Ispahan.

Khwansar

is

dead.
in the

Ahsany Khwansary was strong

Mathnawy.

No.

12.]
is

ta'hir nacra'ba'dy.
a son of Qadhiy

97

Qo^ba Sih?y

Amyn

Khwansary.
in musical composition,

Shah Murad Khwansary was distinguished

and therefore in favour with the
Molla Mahshary Khwansary
is

late

Shah

'abbas.

about ninety years of age.

Mashraby of Khwansar was a talented man.

Kawthary Khwansary.

Myr

Jadzby Khwansary the son of a rich man.

Molla 'alyy Beg Hishmaty Khwansary died at the age of ninety,

he was a most distinguished calligraph.

He

left

about 15,000 verses.

Yusofay Khwansary was very poor but a

fertile poet.

Myrza Nura LamV

now alive. ?) Hamadany Molla Mofrad of Hamadan is dead.

is

Molla Hbrat (Grhayrat

imitates the ancients.

Myram Beg (Jubhy is alive. Bay ram Beg Sdmi'd. Humayun Mohammad a son of Molla Shikuh died young. -Hajy Ummyd Zdyir Hamadany visited India, but lives now
Persia.

in

Fdyidh Nohawandy Qadhiy of

?)

iZatim (Khatim

Beg

is

a son of

Kuh Kylu. AAmad Beg.

Myr Ashub Hamadany.

Molla Mahdhary Hamadany was called Molla-darwazah and wrote
chiefly

Qacydahs, he
?)

is

dead.
of intemperance.

SaliM (aliA

Mashhady died
A'gafd
is

Mohammad Quly
in that place
;

called

Qommy, because he

resided

much
he

he

is

now

in India.

Mohammad
went to India.
Tllfaty

Baqir, the author

met him

at Ispahan, subsequently

a son of iZbsayn Sawajy was for some time in the service

of Qofobshah, and wrote a treatise on prosody and rhyme.

He

died in Persia.

Ifahshary of Nayshapur a contemporary of Natzyry.

Mohammad Katzim
Najybd Astrabady
is

^Pahir died in

1085 (or 1025) at Ispahan.

at Ispahan.

since

some years

Sayyid iZbsayn Zahyy (Zayny

?) receives

a pension from the Court.

Myr Sanad of Kashan is a fertile poet. Molla Mohammad Ibrahym Salik of Qazwyn
some time ago
he
at

visited India but died

Qazwyn.

Molla Sdlik Yazdy went to the Deccan and then to Dilly where
died.

98

PERSIAN TADZK1RAHS.
is

[CHAP.

I.

Molla Natzim of Herat

in the service of 'abbas

Quly Khan and

azyz Allah of

the best poet of Khorasan, he wrote a Yusof 6 Zalykha.

Myr Mohammad
Sawah an

ifosayn Shaivqy a son of

Myr

old poet visited India.

He

is

dead.

Baqira Khalyl Kashy died two years ago, his

Dywan

has about

14,000 verses.
A'qa

Zaman

Zarlcash Ispahany had

first

the takhallu9 of Flryhy.

is

Mawlana Mohammad Qasim Qdsim of Mashhad name of Dywanah, died at Dilly.

Sa'dayiy

known by

the

Tazdy

resided at Ispahan.
lived at the court of iZaydarabad.

Mawlana FaraA Allah Shushtary

The author had seen from three
Molla Warashtah his name is
spent a long time in India.

to four thousand verses of his.

Imam Quly Beg he travelled much and

used to keep a journal of his
travels.

He

He

died in 1075.

Jalala

Molla
India.

Kashy Yaqyn lives since many years at Ispahan. Mohammad Ibrahym Shawhaty of Ispahan was Molla Wacib Qandahary died at Ispahan.

killed in

Molla Wafd of Herat lived for some time in India and died
at Ispahan.

Molld Hshraty a son of -Sajy 'ayn 'alyy Farushayiy was long in

India, died at

Mashhad.
Fdrigha a brother of
is

Mohammad Ibrahym
India and
is

'ishraty, died at

Lahor.

Molla TogJird of Tabryz some say he

of Mashhad, he resides in

very strong both in writing prose and verse.

The

author had seen some of his prose writings.

M)T

'abd

al'al

Naj&t a son of

Myr MoAammad Miimin

India.

iZbsayny, a

friend of the author.

in 1076 and resides

Myrza Sharyf IlMm was for some time in now mostly at Ispahan.

He

returned

Myr Jamal

aldyn

Mohammad Wahshat

a son of

Myr Dhiya

aldyn

a Tabataba Sayyid of Ardestan.

Resided for some time in India

last year

then he returned to Persia, but

to India.

(1082) he again went

'abd Allah ~K&ly a son of Sayyid

Ta^ya who was attached

to the

tomb

of Karbela.

-Haly resides at Ispahan.

Zifaddad.

A'qa

Sayira

Zaman Wiidhih. is a son of the Pahlwan Qasim Mashhady resides at Ispahan.

No.

12.]

ta'hir nacra'ba'dy.
is

99

-ETajy

Firydun Sdbiq
jffajy

a Turk, he has gone to Makkah.

Jidjy studied at Ispahan,
is alive.

Molla

Mo7iammad

iZajy Qadiq Qdmit a son of

in India but resides

Xqa Mtiniin Ispahany has been long

is

now

in Persia.

Amyna
by

Fdyiq a son of Xqa-shah Walyy of Ispahan

a fur-maker

profession.
lives

Fayidha studied at Ispahan

now
is

in his estate.

Myr Mohammad Hashim

a Sayyid of Lahijan, spent

Shahydd

according to his

own assertion
&&**)

much time

in travelling, is alive.
***jla.

Nadira Shyrazy wrote a very complete treatise

arithmetic.

on

He

is

Wazyr

of the Dardgha of Qazwyn.

Mohammad 'alyy Tdyifof Churfadqan resides now at Mohammad Amyr Beg Wdgil lives now at Ispahan.
Bady'a of Lahijan resides now
2Zajy
at Ispahan.

Ispahan.

Mohammad Taqyy Bismil of Shyraz is alive. Mohammad Miimin, a brother of the preceding, is gone to DamaMoqyma Maqgud a son of Maqciid 'alyy is alive. ghan. Moqyma Thsdn of Mashhad lives at Ispahan. Mohammad QaliA Shushtary Nishaty is studying at Ispahan. Molla MoAammad Zaman Athar of Mazanderan, is alive.
iZbsayna Qabuky of Khwansar died 1078 and left seven Mathnawies.

Myr aydy
skilled in

(? aa y

?)

of Teheran died in India. of

Myrza Ibrahym Adham a son

Myr Eadhyy Artymany was

Died in India where he had
a

making verses ex tempore.

been in high esteem among the great.

Aqa

Isrna'yl

Kdshif was strong in the satyre and

left

Mathnawy

in the metre of the

ToMat

al'iraqayn.
is

Myr

'ala

aldyn

Mohammad Qufy

a son of Qofob alawliya.

Molla Fakhir Bihbany

JETafitz

(?) died lately.

Mohammad

Mo/^sin Tajalliy was blind from birth.

Najaf Quly Beg Wdliy a friend of the author died some time ago.
Ndjiy Tabryzy
lives in great poverty.
is

MoAammad Katzim

of

Qomm.
is

iZakym 'abd Allah Bdghib

of Gylan but he

is

called

Qommy,

he changed his takhalluc into Wa/adat.

Myr
Nan'

'abd al-EaAman of
(Jafyr of

Qomm

where he now

resides.

Aqa Shams

Qomm.

Qommy

was

originally a cook.

o 2

100
Molla

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Mohammad
'alyy

[CHAP.

I.

Wdhid Qommy

resides at Ispahan, left

a Mathnawy.

Mohammad Eidha MosMqy

Molla 'alyy
is

kept originally a shop at

Qomm.

of Shahryar but resides at

Qomm.

Qommy died not long ago in India. Mofrad Qommy was a tailor by profession.
Shahyda
Molla alyy Naqyy Qismat of

Qomm
jTahir

where he now

resides.

Myr
he
A'qa

'abd al-iZbsayn ('abd al-f7asan?) 'arifoi

Kashan where now

at Kashan.

resides.

Aqa Mohammad
b. -Hajy

Naqqdsh

is

Mosayyab Q&nV
Th&bit (?)

MoAibb of Kashan came

ago.
at

in

1083 to

Ispahan.

Kashy died some years

Katzima of Tabryz was brought up

a school.

Kashan where he

is

keeping

Nura Najyb

b.

Khwajah Mo7iammad 2/osayn Kashy came two

is

years ago to Ispahan.

Shah Eashyd Kashy

a very old man.

is

Shaykh Mo/iammad Hadiy Bamzy

an extremely clever poet.

is

Myr Mohammad

Tahir 'alawy or 'olwy

of Kashan.

Molla Tadhil Kashy has written more than 100,000 verses. Molla 'alyy called Jaysh
(?)

Jawyd had

first

the takhalluc of

D&nish was born in Mazanderan and died at Ispahan.

Shahyda (Shajdar ?) Gylany

is

now

at

Ardebyl he

is

a pious man.

Mo/*ammad /Zosayn Mantzur opium-eater is now at Shyraz.

of A'mol in Mazanderan, a great

Shafy'y died at an advanced age in Gylan.

2/akym Abu-1-Fat7* Dawayiy Lahijy

has written two Mathnawies,
viz.

is

a good physician and poet,

and &*j&\ Qasim Cdbir of Lahijan where he now lives in poor Mohammad Molla Liqdyiy Lahijany an agriculturist died circumstances.
Sa'da a son of Hi]j

y^^

^^

young.

Khwajah

'alyy Lahijy is alive.

is alive.
is

Tzahyra Lahijy was originally a baker, he

Mo/iammad
first

ali& BuJV Lahijy visited India

now

in Persia;

had

the takhalluc of QaliA.

Molla Soshdy Eostamdary an eccentric

man

died at Mashhad.

Kajiy Lahijy a poor but disinterested poet.

Amynayiy of the dependencies of Lahijan. Amynayiy Eushty an uneducated man. Mohammad Tusof called Dhiyayiy Lahijy was very

poor.

No.

12.]

ta'hir nacra'ba'dy.

101

Sami'ayiy Mazanderany lived long in India, died at Ispahan.

Darwysh Ahmad Khwansary a religious man. Molla Q6sim (Hshim ?) Qabury of Khwansar where he now resides. Ustad Mohammad Bidha of Khwansar is nearly eighty years of age.
Molla Afsary Wanshany Molla
(?)

of the district of Churbadqan. of the district of Churbad-

Mohammad Zaman Bandagany

qan wrote a Mathnawy called

v ^^
1

&**.

He

is alive.
it is

Babi Ardebyly called Shah Katzim went to India,

not

known

whether he has died or

is alive.

Isma'yl 'Arif Kirmany a book-binder, is a mystic. Amynayiy Kirmany is a man of considerable talents.
JQTajy

Zaman Shyrazy
is

is

a shoe-maker.
is

Mohammad
writer,

Baqir a son of Amynayiy Eiidah-sery

a good Insha

and

therefore in the service of the "Wazyrs of Lahijan.

?)

Shaykh Abu iZabban (iZayyan

Mdly Shyrazy,

is

dead.

Myr Abu-1-Karam

('abd al-Karym ?) a brother of

at Shyraz.

Myr

Abti-1-

Hasan Farahany resided

MoAsinayiy Shyrazy was a friend of abu^y.

he

Mtzama N&tzim Shyrazy had for some time the takhalluc of Salim, is dead. Moqyma Abadahi of Faris is alive.

Myr
alive,

'abd al-Wahhab called

.ffajy

Myr Majnun

a Sayyid of Shyraz

is

Baqir a son of Shukr Allah Shyrazy died at Najaf.

MasyA

'ysa a pedler.
is

Molla 'alyy Acghar resided chiefly at Shyraz,

dead.

Mumina Nisbat
died in India.

of Tabryz (according to another copy of Faris)

'drif Shyrazy the author

knew him.
is

Mohammad
(Jdniy (or

Tahir Taslym Shyrazy was a book-binder.

?

Qiyany

or Qafiy ?) Kazeriiny

usually called Shyrazy

went to India.
Molla Ibrahym Nagyr a son of Kamal Qariy
is alive.

Nakhat *^4& Shyrazy went to

a goldsmith, and
/Zafitz

India.
in Ispahan, he

Eashyda Zargar a Tabryzian of 'abbasabad

was

visited India, but died in Persia.

Mohammad
MoAammad

iJosayn (Hasan

?)

of Tabryz resided at Ispa-

han, was a good Insha writer.

Molla

'alyy

Mofrad a son of Mohammad Quly Beg

Bay&ny, a son of Naqyy Beg Ta-

Tabryzy resides

at Ispahan.
?)

Bahrain Beg (Bohzad Beg

102
'

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

bryzy resided at abbasabad in Ispahan, and gained his livelihood in

summer by copying books, and in winter by making furs. MoAammad Zaman Beg Himmat a Turk of Ardebyl is JNawruz 'alyy Beg a clever goldsmith.
at Ispahan.

dead.

JKoty'd a Tabryzy of 'abbasabad in Ispahan visited India and died

MobdV Tabryzy

resided long at Ispahan, he was a goldsmith and

wire-drawer, went some years ago to India.

Mohammad Quly Beg ShdJcir one of the Tabryzians 8);^ who were settled in 'abbasabad in Ispahan, he was a goldsmith and
engraver.
'drifd equally

a Tabryzian of 'abbasabad where he

is,

now

resides.

Kalb

'alyy

Beg Nadir

like the preceding poets, a

goldsmith

of 'abbasabad.

Mohammad Ridha B&dhiy

visited twice India.

a Tabryzian goldsmith in 'abbasabad,

Myr

Baq&yiy Badakhshy resides at Tabryz and

is

called Tabryzy,

he wrote a Mathnawy on earthquakes.

Molla Ganjy Churbadqany

Siraja

is

dead.

Naqqdsh was

originally an engraver.
at

Zamana Lahijy was for some time a private teacher Ma^miida Tazdajardy Yatym visited India.
Latyfd died at Herat.

Tazd.

Myr

Isma'yl Churbadqany a Bti-toraby Sayyid and an ascetic.

Qali/*.

Cheleby Hnw&n a son of i/ajy

Tabryzy who was a rich man

and resided
is

at

Mashhad. 'inwan was a friend of the author, he

dead.

Taqyya Mithdl died in 1076.

'abd Allah TTlfat of Khorasan
service of Ja'far
is

Myrza

went early

in

life

to India

and entered the

150 Rupees.

Khan who

gave him a salary of

He

dead.
alive.

Mohammad Sharyf Tajryd is Myr Sayyid 'alyy is a poor

takhalluc
is

but well educated young man, his

Sayyid and Mihry.

Molla Ibrahym Wapifoi Mashhad died at Bander 'abbasy on his

way

to India.

Molla Ibrahym Bifaty of Tabryz visited India and died at Sharwan.

Myr

'abd Allah a son of Molla 'arshy ('izzaty ?)

Yazdy is

in India.

Molla Katzim of Sawah a merchant visited India and died at Sawah.

No.

12.]

ta'hir nacra'ba'dy.

103

Khwajah Kalan Kirmany died some years ago. Zamana went from the 'iraq to India, but owing to his bad manners he
found no patron.
'alyy

He

died at Herat.
(?)
is

Khalyl Beg

is

now

in India.

Eidhayiy Shustany

now

in India in the service of

Ibrahym Khan.

Nagyb

is

now

in India.
is

Shah Eidha Taslym a

(^lify

of Khorasan
in India,

now
left

in

Kashmyr.

Myrza Mohammad Fdris died

4000 bayts.

and

Dywan

of about

Myrza Moqym a son of Molla Paband a Tabryzy residing at 'abbasabad is dead. JJakym Katzima Tuba went to India. Myr Ma' 911m Tasalliy a son of Myrjy who had long been in India. Tasalliy also went to India, and it is said that he died there.

He
He

wrote a very complete treatise on Eamal.

Molla Zaman Nariq resided at Ispahan and died under Shah 'abbas.
imitated Khaqany.
?)

Shaykh 'imad Arfd? (W&qV

JNatzim

a cousin of Molla Giramy.

Tazdy has long been

in India, he is a clever chess-player.

Myr Sayyid 'alyy Kashy QdnVy died in 1076. Mahmud Beg Fidayiy of the Yl, or Turkoman tribe, of Taklu resided
at

Teheran and died at Ispahan.

JN~acyra

Fardy resides

at Ispahan.

Shafyqa (Shafy'a?) of Bakherz in Khorasan died in 1071 (1081?)

Barkhrirdar

Isma'yl Zdyir

Beg Mangur is alive. Damaghany is alive.

at Ispahan.

iZMtz Mohammad Taqyy called 'indalybe Kashy. Mohammad /Zbsayn Nawras Domawandy resides now Molla Mumin of Qumshah.

Myrza Tj&z
iZajy
his

his

name was Molla

'aa,

died at Ispahan.
is

Mahmud

Hiftzy of Ispahan visited India, but

now
dead.

in

home.
is

Molla Tslyzj of Tarasht sr^Js of the province of Eay,

Myr

'irf&n

Teherany was a book-seller at Ispahan.

Molla Sihry Teherany.

Myr Eawnaq Samandar had

at Teheran.
'amila of

also the takhalluc of

Eawnaq, died

Balkh

visited India

and died at Shyraz.

Myr Mohammad
is alive.

2/osayn Sor'at a Sayyid of Amol in Mazanderan

Mohammad
han and
is

Qadiq Ndtzim Tabryzy resides at 'abbasabad in Ispa-

a brother of

Mohammad Eidha

Marwaryd-farush

(i. e.

104
the pearl-seller)
resided for

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
who
is

[CHAP.

I.

equally a well educated

young man.

Natzini

some time

at

Makkah

for the sake of devotion.

He

died

some years ago and

left

a short Tadzkirah.

'azmy Tazdy a friend of

Amyr

Adayiy.

Atzhary of Qahpayah *% became mad.

He

is

dead.

Zakyya a cousin (a son of the uncle) of Khwajah Sayf aldyn

MaAmud died in Ispahan. Myr Matzhar is according

of Astrabad, he used to
T

Molla Dawtid
to his

JJlfat

Shustary

is

dead.

own

assertion a Sainmaky Sayyid

i.

tell stories

in poppy houses,

e.

in houses in

w hich they take intoxicating and stupifying drugs. Mogawwir (Maciin ?) of Kashan an engraver, is dead. JRdhib of Kanan in the province of Ispahan went to India. IZajy Sharyf Manshur of Ispahan is dead.
Molla

Mohammad

Sharyf of a village in the neighbourhood of

Ispahan, a friend of the author, has written a

Mathnawy

in the metre

of the

Makhzan

alasrar.

Mawlana Mohammad Baqir was of the same

ing and died two years ago.

village as the preced.

Mohammad

Baqir Tazdy a goldsmith.

Qahpayah. Kofry of Tazdkhwast c>^,(^L ty in Paris. Mohammad Q-kYih Shyrazy was a Zarkash (manufacturer of gold
thread) died at Ispahan.

Mohammad Ja'far Modzahhib a son of Myrza Mafamid of

Zayn al'abidyn Khuzamy Fddhil.

Mast

'alyy

Ispahany Kuchak visited India.

Myr Beg
Shah 'abbas

Qaccab Ispahany, a butcher by profession, died under

II.,

upwards of seventy years of age.

Taqyy iZalwayiy
Mazanderan.

Dhamyr

visited India, is dead.

Myr QubAy was

Myr

according to his

own statement a Sayyid

of

'abd Allah 'abdy a son of

Mohammad

'alyy Tab'y of Ispahan,

died seven years ago.

Yaghma

a son of

Darwysh Bihishty Qalandar

of

Qomm is

dead.

Molla Qudraty of Ispahan, visited India and died in Persia.

Molla Hayrdn of Ispahan.

iZakym Baqir Shifdyiy

called iZallaj

was

still alive

in the begin-

ning of the reign of Shah 'abbas II.

MoAammad QaliA Ispahany was originally a dyer. Malik Mohammad Habit (Babt?) a son of Niira faMaf is
binder by profession, he imitates Nitzamy.

a book-

No.

12.1

ta'hir nacra'ba'dy.

105

Mohammad
is alive.

Shafy' S&limd has written about 100,000 verses, he

Mas'iida a son of
India,
for

Aqa Zaman Zarkash went with

is

his father to

and after

his father's death

he returned to Ispahan, he drew

in great distress.

some time a pension, but now he

Molla Tahy'y (TaVy?) of Tabs.

Mohammad

Baqir of Ispahan, a blanket-maker, went some years

ago to India where he died.

-Najyba a son of

Hi]j

Amyn

of Gulshanabad in Ispahan

is alive.

Baba Mohammad
in the

'alyy

Ispahany died two years ago, he was strong

Mathnawy.

'arab Shyrazy (]dbir called

Dynah

visited India

where he

died.

Qadyra Hrfdn Ispahany, a quiver-maker, has died

Molla 'alyy Eidha of the province of Ispahan
years of age.
iZajy

this year.
is

now
lives

seventy

Mohammad Yahy

Ispahany visited India and

Eiimy.
is

now

at

Ispahan.
'

He
is

imitates

Mawlawy

Nuzhat
'drif,

of

Damaghan.

Myr Momtaz

of Khorasan.

one

'arif is

of Gylan, another of Mashhad.

-ETajy

Mohammad Molla

Nishdty had also the takhalluc of Harzy

of Damaghan, died at Ispahan.

Hk]j Motzaffar a son of

^ixij &S3U.

'alyy

Eidha Beg Tabryzy resided

at

'abbasabad in Ispahan, and his profession was to string jewellery

He

visited the

Deccan and

lives

now

at Ispahan.

Molla Lawhy composed many poems in praise of the Imams.

Taqyya

called

Dangy (Danky

?)

Ispahany.
late

Sage-Lawand, a Turk, was in favour with the

Shah 'abbas by

on account of his wit and impudence.

'alyy

Khan was

mason and preferred

to gain his bread

his*

humble profession to entering the

service of the great.

Myrza Ibrahym

'arifoi 'abbasabad

Darwysh /Zaydar

of Tazd.

went to India and died recently. Majyda the son of a baker, is dead.

Momtaz
2.

of the province of Paris.

Poets of Ma-war (i-lnahr more 'particularly JBokMrd, JSalkh, Sfc. Qadhiy Nacir Bokhary is Qadhiy at the court of 'abd al'azyz Khan

Molla Shah

Mohammad

'dliy resides at
?)

Bokhara.

Molla Rafayiy (Eif'aty

of Abu-1-Fadhl.

Bokhary went to India and was a friend

106

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Molla Athdr had

Myrza Moqym Bokhary came with the ambassador to Ispahan. first an employment in Persia but having lost
his property

it

and

on account of a crime he went to India.

is

Munisy Bokhary

in the service of the Padshah.

?)

Molla ffamiy ( Jamy

Bahrain Bokhary, the Padshah has given

him the

title

of king of poets.

Molla Nakhly was for some time in the service of

Imam

Quly-

Khan Padshah
he died.

of Bokhara, after his death he

went

to

Balkh where

Molla MisJcyn Bokhary was equally in the service of the Padshah

(according to one copy he
is

in the service).
is)

Molla Shafy' Bokhary was (according to one copy,

the service of the Padshah.

equally in

Sayyid Na-Kam Latyf Bokhary was equally Quly-Khan and died after him.

in the service of

Imam

Imam Quly-Khan and

is

Myrza Afdhal or Padhyl Bokhary Walvy was the Munshiy of died some years ago. Myrza 'alim Bokhary was equally a Munshiy of the Khan, he

dead. Molla Mohammad 'dbid is a calligraphy Mohammad Amyn Sarfardz of Samarqandy. Mohammad ali& Lata (?) of Samarqand.

Molla Mawlayiy Bokhary

Molla Sharyf Bokhary
is

is

in the service of the

Khan.

equally in the service of the Khan.

is

Myrza 'abd al-Layf Oirdm

Molla "Wahib Bokhary
is

in the service of the

Khan.

in the service of the

Khan. Khan.

Molla Mayus Bokhary

is

a Munshiy of the Padshah.

is

Molla Asad Qdgid Bokhary, a Sayyid,

in the service of the

Molla Mantziir Bokhary Molla Thaqib

is

is

in the service of the

Khan.
originally of

in the service of the

is

Khan.
is

Molla Tayib (in one copy

Thaqib) Bokhary
is

Herat, but he was brought at Bokhara and

the Khan.

in the service of

Khwajah

'abid

Bokhary Bdqim came to Ispahan whence he proa great favourite of the Khan.

ceeded to India.

Molla Qatly of Bokhara

is

Myrza 'abd al-Bazzaq a son of Qadhiy Baqayiy Bokhary.

Molla Mostafyd of the neighbourhood of Balkh
of Sub&an
is

in the service

Quly-Khan

Sultan.

No.

12.]

ta'hir nacra'ba'dy.
is

107
in the service

Molla (one name not legible) Mostaqym Balkhy

of

SubMn Quly-Khan.
Molla Natzmy Balkhy of Ealiir died at Balkh.

/Zakym Ldyia Balkhy died

Molla Yagdnah Balkhy Molla Yaktdyiy Balkhy Molla Mofyd Balkhy
is is is

at Balkh.

in the service of
in the service of

SubMn Quly-Khan. SubMn Quly-Khan.

in the service of

SubAan Quly-Khan.
in the service of 'abd

Molla Samy* Balkhy resides at Balkh.

Molla Hmdd ('ammar?) Samarqandy

al'azyz

is

Khan.

Molla Afgdr Samarqandy resides at Samarqand.

Molla BdJV resides at Bokhara. Molla Nadzra Agdh resides at Bokhara. Molla Sayyid Nasafy
is

at

Bokhara in the
is

service of the Padshah.

Molla Bady' Samarqandy

dead, he was in the service of SubAan

Quly-Khan.
Molla Ni'mat Allah Nctymb of Samarqand has studied at Bokhara.

Shawkat Bokhary.
3.

Poets of India.
verses.

Shay da a native of India composed about 50,000

Ghanyy Kashmyry, the emperor wrote to the governor of Kashmyr to send him to India, he refused to go and died six days after.

Nadym Kashmyry

is alive. is

Nacir 'alyy Sirhindy (according to one copy Kashmyry)

service of the Emperor.

in the

Nisbaty of Thaneser
in the service of

is

dead.

Mdhird Kashmyry was

Danishmand Khan and

is

composed a Mathnawy in praise of the Emperor.

Fandyiy Kashmyry the teacher of Grhanyy

now

in

Kashmyr.

Mohammad

'arif.

Myrza Qofob Mdyil of

Dilly author of a Saqiy-namah.

Mohammad Afdhal Sar-k7iush resides at Lahdr. Myr Mohammad Zaman JRdsikh of Lahor.
'abd al-Qadir Bydil of Lahor
is

a very

fertile poet.

Myr

Siyddat

is

of Lahor.

S% Zfaydar

'alyy MogJiniy (Moglianny ?) is of

Kashmyr.

This

and the following three names are only in one copy. Another /faydar 'alyy of Kashmyr.

P 2

108

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Allah Sdlim a son of

[CHAP.
Kashmyr

I.

Myr Luf

Myr

'alyy of

travelled

over the whole of Persia and was in 1092 in Ispahan.

Mawlana Ndtiq

of

Kashmyr had two

brothers

who were
Abkam.

equally

poets but had an impediment in their speech, and therefore one

chose the takhalluc of Loknaty and the other of

(13)

cr>^r
is

t-W

i>**)i

^uir

(p.)

The words
called Chela.

of the poets,

whose takhalluc
1093, the date

by Mirza Mohammad Afdhal Sar-khiish and who was generally-

The title of the book is a chronogram for when he commenced to compile it. The
and that during his youth he was

author informs us that he and his father had been in the

service of 'alamgyr,

anxious to acquire rank and wealth, but at the time when

he wrote this book he lived in retirement at Dilly.

He He
6

was a good poet and had the good fortune

acquainted with almost
all

to

become

men

of talent of his age.

died in A. H. 1125 or 11 26, or 1127 at the advanced age of seventy-six years and left four Mathnawies,
'ishq, Niire

Hosn

'alyy,

Saqiy-namah and Shah-namahe Mothat almost

hammad 'atzam-shah. He says in the preface

all

Tadzkirahs were

universal, containing the notices of the poets of all ages,

and that most of them end with the reign of Akbar.

He had

therefore undertaken to compile an account in

alphabetical order of the poets (of India) of the reigns of

Jahangyr and 'alamgyr most of

It contains

whom

he knew personally.

near two hundred very short biographies

interspersed with verses of the compiler.

The book

is
it

esteemed in India on account of the elegant extracts

contains.

At the end he has added

five

or six pages of

NO.

13.]

SAR-KHU'SH.

109

chronograms, a description of poetry in which he seems

to

have excelled.

The

authorities

which he used are Gulshane Fifrat by

Myr Mo'izz aldyn MoAammad Miisawy Khan Fitrat, the Album o?Uj of Mirza Mohammad 'alyy Mdkir and that of Myr Mohammad Zaman Rdsihh. These three poets
were contemporaries and friends of Sar-khiish.

Miisawy

had at first the takhalluc, Fifrat &J^> and then he chose that of Miisawy, he was born in Persia in 1050, and

came

to India

where he was much esteemed

and
as a critic,

for his

talents as a poet

and died in A. H. 1101.

Mahir was a friend of Qodsy and Kalym and the teacher of Sar-khush, he died in A. H. 1089. Rasikh died in 1107. Beginning ^j UU. } sjl^^j^ ^ ij^-I J^-

y^
is

^^

Copies are frequent, there are several in the

lines.

M. M.

8vo. 143 pp. 17

One copy
possession,

in the possession of Mr. Hall of Benares,

two are

in

my

and one in that of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

:

Table of contents
continuation of the
titions).

(this list

may

be considered as a
55, with

lists,

pp.

47 and

some repe-

Myr

Ilahy see p. 66.

of Persia of great merit,

Myrza Jalal Asyr a poet come to India.

came

who has not

Mirza Ibrahym Adham was a Sayyid of the Qafawy family.

to India under Shahjahan

He

and behaved

like

mad Darwysh.

Amany Khan-zaman a son

Tzafar
at

of

Mohabat Khan Khankhanan Sipah-

salar (commander-in-chief) left a very elegant

Dywan.
left

Khan Ahsan

a son of

Khwajah Abii-1-iZasan resided mostly

a

Kabul and Kashmyr, and was a great patron of poets,

'inayat

Dywan

and some Mathnawies.

Khan Ashnd

son of Tzafar

Khan an

elegant prose writer,

he wrote the history of thirty years of Shahjahan's reign, much more

elegantly than Molla

jHamyd and

others.
left

Agaf Qommy

came to India under Shahjahan

a short Dywan.

110
Mawlawy
Molla

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Sa'yd Fjdz, a learned and industrious man,

[CHAP.
is alive.

I.

Mohammad

Sa'yd Ashraf came to India under 'alamgyr

alnisa the eldest daughter of the
alive,

and found a patron in Zyb

Emperor.

He

has great facility in writing verses, and is

and

is

the author

of the

Mathnawy j**j Lai which has about 700

Ingdfa, student

verses,

and which he

composed ex tempore.

Mohammad Ibrahym
talent

and presented some poems to

(^adiq Ilqd is clever in

who showed some poetical Myr Mo'izz Musawy Khan.

He

died young.

Mohammad

making chronograms.
al-Easiil IstighnL

Molla A' Id Tiirany.

Myrza 'abd
Yjdd.

Myr Mohammad AAsan

reached this country.
Eafy'

Bdqird Tabryzy.

Abii-1-iZasan By-gdnah has never visited India, but his

Dy wan had

Bynish Kashinyry

left

a Dywan.

Khan

B&dzil cousin of

Mohammad

jTahir

Wazyr Khan
it

put the Ma'arij alnobuwat into 40,000 Persian verses and called

Molla Jamy Lahdry Kamdar Khany

in

By-Mud was

very well skilled

making chronograms, and left a thick Dywan of Ghazal, Qacydahs *and Qat'ahs. The chronogram on his death is $**** **> f^ j'

i.

e 1086.
.

He

left

J^j tr^.
ele-

Mirza, 'abd al-Qadir By-dil is alive.

Chandar Bhan Brahman nourished under Shahjahan, wrote

gant prose and
left

a Dywan.

By-ghamm Payragy,

alive.

Molla 'alyy Eidha Tajalliy came from Shyraz to India under

jffafitz Mohammad Jamal Taldsh. Mohammad Taqyy alive. 'abd al-Latyf Khan Tanha a nephew of Mirza Jalal Asyr was Dywan (collector) of the Panjab. Myr Tashbyhy. Myr Tafakhor (Mofakhis ?) iZbsayn Thitqib an uncle of Easikh

Shahjahan.

died in Sirhind.

Xeaf Khan Ja'far, an Amyr of the emperor Jahangyr, author of a Mathnawy called Khosraw u Shyryn. Aqa Najaf Quly Jordt.

Myr

'abd al-Ea^ym Taysliy a friend of

Mohammad

'alyy Mahir.

Myrza Mohammad Ayyiib Jawdat is strong Euba'y. iTakym TLddziq left a thick Dywan.

in the Ghazal

and

Mohammad Hosayn Myr Hashmaty, the

(in Hall's

copy

is

Ibrahym) Mashhady.

author met him once at Agra.

NO. 13.]

SAR-KHU'SH.

Ill

Mohammad Beg Haqyqy lived in Guzrat. Shaykh Mafanud Hay rim imitated Nacir 'alyy but without success. Mohammad Ibrahym Acalat Khan son of Sayyid Motzaffar Wazyr
of Haydarabad.

Khalyl.

Myrza Kholqy.

Khdlig came during the time of 'alamgyr from Persia to India and

went to the Deccan.

Nawab

'abd al-Ba^ym

ing to one copy his

short Dywan and a Mathnawy. Khdnkhdndn a son of Bayram Khan, accordtakhalluc was Bahym, he nourished under Akbar

Wrote a

and Jahangyr.

Qasim

Klidzin, the

Author met him and found him very conceited.

Mirza Eadhyy Ddnish came to India under Shahjahan,

Mirza Eafy' Dastur a contemporary of Jahangyr.
Molla Ddnd.
'aqil

ffy

it

Mohammad Amyn Dzawqy. Khan Bdzy is the author of a mystical Mathnawy called is in the manner of that Jalal aldyn Bumy, and may be con-

sidered as a poetical version of the

^5^

!/'
first

Mirza

JEfasan (A7*san ?)

Beg Bafy' was

hundred,

Munshiy

of

Moham-

mad Khan,

the Euler of Turan, came to India under Shahjahan and

five

obtained the rank of

'alamgyr sent him to Kashmyr.

He died at Dilly. Myr Mohammad 'alyy Bdyih. (Bdyij ?) a Sayyid of Sialkot. Myr Mohammad Zaman Bdsikh d. 1107, the chronogram is dj+> f"Jj* Mohammad BidM Kashmyry. Myr Buhy. Myr (A'qa ?) Badhyy.
Molla BidJiw&n came from Persia and settled at Lahor.

Zdkyy Hamadany.

Zamdnd.
Shahjahan from Persia to

MoAammad Quly Salym came under

India and entered the service of the
Sdlik

Wazyr Islam Khan.

flou-

Yazdy and

Salik

Qazwyny were contemporaries and

rished in India under Shahjahan

Sayird Mashhady has never visited India.

Qafilan (Qaqilan ?)

to Persia.

-Hajy

Mohammad Aslam

Beg Sipdhy accompanied the Indian ambassy Sdlim, a Kashmyry.

Bengal.

Mohammad QaliA Sattdr lives in Hakym Sa'ydd is a good poet.

Mirza Sanjar, a contemporary of Shahjahan.

Sayyah.

Myr

Sayyid 'alyy Sayyid.

Sayyid 'alyy

Khan

a calligraph had no takhalluc.

Myr (Myrza ?)

Jalal aldyn Siyddat resided at Lahor.

112

PERSIAN TADZK1RAHS.
came

[CHAP.

I.

Molla, Sardby (in one copy Sardpay)

to India under Jahangyr.

/Takym Bar mad a 9 ufy

an(i a friend, of

Dara Shikoh.

Mohammad
Shdny
his praise.

Afdhal Sar-khush the author of this Tadzkirah.

Taklii, panegyrist of

Shah

'abbas, wrote a

Mathnawy

in

Molla Shaydd nourished towards the end of Jahangyr and the

beginning of Shahjahan's reign.

Myr Shawqy. Shddmdn the son of one of the chiefs of Kakhar. Myr Mohammad Hadiy Sharar lived in Persia in 1093.
Sho'ayb. Shawkat Bokhary. Myr Sharaf aldyn iZbsayn. Myr Sharyf. Mirza Mohammad 'alyy Qdyib Tabryzy came to India under ShahThe chronogram is <^k ^J v^ jahan. Died in 1081. Myr Qaydy came under Shahjahan to India. JZakym MoAammad Katzim who assumed bhe title MasyA albayan

and the takhalluc QaAib imitated Jalal aldyn Biimy and left a thick Dywan and several Mathnawies as t5xA.fo^wlU5 *i l^^j j <xjli.-*LJl
: j

iS+^ (d* ?) JU$j 1^5^^ Osa.Lw>j his poems the title of i^*** ^laif.
a Saqiy-namah.
Cjabuhy.

an(j

g ave to the collection of

all

Aqa Qddiq

is

the author of

Q&mit (in one copy Qdyib) was a merchant

who came under

'alam-

gyr to India and wrote a short Dywan.

Myr Dhiyd
.Hajy

aldyn Dihlawy the author saw him at the beginning of

Talib Xmoly.

'alamgyr's reign.

Tabyby (Tabsy ?) a fufy.

Tdhir iJosayny came towards the end of Jahan-

Myr Mo/janimad
Molla Toghrd.

gyr' s reign to India.

He

was a wealthy merchant.

is

His prose

much

admired.

He

wrote an elegant

essay on Kashmyr.

Myrza Nitzam aldyn Tal? a

sold the
Wjji* of

friend of the author.

it is

Tzohury Tarshyzy resided at Byjapur,

said that he copied

and

Eawdhat alcafa one hundred times, he is the author of cIj^ e)'>^ and ^H^Lh' jjfi these three prose treatises are

dedicated to Ibrahym 'adil-shah and he dedicated a **ti

^^

to

collected one hundred and twenty Saqiy-namahs and that of Tzohury was the best among them.
"orfy

Burhan Mtzam almulk.

Himmat Khan

Shyrazy died at Lahor in 999 at an age of thirty-six years.

for this date is isj

The chronogram

j^ ^y C^
]

is***j^

***'.

NO.

13.]

SAR-KHU'SH.
thirty years after his death
it

113

More than

Myr

abir Ispahany dis-

interred his body and buried

at

Mashhad.

Myan
oj,

^m

Nacir 'alyy died at Dilly in 1108.

^/(xj

The chronogram

is

^1p

jf.

'atzyma Nayshaptiry has never visited India.

Shaykh 'abd
Molla 'alyy

al'azyz Hzzat.

Qommy

has never visited India.

'dmil a pupil of ayib.

Khwajah 'abd Allah

'irfdn a mystic.

Mohammad

Tahir Qhanyy of Kashmyr.

'<mf Lahory left a Dywan. His takhalluc is a chro-

nogram (1060)

for the beginning of his poetical career, his

Dywan

was arranged by Myrza

Mohammad
Ghdfil

'alyy Mdhir.

/Zajy

Myr Burhan Ghorury. Mohammad Isma'yl

was a most distinguished

calli-

graph and came from Mazanderan to India.

Ghanymat a native of India wrote a short Dywan and a Mathnawy. Shaykh Mohammad MoAsin Fdniy of Kashmyr was a Qufy and a friend of Dara Shikoh left a Dywan and a Mathnawy.
Mirza Fagyhy.

Aqa Mohammad Ibrahym Fayadhdn a son of Aqa Mohammad IZbsayn Ndjiy was alive in 1093. He was an excellent calligraph
and an elegant writer both in prose and poetry.
Mirza (Myr
?)

Ghiyath aldyn Mancur Fikrat came to India under

five

'alamgyr and obtained the rank of

'abd al-Eazzaq Fayyddh.

hundred.
Fdris.

Farqy (Fawqy ?).

talent.

Fawjy a poet of Bengal, yet not without

Prince Dara Shikoh Qddiry
left

besides

many

writings on ^ufism

a short Dywan.

Shahjahan.
epic

#ajy Mohammad- Jan Qodsy the king of poets during the reign of He described the exploits of this emperor in a beautiful
visited

poem called c^t^^* **1>jA6. Qdsim Dywanah Mashhady a pupil of Myrza ayib has not Qdni\ Nawab Qdsim Khan. India. Mohammad Yiisof Qadym died very young. Khwajah (Myr ?) Kaldn. Abu Mib Kalym d. 1061.
Shaykh Sa'd Allah Gulshan was
'abd al-RaAym
in Grujrat in 1093.

Deccan.

Kukam (in Myr Ldmi\

'alyy

one copy Kamgu) Kashmyry died in the

Mo'izz aldyn
d.

Musawy

d.

1101.

Myr Mo/iammad

Mdhir

1089.

114

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

iZakym Eokna Masyh a contemporary of Jahangyr. Shaykh Sa'd Allah Masyhy Panypaty. Ma?y (Moghy ? or Moghniy ?) ^ Kashmyry. ali& Beg Molham, the author made his acquaintance

at

Agra.

Mayiy

^ was

a Kalal that

is

to say of a low caste which

was

employed as Porter and Chob-dars, he nourished under Jahangyr.

Molla Mofyd Balkhy came to India at the beginning of 'alamgyr's
reign and died at Multan in 1090.

The chronogram of

his death is

ZjM

(J

s^. **&* iU.

Morfim Hakkak Shyrazy composed a poem containing a tion of Agra, died during the commencement of 'alamgyr's
Mashhur.

descripreign.

Myrza Ma? gum Kashy. Myrza Moqym. Myrza Qotb aldyn Mdyil d. in 1108 eight days after Myan Nacir Majday Mungif. 'alyy.

Akhund Mohammad Baqir had

reign.

first

the takhalluc of Mondsib

subsequently that of Moshtdq died in the beginning of 'alamgyr's

Molla Malik

Qommy

resided at Byjapur.

Molla Moshriqy.

Molla Natzyry of Nayshapur a panegyrist of 'abd al-Ba^ym Khankhanan.

There was another poet who had the same takhalluc, he

it.

gave him ten thousand Eupees that he might change

Nddim Gylany. Molla Naw'y wrote a Saqiy-namah in praise of the Khankhanan. He is also the author of a Mathnawy called j' *^J^*. Ndtzim Herawy the author of a ^- jj t-^ has never visited
India.

Myr Najdt has been in Persia and is a good poet. Xqa Mohammad IZbsayn Ndjiy a brother of Mohammad Isma'yl
was an admirable calligraph, and in his old age he was admitted

G-hafil

to the society of 'alamgyr.

Ndzuky.

^Talib

Nagyb.

Myr

Najdbat a brother of

Myr
e.

Siyadat.

Ndtiq.

Molla Nisbaty of Thaneser was a good poet, in Eekhtah he used

the takhalluc of Nis-batty
i.

the moon.

Qadhiy Nury a contemporary of Jahangyr.

Myrza Tahir Wahyd was a

poets of the age.

friend of Qayib an d one

f the greatest

scribed in a

Eafy' Wtiitz Qazwyny resides at Ispahan. He deMathnawy the war of Shah 'abbas with Tilam Khan, and compiled the sayings of the Imams in a most elegant work to which he gave the title of o^pWlrt' he is also the author of a Dywan.

Mohammad

No.

14.]

shyr kha'n lo'dy.

115

Myrza .Hasan Beg Wdthiq returned

'alamgyr's reign.

to Persia at the beginning of

to Bengal.

Darwysh Wdlih went

Ikhlac

Myan Mohammad

Wdmiq

a converted

Hindu embraced

the Islam in 22 of the reign of 'alamgyr.

Molla Walyy.

'abd al-WaAid Wahshat of Thaneser was in 1093 a young man.

Mohammad 'ashiq Himmat was in 1093 a young man. Mohammad Hdshim was a calligraph and the father-in-law
Sarkhiish.

of

Myr Yahyd Kashy was a poet of Shahjahan who gave him

compose a
death
is *l*
A*>lj_8l-<.ilj.

orders to
his

He

died in 1074.

The chronogram of

&h> ^j*^ ^J* y$- c?^* C5^'

(14)

l?^ dj~> U^auJ

Amjad Khan
(the

Jl^Wy
is

(P.)

Mirror of imagination by Shyr Khan Lody son of

'alyy
26.)

name

of the author

in page

He

informs us in the postscript that he lost his

father in A.

H. 1084, and three years

after,

he

lost his

brother

who

died in the mountains of Kabul, he also

gives us the date

that the title
or veil
(i. e.

when he composed

this

book

in saying

is

a chronogram, if

you remove the pardah

It is dedicated to

131

321 1=1 102).

and besides
it

Shah-

jahan and contains an account of the most celebrated

Persian poets
;

treats
:

on almost every
Music, Medicine,
is

science cultivated

by the Musalmans

cosmography, oneirocritic, talismans, &c. at the end

chapter containing notices of poetesses.

Beginning

);

?\j~

(J

<jk> J^jy.

<ajo

y cfe

^1

Printed at Calcutta in 1831, 8vo. 543 pp. Lithographed at Bareilly

in 1848.

MSS.

copies are frequent,

some of them are abridgments.

Q 2

116

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
^ft-

[CHAP.

I.

(15)

^Ul

(P.)

The heaven

of composition being a

rhymed abridg-

ment of Dawlat-shah by Lutf Allah Mo/zammad MohanWe are informed in the preface (which dis b. A^mad.
has twelve distiches) that Fayidhy

^-^^ Kirmany

ren-

dered the Tadzkirah of Dawlat-shah in Persian verses at

the time of
ginal,

Akbar and altered the division of the orimaking ten periods o&^k instead of seven Luff
;

Allah

Mohammad who was

the

a contemporary of

Awrangzeb
<g)jt

remodelled this version and added two periods

t0

make

number correspond with the

it,
;

signs of the zodiac

title.

and in allusion to

he gave

it

the above

About 250
a poet.

verses

every verse contains the

name

of

First verse

A copy bound with other books is in the Tdpkhanah.

I give here the
1

2th chap, as a specimen.

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^Li. %^j\x Ul|
{

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.

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jjUL

ual* &u^te>
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^-i^j

^sMtjs^

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c*jUs

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j%&

J**** y

c& j*

(**j if* 1*

e&

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oir*' J' **y.j

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dilft-b

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No.

16.]

HAMYSHAH
<>aa.
e<

BAHa'r.

117

(16)

l/J^ ^jP^I

p^iJuJUJjU Ai^A
name
title

(P.)

Eternal Spring by a Khatry of the

of Kishen

Chand whose takhalluc

is

Ikhlac.

The

multiplied by

two gives the date of the compilation,

the resort of the learned.

viz. 1136.

The

author was a son of Achal-Das of Dilly whose house was

During

his father's life-time

he learned Karad-bazy

(a

kind of fencing called Bakayty

death he applied himself to
1 1

3^

in

Urdu)

after his

poetry.

He died under A^mad Shah, reigned

flourished (in India)

60 to

1 1

67.

It contains, in alphabetical order,

an account of about

200 poets who

1131.

from the time of

Shah, A. H.

Jahangyr to the accession of

Two

Mohammad

copies are in the Tdpkhanah, 12mo.

is

300 pages, 10

lines.

very good copy

in possession of

Mr. Hall.

First line

Table of contents

(this list

may

be considered as a con-

tinuation of the one, p. 109 with several repetitions.)

Amyn Khan Anjdm

Amyr
Myrza
Ilahy.
Jalal

a son of the JNawab

Amyr Khan.

Asyr

d.

1040, used to compose his verses in a state of

intoxication.

Molla Aly

Myrza Isma'yl Tmd of Ispahan. of Persia, has not come to India.

also the

Myrza Arjumand Azdd a son of 'abd al-Grhanyy Beg, has

takhalluc of Jonun.

Awjy

of Persia, a contemporary of Shahjahan.

Myr

Baqir Ishrdq seems to have been alive in 1136.

Molla Sayyid A7*san Tjdd wrote the history of the reign of Farrokhsiyar in very elegant prose.

Died in 1131 or soon

after.

Myr Iman

aldyn Iksyr

is

a clever physician.

Shafy'ayiy Athar was blind, and has never visited India.

Myrza Ibrahym Adham a son

put to death.

of

Myrza Eadhyy Artymany a Sayyid

came to India under Shahjahan, was very insolent and was therefore

118
Mo'azzaz

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Khan Afsar Mohammad
first

[CHAP.

I.

to India and died in Bengal.

Beg came from Ispahan Intikhdby Wirdy Beg died young.

'alyy
librarian of 'alyy

Yul Quly Beg Anysy was

'abd al-Ra&ym.

Quly Khan
a

at

Herat, then he came to India, and was patronized by the Khankhanan

He
Siraj

died at Burhanpur and

left

Dywan and

Mathnawy.

aldyn A'rzu composed a large Dywan.

Khanzaman Anidny son of Mohabat Khan a pupil of Murshid, who flourished under Shahjahan. Arshada was a native of India. Beg JJnsy resided at Herat. Was, as a prisoner of war, Isma'yl
carried to

Turan by 'abd Allah Khan, came to India and was patro-

nized by the

Khankhanan 'abd al-RaAym.

Mohammad Sa'yd Tjdz. Myrza Mohammad Ahsan is alive. Myr Ashhy Qommy a Taba^aba Sayyid d. at Agra in 972, left Qacydahs, two Dywans of Grhazal and one Dywan of humoristic poetry.
Shah Ajiryn Lahory was
Tzafar
alive in 1136.

Asyry Tazy

Khan Ahsan was governor of Kashmyr left a Dywan. his name was Amyr Qadhiy. He died in 982. Mohammad Qadiq Ilqd used to instruct Hindu boys, is alive. In' ay at Khan Aslma a son of Tzafar Khan A7jsan. Wrote a Dywan
b.

and a history of thirty years of Shahjahan' s reign.

Myr Ahsany

Myr

Abu-1-Farti Miisawy was born at Tabalah

left

near Labor and died in 1011

t^jj^j
Kanboh

*t*j

i^ isy&o
Moradabad.
India.

Grholam Mocfafa Insdn of the

tribe of

Molla Atzhary.

He

and

his father

had come to

Was

contemporary of Jahangyr.

Mohammad Ibrahym
Khan.

Ing&f was a pupil of Myrza Mo'izz

Musawy

'abd al'azyz Yjdd a pupil of Bydil.

Was

probably alive in 1136.

Asad Beg Asad

'iwadh

flourished under Jahangyr.

'abd al-Basul Istighna.

came under Jahangyr to India. Wrote elegant prose and was a good calligraph. He was Munshiy of Shahjahan. Mawlana Anwar Nur Mo7*aminad was a native of India.

Beg

IJcsyr

A' Id Tiirany.
Molla

Mohammad

Sa'yd Ashraf came under 'alamgyr to India and

alnisa

was patronized by Zyb

Begam.
pupil of Mortadha

Myrza Mo/iammad Raby' Anjab Ispahany a Quly Beg.

NO.

16.]

HAMYSHAH

BAHA'r.

119
Dilly.

Achat Das a Khatry the father of the author resided at

Ikhldc a pupil of 'abd al-G-hanyy
of the Tadzkirah under notice.

Beg Qahul and the author

Shah Walyy Allah Ishtiydq

Sirhindy

is

a grandson of Shaykh Afanad

who was

called /Zadhrat

and a pupil of Qabul.

of Grhazal has more than 100,000

'abd al-Qadir By-dil, his

verses,

Dywan

and besides he has written a Dywan of Qacydahs and a Dywan

is also

of Buba'ys and several Mathnawies, he

the author of a prose

work

called j**** j lf

Shaykh 'abd al-Salam Paydmy nourished under Jahangyr and went

towards the end of his career to the Deccan.
Sharaf aldyn Paydm.
'abd al-Baqiy Bdqiy.

Shah Bahjata was a Darwysh.

Bafy'

JPayrawy Sawajy

Khan Bddzil author of the iZamlahe -ETaydary. Amyr Beg nourished under Shahjahan. Hvjy Bynd is a merchant of Grujrat.
Bynish lived
at Kashmyr. Mawlana Baqdyiy d. 1009. Sawamy Bhobat Bay By-ghamm a Khatry resided at Pathan near

Jammu

in the Panjab, he translated from the

Hindee

(Sanscrit) the

Prabodha Chand (Chandrodaya) Natak, a very curious work on Theosophy into Persian, and dedicated
it

as well as several other treatises

on ufism to Narayan Chand.

I/de

Bhan Bahdr

a pupil of the author of this Tadzkirah.

Molla Jamy By-Khud a contemporary of Shahjahan.

Baydnd Myrza Mahdiy visited India and returned to Persia. Bay Chand Bhan Brahman was the most distinguished Hindu since the time of Tymur.

Bazmy a contemporary of Jahangyr. Myrza Abu Torab Baydhd a companion of the Amyr alomara
Dzii-1-Piqar

Khan, became blind towards the end of

to Shohrat in India.

his

life.

Myrza Mo^sin Tdthyr (Tdshyr ?) Wazyr

sent his

of the Padshah of Yazd,

Dywan

Tajalliy 'alyy Bidha.

Myr

Tashbyhy 'alyy Akbar son of Shah

Mohammad Kashy
down.

flou-

rished under Jahangyr at Lahdr.

accessible

He

was an eccentric and un-

man, and wrote few of

his verses

He

died at the

age of seventy.

Tanhd 'abd al-Layf Khan. Myrza 'ajam Quly Turkman was of Persian (Shyraz)

origin,

but

was born in India.

120

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
/Zbsayn Tajalliy Kashany died
at

[CHAP.
AAmadabad

I.

Mohammad

in

Gujrat in 1090, aged twenty-seven years.

Molla JSa^mat Allah TamJcyn was in 1136 residing at Kashmyr.

Myrza Mohammad

'alyy

Tamannd

flourished under Parrokhsiyar.

Hafitz Jamal Taldsh.

Xgha 'abd al'alyy Tahsyn is a grandson of Jiiya. Myrza PatA 'alyy Taskyn, he was probably alive in 1136.
Takym Mohammad Sa'yd
left

Qommy TanM physician of Shah 'abbas,

Dywan.

Ray Manoher Tawsany, Akbar gave him the title of Myrza. Myr Mofakhir (Sar-khiish writes Tafakhor) Hosayn Thdqih resided
in Sirhind.

Myr Sayyid Mohammad Thdqih a pupil of Myr Tahir 'alawy. Mohammad iZbsayn Thandyiy Mashhady came to India under
Akbar and died in 996, the chronogram is *&** )9*&*, an epic poem called j*i>~* a- but did not complete
thick

He commenced it. He left a

Dywan.

Myr Mohammad

Afdhal Thdbit was alive in 1136.

Niir aldyn Jahangyr Padshah born in 977, succeeded to the throne

on Thursday the 11th Jumada

II. 1014, died

28th of afar 1037.

Myr MoAammad Ja'far Jorat. Mohammad 'alyy Beg Jism left

Myrza
Shyryn.
Ja'far

a Dywan.

Beg

Ja'far had the title of Acaf Khan.

is

He

died in

1212, the chronogram

e^ uMj

** **>.

He

left

a Khosraw

Myrza Darab Juyd

resided in

Kashmyr.
illustrations to books.
killed.

Sayyid 'alyy Juddyiy Tabryzy visited India under Akbar, and was

employed in the Imperial library in painting

Padshah Quly Jadzby a contemporary of Jahangyr was

Myrza Mohammad Ayyiib Jawdat. Jashany Lahdry Gholam 'alyy flourished under Jahangyr. Khwajah Mohammad Maqcud JdmV a pupil of 'abd al-Grhanyy Beg Qabiil resided in Kashmyr.
Ja'far had the
title

of Allah

Wirdy Khan,

left

a short Dywan.
to

JZakym Uddziq was born

at Pat7ipur

and rose under Shahjahan

the rank of three thousand with a salary of 20,000 Rupees a year.

Yadgar Beg ~Kalaty of Turan.

Myrza Isma'yl

~&ijdb

came

to India under 'alamgyr.

first

MoAammad
luc of Qdbil.

.Hayat Hadhrat was alive in 1136, had

the takhal-

NO.

16.]

HAMYSHAH

BAHA'll.

121
Jiiya, died at

Myrza Mahdiy
Dilly.

llojjat a cousin of

Myrza Darab
in

Mo7iammad

'alyy resided at
first

Kashmyr and was

1136 past thirty

years of age, had

the takhalluc of TaMyf, then of Masy\\d and

is

then of Hashmat ; he

a pupil of 'abd al-Ghanyy

resided at Gujrat.

Beg Qabul.

Mohammad Beg Haqyqy

Haydty Grylany was much given to pleasure, completed by order

of Shahjahan the Toghluq-namah of
defective.

Amyr Khosraw

which was

He
it.

did

it

so well that Shahjahan

had him weighed up

in gold for

Hashmaty a
of the Jenab.

Shed-Bam Hat/yd a pupil of By-dil has written a Dywan. friend of Molla Shayda left a Dywan.
aldyn Ispahany Jlozny
d.

Mohammad Taqyy

in

989 on the banks

Myr Kamzah Tashkandy was

Tashkand.

the son of the king of merchants of

He came
is

to India

and became, when he got

*i.

old,

com-

pletely deaf,

he was skilled in making chronograms.

o*ij*?
Zj^} **

One

of his

chronograms

p*j\

\j

The numerical value of the

meaning " write nine three
[JNacir 'alyy.

letters of this sentence as well as the

times" give 999.

Shaykh

MaAmud Hayrdn
is

resided at Sirhind and was a pupil of

Hamdy Kashmyry was

chronogram

a learned man.

He

died in 1018, the

^&tf H

**"

Sayf Allah 'alawy Hazyny a contemporary of Jahangyr studied

diligently the ancient poets.

Shaykh Hasan Qorayshy Kalpy

d. in

989, the chronogram

is

Sayyid iZbsayn Klidlig came to India during the reign of 'alamgyr

and obtained the

title

of Imtiyaz

Khan.

Sipah Salar Khankhanan 'abd al-Ba^ym a son of Bayram

Khan

was born on the 14th Qafar qq^

Klialyl was in the service of

an(j died, at Dilly in 1032.

alnisa

Zyb

Begam and arranged her

compositions, he wrote elegant prose and poetry.

Myr Khosrawy

Qayiny a contemporary of Jahangyr.

Myrza Fadhl Allah Khushtar a son of Sar-khush was alive in 1136. Shukr Allah Khan Khdksdr son-in-law of 'aqil Khan Bazy wrote a commentary on Jalal aldyn Bumy's Mathnawy. Mohammad iZaydar Herawy Khigdly, a contemporary of Jahangyr.
It

122

PERSIAN TADZKIItAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Jamal aldyn Khdwary a native of Gylan came to India in 1011.

Molla Dana was engaged in Farrokhsiyar's reign with Natzim

Khan, who
Shah-namah.

is

usually called 'abd al-Ea7*ym Fdrigh, in copying the

Bakhhj Ispahany.
of

Myrza Dawiid

Mashhad a contemporary

of Tahir

Wa^yd.
much, and

Shah Isma'yl Dzabyh was born resided for some time in India.

in Persia, travelled

Mawlana Imam aldyn Biyddhy

called

is

a very learned

man and

usually

Imam al-Badhyy he
occasionally verses

is

a native of Labor and resided at Dilly.

His father Lutf Allah Mohandis was a great Mathematician and

made
was

in the capacity of a poet he used the

takhalluc Mohandis.
also a

The

father nourished under Akbar.

Eiyady

good Mathematician and his books on this science were

It seems that he

much

in vogue in schools.

was

alive in 1136.

One

of his pupils wrote a commentary on the Almegest.

Mohammad Myr Zaman Bdsihh. Sayyid Jalal Bidhdyiy d. 1057. Myr Mohammad 'alyy Bdyih is a Qalandar of Sialkot. Myr Eadhyy Danish a Sayyid of Mashhad came to India under
Shahjahan.

Arshad
.Hasan

'alyy Basfyiy

was well versed in Persian

literature

and

seems to have been

alive in 1136.

He was a pupil of Myan

at
service of Shahjahan.

Shah Bhyk.

Beg Bafy'

resided

first

Mashhad, and thence he came

in 1064 to India,
.

and entered the

Molla 'abd al-Eashyd the author of the Farhange Eashydy which

he dedicated to Shahjahan, he wrote a chronogram on the accession

of Shahjahan.

The author
it

takes occasion to quote from the history of

Shahjahan a passage containing a statement of the expenses of the

palace of Dilly,
cost sixty lakhs of Eupees, viz.
;

Shah MaAall with

the golden roof fourteen lakhs

Imtiyaz Ma^all, which contains the

king's sleeping apartment, kitchen and out-offices, five and a half

lakhs;

The Dawlat-khanah Khac

(I suppose

what

is

now

called

the

Dywan) and the Dawlat-khanah 'am two and

six lakhs
;

a half lakhs;

The bath and ITayat-bakhsh

seven lakhs
;

the palace of the

;

women

the Bazar of the palace four lakhs

the

wall and

ditch round the palace which has 100,000 cubits in circumference,

and

is

double as large as that of Agra, twenty-one lakhs of Eupees.

of Dilly cost ten lakhs of Eupees.

The Jami' masjid

These build1852 A. D.

ings would cost at least five times as

much

in our days,

NO.

16.]

HAMYSHAH

BAHa'r.

123

Myr //aydar Kashy Raftfy a contemporary of Paydhy, went from India on a pilgrimage to Makkah thence to Persia and returned
to India.

Myrza Radhyy Artymany the

imitated the

father of

Myrza Ibrahym Adham.

Sliaykh Sa'd aldyn Khafiy Rihdyiy a mystic, left a

Dywan and

Khamsah

of Nitzamy.

Myrza Rostam Qandahary.

flourished

Myr

'abd al-Eazzaq

Tazdy Rasmy

under Jahangyr and

spent twenty years in India in the garb of a Darwysh.

is

Myrza Yzad-bakhsh Rasa d. in 1119, the chronogram of his death oVis:* <j^ jl **> ^V Mawlana WaAyd Rawdny resided at Agra.

Mohammad Ridhd Kashmyry. Myr 'askary Razy 'aqil Khan

of Eatan and Padinawat.

wrote besides the Moraqqa' also

jj&xJiCiUxJ and typr) oi^i' and *J'a#j

The ij^\
for

* which contains the loves ol^ is properly speaking the

work of Shaykh
arranged
in 1108..
it.

B urban

aldyn the spiritual guide of Eazy, but Eazy

Eazy was
b. Grhayiir

many

years ubahdar of Dilly and died

Zamdn Reg
and

Beg Kabuly
he was an

his title

was Mohabat Khan

Zamdnd.

his takhalluc Susany,

Amyr

of Jahangyr.

Mawlana

Zuldly.
'alyy

Zakyy Hamadany.

Myrza Zahid

Shahe Bander Sakha a poet of Persia.

Myr Jamyl Suzy flourished under 'alamgyr and held a Man9ab. Shaykh Mohammad Sa'yd Qorayshy was when young a companion
of Sultan Murad-bakhsh.
.

Myr

'abd al-Qamad Sokhon was alive in 1136.

Sayyid Qalabat

Khan Mojahid-jang

Sayyid was commissary of

ordinance under Farrokhsiyar.

Mohammad Hashim
Ibrahym Khan
'adil

Sanjar was for some time imprisoned by Akbar

and went subsequently to the Deccan, where he was well received by

Shah.
to India.

Aqa Farydun iZbsayn Sdbiq came under 'alamgyr

Mohammad
in

'alam Sorury a (Sarwary?) of the time of Jahangyr.

to India under Shahjahan.
is

Mo7*ammad Quly Salym came

Died

Kashmyr

in

1057 the chronogram

Molla
Sdti*

&\y) Sdmiry Tabryzy contemalive in 1136.

porary of Jahangyr.

Kashmyry was

Myrza Mohammad Afdhal Sar-k7iush* Mohammad Ghadhanfar Syry (Sayry ?) was bom
brought up at Herat.

at

Khaf and

R 2

124

PEKSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
life

[CHAP.
In 1066

I.

Sdlik Yazdy spent part of his

at

Golcondah.

lie

entered the service of Shahjahan.

Mohammad AAsan SdmV

was
alive in 1136.

of India had

first

the takhalluc of
d. at

'islirat

'abd al-Khaliq Samandar

Lahor in 1016.

Myr

Sayyid 'alyy Sayyid has never visited India.

Was

a comtem-

porary of Myrza Mo'izz.

Sayyid Sa'd aldyn a soldier, has not yet chosen a takhalluc.

Sa'yd Kfidn Multany was in the service of Shahjahan.

'abd Allah Sihry was born and educated at Agra, was a good
calli-

graph,

is

dead.

Sdyird

Mashhady has not

visited India.

Abu Mo/jaminad
Sa'yday

Sardby born and educated at Sialkot.

He

was a

contemporary of Jahangyr.

Arslan Beg Sipdhy.

Gyldny was a very good calligraph and enjoyed, during

title

the reign of Jahangyr and Shahjahan, the

of By-Badal

Khan

and the

office

of superintendent over the emperor's goldsmiths.

to Dilly

Khwajah 'abd Allah Sdmiy came from Lahor

temporary of the author, he
is

was a con-

the author of a thick Dywan.

Myr

Jalal aldyn Siyddat resided at Lahor.

Qazwyny flourished under Shahjahan. Nawab Ifakym almulk Farrokhshahy this is

Sdlih

the

title

of Shaykh

Jfosayn 'arab whose takhalluc

is

Shohrat he was

alive in 1136.

Molla Shaydd

born at Fat^piir Sykry, he flourished under

left

Jahangyr and Shahjahan and died in Kashmyr,

of about

Mathnawy

12,000 verses in the style of the Makhzan alasrar of

It begins (***

Nitzamy.

o^ mj^jm $*/of ^J\ ^a^Jl aUi k**,

|

Shaivkat Bokharayiy was probably alive in 1136.

Shdpur Bazy a contemporary of Jahangyr.

Gul Mohammad Shd'ir a pupil of By-dil was probably alive in Shddamdn an Afghan flourished 1136. Yiisof Beg Shdyiq.
under Shahjahan and 'alamgyr.
SJiiJcyby

ShiTcyb has never visited India.

a contemporary of Jahangyr.
first

Sharyf Kashy was

merchant
left

a Qalandar and turned afterwards a

a Dywan.

Shdh Shahydd.

Myr Shawqy was

Mo7iammad

a mystical poet.

JETasan

Jawnpury Shdddby.
the
title

Shabdby a brother of Sardby.

Qamar aldyn who had

of

Mtzam almulk and the takhalluc

Dywan.

of Shdlcir, was alive in 1136, has written a

NO.

16.]

HAMYSHAH

BAHa'R.

125

Mawlana Shoguny.
Shaykh Niir aldyn Shayiq was
pupil of
calligraph.

He

was in

this art a

Abu

al-Ma'aliy.

He

was

alive in 1136.

Myr Ya^ya

Shindsd.

Myrza Mo/iammad

'alyy

Tabryzy

(jdyib
title

came under Shahjahan to India and obtained a Mancab and the of Mosta'idd Khan, he left more than 300,000 verses.
Shaykh adr aldyn Nayshapury
(]ahbdyiy nourished
is

man

of

some learning.

under Shahjahan.
infidelity, d.

Qabvhy Chaghatay a mystic, and suspected of

-Hajy

973.

Mohammad

Qadiq Qdmit a merchant, came to India under

'alamgyr and wrote a Dywan.

Mawlana

/ala aldyn

Sawajy Cayrafy came from the

reign.

'iraq to
is

India

by the way of the Deccan during Akbar's

of a Dywan.

He

the author

2Zftkym Katzim had the

(jdhib.

title MasyA albayan and the takhalluc of Mo7*ammad Myrak Qdlihy flourished under Jahangyr.
d.

Qafdyiy was educated at Kalpy

1016.

Myr

Qaydy came in 1064 from Ispahan to India.

afyy aldyn Ispahany Cafyy flourished under Jahangyr.

Mohammad
Dhamyr.

'ysa fyfyry Jawnpiiry

committed suicide in 1018.

Molla Toyhrd was originally of Mashhad but resided in Kashmyr.

Myr 'abd al'alyy Sabzwary Tali* a nephew and pupil of Sayyid Mohammad Thaqib. Mohammad Ibrahym Kashmyry Tolu'y flourished under Jahangyr.
Shah Tdhir of the Deccan.

Myrza iZasan Tirmidzy

chronogram
is

Tdlib an
ta$

ck v^^=

Amyr ^*1 cAr^S

4

of
left

Akbar
a

d.

1018 the

Dywan and two

Mathnawies ^j^-^j V"^3 ^ \JZ&J H***'. Nawazish Khan Bumy Tali' wrote occasionally poetry.
Tdlib

Amoly the king of poets under Jahangyr

settled in

d.

1035.
in 988 from

Molla Tzohury Tarshyzy Nur aldyn

Mohammad came
king 'alyy
'adil

Khorasan to the Deccan, he

daughter of Mawlana Malik
high favours upon him
;

AAmadnagar and married the

Shdh conferred

Qommy

when he

sent his Saqiynamah to

Burhan
several

Nitzam almulk

in JZaydarabad, he

made him a present of

elephants laden with goods and money, the messenger in charge

asked him for a receipt, and he wrote the laconical words &*J> /*^~3

126

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
made
said
it

[CHAP.

I.

f&jf ^xLj " they have

or accepted it."
affray.

over to me, and I have thanked for

it,

It

is

he and his father-in-law were killed in an

Mawlana
Sykry.
left

'orfy Shyrazy, his

name was Khwajah 9 aydy ne

?

lived at

A^madnagar with Tzohiiry

Died
at

Qommy

and subsequently at Fat&piir

an age of 35

(or 36) years in

viz.

999 at Lahor, and

Dywan and two Mathnawies,

i^tyt^ jj~*>
left

and^*l

&y=?

but the latter remained incomplete, he also

a prose work called

a^aaj dJUj in which he addresses his ownself.

Myan
Myrza

JNacir 'alyy

born at Lahor

d.

1108 on the 6th Eamadhan.

Abii-1-Ma'aliy \ttiy had under Farrokhsiyar the title of

is

"Wizarat Khan,

the author of a Dywan.

Myr

Tahir 'alawy came under 'alamgyr from Persia to Kashmyr,

and settled there.

Sayyid

Mohammad

Najafy Htaby was for a long time imprisoned

by Akbar in Gwalyar, when released he went to the Deccan.

left a Dywan. Shaykh 'abd

He

al'azyz 'izzat nourished

under 'alamgyr.

Shaykh

'aa

Allah 'atd a pupil of By-dil, resided at Amrohah,

is

he died at Dilly in 1135 at the age of forty, the chronogram

.flaky

m Mohammad

.Hasan Shyrazy 'drif was two years impri'dmil a pupil of ^ayib.

in 1100.

soned by order of Jahangyr.

Khwajah 'abd al-Ba^ym 'dbid was alive at Dilly Molla 'alyy Quly Ispahany never visited India.
'ala

aldyn a

9 ufy was

ver7 fn(l f Indian music.

'alyy 'atzym 'atzym a son of

Myan

Nacir 'alyy wrote a small

Dywan.
'

Sayyid Luf Allah

'dpiy

nourished under 'alamgyr.

Mirny Shyrazy was blind.

Myrza 'alyy Quly Khan was alive in 1136. Mohammad Hashim 'djiz is a well educated man. 'abd al'azyzy (sic) Jawnpury 'azyzy a learned man flourished under
Jahangyr.

Myrza
in 1136.
'orujy

Ja'far

'dshiq

wrote chiefly satyres, was probably alive

was of noble

birth,

mathnawy called ( ?j[^l Makhzane asrar and a Dywan.

Left a

and was one of the courtiers of Jahangyr. &*m in the measure of the ) j\j)

No.

16.]

HAMYSHAH

BAHa'R.

127

Ni'mat Khan 'dily had under Bahadurshah the title of Danishmand Khan. "Wrote much in prose and verse and in Persian and
Arabic.

He

died in the third year of Bahadurshah' s reign

1120.

Khwajah Mo'yn aldyn Ghdziy held a high office. Molla Tahir Ghanyy of Kashmyr died very young and left a Dywan. 'alyy Eidha Mashhady Ghazzdly, Akbar gave him the title of king He died at Grujrat 980, and left a Dywan of near one of poets.
hundred thousand verses, and the following prose works and oUs^l o^sr-^ on Qufism e>Uj&f| S[^ on ethics.
;

jLr-'

*W

Shaykh Mohammad Akram Ghanymat of Ganjah in the Panjab.

He

was a Qadirian ufy and a contemporary of

Easikh.

Myr Mohammad
contain-

Zaman

Besides a short

Dywan he

left

Mathnawy

ing an account of the loves of 'azyz and Shahyd, and bearing the

name, of

<j^ Myrza Abu

-&H>i.

Torab Ghobdr was

alive in 1136.

Molla MoAsin Fdniy of Kashmyr was a friend of Dara Shikdh.

He

was a very learned man and left a Dywan. Shaykh Abu-1-Faydh Faydhy born in 954, died on Sunday the 10th 9 afar 1004. His father Shaykh Mobarik Nagawy who d. 1001, wrote a commentary on the Qoran entitled a)j^\ (^Uj ^*>,
it is

in four volumes,
left

and

is

nearly as large as the Tafsyr Kabyr.

Faydhy

besides other works the

fUV'k >" which

|

is

commen-

tary on the Qoran without diacritical points, he had a library of

twelve thousand volumes most of which were autographs.

Fdtimah Qawwalah a lady of Ispahan.

Fagyhy.

'arif

Myrza Abu-1-Fat# Sabzwary Fdtih a nephew of Myrza" /Zbsayn, came from Ispahan to India, and returned after some years to
home.
of Siyadat resided mostly at Lahdr.

his

Myr Ahmad Fdyiq a brother Was probably alive in 1136.

Farhat Kashmyry was

alive in 1136.

Forughy Kashmyry

d.

1077.
a nephew of
9

Myrza Nadir alzaman Fagyk

Shaykh Mohammad Fdyiz
"Was probably
alive in

Amyn Mo7iammad 'irfdn.

Mohammad
Sa'yd Fjdz.

yS

a pupil of

1136 and had written a short Dywan.

of Ispahan

Myrza Ghiyath aldyn Manciir Fikrat

'alamgyr to India.

came under

Mohammad Beg Furgat

has never visited India.

128

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
a son of

[CHAP.

I.

Mohammad Ibrahym Fayadhdn

N&jiy.

Aqa Mo/^ammad iZbsayn

Fdyidh 'abhary was probably

alive in 1136.

Mohammad Dara Shikoh Qddiry a son of Shabjahan by Arjumand Banu Momtaz-Ma^all was born on Monday the 30th (Salkh) of
Cafar 1024 at Ajmyr, was put to death in the night of Thursday

22nd Dzu-Uajj 1069

ytin's

at

an age of 46 years.
Dilly.

He

was buried in Hunia-

Mousoleum near
|

He
\

Dywan,

WiK

&**-*

U-ij^ ^^j

among other works a v>j\*)\ oILa ^j^sVi >x*

left
|

Qodsy of Mashhad came in 1041 to India and was favourably received by the emperor, he is the author of j&& Li^b olfo* l *li and other works.
iZajy

Mohammad Khan

Myrza 'abd al-Grhanyy Beg Qabul a

ftify is a pupil of Juyd.

alive in 1136.

Qdsim Dywanah a pupil of Qdyib was probably

Mo7jammad Panah
Myrza
Talib

Qdbil was probably alive in 1136.

Qddir.

Qasim Khan Qdsim a courtier of Jahangyr.

Kalym was born

his death is

The chronogram of

ij** j^ =1061. Shaykh Sa'd Allah Gulshan a mystical poet who resided for some time at Dilly and left nearly one hundred thousand verses of Ghazals,
;'

in

Hamadan and
e>^J
*y.

educated in India.

he was a disciple of Shah 'abd al-A^ad Sirhindy and made with him
the pilgrimage to Makkah.

Myrza Kamran Guyd, a brother oiJuyd.

in

Shaykh 'icmat Allah Kdmil of Moradabad. Myrza Girdmy a son of 'abd al-Ghanyy Beg was a young man
1136.

Kamtar.
'alyy

GustdJch.

Karam

Beg Karam nourished under Bahadurshah.

1

Girdmy a son of Amanat Khan, who was in the service of 'alamLdmi is a good poet. gyr, left a Dywan. Molld Shah a mystical poet of Badakhshan came to Lahor, and made the acquaintance of that great Qufy Sayyid Myan Shah Myr Qalandar,

who was
was the

of Egypt,

and a

disciple of

Ibrahym Baqayiy.

Molla Shah
in

spiritual

guide of Dara Shikoh and spent the summer

at Lahor.

Kashmyr, and the winter

He

died in 1072.

Myrza Mo'izz Fitrat a man of taste, a good poet and a great patron of poets, came to India under 'alamgyr and obtained the title of Musawy Khan, the chronogram on his death is m4j LSfV <j^' j-*" . Mokhlig Kashy has never visited India, but his poetry was much
esteemed here.

NO.

16.]

HAMYSHAH

BAHA'll.
Shah afyy.

129

Myr Mohammad
Abii-1-Barakat

'alyy Matla? is a son of

Minbar (Monyr ?) died at Agra, on Saturday the 7th Rajab 1054, left about thirty thousand verses, he was also a good
prose writer.

Mohammad Nitzam Mu'jiz wrote a Dywan, was alive in 1136. Myr Mohammad Samy' Matzhar a Persian, was police-officer at Ajmyr whilst Mohammad Moqym Masyh. was Dywan of that Province. Myr A^mad Mohyy is a good poet.
Qasim Khan Mokhlig,
in
his ancestors

came from Persia and

settled

Kashmyr.

Mohammad Moqym Khan Masyh,

alive in 1136,

a mystic poet,

it

seems that he was

and had written a Dywan.

Molla Malik

Qommy.

Myr Madhush
home.

a brother of Siyddat and contemporary of 'alamgyr.

to India, but returned to his

Ma^miid Beg Turany Mahmud came

Myr Mohammad

'alyy Mdhir.

Mungif.

iZakym Rokna Masyh., an Amyr of Jahangyr. Myrza, Moqym. Maymanat Khdn Kashmyry came as a merchant to India, and
entered the service of the emperor.

"Was

alive in 1136. alive in 1136.

Anand Earn Mohhlic a pupil of By-dil, was probably Myr Abii-1-Faydh Mast was alive in 1136. Taj Beg Mamnun, Molla Mofyd Balkhy.

[in 1136.

fufy Moshtdq, a pupil of Molla AJiryn Lahory, was probably alive

Shaykh Sa'd Allah Masyhy, a friend of Molla Shay da, put the story
of

Ram and Syta in verse. Myrza Shah iZbsayn Mondsib. MoAammad Baqir had first the takhalluc of Mondsib and then
MorCim Shyrazy.
NurjaJidn

of

Moshtdq^

Begam

a wife of Jahangyr.
left

She died in 1055.

Molla Nisbaty Thanesery

a Mathnawy, in which he imitates the

Makhzan
N/rfV

alasrar.

Napyr&yiy Hamadany.

Ndtzim Herawy author of a Yusof 6 Zalykha and of a Dywan.

Kashmyry was a good poet. Myrzd Nur Allah Nozhat is a pupil

of 'abd al-Grhanyy

Beg

Qabiil.

Sayyid 'ata Allah Ndgir a pupil of Abu-1-Faydh Mast was alive in

1136.

Mohammad Ridha Niy&z was a merchant residing in Gujrat. Mohammad 7/osayn Jtfdjiy a calligraph. Ni'mat Allah Khan NVmat is a son of the paymaster of the troops of 'alamgyr. Myr Najdt of Ispahan has never visited India.
A'qa

130

PERSIAN TADZK1RAHS.
Najdhat a brother of Siyadat.

[CHAP.

I.

Myr

Molla Naitfy flourished under Jahangyr.

Nadim Gylany.
him the
title

Mohammad Yusof Ndkhat

of Sokhonwar Khan.

<**&. Farrokhsiyar gave

Natzyry Nayshapury died during the beginning of Shahjahan's

reign.

Myrza Mohammad Tahir Wahyd

flourished in Persia, at
JVahsJiy.

the beginning of the reign of 'alamgyr.

'abd al-A^ad called

Molla

My an

Gul and had the takhalluc

of Wahdat, a

son of Shaykh

A^mad
Wddhih.

Sirhindy
left

who was

called Hadhrat.

He

was

a Naqsh-bandy Ciify and

Iradat
daftars.

a short

Dywan.
a

Khan

left

a large

Dywan and

Mathnawy

in six

'abd al-Wa/ad Wahshat.

Wtiitz Qazwyny.

Bay Eamjy Hdtifa, Khatry

Farrokhsiyar.

of Ambalah, was deputy

Dywan under

Was
Khan
'aqil

alive in 1136.
b.

Hadiy

'alyy

Amyr Khan Hddiy was

alive in 1136.

alive in 1136.

Shah Yaqyn was

at Dilly in 1136.

Mohammad
whom
(17)

Yaktd was

AAraad Tar Khan Yaktd a contemporary of the preceeding Yaktd

he met at Lahor.

^sf&yL

******

OYjtbjL

*<UaA-

(P.)

The ark of Khushgii being a history of Persian poets. The author informs us, that the title is a chronogram expressing the date, when he began the compilation of this
work, viz.
ing
it, is
1 1

37.

He was

ten years engaged in compil-

it,

and consequently the date when he completed

contained in

u^te?^

^xxk**,

1147.

But before he

could take a fair copy and publish the

called

away by the Kangra with the army, and he remained seven or eight In 1155 he returned to Dilly, and years in the Panjab.
gave his work to his master Arzu for correction, he made

invasion of Nadir

work he was Shah to Kot

some

glosses

and added a preface which in

this

copy

fills

only two pages.

ticulars of his

Though
life,

the author gives us these par-

he does not mention his own name.

No.

17.]

SAFYNAHE KHUSHGU'.
it

131

From
it is

Arzii's preface

would appear that Khushgii

of Khiishgu was Bindraban,

(eloquent) was his takhulluc. In the Tadzkirah of /Zayrat

stated that the

name

that he was a native of Benares and of the Bania caste,

and that he was the author of a Tadzkirah.

postscript to the second

In the

volume of
it is

this

work, which was

Aj*^}\ J^; ly

executed at Dilly in 1191,

u*^> ^jv^ia
**sc
is

said

tf*l\jj* ^

J^';^
]

M******

the poets, that

to say, notices

&j c ^. " History of of poets by Mawlana Niir

is

aldyn
is

Mohammad whose

takhalluc

Tzohiiry."

This

certainly wrong, for Niir aldyn

Tzohury lived a century

before this book was written, and no biographer mentions

a Tadzkirah of

his.

Sir G. Ouseley,

Not of Pers.
it

Poets

p. 172, mentions this Tadzkirah, and ascribes

to Bin-

draban Khiishgu, but he makes him erroneously a con-

temporary of Akbar.

The book
notices.

is

divided into three volumes.

The first

con-

tains the ancient poets in chronological order, in all

362

The second part begins with Jamy and ends with Mirza AAmad Beg, whose date is not mentioned, but immediately before him is a more celebrated name
that of

Myrza Majdzub who composed

the

Mathnawy

Shahrahe Najat in 1006.

graphies.

This part contains 545 biois

The
it

third part

by

far the

most important,

inasmuch as

contains contemporary poets, but unforit.

tunately I have never seen a copy of

Beginning of the

first vol.

fify*
vol.

Ir* )

\j&

*$ A^f-j*>
sJJ

Beginning of the second

Jjlykij *-*$}*}.

*S$Jy^ &$ lUJIj

o*W|

The

first

two volumes are in

my

private collection, the first vol.

has about 600 pp. the second 318, 17 lines in a page and three
micra's in a line, copied in A.

H. 1191

at Dilly.

The

first

volume

I picked up at Lucnow, and for the second I s

am

indebted to the

132
kindness of

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
my
friend Hall.
It
is

[CHAP.

I.

not unlikely that Sir G. Ouseley

I shall probably give an

had the third volume of the same copy.

kirah in the appendix.

abstract of some of the contents of this book and of

Wahih's Tadz-

(18)

JfcJto

Jlj

J&& J* lJ&S 9\j&1\ ^bj

is

(P.)

Gardens of poets by 'alyy (July Khan Daghistany

whose takhalluc

Walih, and the book

is

therefore

usually called the Tadzkirah of Walih.

at Ispahan in 1124.

He was

born

Whilst he was pursuing his studies

he

fell

in love with his cousin

Khadyjah Sul/an, but

his

union with her was prevented by " revolution of fortune

and the breaking out of the Afghan invasion."

This

romantic attachment has become the theme of a Math-

nawy.
this this

In 1147, he came to India where he composed

in 1161,
is

work
book
is

and died in

1 1

70.

In the Atishkadah
'alyy

called the

Tadzkirah of

Quly Legzy.

This

an universal biographical dictionary of Per-

sian poets,

and contains about 2500

articles.

The

biogra-

phical notices are short, but generally speaking correct,

and he usually gives a

sufficient

number

of specimens
is

from their compositions.

In India this Tadzkirah

more esteemed than any

Beginning

^ u^Uyu ur
lines
;

other.

dujy& Jas*

tjiSl
lines.

M. M.

folio,

960 pp. of 25

another copy 642 pp. of 27

I have (besides a complete copy) an abstract which contains only the

biographies and one verse from every poet omitting the extracts.

have been assured by iZajy

Mohammad

i/osayn, that

it

is

an auto-

graphy of "Walih.
'
l

19 )

jjjjl

1}*

^1 cjr ^H* ^jUJi ** (p.)

by
Siraj
in
1

Collection of preciosities

aldyn 'alyy
164.

Khan
born

A'r%u who completed

9

this

work

He was

No.
in

19.]

a'rzu'.

133

1101 either at Agra or Gwalyar, but brought up in

the former city.

According to some, his forefathers were

descended from Chiragh Dilly a Saint, and according to

others from

Mohammad Gwalyary

equally a Saint.

Some

authors unite these two statements by saying that his

i^osam aldyn Hosdm was descended from Kamal aldyn a nephew of the former Saint, and his mother from
father

the latter.

For some time he had an

office

of some im-

portance at Gwalyar.

In A. H. 11 32 he came to Dilly and met in 1147 the poet i?azyn who had just come

from Persia to

this country.

The jealousy between the

to

two poets induced Arzu

iyAliW) axxJo

write a treatise entitled

errors in JF/azyn's
to

in

which he points out the

fall

poems.

After the

of Dilly,
1 1

Arzu went

Lucnow,

where he died in A. H.
in 1164.

69.

He

compiled this work

Most of

his writings will be described

under their re-

spective heads they are

&*** c^Ayo The great present being a treatise on rhetoric. kj^ ^k* The copious gift being a treatise on eloquence.
AAUl gj* A Persian Dictionary like the Burhani Qai\ A commentary on the Gulistan. o^t^A '^ja. A dictionary of the poetical expressions used by the
(

olxlJi

o'i^

poets of his time. This

&*ljj.xL.

is

probably identical with the l^*iJlo^^l=.^l

A commentary on the Sikandar-namah. ^ij. <bjlwai ^j A commentary on the Qaeydahs of 'orfy. olxUi v'ly A vocabulary of Hindee words explained in Persian.
^,
5

jx'xk ol/i^i*! wja.

K

Answer

to

Monyr's

critic of

Qodsy's poetry.

JUj\j^xsx> ^-i

Glosses to Taftazany's shorter commentary on

the third chapter of the Talkhyc which treats on Rhetoric.

&^ji" ^Z&M
cjIj^

_j*

A commentary on Myr Najat's Gulgashty.

own
Persian poetry.

A large

collection of his

The author
tion

says in the preface that his original inten-

was

to collect an anthology <u>a~, but subsequently

134
it

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

occurred to
it

him that

it

would enhance the value of the

collection if

contained also short biographical notices,

his

and he therefore altered the original plan of

yet he paid

work,

much

less attention to

the biographies than

to the extracts,

and he therefore hopes that the readers

on him
if

will not be too severe

they discover

faults.

The book contains 1419

meagre.

biographies, but they are very

He

used the Tadzkirahs of Aw/^ady, Nacrabady,

Sar-khiish and Samy.

Beginning

Topkhanah
autograph.
Asiat. Soc.

folio,

1120 pp. of 21 Hues, copied in 1177 from the

Ma/tall 1164 pp. 22 Hues copied in 1180.
is

Moty

In the

No. 129

a bad copy of the first-fourth of this work.

it,

Mr. Hall has a good copy of the second-half of

abridgement of the whole, which
is

and a well made

written in the shape of an album.

(20)

^Waa*

ei***^ i^***^ lJua*o)

of ZZosayny.

^^a
is

syjJ (-P-)

The Tadzkirah

This

the takhulluc

of Z/osayn Dost b.

Abu

Talib of Sambhal.

He

states

in the preface that he

studies,

came

to Dilly to prosecute his

and having obtained a very intimate acquaintance

with Persian poetry, he was requested by his friends to

compile a Tadzkirah.
I

have not succeeded in finding

it

an account of the author, but

appears from his book

that he wrote after the death of

Mohammad Shah who

died in 1161, but before the death of Arziiwho died in

A. H. 1169.

The book

contains, in alphabetical order, a short account

of saints beginning with 'alyy, of ancient and

their

Abu Bakr and

'omar, and

modern
It

poets, with

short extracts from

works.

may

contain about

200 biographies

NO.

21.]
filled

HAZYN.

135

which are

with anecdotes, some of which are not

very edifying.

Beginning

I;

^^

Ax# ^r*^
There
is

^s -

^:!^.

M. M.

8vo. 302 pp. 17

lines.

also a

copy in my possession.

(21)

^i>
'alyy Jylany

uiai-J fcjij-Wl i/oJ

(P.)

Tadzkirah of contemporary poets by Shaykh

Moham-

mad

whose takhalluc was JFZazyn.

It

He

died at Benares in 1180.

begins from 1103, the year

of the birth of JETazyn, and contains the biographies of

one hundred poets.

Beginning d^ ****& Jtyi *%fl* **** * Two copies are in the Topkhanah and two or three in the Moty
MaAall, small 8vo. 152 pp. 13
folio
lines.

oW

^^

Another very spendid copy

written with care, the former

abont 80 pp. 17

lines.

Two

copies are in the Asiatic. Soc. of

is

Bengal, Nbs. 734 and 359, the latter

is full

of errors.
list

Table of contents, this

tinuation of the
list p.
1.

may

be considered as a con-

89.

Men

of Learning.
b.

Qadr aldyn Sayyid

/fosayny born in the
in the Deccan,

'alyy
-ffijaz,

Khan

Sayyid Nitzam aldyn

Ahmid

was taken by

his father to i/aydarabad

and subsequently to Makkah, and

(the father) died at Shyraz.

after he

had spent
his acis

there his savings, to Najaf and Ispahan where IZazyn

quaintance.

made

He

Sayyid 'alyy

Khan

the best Arabic poet of our age, and he is the author of the folio w*x*jj v^f and of a Dy wan. w^orks &*K iJuxr mj& j &1L.J
j |

Mohammad MasyA b.
alislam

Isma'yl Fasayiy 'allamy of Shyraz was Shay kh

verses,

and wrote Persian and Arabic

he was a pupil of

A'qa jffosayn

Khwansary

Hazyn was

four years his pupil.

He

died at an advanced age and left glosses school books).

on several authors (of

136

PERSIAN TADZKIItAHS.

[CHAP.

Shah Mohammad Shyrazy 'drifwas a learned man and

overtook him at a very advanced age.

left several

works, .Hazyn was his pupil and was present at his death, which

Shaykh Ibrahym
an uncle of JETazyn

b.
is

Shaykh 'abd Allah Zahidy Jylany of Lahijan

the author of oi'l

on various works, and of

^Jlj which contains glosses j^\ ca| being glosses on the Kashshaf
]

as far as the 49th Surah

and of a commentary on Euclid.

.Hazyn

when ten
al/nsab

years of age was at Lahijan and studied the Kholacah

under him.

He

died 1119 at Lahijan.

ascetic

Shaykh Khalyl Allah Taliqany was an

who wore

for forty

years the same rag, iZazyn was for some time his pupil.

Tzahyra a son of Molla Murad Tafrishy, a friend of jBTazyn.

Qiwain aldyn

Mohammad

Sayfy. text called <**&* aJ| ***Jj| which is the

2/osayny Qazwyny put the

standard work on Shy' ah law in verse.

Mo7tammad MasyA
and Persian poetry.

d\\ib of

Kashan a pupil of

A'qa*

Hbsayn

Khwansary imitated the Qacydah Lamyyah of Ibghray, wrote Arabic

Kainal aldyn JJosayn Fasayiy a pupil of 'allamy, died in 1134 and
left Illustrations <**!>

on the Mofawwal (on Ehetoric), glosses on

the Jytfl (J{** and

J^ijy

^K *>U& cUjj 4JU,.

Khwan?)

Myrza

'alyy

Khan

of Kalpaygan a pupil of A'qa ZZbsayn

sary died in his native town.

Sayyid Mortadha 'Urn ('alam

only a descendant) of Sayyid

'amily

was a grandson (perhaps

is

Mohammad who
is

the author of the

g\j j2

\Jj\&*>

and by

his

mother he was a grandson of Shaykh

Zayn aldyn
tlianiy (the

'alyy 'amily,

who

known under the name

of Shahyd

second Martyr, he
lately

is

the author of the Shar^ allom'ah on

Shy 'ah which has

been printed at Teheran and at Lucnow),

Mortadha was born

at Ispahan.

Mohammad

'alyy

Sakkaky Shikyb Shyrazy a pupil of 'allamy, was

professor at Shyraz, d. 1135 at an age of sixty years.

Myrza Hashim Hamadany resided long

Hamadan.

at Ispahan

and was a

dis-

tinguished physician, was killed by the Turkish troops in 1136 at

Myrza Baqir a
seventy.

native of Ispahan

died at the

advanced age of

JEfabyb Allah of 'abbasabad in Ispahan was a friend of

Hazyn.

No. 21.]
Mo/jammad Hadiy
years ago.
of

HAZYN.
Mashhad
resided at Ispahan d. 1134.

137

Sayyid of Bardjard near Nohawand died about ten or twelve

Majd aldyn Qadhiy of Dzirquly near SMshtar died a few years ago. Nitzam aldyn Khwansary studied at Ispahan, and was subsequently
appointed Qadhiy of Khorramabad, ifazyn does not

know whether

he

is still

alive or not.

Qadr aldyn Jylany

study, JZazyn

Bynet
at

of Eusht which was the capital of the

princes of Gylan, he spent

many
in

years at Ispahan for the sake of

met him

Eusht

1139

he held then the

office

of

Shaykh alislam and was an old man.

2. Poets.
Myrza Mohammad Tahir Wahyd was born at Qazwyn showed first
a predilection for arithmetic and accounts and office-business, but subsequently he evinced a decided talent for Insha writing, and became

the most elegant prose- writer of his age, he

is

the author of a

Dywan

of upwards of 60,000 verses, and of a History of the Qafawies.

He

was historiographer of Shah 'abbas

and devoted himself to

II.

and under Solayman Qafawy

/Zazyn saw him in the

he rose to the dignity of Wazyr, but after a few years he resigned

this office
literature.

house of his father where he used to

visit.

He

died near one

hundred years of age.

Myrza Dawiid a son

of Myrza, 'abd Allah Mostawfiy d. 1133.

Myrza Mahdiy a friend of iZazyn d. 1129 at Ispahan. Myrza Mo7^ammad Amyn Zed a brother of Myrza Mahdiy Myrza, Ibrahym a brother of Myrza Najaf Khan Qadr.

d.

1135.

Myrza Ashraf a son of Baqir Damad's daughter d. 1133. Myrza Grhiyath aldyn Kliiydl Mohammad was a nephew of Myrza
Ashraf and died one year
after him,

he

left a

*J
.

o-fid>.

Myrza Abu-l-lfcisan Tamanna was of Shyraz. Myrza Mo'izz

and received the
Molla
-Htijy

Fifrat
title

Mashhady came under Awrangzeb

G-yliiny studied at Ispahan,

to India

of Miisawy Khan.

Mo7^ammad

was a friend

of JZazyn's father and died at the age of seventy years.

Myr

Najdt

his

name

is

Myr

'abd alal of Kuhkylii in Paris died

upwards of eighty years of

age, leaving
d.

more than 10,000

verses.

Shawkat Bokharayiy N&zuk

which
is

1107 or 1108 and

left

Dywan

celebrated.

138

PERSIAN TADZK1KAHS.
QaliZt

[CHAP.

I.

Molla Sa'yd Mohammad, a son of Mohammad

visited India

Mazanderam

and died

in

1116

in Bengal.

Myrza Mo^sin
office

Tatliyr of Ispahan, his ancestors

were of Tabrvz

he was for some time "Wazyr of Yazd, subsequently he retired from

and resided at Ispahan, he

is

a fertile poet.
age,

Shafy'a Shyrazy became blind when only nine years of died at Lar and left some very good poetry.

he

Mokhlica Kashy his name was Myrza Mohammad, died at Ispahan

at the age of sixty.

Xiir aldyn Najyba

of about seventy.

Kashy resided

at Ispahan

and died at the age

Myrza Bady' Ispahany a son of Tahir Nacrabady

obtained the
title

(see

p. 88),

of king of poets from Shah

Sukan i/osayn Qafawy,

Tiflys,

he was a friend of ZZazyn and died upwards of eighty years of age.

years ago and

Myrza .Hasan Ghayur was the "Wazyr of left a Mathnawy.

'alyy

he died several

Luf

sian origin

and a

Beg Shamy a son of Ismd'yl Beg who was of Cherkaslave of the afawy family. Luf 'alyy Beg was
making chronograms, he died
at Ispahan in

particularly skilled in

1120 and

left

a Turkish

By wan

of about 4000 verses.

Afrasyab

Khan

a brother of the ambassador

Eustam Khan who

was governor of Jam, died some years ago at Ispahan.

'iwadh

Khan was governor

where he
died.

of Lar.
'allamy, .Hazyn

JZakym Mohammad Taqyy Shyrazy a pupil of

him
at Shyraz

met

iZakym Mo/mmmad Ridha

'ishrat Bariijardy
old,

met

.ZZazyn at

Khor-

ramabad when more than eighty years

Shah Baqir, who
JZajy

he was a good physician.

.ZZakym Shah Ma' cum Lary was a Say y id and died in Lar, his son
is

like his father is a

good physician.
fifty

MoAammad

Qadiq Camit Ispahany died about

years ago

and

left

about 6000 verses, .ZZazyn saw him in the house of his father.

Myr

'abd al-Grhanyy Tafrishy his grandfather had the same

name

and was a celebrated man.

Myrza Mahdiy

aliy

Mashhady was a

fertile

poet and died at

Mashhad, iZazyn had never seen him.

hammad

Myrza Abu-1-Ma'aliy Mashhady a son of the Sayyid Abu Mois dead, .ZZazyn knew him.
Sayyid 'abd Allah

H<%

a //ayiry Sayyid of 'abbasabad in Ispahan,

No.

21.]

HAZYN.
who saw about 5,000
verses of
his.

139

a friend of iZazyn

He

died at

Ispahan at an advanced age.

Myr

Ma'cuin Acyl a son of Sayyid 'alyy Mohry iZayiry and a

friend of iZazyn, died at the age of forty.

Myrza Sayyid Ridha Sayyid a son of Myrza Shah Taqyy of

han was a friend of iZazyn and died 1135 at Ispahan.

Ispa-

Myrza Abu

Talib Jandb (in No. 734 of the Asiatic Society

is

U.aydt) a son of

Myrza Nacyr Ispahany died

'alyy

in 1135.

Myrza Zahid

Sakha a son of Sa'd aldyn Lary was a friend

of Tarshyz

of iZazyn, died at Dilly.

Myrza Nacyr Khorasauy Nucrat

han, he died at

met iZazyn

at Ispa-

an advanced age

in his native town.

Shakira Teherany, he resided at Ispahan was a friend of iZazyn

and died many years ago.

Mohammad

iZbsayn Navcras

Domawandy

resided and died at

Ispahan, and devoted himself to calligraphy and poetry.

Zayira of Shiishtar where he died, iZazyn

met him

at Ispahan.

Myrza Mohammad Taqyy Qahrmariy (in one copy Mihrbany). Hamadany is the author of a book on various literary subjects
AjsU ^Jty >;*^ j&

and died about twenty years ago.

Myrza iZashim Artymany Khwdstdr was killed in battle in 1134. Myrza Isma'yl Yma of Ispahan, a merchant and a friend of iZazyn,
died in 1132.

Myrza Baqir Hodhur

native town.

Qommy

studied at Ispahan and died in his

Myr 'askary an architect of Qomm where iZazyn met him. Myr ]Nur Iksyr brother of the preceding was given to alchemy.
'abd al-Mawla Ispahany, an old friend of iZazyn, died a few years

ago at an advanced age.

Molla Mo7*ammad JNacyr Fayidh Abahiry Ispahany, Abahir

is

(sic)

a place two farsangs from Ispahan.

He

was a friend of iZazyn

and had some knowledge of astronomy and the use of the Astrolab,
he died in 1134 at the age of ninety.

Molla

Mohammad

Baqir Fayidh Mazanderany died in 1128.

Molla Mo/jammad Taqyy Ta'tzym of Mazanderan studied at Ispa-

han where he met iZazyn.

Molla
fifty

Mohammad Amyn
T 2

Wdcil Grylany

of Lahijan died about

years ago at Ispahan.

140
Aqa*

PERSIAN TADZKlltAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Eidha a son of the Mojtahid Mo7^ammad Gylany who was

Eidha died about thirty years ago.
Tali'

called Sarah, A'qa

Mo/jammad MoAsin
years ago.

Gylany resided

at Ispahan, died

some

Mohammad

Sa'yd Mdliir Gylany met /Zazyn at Eusht which was

his native place,

when more than

eighty years of age, he was an

uneducated man, yet a good poet.

Mawlana Shams aldyn Mohammad Gylany of Ispahan died young. Myr Eadhyy Fdtih. Gylany resided first at Ispahan then he visited
India,

and was murdered by highway robbers in Gujrat.

Molla Mokhtar Nohawandy travelled with JTazyn to Khorasan.

Myrza Baqir Marja'y

to

(or Marja') Ispahany travelled with jETazyn

Khorasan and died some years ago.

Myrza Gholam Eidha TabVd came from Kuhkyhi and resided

Ispahan where he
died,

at

he was an alchemist.
at Ispahan,

Myrza Mahdiy Ildhy Tabryzy was born and brought up

age.

a superficial and conceited man, died few years ago at an advanced

Malik Mo'yn Khorramabady was a friend of iZazyn.

'idiy

Molla 'alyy

Ispahany an exquisite calligraph and singer, was

d.

a friend of i?azyn

in 1136.

Mo7iammad

'alyy 'alyy

Mohammad

Beg Dyliym Beg Afsar

a native of Ispahan d. in 1105. (?)

was, like the preceding, descended

from a slave of the Qafawians, he was born at Ispahan and J/azyn

had heard that when young he intended

to go to India.

Ibrahym Dlidbit Ispahany.

Myrza Mo7*ammad
friend of Jfazyn,
is

Ja'far

BdMb

a Tabafaba Sayyid of Ispahan, a

probably alive at Ispahan.

Myrza

Fat7t Allah

Khurany

(this is the reading in

is

No. 359 of the

is

Asiat. Soc, but in No. 734

^^JJ^)*

Khuran

a place two

farsangs from Ispahan.

Fat& Allah

visited India

and returned a rich man to

his

home.

Amyna

Za?far any Ispahany.

left

Sa'yda Qaccab, died at Mashhad and

MoAammad Eidha

Cibd (in one copy

a Dywan of 20,000 verses. DMya) resided at Ispahan

where he died some years ago.

Molla Eidha Ispahany was the son of a weaver, and hence he was
called Julah.

No. 22.]

HAZYN.

141

Sharyf Shyrazy Ispahany was a blacksmith and possessed great

poetical talents, he died about forty years ago.

'abd Allah Shaghaf (?)

early in
life

-&*, -***

Qomniy was a shoemaker, came

to Ispahan where he began to devote himself to science

and made considerable progress, he died at Artyman.

Sayyid

Mohammad

IZasrat

was born in India but resided

at

Mashhad where he
Niir aldyn

died.

Mohammad Monyr Kirmany met

iZazyn at Ispahan,

he died in
-ZTajy

his native town.

Miimin Ymdn Ispahany was a cloth-merchant,

old

retired to

Najaf and gave himself up to devotion.

at

Mo7*ammad Miimin Hdjib Mashhady was Mashhad where died.

Siraja

when he met iZazyn

at Ispahan.

MoAammad Qdsim
'abd al-Bazzaq

JNaqqash died

many years ago

Myrza

Nashd Tabryzy, a descendant

of Jahan-shah

Turkman, met .Hazyn

at Ispahan.

Myrza Mohammad Eidha Barujardy

of Laristan, died at Khorramabad.

rose to the dignity of "Wazyr

Myrza Sayyid
and was

.ZZosayn Khdllg, a

younger brother of Myrza Baqir

"Wazyr Qi'irchy who was a good poet, after his death he visited India
killed in Sind

on

his

way back

to Persia.

Ma7anud Sabzwary was a Bany-Mokhtar Sayyid

but died about thirty years ago at Mashhad.

resided at Ispahan

C 22 )

^> ^ J]H gj
Life of Shaikh

(P.)

The

Mohammad
,

'alyy

Hazyn

d.

1 1

80,

written by himself.

Beginning ^*V) x^*j ^Ixi

^SUI

a-'LJj

u*s

In the Moty Mahall are several beautiful MSS.

published in Persian by F. C. Balfour, Lon. 1831
tion
;

It

has been

English transla-

by the same, Lon. 1830.

142

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

(23)

o!j!

^Jc

^c

lJuA-J

Uj &

(P.)

The miracle-working hand being a biography of Persian poets by Myr Gholam 'alyy whose takhalluc was Azad (independent), he was born in A. H. 1116 at Belgram in Oudh, and hence he is called Belgramy, and he derived his origin from the Imam Zayn 'abidyn a descendant of JBTosayn and his ancestors, had resided in Wdsit and

hence he

is

also called iiTosayny Wasify.

In A. H. 11 34

he went to Dilly to prosecute his studies and he returned

after

two years

to his

home. In

142 he made his second

journey and proceeded through Lahor and Multan to

Sywistan.
to

In A. H. 1147 he visited Agra and Ilahabad

meet

his father.

In 1150 he set out for the pilgrim-

age to the Ka'bah and remained two years in Arabia to

prosecute his studies.
for

On

his return to India he remained

some time

at

Awrangabad.

He

died about

1200.

(See Bland, Journ. As. Soc. of

London IX.

p. 151.)

All his works which he mentions in the

Khazanah

'amirah, will be described under their respective heads.

He
tion.

informs us that he originally compiled this book

in Sywistan in Sind

and that

it

received a great circulato

In

1148

after his return

his native

country

he made this new much-improved edition.

versal

It is an uniTadzkirah alphabetically arranged, and contains

532 biographies.
tains

An

introduction of four pages con-

some

trite

remarks on the origin of Persian poetry.

Ac\^ UiSlJaj

Beginning U*J .^
Topkhanah
4to. about

\*

^S
is

500 pp. 22

lines written in

A. H. 1150,

probably an autograph.
condition.
folio

This valuable copy

in a

most lamentable
in the

Another valuable and beautiful copy

lines

is

M. M.
it

254 pp. of 21

bound with a

collection of poems,

has

No.

25.]

AZAD.

143

marginal notes written by a former owner, who also owned the copy of
A'rzii's

Tadzkirah mentioned above, in that copy

lie

also

wrote some

notes and the date

when he purchased

it, viz.

1193.

24 )

*$

{J*

f& L^J Ojjf jm

or the

(P.

The cypress of Azad

Azad, independent,
because
it

independent cypress.

is

the usual epithet of the cypress,

disdains to bear fruit.

This
]

is

another Tadz1

kirah by the same author compiled in

divides in
it

165 or

166.

He

the poets into Persian and Indian.

Beginning
In

^^

;Ui j*a* AjU^u.

my

private collection, a thin 4to. I sent this

it

book to England

at

a time

when

was doubtful whether

this catalogue

would ever be

printed,

and I have therefore unfortunately neglected to take a more complete notice of it.

(25)

ol/i

JU

*3U <-J*uJ ry U

%L

(P.)

The
works,

rich treasury being a biographical dictionary of

Persian poets by the same author as the preceding two

who compiled

this in

76.

It contains

one hundred and six biographies in alpha-

betical order,

and presents such a mixture of names of

celebrated poets of ancient and

ful

modern times and powerwrote, that his chief

flatter

Nawabs who were

it,

alive

when he

object in compiling

seems to have been to

the

vanity of his patrons.

He
it

complains of the barrenness

of other Tadzkirahs, and

must be allowed that he has

144
collected

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
more

[CHAP.

I.

details regarding the life of the poets

he

mentions, than most other biographers, and he sometimes

explains their verses, but the chief merit of the book
consists in his giving us a very full list of the sources at

his disposal.

This

list

has been made good use of by

earliest

Mr. Bland in his learned memoir on the

biography of poets.

Persian
it

All the works occurring in

have

already been described, except the following

1.

Haft Iqlym compiled by Myrza.

Amyn

in A.

H. 1002

(see

chap, on Geogr. and Hist, infra).

2. 3.

Badawny
Majma'

(see Sir

H.

Elliot's

Indian Hist, and

p.

55 supra).

al-fodhala or assemblage of distinguished

men, a Tadz-

kirah from the beginning of poetry to the reign of

Akbar by Molla

Baqayiy.
supra.
4.

He may

be identical with Baqayiy of

Qomm

see p. 50

iZayat alsho'ara,

life

of poets, a special Tadzkirah of the poets

to the throne in A.

who nourished from Bahadur Shah (succeeded

1118) to

H.

Mohammad Shah
of

(succeeded in 1131) by
infra.

Mohammad

'alyy

Khan Matyn
6.

Kashmyr, see page 159

Safynahe By-khabar the

author's

Ark

of By-khabar compiled in 1141.

The

name

is

'atzmat Allah b. Lutf Allah //osayny Wasity

Belgramy By-khabar.
in 1142.

He

was a mystical poet and died

at Dilly

8.

(jy**

f^

the

Dawn

of morning and the Tadzkirah of

Molla Qati'y.
authors.
A'zad.

1 can find no account of these two books and their

is

It

likely that there is a notice of

them

in the

Sarwe

The Tadzkirah of Natzim Tabryzy, see pp. 103 and 104 supra. ite fdj* by Shah 'abd al-//akym of Lahor whose takhalluc was B-akim see p. 155 infra, the Tadzkirah was compiled at Awranga9.

10.

bad in 1175.

It contains

an account of those poets with

whom

the

author was acquainted.

11.

^kj
it

^ zy&

the Tadzkirah without equal,

(or perhaps the

Tadzkirah of By-Natzyr) by
compiled

Myr

'abd al-Wahhab Dawlatabady

who

according to the notes of the Khazanah which I have

taken from the Lucnow copy in 1172, and according to Mr. Bland
in 1178.

Bland adds

on the authority of A'zad

"

and of which

No. 25.]
year the

a'za'd.

145

name forms the date" In

is

the copy of the Asiatic SocieeJI

ty the book
***l

omitted but the words

it.

^-i^ &)&

f-i

i^**j

The words jHrM^ Xj& form no such date and there must therefore be some mistake in A'zad. The only manner
occur in
in which I can obtain the
into j*k-uJ
im

date of 1172,
is

is

by changing the

title

^jM^J\ o/<i3. I dare say this

this
list,

the correct reading.

In order to complete
)jmJU\

I add the names of six Tadzkirahs

to.

from Mr. Bland's Memoir above referred

1.

o[/<i3 wls-^l.

Extracts from Tadzkirahs, compiled by

It contains one

an anonymous author in 1172.

hundred and

fifty

short biographies of poets in alphabetical order with specimens of

their verses.

copy of this book

is

in the India House,

No. 47,

154 pp. of 15 lines. 2. fKJl Lo& and f**l/d *-*"* see No. 45 infra. *Ui bUJ (^Jf |/AJ The Tadzkirah of Baba Shah, mentioned 3.

by -Hajy Khalyfah who wrote

that Baba Shah
is

in 1062.

Mr. Bland

p.

168 supposes

identical with

Shah Shubly, who was a contem-

porary of Taqyy

Aw^ady and skilled in versification, he wrote a Mathnawy in the measure of the To7rfat al'iraqayn and a Tadzkirah. But the author may be identical with the calligraph Baba Shah of
Ispahan who flourished,
it

would appear from Khushgu, about the

died in 1004, see also p. 28

same time

as

Hakym Dawayiy who

supra No. 318.

4.

J^srM (JJLLI by
This
is

Mohammad QaM who

completed the work

in 1104.

a mere anthology and contains no biographies, the

letter of

extracts are alphabetically arranged according to the last

the rhymes like Dywans.

5.

LUj ijf

The Beautiful Rose by Lachmy Narayan, who we are

informed by Mr. Erskine, flourished towards the end of the last or

beginning of this century of our era.
6.

c5-^ o* - quoted
1

in the

Biyadh of

'alyy

Ibrahym Khan

Khalyl.

Beginning

)j

ujWl

*S

e^~)

f&s

d+**

aAj^

\j

JK j*

Moty MaAall 224

pp. 15 lines, written in a good

hand but not

very correct. As. Soc. Beng. No. 366, 844 pp. 14 lines, very incorrect.

146

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
lJuJ^J UoKj; lX>^

[CHAP.

I.

(26)

<*j\j

(P.)

The
was

beautiful anthology
alive in
1 1

by Warastah of Lahor who

divided under
all

still

80.

In this collection, the extracts

are arranged according to matters, and

about 720 heads, under each head are the verses of

the poets

who have
infinite

written on

it

thus under Chiragh

you

find

an

number

of descriptions of and allu-

sions to, a lamp.

It contains

no biographies.

Beginning
Moty

e^l ^V' fi
if it

*-tyf*

^^ ^fy *Uo
The

Ma7*all folio

preface of the book

306 pp. of 25 lines, a beautiful copy. had one, is wanting.

(27)

lJu^j

L-JiyJl (or

^j^

***
(P.)

^^U ^L
of Persian poets

&i*|

Collection of curiosities being a Biographical dictionary

by Shaykh A^mad

'alyy

Hashimy

of

Sandhyla a son of

Mohammad Hkjy.
it

This book was

compiled in the same decennium as the preceding two, for

the author dedicated
to Cafdar-jang

who
is

died in 1167,
It

and he quotes both Arzu and Walih.

less

contains no
list

than 3061
:

articles.

In the preface

a copious

of authorities

viz.

\Sd3 V v_~>Ue

'*Jti3

*f

-A&.

'x <jj

S)

jl&

Ac

^1

\ t $S3

^^La) Jilt iU W*i5

\f

AJjjJ) *tc *

p ^fd^l jc^

J^

No.

28.]

ahmad'alyy of sandhyla.

147

Among

these

works Nos.

1, 2, 4, 5,

7,

8,

10,

12,

13,
1

14, 17, 18, 21,

22 have been mentioned. Of Nos. 9 and

Elliot's

an amount will be found in Sir H.

torians
;

Indian His-

No. 16

is

a mistake

for taJl ZjSSj

see p. 9 supra,

No. 3

will be described

among

the biographies of Ciines,

and No. 15 among works on Geography, and for an account on Dara-Shikoh (No, 19) I refer to the chapter on Ciifism, No. 6* and 20 I have not found mentioned any where
else.

Beginning

J^y ^~ch ^iU^ ^JJj

J^xj

\&+Xai

kUiJIyt^

FaraA-bakhsli folio 1057 pp. of 25 Hues.

(28) (^L>*0* J

^L 0*^1
is

ufk

L-i^J o^l

^vjJI

(P.)

The

lovers'

companion by the Shaykh A^mad

K/iddim, and

'alyy of

Sandhyla whose takhalluc

in India in 1165.

who

flourished

This

is

an anthology from Persian poets containing

J^!

about 20,000 verses and divided into 16 chapters

1.

Verses in praise of the divinity ***y> and the

*-wl

Imams
2.

c^aa!^.
love, subdivided into

On

83 sections J^j.

* I have an anthology of Persian poetry containing extracts without

biographical notices from

Anwary,

'orfy,

Khaqany, Faydhy, &e. which

may
it

possibly be the

Album

of Cayib with extracts from whose

Dywan

begins and ends.

It has

no preface and begins.

l$J!^XP ~\3

^dy

XJUf

+mJ

&*> A; jl[

Small

folio

282 pp. 21

lines,

a good copy.

u 2

148
3.

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
Extracts from

[CHAP.
of

I.

Ilazyns Tadzkirah

contem-

poraries.
4.
5.

Extracts from Sar-khush's Tadzkirah.

Extracts from the 8th Chapter of the Beharistan

'of

Jamy.
6.

Various Ghazals from Kashy, Natzyry, Mo^ta-

sham, &c.
7.

Poems

of Shaykhs, learned men, princes, &c. sub-

divided into 6 sections J*a, within which they are alphabetically arranged.
8. 9.

Poems of the ancient masters, Rudaky, &c.

Compositions of modern poets as Ahly Shyrazy,

Fighany, Acafy, &c.

10.

Compositions of various poets alphabetically ar-

ranged.
1 1

Ghazals of ancient and modern poets, also extracts

from

Mawlawy Riimy,
verses of

&c. qifahs of Molla

Mohammad

Sa'yd Ashraf, Rubay's of Baba Tahir, and glosses on

some
12.

Khwajah Khosraw.
13.

Masnawies.
Tarjy'bands.

Qacydahs.

14. 15.
16.

The Saqiy-namah
I

of

Mohammad

Ciify.

Ghazals of JTafitz, Shawkat Bokharay.

Beginning;^ j
r

^W y*k Ju^Jjj.

I saw a cop) in 1849 at a Bookseller's at Lucnow, about 800 pp.

25 lines in a page,

it

was elegant but incorrect.

(29)

%\

r U^J ^^* ^y*

takhallii9 is Siraj,

(P.)

A Dywan

of selections by Siraj

aldyn iiZbsayny of

Awrangabad whose

The author

in-

No. 29.]

siua'j.

149

forms us in the preface, that he had from the age of

twelve a great prediliction for mysticism and poetry, and

he therefore placed himself under the tuition of Burhan

aldyn Gharyb, and subsequently in
'abd al-Ra/mian Chishty.
1

160 under that of

During

this period he used to

give vent to his feelings in poetical effusions in Rekhtah,

which were

collected

by 'abd al-Rasul Khan and formed a

Subsequently he gave up com-

Dywan

of

5000

verses.

posing poetry, and devoted his time to collecting and

studying the works of ancient and modern masters.
finding that he
in travelling, he

But

had great

difficulty in

moving

his library

made

selections

from them, and arranged

them

alphabetically according to the

names of the

poets.

In this manner this work grew up which he completed

in 1169.

than 680 poets. Wherever the author knows the date of the demise of a
It

contains

extracts

from no

less

poet,

he mentions

it,

but he gives no other biographical

is

details.

The arrangement
***

not very clear, he goes

through the alphabet

at least ten times.

c/*- )

Beginning ^'1-^/=^
written in 1191.
I

t?* 4?^

^4*J

In the possession of Mr. Hall

is

a copy, about 600 pp. 13 lines,

give here the names of those poets whose dates are

mentioned
Shafy'a Aihar
d.

1124.

Jimmy & Qazalbash Khan

d.

1159.

Nitzam almulk A'gqf &. 1161. Myr Mohammad A^san Yjdd

Tzafar

Myrza
d.

Jalal

Asyr

d.

1019.

1133.

Khan Ahsan 1081 or 1083. Myrza Ibrahym Adham d. 1060. Myr Mumin Addyiy Yazdy d. 1050.
Mo7*ammad Nacir Afdhaly Ilahabady d. 1163. Ghiyath aldyn Ashnd Awjy Nathyry d. 1050.
d.

1073.

150

PERSIAN TADZK1RAHS.
d.

[CHAP.

I.

Ibn Hosdm Qohistany

Siraj

875.

aldyn 'alyy
Ildhy

Myr

Khan A'rzu then alive. Hamadany d. 1064. Mohammad Shah

d.

TJnsy d. 973.

Shaykh Grholam iZbsayn Iniddd of Burhampdr

Aiohady Ispahany

is alive.

738 at Tabryz.

Myr Myr

Sayyid Lutff Allah

Grholam 'alyy

Ahmady d. 1043. Azdd then alive. Anwary

d.
d.

d.

585.
d.

Abu-l-Fath Gylany

997. 981.

Eaqyr Allah Afiryn Lahdry

1143.

Myr Amdny Kabuly

A'gafy a son

Mohammad
d.

Qasiin Asyry d. 1010.

Khwajah Ni'mat Allah

943.

Myr
'alyy

'atzmat Allah

By-Mabar
d. d.

d.

1142.

Bddzil Eafy'

Khan

1123.
1088.

Takallu Shany

d. 1023.

Eidha Tajalliy

Myr MoAammad
Imtiyaz

Aldhal Thdbit
alive.

d.

150 or

152.

Mrisawy Khan Jordt

llazyn

alive.
d.

Khan Sayyid JTosayn Khdlig

1076.

1122.
d.
1

Amyr Khosraw d. 925. Myr Eadhyy Danish d.

Shukr Allah Khan KMJcsdr

108.

Mo7iammad Faqyh Dardmand alive. Dzawqy Ardestany d. 1045. MoAammad Zaman Bdsikh Myr MoAarnmad 'alyy Syalqdty Bdyih. d. 150.
1

d.

107.

.Hasan 'alyy Bijdyiy Herawy d. 965. Sayyid Ja'far Bu\\y

d.

1154.

Jan Myrza Basd

alive.

Aqa Badhyy Ispahany Bawnaqy Hamadany d. 03

1

d.
1

1024.

Zamdny Yazdy d. Zahyy Hamadany

1021.
d.

MoAammad
(?)

Fakhir Zdyir

d.

164.

1024 or 1021.

Mohammad
SMik Yazdy

S&lik
d.

Ibrahym

Qazwyny

d.

080.

1081.
1

Myr 'abd al-Qamad Sokhon of Agra d. 140. Myr Sanjar Kashy d. 02 Mohammad Afdhal Sarfchush d. 1125. Sarwary Qabuly d. Myrza Mohammad Quly Salym d. 1057. Mohammad Sharyf Sarmady Ispahany d. 1015. Shay da d. Myr Mohammad iZosayn Shaivqy d. 1044.
1 1

1050.

1062.

Shaykh JSbsayn Shohrat Shyrazy

d.

149.

Mohammad Eidha

Shikyby

d.

023.

7/akym Sharaf aldyn Shifdyiy d. 1037. Myrza Mohammad Baqir Shahyd alive.

Sh&pur Teherany

d.

1048

No.

29.]

sira'j.
d. 1003.
d.

151

Shaykh Nitzam Dhamyry

Sayyid Dhiyd Allah

Shaykh Ya'qub Qarfy Kashmyry

d.
1

1003.

103.

Myrza IVMammad 'alyy fyiyib d. 1080. Shaykh Sayf aldyn Mohammad Taby'at
Tdlib A'moly
Iltifat
d.

d.

155.
d. 1083.

1036.

Myr

Qaydy Teherany

Khan

*<>&

TdMr

d. 1029.

Tzohury

d.

1025.

Molla Mo/jammad Tahir Tzanny Kashmyry 1070.

Nacir 'alyy
d.
1 1

OS.
d.

M'mat Khan
1031.
'arif

'ally d. 1121.

Shaykh

'alyy

Naqyy

aldyn
1023.

'djiz alive.

Qadhiy ysa Sawajy

d.

896.

Htdby

d.

'ishqy d.

142.

Shaykh Faryd aldyn

Molla

'attdr d. 927.
d.
1

Mohammad
d.

Tahir Glianyy Kashmyry

079.

GUyib

1163.

Abu
d.

Torab Farqaty
d.

d.

1026.

Mohammad

iTbsayn Fayhfur

1028.

Myrza Fagyhy Herawy

1046.
d.
1

Fathy Ardestany
106.

d.

1045.

Musawy Khan Mo'izz

Fitrat

Myrza 'abd al-Ghanyy Qabul Kashmyry d. 1139. /Tajy Mohammad Jan Qodsy Mashhady d. 1056.
Talib

Kalym Hamadany

d. 1061.

Shayk Sa'd Allah Gulshan 1141.

Myrza Malik Moshriqy Mashhady

Abu-1-Barakat Monyr Lahory

050.

d. 1054.

Molla Mofyd Balkhy

jffakym

d.

1091.
d. 1066.

Eokna Kashy Masyh.

Molla Malik

Qommy

d.

1024.
alive.

Dilawar Khan JSTugrat d. 1139. Nyhy Nathary d. 1000. Natzyr Mashhady d. 1050. Nddim Lahijy d. 1050. JVur aldyn Mohammad Khan d. 1126. Nur Jahdn Begam d. 1055. Nitzdm Astrabady d. 921.

Myrza Janjanan Matzhar Ndtzim Herawy d. 1081.

Motf Myr

Tabryzy
Md'fiim

d. d.

1050.

1062.

Nargisy Mo/^tasib of Herat

'alyy

d.

92

A7*mad Dihlawy NisMny

d. 1082.
1

d. 1025.

W&itz (Qazwyny)
Iradat

Khan Wddhih. d. Amad Yar Khan Yahtd

128.
d.
1

Myrza Uihir Wahyd d. 1108. Myr Yahyd Kashy d. 1064.

147.

152

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

(30)

^U.
of

(P.)

The Garden

Meaning being a biography of Persian

I

poets, apparently consisting of three or four large folio

Volumes of which
authors name
is

have seen only the second.

it,

The

not mentioned in
see

it

may

be by 'alyy

Ibrahym Khan,

No. 45 infra.
fifth

This Volume contains the third, fourth and

Kl}

parts
dif-

*^.

The preceding two

parts

may

treat

on quite

ferent subjects.

In the third part are short biographies

of about 157 men,

who

distinguished themselves through

their poetical talents in alphabetical order.

The
it

latest

whom
(reign

found among them

is

Shah

'alam,

who

appears

was on the throne of Dilly when the book was written

1

173

1201.)

The

title is

probably a chronogram

for 1174.

The fourth part comprises the lives of about 226 Wazyrs and Nobles, who have written poetry. The fifth contains notices of about 322 professional poets who flourished from the time of Hariin al-Rashyd
to A.

H. 800 equally in alphabetical order.

(S^tf'jjJ
I

Bg.

ig*lslj
folio

Ljkj h^*" ^*^

lines, a

l_f' r*u

.i&jljUj

<*2>-

Moty Ma^all

738 pages, 20

good copy.

(31)

mp+

yjaJi

A# iJ^uJ

lydi ci>Vlao

(P.)
takhalluc

Sayings of the poets by

Qiyam aldyn whose

a chronogram for
1

was

.flayrat.

The

title is

174.

No. 31.]

HAYRAT.

153

This Tadzkirah* contains short notices of 150 poets

who

flourished from

Awrangz^b

to 'alamgyr II. (died

1173).

In the preface the Tadzkirahs of Walih, of

Arzii and of

Shawq
8vo.

are mentioned.

The
p.

last

named

is

much
author.

praised, see for

an account thereof
lines written

157 infra.

Moty Ma&all

124 pp. of 22

by a pupil of the

Table of contents
A'rzu, Siraj aldyn 'alyy

Khan born

at Grwalyar, studied first at

Agra, thence he proceeded to Dilly, and subsequently, with the sons

of

Nawab IsMq Khan,

to

Lucnow.
Ispahan was a contemporary of
Jiis

Ymd Uj', Mirza Isma'yl born at Myr JNajat and Shafy'ay who were
he imitated.

countrymen, and whose style

Yman, A^mad
zeb and
fell

'alyy

Khan of Qomm came to

the court of Awrang-

at

Karnal in the battle against Nadir Shah.

Myr
Azal

Ahsany,
J)1,

Myr Gholam 'alyy of Gwalyar. Mirza Mohammad Amyn was in 1133

Khan Afsar Mohammad 'Alyy Beg
A'caf-jah,

at

Qandahar and

died in 1141.

Mo'azzaz

of Persia was raised

to the dignity of Qiibahdar of Bengal under Farrokh-siyar.

Nitzam al-mulk
Skiikir,

who assumed

the poetical

name of
TTrnmyd,

was of a great family and a good poet.

Qizil-bash (in India they pronounce Qazal-bash)

Khan

MoAammad Bidha
Bahadur Shah.

of

Hamadan, came

to India during the reign of

He

was a good musician, and knew the Indian and

Persian systems of musical composition, died 1159.

Nawab Amyr Khan Anjam was

y

at the court of

Mo/^ammad Shah,

and was

killed in 1159.

* Mr. Bland, Journ. Roy. As.

Tadzkirah which has the
title

Soc.

Lond. IX.

p.

143 describes another

of Lr*~

oil&o

it j 8

by

'inayat

Talab-Khan

whose takkalluc was Yawar son of BaAmat Yar-Khan.

his

He commenced

work

in 1139

and completed

it

in 1143 or 1145, (the title is apparently

intended for a chronogram for the former date).

short biographies.
8yo. 65 pp. the

It contains about 220

A copy is

in the East India

House Library, No.

text.

427,

margin frequently covered with

54

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Asryar Khan Insdn Asad al-dawlah, a protege of Anjam.

Ishdq

Khan

died in 1152.

Shah laqr (Faqyr?) Allah AJiryn of Lahor a

under Farrokh-siyar.

flourished

Mohammad
Wazyr

(Jalah

ifyrfft.

Eajah Daya Mai Imtiydz, his father was

of Awrangzeb,

Dywan

of

Asad Khan the

b.

and he was Dywan of Grhaziy aldyn Khan

Ghaziy aldyn Khan.

Myrza Arjumand Azdd a son of Myrza 'abd al-Grhanyy Qabul. Chunny Lai Thsdn was at Agra in 1174. Myrza Mahdiy Baydn, a cousin of Kalym, came to Upper India
under Awrangzeb, but as he could not make his fortune he went
into the

Deccan where he died. Myrza Mohammad Shafy' Bismil of Nayshapiir, uncle of Nawab
Shah Khalyl Allah Be-nawd
b.

afdar-jang.

Ibrahym a ^ufy of

Dilly.

Myrza Bady'
fall

of Nacrabad b.

Myrza

jFahir died previous to the

of Sultan iZbsayn.
ali&

Aqa

BurMn

of Mazanderan, died at Dilly shortly after Nadir

city.

Shah had pillaged that

Mohammad Bdqir

Beg, a Persian of noble birth, accompanied

Nadir Shah in his expedition to India.

Myr

Sharaf aldyn

Paydm

of

Agra died 1166.

alive at Dilly in

Khwajah A/jsan aldyn Bay cm of Agra was

Molla

1174.

Mohammad Taqyy TaHzym

of Mazanderan flourished at the

time of Abdaly's inroads into India.

Ea&mat Allah Tamkyn of Kashmyr pupil of Myrza 'abd al-Ghanyy Beg Qabul. Sayyid Eidha Khan Tamkyn of the family of Ni'mat Allah "Walyy born at Qomm, came under Mo/jammad Shah to India.

Myr Mohammad

Afdhal Thdbit, born at Dilly,

left

Dywan

of

about 5000 bayts, died in 1151.

Mo7iammad 'atzym Thobdt, son of the

in 1122, wrote a

preceding, born at Ilahabad

Dywan

of about 4000 bayts.

Ay at Allah
in 1174.
Jiigal

Thand, pupil of Shaykh 'alyy TLazyn, flourished at Dilly

Kishdr Tharwat of Dilly was Wakyl of the JNatzim of

Bengal.

No. 31.]

HAYRAT.

155

MoAammad
come

Ja'far of Teheran was invited by Sultan ilosayn to

to Ispahan.

Myrza Abii

Talib Jandb b.

Myrza Fatyr, a

Persian, died in 1139

probably at Ispahan.

Molla Tzafar 'alyy

Jor'&t studied at Ispahan.

Hdjy Mohammad iZosayn Gylany

flourished under Sultan JETosayn.

Myr Motasham
Sayyid
Shah.
'abd al-17akym

'alyy

dakhshna was born in

Khan Hashmat, of a Sayyid family India and left a Dywan of about 7000
of

of Babayts.

Mohammad Hasrat

Mashhad died under Mohammad

b.

Beg Khan HdJcim

Shadman Khan, a pupil

of

Faqyr Allah Afiryn lived at Dilly and Lahor. Sheo Earn Das Hay a brother of Bajah Daya Mai Imtiydz and
pupil of

Myrza 'abd al-Qadir, By-dil left a Dywan of about 5000 bayts.

of

Myrza Imam Quly Hashmat a younger brother

Ja'far R&hib a contemporary of

Mohammad

Mohammad

Shah.

Nur-bakhsh

(?)

HodMry

of Dilly a contemporary of Arzii.

Shaykh

'alyy

Hazyn.

Shaykh MoAammad Hay dt, born near Qannawj, teacher of the

author of this work.

Qiyam aldyn Hayrat, author of

wrote a Tadzkirah.

this Tadzkirah.

Bindraban Khushgii, a Banya of Benares, and a pupil of By-dil,

Mohammad Mahdiy Khayyam

of that city.

of Ispahan died during the siege

Nawab Khane Dawrdn a noble of Mohammad Shah's court. Natzyr Beg KMdim a pupil of Mohammad Afdhal Thabit,
shortly before 1174.

died

Khushtar son of Myrza

Mohammad

Afdhal Sar-khush.
fell

Myrza Hashim

Dil, of

Artyman near Hamadan,

in the strug-

gles of Persia against the Afghans.

Mohammad Jan Dywdnah died in 1150. Mohammad Paqjh JDardmand of Dilly, pupil of Myrza Janjanan Matzhar. Khwajah Myr Dard. Myr 'abd Allah Dzarrah, son of the celebrated Mohammad Baqir
Majlisy, fled from Ispahan at the time of the siege

and died at

Khorrainabad.

56

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
for

[CHAP.

I.

Myrza Mo/^ammad Bidhd of Shyraz was Lar, under Shah Tahmasb II.

some time governor of

Yzad-bakhsh Bidhd nourished under Awrangzeb.

Mohammad

Ja'far Bdhib born in

1118

at Ispahan.

Xqa Ridhd Gylany died during the rule of the Afghans over Iran. Faca^at Khan Badhyy of Kashmyr, a pupil of Myrza 'abd alG-hanyy

Beg

Qabul, was alive in 21 Jolus of

Mohammad

Shah.

Mohammad Bdhym Khan

Karayly was

first at

the court of Nadir

Shah, turned subsequently a faqyr, came to Dilly and died at Labor.

Molla Saty' Kashmyry flourished under Bahadur Shah, he was a

pupil of

Myrza Darab Beg Juyd. Myrza Luf Allah Sdlim of Kashmyr

travelled in Persia

and was

alive in 1079.

Myr

'abd al- amad Sokhon, spent part of his

life

at

Agra and was

a contemporary of Arzii.
'abd al--Haqq

Samandar of Lahor.

Sayyid Qalabat

Khan Sayyid

flourished under Farrokh-siyar.

in the service of

Khwajah 'abd Allah Sdmiy was

under Mo7*ammad Shah at Labor.

A'tzam Shah, died

Myrza Zahid

'alyy Sakhd, son of

1

Myrza Sa'd aldyn Lary, was

to India during

poisoned in India in

146.

Molla 'alyy Akbar Sawdd of

Qomm, came

Mo-

hammad
By-dil.

Shah's reign.
Sdmi* a converted Hindu, was a pupil of

Mohammad AAsan

Myrza

Khadyjah Sultan Begam, a niece of Khan Walih, with whom she

was in
love.

Katzim Sharar of
(pafawy tombs.

Qomm

had an appointment in one of the

at the time of
left

IZakym IZbsayn Shohrat came

bayts.

Awrangzeb from
of about 5000

Shyraz to India and died in 1149, he

Dywan

Akhund Shdhird

of Teheran studied at Ispahan.

1

Myrza Qih Shahddat

of Balkh died

155.

Aqa 'abd Allah Shaghaf *-* of Qomm was originally a shoe(or stocking) maker but gave up his trade, and devoted himself to
literature, died previous to the siege of Ispahan.

Myr

Sayyid

Mohammad

Sho'lah

*U

son of

Myr

afyy born at

Ispahan.

He

was a physician by profession.

No. 31.]

HAYRAT.
'alyy

157
cutler,

Mohammad
Ma'niy-yab

Sakkaky Shikyb of Shyraz son of a

was

killed during the

Afghan invasion.
Shd'ir

Khan

Gul-Mo^ammad, a

pupil of

Myrza

By-dil,

died towards the end of

Mohammad

Shah's reign.

of the

Bay Tansukh Bay Shawq son of Bay Majlis Bay who was Nayib Dywane Khalicah of Agra, author of a Tadzkirah of Persian poets called Safynat al-Shawq, was in 11 70 at Agra. His Dy wan

contains about 1000 distichs.

Myr

'abd al-Baqiy

(jahbdy (wine-drinker)

was in India

at the

beginning of Awrangzeb's reign.

Mo/iammad Mah

Qddiq, cousin of

Mohammad Akram Ohanymat,

Shah.
alive in
1 1

died during the reign of

Mohammad

Shah Allah Dostgyr Cafyy a faqyr was

Kabits and Dohras.
Sayyid Hidayat 'alyy

74.

Myrza Bawshan-dhamyr, Dhamyr a Munshiy

at Surat.

"Wrote

Khan Dhamyr was

alive in

1 1

74.

Myrza

'abd al-Baqiy Tabyb a Sayyid of Ispahan was a physician in

the service of Nadir Shah.

Myr

Sayyid

Mohammad
i.

'Urn or 'alam pi*

was descended from

Sayyid Mohammad, the author of the Tafsyr Madarik.

.Hakym 'ulwy-Kh&n
in 1080,

e.

Myrza Mo7*ammad Hashim born at Shyraz

his successors.

came to India in 1111 was well received by Awrangzeb and

raised to high dignities

by

Nadir Shah carried him

to India under

away.

He

went

to

Makkah, and came again

Kazarun

Mo-

7*aimnad Shah.

Mohammad
after the

Yiisof 'drif of

lived like a

Darwysh, died

Afghan invasion in
'dliy

Persia.
lived the life of a

Myrza Mahdiy
Molla 'alyy

of

Mashhad

Darwysh.

'aliy

of Kiisar a village near Ispahan, son of a mason,

was so distinguished a penman, that in copying the Koran he wrote

first

the vowels and then the words.

He

fell

when the

'othmanlies

plundered Hamadan.
'abb/is Quly-Khan Daghistany came early to India. Myrza Mohammad Yiisof azyz was Wazyr of Ispahan, Tabryz
y

and
fall

G-ylan, died after the conquest of

Ispahan by the Afghans by a

from his horse.

'alyy 'drif,

Myrza Mo/^ammad
his father in Persia,

born in India in 1123, travelled with

in 1158.

and returned to Dilly

158

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Jay Kishen Hzzat, a Kashmyry Brahman, was the agent of Nawab

Is/jaq

Khan.
'alyy

A^mad
lfiqar-jang.

Khan

Hbrat cousin of

Nawab

Sa'adat

Khan

Dzii-

'alyy *atzym b. Nacir 'alyy resided at Agra.

Khwajah Nacir

'andalyb a

Sangham Lai

'izzat resided at

Darwysh of Agra. Agra in 1174.

He

was a pupil of

Myrza Janjanan Matzhar.

Myr
iZazyn.

'abd aX-Ghanyy a Sayyid of Tafrish

cAr^ a contemporary

of

Sayyid

Mohammad 'aqil Ghayrat of India. MoAammad Fiddyiy of Hamadan came

to India, and was

in the service of
Fath. 'alyy

Nawab Sa'adat Khan. Khan was "Wazyr of Daghistan and an

uncle of Quly-

Khan Walih.
Persia,

Shah Fdtih a Qu.fy came to India after the Afghans had conquered and died soon after on the road to Makkah.
'alyy Forugh.

Myrza Mo/ammad Myrza Fddhil

Quly-Khan.

called

Padshah Nawaz Khan a contemporary of

Myrza Nadir alzaman

Fagyh. a pupil of

Myrza

By-dil.

Mortadha Quly Firdq.

Myrza Sharaf

'alyy

Fighdn wrote Kekhtah and Persian poetry,

was a protege of afdar-jang.

Myr Shams aldyn Faqyr, born at Dilly in 1115, was a Darwysh, wrote a Dywan of 7000 bayts and two Mathnawies, and a treatise
on
versification

and rhyme, was at Dilly 1174.

Mohammad

Fdyiz of Agra wrote a

Dywan

of about 1000 bayts.

Myrza 'abd al-Ghanyy Beg Qabul of Kashmyr pupil of Darab Beg Juya, died soon after the accession of Mo/iammad Shah. Mohammad Panah Qdbil a Darwysh, was a pupil of Myrza By-dil, died under Myrza Ahmad. Moshtaq Ray Qudrat. 'icmat Allah Kdmil pupil of Myrza By-dil. Shaykh Sa'd Allah Gulshan a Darwysh of the Naqshbandy order, and a pupil of Myrza By-dil, died during the reign of MoAammad Shah. Myrza Mahdiy Kawkab was in the service of Nadir Shah. Myrza Giramy son of Myrza 'abd al-Ghanyy Beg Qabul. [9afawy. Lutf 'alyy Khan an uncle of Quly Khan Walih. Mihr 'alyy Khan Matzhar a noble at the court of Sultan JEfosayn

No. 31.]
Myrza.

HAYRAT.
of Shushtar

159
lived in the

Majyd

came to India and

at Ispahan

house

of afdar-jang.

'abd al-Bazzaq
accession of

Matyn born
jj e
[3 [

came

at the time of the

Mohammad Shah

to Dilly, lived under the patronage

called 'abd
1

of afdar-jang.
al-Eidha.

n other Tadzkirahs, erroneously

Myr Sayyid 'alyy Moshtdq of Ispahan was alive in 174. Walyy Mohammad Khan Masrwr was governor of Lar under Shah
to Dilly and died in

^Tahmasb II.

Mo7iammad Mtzam Mo'jiz of Kabul came A'qa Mohammad Kashy Mo'df. 1 162.
ings of JSTawab

Maymanat Khan Maymanat of Kashmyr was Daroghah of buildQamar aldyn Khan. Aqa 'abd al-Mawld of Ispahan died after the Afghan invasion. Myrza Hashim Mahzun was the grandson of Myrza jTahir "VVaAyd,
to India with the ambassador of Nadir

came

Shah in

154.

Myrza Mohtaram a son of Myrza 'abd al-Ghanyy Qabul. Myrza MoAammad Munshiy of Ispahan was put to death by Nadir
Shah at Dilly
for a slight fault.

Bay Anand Earn Mohhlig a Khatry, father-in-law of Tansukh Eay, and a pupil of Myrza By-dil, died in the fourth year of AAmad Shah's
reign.

His works contain 50,000 bayts.

Luf Allah Maztun, brother of

the early age of forty years.

Mohammad Na'ym

Niydz, died at

Myrza Janjanan MatzJiar a Darwysh composed poetry

and Eekhtah, was
at Dilly in
1

in Persian

174.
his poetry is mostly

Myr MoAammad Taqyy Myr

also the author of a Tadzkirah.

Eekhtah, he

is

He

was a nephew of Khan Arzu.

Eay Bajy Mall Ma'niy a brother of Imtiyaz, was alive in 1174 and did military service under Nawab Shuja' al-dawlah.

NVmat

Allah

Khan

b.

EiiA Allah

Beg under

Farrokh-siyar and

Khan held the Mohammad Shah.

office

of Qarawal

Niir Allah

Beg

JVuzhat, pupil of

Myrza 'abd al-Grhanyy Beg

Qabiil

died about the middle of the reign of

Eay Phukny Mai Mshdt was

zeb's

the

MoAammad Shah. Dywan or treasurer

of

Awrang-

Wazyr.
called

Myrza Lutf Allah Nithdr

service of

Nucrat Allah Khan, was in the

MoAammad

Shah.

Myr Zayn

al-'abidyn

Nashd of Ispahan.

160

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
birth

[CHAP.

I.

Myrza Zakyy Nadym was of noble

service of

and thirteen years in the

Nadir Shah.
'alyy

Mohammad

Khan Nizdd came

to Dilly as Nadir Shah's

ambassador, and died at Tattah on his return to Persia.

Mohammad Beg Nakliat was put to death by Nadir Shah. Myrza Namjo son of Qabul. Mohammad Eidha Ndyib. Myr Zayn al-'abidyn Nayyir of Mazanderan, of noble birth, came to Dilly under Mohammad Shah.
Myrza Grholam
'alyy

Nasym

of Amrohah.
]

Myr Na'ym

Niydz, a good physician, was alive in

174.

Myrza Mobarak Allah Wddhih was a pupil of Mohammad Zaman

Hdsikh &lj and died under Farrokh-siyar.

Mo/iammad Ma' cum Wijddn

under

b.

Mohammad Zaman
of Qandahar

JRdsikh died

Mohammad

Shah.

Myrza Ibrahym Wafd a Zamyndar

the Afghan kings.

was Munshiy of
and died

Myrza

'alyy

Acghar Wddhih. of Ispahan came

'alyy

to Dilly,

at JETaydarabad.

Myrza Sharaf aldyn

Nadir Shah.
Niir al'ayn

Wafd

of

Qomm

was in the

service of

who

sent to

Wdqif bom in the Panjab, a contemporary of him his poems for correction.

'Arzu,

'alyy

Quly Khan Wdlih of Daghistan the author of the great

His
contains 4000 bayts.
'alyy Hdtif, grandson of

Tadzkirah called Eiyadh al-sho'ara born at Ispahan in 1124.

Dywan

Myrza Abu
Afanad-yar

Yma, came

to India

and was

patronized by Qafdar-jang.

Khan

Yaktd, son of Ilah-yar Khan, died at Atzyma-

bad (Patna) during the invasion of Nadir Shah.

Yahyd Khan, of the Moghol

1079, visited Persia

tribe called Afshar,

born at Labor

when twenty

years of age but returned to India,

died 1160.

Mohammad .ffanyf Khan Ydr was the teacher of Mokhlic. MoAammad Ashraf Yaktd of Kashmyr died under Mohammad Shah.

NO. 33.]

ATISHKADAH.
jil

161

(32)

%j&\

(P.)

The

Fire temple of Adzor, being a Tadzkirah of Per-

sian poets

by Lu/f

'alyy

Beg whose

takhalluc was Adzor.

He was

born at Ispahan in A. H.

1 1

34 and was a

mem-

ber of the distinguished family of Bekdaly.

His father

was soon
to

after the birth of his son obliged to take flight

Qomm, and was

subsequently appointed governor of

Lar by Nadir Shah.

Lu/f 'alyy when a young man

made

the pilgrimage to

Makkah and

to the shrines of
title

the principal saints and hence he assumed the

of

Hdjy.

Subsequently he was attached to the service of

'alyy Shah,

Ibrahym Shah, Solayman Shah and Shah

finally

Isma'yl, and

he assumed the garb of spiritual

in the compilation of this

poverty.

He was engaged

work in A. H. 1 179, and was still alive in 1 196. (Bland's Account of the A'tesh-kadah in the Journ. As. Soc.
Lond. VII.
p. 345).

This book contains notices of 842 poets.

They

are

arranged according to the town or province in which

they

lived,

on the plan of the Haft Iqlym, and

is

at the

beginning of each chapter

respective

a short description of the

town or province.
sJl>j

Beginning J^J^.\
bayts in a
line.

Jj

-*4&SoT

c^y
lines,

Lithographed at Calcutta in 1249, 4to. 621 pp. of 21

two

MS.

copies are very rare in India.

(33)

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c_i-uJ LaM\

(P.)

Companion of the Friends, being a Tadzkirah of contemporaneous poets by Mohan La'l Anys compiled in 1 197.

162

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
sixty years of age

[CHAP.

I.

The author was about

it.

He

informs us that

when he wrote when Acaf aldawlah of Oudh

saw the Tadzkirah of contemporary poets of 2?azyn, he ordered him to compile a similar work on Indian poets.
It is

divided into two chapters, the

first

contains Musal-

man and

the second
\j

Hindu

poets.
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Contents
Myrza Atzyma'y Iksyr Ispahany came to India under Mo/^ammad He left Qacydahs, Ghazals and a Mathnawy called dyt&* j ^a^>.
Fakhir

Shah.

Mohammad

Makyn a

native of Dilly

came

to

Lucnow

in

1173, he was alive in 1197, (he died in 1221).

Mohammad Ja'far Khan Bdghib. Mohammad Burhan 'alyy Khan Bahyn. Lutf 'alyy Khan Ndtiq. Myr Mo^ammady 'itrat o^. Wajyh aldyn 'alyy Khan Baryn. Hasan 'alyy Khan Dzahyn.
Shah 'alam Aftdb.

Myrza

'inayat

Beg

Sukin.

Mahabbat Khan Mahabbat.

Nitzar 'alyy Qaryn.

Shaykh Baqa Allah Baqa.

Myrza 'abd Allah Fdyiq.

MoAammad

'alyy

Myrza 'abd Allah Bafat. Khan 'aciy. Karamat 'alyy Khan Khalyq.

Myrza 'alyy Khan Ohamyn. Mo7*ammad Eaydh Fdyidh.

Myr

Grhalib 'alyy Shdyiq.

Sharaf aldyn Shah Malul.

Myrza Ja'far 'alyy Hasrat. Myr iZaydar 'alyy Hayrdn. Katzim Beg Khan Mumhin. Myr Awlad 'alyy Zdyir. Myr Khorshyd 'alyy Belgramy Khorshyd. Myrza Mahdiy Beg Jalys. Myr Mohammad 'alyy Wdhm. Gholam iZaydar Khan Goddz. Aman Allah Muflis. Mohammad Mokram 'ayyash. Khwajah YaAya Khan Khirad. Myr Matzhar 'alyy Cdfiy. Mohammad Naqyy Naqyy. Myr Niir 'alyy Wdgily.
Second Chapter.

Ray Surup Singh Dywdnah.

Sytaldas Mokhtdr.

Panjab Ray Wdliy.

Ram-bakhsh Moty\

Bhagwan Das

JBismil.

Mohan

Lai Anys (the author of the Tadzkirah)

No. 34.]

abu' ta'lib.
Appendix, pupils of Makyn.

163

Mohammad

JETasan

Hasan.

Khayr al-zamaa Dzarrah.

Qalandar-bakhsh
Jor'dt.

Shaykh Grholam Imamy.

Ibrahym Beg Dost.

Shitab

Khiish-hal

Chand Brahman.

Ray

\izyz.

Mi^hii Lai Mdyil.

Data-Earn Bafyq.

Medy

Lai Bym&r.

Deby Prashad

Sriyil.

(34)

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Talib b.
is

(P.)

Selection of Ideas by

Mohammad Taknown
to

bryzy Ispahany a native of Lucnow, who

the European public by his Travels in Europe.

piled this

He comMr.
which
an
in

work

in A.

H. 1206 and died

this

in

1221.

Bland gives a very valuable notice of

work

he translates nearly the whole preface.

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Present to Baillie, being a selection of Persian poetry

compiled previous to A. H. 1224, by order of John Baillie,

Resident of

Lucnow and author

of the Tables of the

Arabic conjugations.

The

extracts are arranged according to subjects into

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ninety chapters

without dates or biographical notices.

title

In the preface, a Tadzkirah of the

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No.

36.]

POETS OF CALCUTTA.
the

165
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this

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appears that

he compiled

book

at Benares.
it

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title is

nogram

for 1229,

when

was compiled.
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;

on ethics
I

an abridgment of the
; *-^k *s*

Abwab

called uA-^

H*ljfl

c-jldr^I
;

a collection of Ghazals
art of letter-

called jj*

(jc^xj )

j\j

hl>

work on the
;

writing,poetic, &c. called ^dI*-Jl aas^

a collection of verses

which

may

be employed as quotations in letter-writing,

;

entitled yUai JJj6i

a treatise on the style of the ancient

;

and modern poets with specimens

sitions of his

and some compo;

own,

entitledyUJ> ^GumI^j

a treatise on the

various descriptions of poetical composition called ikJ

^s^ an
;

account of the various castes of India which has

the

title

jyjb <&/*>.

Most poets mentioned in

this book,

were contemporaries of the author and wrote also Rekhtah poetry.

Beginning ) jhl jk'i ^U-, :j

-iC^a ^til^fljas

Private collection 8vo. about 450 pp. 13 lines.

Contents

Mohammad Aslam Belgramy was

Afanady,

dead in 1229.

Mawlawy Najyb

Allah was in the service of

Nawab

166
Qasim
'alyy

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
and
lived with

[CHAP.

I.

him

in Bengal, then he

went to Dilly and

then to Benares.

He

was rather a Mawlawy than a poet.

at

Alym, Mohammad 'alym Allah resided

in 1229.

Lucnow and was

alive

Akhtar,
at

Mohammad
is

La'l a native of

Hooghly was

for a long time

Lucnow, he

now, 1853, Deputy Collector somewhere near

Cawnpore.

Amyn, Mawlawy Amyn Allah has sometimes

Bu-l-Madyti,
i.

the takhalluc of

e.

the father of Madyn.

He

was a native of Behar

and Head Professor of the Calcutta Madressa.

Isma'yl,

He died

about 1820.

Aqa Isma'yl Qazwyny.

Motzaftar 'alyy was born at Phulwary near Dynapdr,

Ah,

Myr

and was

alive in 1229.

A7miad,

Myr AAmad

'alyy alive.

Ashuftah, was
Afsos,

known by
'alyy b.

his takhalluc.

Myr Shyr

Myr

Motzaffar 'alyy came from

Lucnow

to Calcutta,
Atish,

and was attached

to the College of Fort William.

Myrza Gholam JZbsayn. Mawlawy Mohammad Mo'yn aldyn of Kakory not far from Lucnow, was in 229 Munshiy of the Court of Appeal at Calcutta.
Bismil,
1

Barqy, Shaykh Ainan 'alyy a native of Phulwary, was alive in 1229.

By-bak, Sayyid Najaf 'alyy

Radhawy

studied at Dilly, went thence

;

to Benares into the service of the Shahzadah

alive.

Bandah, Khwajah Tasyn was in the service of Mr. James Steward

and translated Layla Majm'in into Hindustany

at Benares.

verses.

He

died

Barakat, Barakat Allah Belgramy was in 1229 at Calcutta in

search of employment.

Rajah Pyary Lai was for some time Residency Munshiy at Dilly.
Bahar, Sayyid

Aman

Allah a brother of
at

Myr

'azyz Allah

Khan

who was Residency Munshiy

author.

iZaydarabad.

friend of the
alive.

Was

dead in 1229, but his brother 'azyz Allah was

Tamanna, Khwajah 'abd al-JZakym was in 1229 at Benares

in

Government employ.
Tamanna, Myrza 'alyy-bakhsh resided
friend of the author.
at

Murshidabad and was a

alqodhat
left

Thaqib,

Mawlawy Najm

aldyn

Mohammad Khan Qadhiy

is

of Calcutta was a native of Kakory, died in 1229 at Benares, and

a treatise on Algebra in Persian, which

printed, and an Arabic

Qacydah which

is

inserted in the Naf&at al-Yaman.

No. 36.]
Thabit,

POETS OF CALCUTTA.
Myrza Thabit
'alyy

167
alive in 1229. alive in 1229.

Beg of Lucnow was

Jawhar, Jawhar 'alyy resided at Murshidabad and was

Jawdat, Simbhu Nath a Khatry was a young
Josh,

man

in 1229.

Mohammad

Abu-1-Qasim,

alive.

Jowan, Myrza Na'yin Beg of Dilly was in 1229 at Benares in the

service of

Kawab Shams

aldawlah.

Jowan, Myrza Katzim 'alyy came from Hindustan to Calcutta and

was attached to the College of Port William.

Ja'far,
IZajat,

Shah

'alyy Ja'far of

Hahabad wa3 probably

of Shyraz.

alive in 1229.

Myrza Mohammad Jawad

IZamydy, Sayyid

Hamyd

aldyn Dihlawy was in 1229 in govern-

ment employ
Dilly,

at

Byrbhum.

iZurmat, jBTurmat 'alyy

Khan was born

in the neighbourhood of

he was a friend of the author.

IZbsayn,

Gholam IZbsayn Khan

resided for some time at Benares.

IZbsayny,

Myr Imam

'alyy

was a young man in 1229.

Myr Mo/jammad Hosayn

Left a Saqiy-namah, and a

of

Lucnow

died in 1205 near Benares.

Dywan

of about 6000 verses.

He

had
;

no takhalluc.
IZaqyr, Pandit

Beny Earn Kashmyry was

alive in 1229.

Haydary,

Myr

IZaydar-baksh was for some time a Munshiy of the

College of Fort William.

Was

in

1229

at Benares.

IZbsayny,
in 1229.

Myr Gholam
Bandah

IZbsayn a Sayyid of Bareilly, was alive

JEZikmat, Sayyid
lish officers,

'alyy

Khan was

in great favour with

Eng-

and was

alive in 1229.

Khadim, Sayyid Khadim 'alyy was

under Mr. N. Duncan in the

alive in 1229.

Khamosh, Bay QaMb Earn of Dilly was

advanced age of more than seventy, and

for

some time TaAcyldar

district of Benares.
left

He

died at the

a large

Dywan.

Khushgu, Munshiy

Ammar

Singh Banarsy held a government

appointment in the Coel

district.

He

compiled a short history of

Akbar's palace and of the Taj of Agra and put the Bahare Danish
into verse

and

called it

guished from the ^l^jL^f, an

{j^^j^ *^/. Urdu

This book

is

to be distin-

Translation of the Bahare

Danish by Molla-zadah of Patna.

Khiradmand,
his life in

Myr Musa

Bidha Khan spent the greater part of

Nepal.

Khush-dil, 'abd al-Kasul Kashmyry.

168

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Babu Deb Narayan Singh

Dil, Pandit

a brother of the Eajah of Benares, was

a great patron of learned men.

Narayan Das of Kashmyr

left

an elegant composition
of Oudh.

in Persian prose in praise of Sa'adat 'alyy

Dil,

Khan

Mohammad Imam-bakhsh was

Shaykh Dilawar

dead in 1229.

Dil,

'alyy a descendant of the Saint Sharaf aldyn

and a native of Behar.

He came

to Calcutta to find employment,

and

as he failed

he returned to Patna.
Dzakir Kashmyry put, at the request of the

Dzakir,

Mohammad

Eajah Udat Narayan, the story of Padmawat into verse, but died before
he had completed his task.
Dzii-lfiqar,

Myr Dzu-lfiqar 'alyy of Patna.

is

Dzawqy,
Eif'at,

Myr Mohammad Amyn

died at Ilahabad.

Eajah Mitr Jyt Singh, Rajah of 2*ikary which

friend of the author.

between

Gaya and Patna, was a

EayAan,

EayMn

aldyn, a native of Bengal, held an appointment

in the Court of Appeal.

Was
Khan

alive in 1229.

Bif at, Dzu-lfiqar

'alyy

a son of Imdad 'alyy Khan, who was

his father in his post of

Qadhiy of Murshidabad, succeeded

Qadhiy

and died on the way to Lucnow.

Eangyn, Sa'adat Yar Khan a son of MoAkim aldawlah Tahmas Beg Khan Eiimy who had come to India with Nadir-shah. Eangyn commanded for some time a part of the Nitzam of iZaydarabad's artillery, but subsequently he gave up this appointment and became
a merchant.

He

was a friend of the author and was

alive in 1229.

He

is

the author of a treatise on horsemanship, called &*{~*j* and

is

of four Dywans, one

(this is humoristic)

called
is

*^>, one

called *is# ? one *i*f

and one
It

called *is"f.

The

latter is in the
all

language of the Ladies.

the Hindustany language.
Easikh, Shaykh

would appear that they are

four in

Gholam

'alyy of Patna

was a very

fertile

Eajah Eaj Kishen had in 1229 already adopted as

Urdu poet. his own four

of the

Urdu Dywans, which had been written by Tapish. Eamaq, Mohammad 'aqil a native of Bengal is the teacher
author.

He

wrote a book called

v>^' u* O
l

an(i other

works in the

Persian language.
Earn, Lala Jawahir Singh by origin of Lahor, held for some time

an appointment in the custom department

he was at IZaydarabad.

at Ghaziypor,

and in 1229

NO.

36.]

POETS OF CALCUTTA.
JSTath

169

Kangyn, Deo

Pandit, by origin a Kashmyry, had an appoint-

ment

in Calcutta in 1229.

MoAammad Sa'yd aldyn was Qadhiy of Bareilly and alive in 1229. He was Sabiq, Mohammad 'omar, his ancestors were of Benares.
dead in 1229.
Safyr,

Calcutta and
dia

Myrza Khalyl Allah Khan came as Persian ambassador to made a great stir among the Musalman literati of Inand love for poetry.
of Kakdry.

by

his poetical talents

Sha'ir,

Mohammad

Bashid resided chiefly at Calcutta.

Shohrat, Shaykh

MoAammad-bakhsh

Died young.
an

Shawq, Sayyid Qotb alhoda, of Bareilly, visited Calcutta and Dilly

for the sake of prosecuting his studies,

and died

at Bareilly at

early period of his

was a school-fellow of the author. Sharar, of Lucnow was generally known by the name of Shah Sharar.
life.

He

Shohrat, Iftikhar aldyn 'alyy Khan, one of his ancestors had been

governor of Hooghly.
Sharar,
his

name was Sharar Myrza and he was a son

of Jan

Tapish.
fiify,

Pandit Syta Earn.

adiq, Lala Jay

Mohan

Lai a Kayeth of Benares, author of a book

on arithmetic called
adiq,

J 4^1 Vj** Myrza Mohammad Qadiq

Yrany.

Dhamyr, Lala Sukh Lai of Patna.

Dhiya, was a native of Persia

who came

to Benares.

Tapan, Shah

Nur aUaqq

of Phulwary.

Tapydah, 'abd al-AAad of Kakory.

^apish,

Mohammad

Isma'yl
is

Myrza Jan of

Dilly, his father

was a

native of Bokhara.

He

the author of the

Dywans

ascribed to

Baj-Kishen.
Tal'at,

He

died at Calcutta previous to 1229.

Shah Shams aldyn Abii-1-Faraj of Phulwary died at Calcutta.

Talib,

Myrza Abu Talib Khan of Lucnow.

Tapan, Myrza

AAmad Jan

(probably

Myrza AAmad Beg Khan of

Dilly) a pupil of Tapish.

Tzohur, Shah Tzohur aUaqq a son of

'azyz,

Nur

al-Aaqq of Phulwary.

Wajid

'alyy

Khan

of Bareilly resided in 1229 at Calcutta.

'ishrat,

Lala Hindu Pat, of Lucnow, a friend of the author.

'ashiq,

Maharajah Kalyan Singh a son of Maharajah Shitab Kay

at Calcutta.

met the author

170
'ashiq,

PERSIAN TADZKIKAHS.
Babu

[CHAP.

I.

Sryjyt Singh, an uncle of the Rajah of Benares, was a

wealthy Zamyndar and a friend of the author.

'abd al-Ba&ym of Shyraz resided at Calcutta.
'abid, 'abid 'alyy,

the author saw him at Calcutta.

Bay Sohan Lai was in 1229 Treasurer of A'caf aldawlah and came to Benares when the author was Nayib of the Eajah 'aciy, Mawlawy Khoda-bakhsh of Ghaziypiir. of Benares. Ghamyn, Nawab Hadiy 'alyy Khan. 'azyz, Bay Zorawar Singh.
'ashiq,

Ghamgyn, Mawlawy Gholam Qadir of Bampiir, where he resided

in 1229.

Gharyb, Bay Batan Lai lived at Calcutta in the house of the Bajah

Kalyan Singh.
Ghanyy, Mawlawy 'abd
at Patna.
al-

Ghanyy

of Phulwary.

Gholam iZbsayn Khan author

of the

&tj*^\j**, met
at

the author

Fadhl, Fadhl Moalla a native of

Lucnow was

Benares in 1228.

Fard,

MoAammad

Abu-1- .Hasan of Phulwary.

Fida, the author

knew him, but could not recolledf his name. Firaqy Prem Kishwar a Brahman of Dilly. Fayiq, Agha Myrza, a son of the Hakym Qamar aldyn Khan, was

a young

man

in 1229.
origin,

Fifrat,

Pandit Bidya Dhar was a Kashmyrian by

;

but

received his education at Dilly

Qatyl,

a friend of the author.

Myrza Mohammad

JEfasan

Khan was
life

a converted Khatry
at

of Dilly, he spent the greater part of his

Lucnow, where he

was Head Munshiy to the king.

Qadyr, Tzafar
'ally

resided at Lucnow, was for some time the king

of Oudh's News-writer at Benares.

Qamar, JTakym Qamar aldyn Mo7jammad Khan resided

Qudrat, Shah Qudrat Allah died at Murshidabad.

at

Lucnow.

Qasim, Myrza Abu-1-Qasim

Qacir,

Khan

of Dilly.

Mohammad Qadr

aldyn.

Qadhiy, Taqyy 'alyy

Khan was Qadhiy

of Benares.
is

Lala Kanhjy a Kayeth, a native of Patna,

p\*J\ Ailj^

the author of the

on arithmetic.

Was

alive in

1229.
at

Lisan, Myrza, 'alyy

Taqyy Khan of Lahdr studied

Patna and

Jawnpur.
the author.

Uses sometimes the Takhalluc of Taqyy, was a friend of

Lutf,

Myrza

'alyy

Lutf went to ^Taydarabad.

NO.

36.]

POETS OF CALCUTTA.

171
<J-k* <-akl

Mon'im, Sayyid Nur al-Zfaqq author of a Mathnawy called

and one

called aJJ Ij^*.

Siraj

Myrza, Myrza.

Bd

'alyy

Khan.

Mujid,

aldyn 'alyy

Khan

of

Lucnow came

to Calcutta where

he was appointed Muftiy of the Supreme Court.

the tij***
Uil <xJU)

He

translated

and other law-books into Persian.

aldyn a native of Dilly, Lord Hastings gave

Minnat,

Myr Qamar

him the

title

of king of poets at the recommendation of the

Natzim

of Murshidabad.
M.uhjt,

Was

dead in 1229.
his father

Munshiy Earn Jus a Khatry,

'ajiz

was Lala Ganga

Bishen, and his takhallu9 was

and he resided at Labor, but

MuJiyt was born in Dilly, he obtained an appointment in the Cus-

tom Department at Benares, which gave him 1200 Eupees a year.

was a friend of the author. *p -kj^ wies, as (Jj-^ kxs*

He

He
flk

is

the author of several mathna-

k*= /0

LS

&=

i
.

<^~^

|$* ^^a..
also trans-

These
lated

five

poems

are called the

Khamsahe

'ishqyyah.

He

some books on

mysticism from the Sanskrit (Hindy?) as

He

also

put the Anware Sohayly into (Hindustany or Persian?)

it

verses and gave

the

title

of cr^'a

^a=/C

Mayil,

Myr Imam-bakhsh

studied at Lucnow, was alive in 1229.

Modhtfarr, 'abd al-Hadiy a friend of the author, resided chiefly at

Calcutta where he was Munshiy.

Masrtir,

Ganga Bishen
alive in 1229.

(?).

Murshid, Lala Mithu Lai of Ilahabad was

Mo'atztzam,

Mawlawy Mohammad Mo'atztzam

(?)

of Agra.

Macruf, Babu Balhand

Singh of Benares.

Mahjur,

iZafitz

Sayf Allah a Kashmyry, a friend of the author,

died at Benares.

MocMa,
Majrti^,

Sayyid Gholam Moc&ifa was Law-officer Mahdawy, Sayyid Mahdiy 'alyy Khan of Patna.

at Byrbhiim.

Mawlawy
iZakym

'icmat Allah

Khan was

a son of the celebrated

Mawlawy

'abd al-Qadir

Khan who

resided at Benares.

Ma7iziin,

Abii-1-iZasan.

Mahshur,

'alyy "Wathiq

was a young man in 1229.

Mokarram, Mokarram
1229 at Benares.

'alyy

Khan.

Moshtaq, Pandit Madhoram, a Kashmyry Brahman, resided in

Niyaz, Gholam Ya/*ya resided at Murshidabad.

Nayrang,

Mohammad Mahdiy

'alyy

Khan

of Dilly held in 1229

z 2

172
an
office

PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
under the Government at Benares.

[CHAP.

I.

Compiled a vocabulary

of Arabic, Persian and

^Niyaz,

Turky words.
Khatry of Ilahabad a friend of the author,
'alyy

Myr Amjad

'alyy of Phulwary.

Natzmy, Lala
INatzim,
nala which

Miilraj a

composed many Qacydahs.

Shaykh Farzand
is

a quarter of the

was a Makhdum-zadah of Teliyatown of Benares, held in 1229 an ap-

pointment in Benares.
Nacir, Sayyid

Mohammad

Nacir

Khan Bahadur,

held in 1229 an

appointment at Lucnow, composed a cJ>*F* j

^V.

M'mat, Myr Ni'mat

mosque
at Benares.

'alyy of Dilly a friend of the author.

;

Na^yf, does not recollect his name

resided close to the Bishesher

Niyazmand, a friend of the author.

Niyazy, the author does not recollect his name.

Naqqad, does not recollect his name.

"WaAshat, adr aldyn

Mohammad Khan

of Dilly was physician to

Lfdat jNarayan Rajah of Benares, died in 1224.

Wila, Mazhar 'alyy

Khan

a son of Solayman

Khan was

attached
left

to the College of Fort William, he

was a friend of the author,

Persian Dywan.
Hilal,

Munshiy

Dzu-lfiqar 'alyy
'alyy.

Khan Bahadur.

Ya'qub, Khwajah Ya'qub

(37) ^JL

dL>yz <*=*

JjJl %\y lJuXmsJ Jhj

^c

(P.)

A Tadzkirah of
wab
takhallug
is

the poets of the Carnatic by the Na-

Siraj aldawlah

Mohammad Ghawth Khan, whose Atmm. He opens the book with a short
it

autobiography, from which

in A.

appears that he was born

H. 1230, and compiled

is

this

book in 1258.
the takhalluc of

This
has the

an abstract of the Tadzkirah of Rayiq which

vilAi^ 3uuJ&

title

Rayiq

is

Gholam

'alyy Mtisa

whose

title

was iJakym Baqir l/o-

No. 38.]
sayn Khan.

gulista'ne masarrat.

173
con-

He

died in 1248.

The Cub^e Wa/n

j& UA..

tains in alphabetical order, notices of ninety recent poets.

Beginning l^^^jo

^> o*^. ^Iklil

Lithographed at Madras 1258, small 4to. 225 pp.

(38)

^3UJ|

$**}

^-SLo

c^o

\jlijf

(P.)

The Rose garden

sense,

of delight, also called the Gardens of

is

by 'abd al-Ra^man whose takhalluc

in 1261 (the title
is

ShdMr. He

wrote this book at Lucnow during the reign of Amjad

'alyy

Shah

a chronogram) and he was

calls his instructor.

assisted

by Nacir 'alyyNapyr whom he

He says

in the preface that he used chiefly the Tadzkirahs

of Sar-khush, of Walih, of Shyr

Khan Lody, the ,fcJI

gAIi

of Qudrat Allah Qudrat (see Garcin de Tassy Hist, de

Hind. I. pp. 144 see also below), the ^k^W \J><s3 the }j*&}) *k<^, the ^i^iy j*&" which is a collection of chronograms made in 1268 by Matzhar al-lZaqq,
la Litt.
9

the klii -ki-j^ of

(see

No. 13)

Mannu Lai, the Mti u^\Xc of Rasikh and the Album of Khashi' (flourished in
poems and
single verses and

1092).

This

is

a selection of

bon-mots from poems arranged according to the subject

and divided into

there are

five

chapters

&**.

In the fourth

chronograms on the death of celebrated men,

placed in 533, whereas he died 538, that

but the dates are not always correct, thus the death of

Zamakhshary

is

of Ghazzaly in 504 whereas he died in 505, &c.

Beginning ~yvjv cy^k^Uj *Ly \j

sS

^jls\

Lithographed at Cawnpore in the Moctafa Press 1267, 8vo. 562 pp.

174

PERSIAN TADZK1RAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

(39)

j^Jl
Celestial Place of

o*
;

(P.)

The

worship

being an anthology of

Persian poetry selected chiefly from the

Wa/fcyd, Tzohury, Cayib,

Dywans

of Tahir

Nacir

'alyy,

Myr

Najat, &c.
is

without biographical notices. In the beginning

account of

a short
p.

Myr Acyly Qommy

contemporary

(see

Atishkadah

307)

who was

of Molla

Wa^shy,

of

Nury

Lary and of Hatim Kashy and who may possibly be

the compiler of this very rich but apparently planless
collection.

Beginning Motj MaAall

^^ jj^
folio

Jj;^**^ ^>^,
1

*$

^f&& U^* **
1

804 pp. 31

lines,

a very fine copy.

(40)

j** C_i*uJ jl*S

Collection of

^>
This

(P.)

The humble

Myr.

Myr

is

appar-

ently not identical with

Myr Taqyy.

It contains verses

from celebrated poets on various subjects without biographical notices.

The

subjects are alphabetically arranged.

Bg. J^i^ *J*iji *^M> jjt" sJ^o A* JJUi \*^= Xss/Cj v^5^* Mdty Ma/iall 268 pp. 15 lines copied in A. H. 1165.

(41)

C)U.

^J|

fl& LJu^aJ h^'sb**

9,

<*&<>a>

(P.)

The Garden of poetry being an anthology of verses of the great masters by Nitzam aldyn Khan b. Mohammad Naqyy of Bahadurganj. He quotes never more
than one bayt from the same author in succession, and

NO. 42.]

MYR TAQYY.
He

75

gives no biographical notices, he follows to

some extent
the Tadz-

the chronological order.

kirahs of

says he used

Taqyy Awfoidy,

of Cayib, of

probably Tahir Nacrabady), of Siraj

Myrza (he means aldyn Arzd and of

im,\j.

Walih and the JUa^l eJu'UaJ and the L^iUaJ ; lji/. Beginning **i>L.|^U.&! ^s^x J^- ^1 ^J^ &&S&"
Topkhanah 8vo. about 100 pp. of 9
lines.

(42)

j* &

o*=j*o CJJU5

\y*)\

e*3

(P.

U.)

Pithy Sayings of the poets, being a Tadzkirah of Rekhtah writers by

was Myr.
his

Though

Myr Mohammad Taqyy, whose takhalluc usually the title Myr is put before
for-

name, Shorish thinks that he was a Shaykh. The

title

mer

indicates a descendant from 'alyy,

and the

latter

from

Abu

Bakr.

He was

a nephew

of Arzii and a native

of Agra, but after his father's death he removed to Dilly

in order to be near his illustrious uncle, Arzii,

rected his verses. After the year

1 1

96,

who corhe went to Lucnow

where Acaf aldawlah allowed him a pension of two or

three hundred Rupees a month, and he died in that city

between 1215 and 1221, near one hundred years of age.

Qasim blames him

for his conceit

and

for

making

in his

Tadzkirah ill-natured remarks on his contemporaries.

Myr

wrote this book about one year after the death of

p.

Mokhlic which happened in 1164, see

There occurs in
but
it
it

159 supra,

in the life

was

clearly inserted
is

Dard the date 1196, long after the book had been
of
:

completed, this

proved by the following facts

it is

put

into the midst of the extracts, instead of forming part of

the biography

Myr's Tadzkirah

is

mentioned by iJayrat;

176

re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

who wrote in 1174, and it has been used by Shorish who died in 1195 moreover Arzii, who died in 1 169, was still alive when it was written.
see p. 159 supra,
;

It contains near

one hundred very short biographies

which, as well as the observations on their verses, are

written in Persian.
nition of

In the preface
:

is

the following defi-

Rekhtah poetry

^jmfl j*>

j^ eu~
OiUj

j*

sS

ilsi,

^ jd

*$

JJUJ idxl^j

^i

Axir

Au

jjfo;

te^^

^ ^1 Jlj*\& JJj*J

&$ *J>.i

^l$l

JU*' jl

<^

tS*"^

fyS>'

taJfe^***

t/fl'Jli

-*J?j *i3> ^.ii

"

Be

it

known

that

up

to this day,

no book has been

poets.

written containing a record of the

Rekhtah

Rekh-

tah means poetry, which

is

in the style and

manner of

Persian poetry, but in the language of the exalted court

of Dilly.

Consequently the compilation of this book

title

which has the

Deccan,
because

of Pithy Sayings of the poets has

its

been undertaken.
I
it

Though Rekhtah had

origin in the

do not begin with the poets of that country,

has not produced one great master.
I
I

do there-

fore not

commence with them, but

have no intention

entirely to omit them, but shall

mention some of them."

In the conclusion of the book he gives some further

details

on Rekhtah

style

'

*&i) +i)A

il&ji 4Ua^J) & Jc ^

^i.

r vo)

o^^

&.xh'i

NO. 42.]

MYR TAQYY MYR.

177

fftf-

U>-1 b

^f) ) **j>j&i ijfcM

J^y*

ltA

fT*

*;U

^kijj)

L**-J

^Afc f**^U ^Us"

AAjLa^

0*| UP)*l* AaxL,

e^-J

X,.>! fs-^l S;iJo

jyj ***;

uf/j

^-^ cJ*ir*j

^1 J

^i** ^ ^T
\_t-jj* }

$jJ

L^X*

u*"Uj

*$

\^J^

L^^l ^1

-lyj)

\*JmS"

&&+ jC\Ji

jyisxX^O

tUjOj C&4U

^j u-^^

cQ

"
I

Be

it

known

that

Rekhtah

is

of several kinds,

which
1.

will explain to the extent of

is

my

knowledge.

One

Micra'

Persian, and one Hindee like the fragment of

2.

Amyr
3.

Khosraw.

Secondly, half the Micra'

like the verses of

is

Persian

and the other half Hindee,

Myr Mo'izz.
is

The

verbs and prepositions are Persian but this

4.

objectionable.
is

They use Persian

it

construction, this

allowable to the extent

agrees with the construction

is

of the
if it is

Rekhtah idiom

contrary to the

known only to poets but Rekhtah grammar it is objectionthis

is

able. It is to

be observed that this

one of the methods

it.

followed by poets, and that I have equally adopted

If

the Persian construction

is

in the spirit of the

it.

Rekhtah
no longer

language there

is

no harm in adopting

5.

Yham was

much

in

vogue with former poets but now

is

it is

in use, there

no harm in
the

it, if it is

witty and natural.

Yham means

that

word on which the meaning of

178

re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

the verse depends has two significations, one obvious and

the other far-fetched, and
it is

the latter which

I

is

intended

by the
prizes

poet.
all

The

style

which

have adopted com-

the figures of speech as buns, resemblance of

corresponding words in rhyme and measure, &c."

Beginning
Mr.

^-^ j J}~ u^**'

]

*$

tf^d^*

****

**->

J. B. Elliott, C. S. has obliged

me

with the loan of his copy,

which was written at Lucnow in 1212, and belonged once to Sir

Gore Ouselev,

8vo. about

150 pp.

(43)

j^Jjf^^

la

^foJ

(P.)

The Tadzkirah

of R^khtah poets by Fat^ *alyy

who

is

usually called 'alyy jrTosayny

Gurdezy compiled
after
It

at Dilly

in 1165, or six years after the death of

Anjam, which
the death of

happened in
Ishtiydq,

1 1

59,

and a few years

in

which took place

1161.

appears from

Dzoka
still

voce Yusof, that he

was a great Cufy Shaykh and

Qasim who wrote in when Dzoka 1221, speaks of him as if he was alive. Gurdezy says in the preface, that he was induced to compile this book
alive

wrote, even

because the accounts of poets in other Tadzkirahs were

very invidious.

He

alludes evidently to Myr's

Tadzkirah

of which this appears to be a somewhat better arranged

edition.
It
is

written in

Persian and contains about

one hundred biographies in alphabetical order.

Beginning \~2))m ^j^-Jf*" J^^ y&" ^'cUj'

Mr. Hall has had the goodness
written in 1180 and
is

to lend

me two

copies,

one was

very correct, and the other was copied 1216,

library, small 8vo.

and belonged once to Tippoo's

There
13
is

156 pp. 13

lines.

also a

copy in the As. Soc. Beng. No. 193, about 200 pp.

lines.

No. 44.]

qa'yim.
j&3 ^oJl rrf uiftJUJ i&#3
of pithy

179

f44)

(P.)

The Depository

Sayings by Qiyam aldyn

Mohammad
Dilly,

Qdi/lm of Chandpiir.
office

He went

early

to

and obtained there an

under the emperor, but

now, he says in his short autobiographical notice inserted

in this book,

owing

to the decay of the empire, the string

is

which has kept the servants of the emperor together

broken and they drop like pearls on the ground of humiliation.

is

Every one turns

his face to another side,

and

obliged against his will to prefer emigrating to another

place to remaining.

He
1

died in

21

or

207.

The

title is

a chronogram for

68 when he compiled

this book.

He

denies in the preface every acquaintance with the preced-

ing two Tadzkirahs, saying that no biography of Rekhtah

poets had ever been written, but he choses so frequently the

same extracts
his assertion,

as his predecessors, that

doubt the truth of

though

his

book undeniably contains much

it

original matter.

He

divides

into three chapters or

2.

periods *3xb

1.

Ancient poets.

On

the compositions
tiljj***"

of the poets of the middling period

3.

^b~,\*

($ J*>

Modern

poets.

This

is

the most valuable work for

the early history of Hindiistany literature.

Beginning

In the Moty MaAall

is

the autograph, 8yo. about 150 pp.

Some
it

places are left blank particularly towards the

is

end of the book, and

to all appearance

merely a rough copy, which as the author came

it,

into difficulties about the time he compiled

finished.

has probably never been

I had

it

transcribed for

my

use,

but had unfortunately not

time to make an abstract of the work when I was at Lucnow, and had
access to the original, and as the original
is

very illegibly written,

the copy

made from

it is

incorrect, I plead this as an apology for the

mistakes which
poets.

may have

crept into the subjoined

list

of

Rekhtah

180

re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

(45)

fffyffi
Nawab

(R)

The Garden

of Ibrahym, being a biographical Diction'alyy

ary of about 300 Rekhtah poets, by the

Ibrahym Khan, who had the

Nacir-jang

title

of

Arnyn aldawlah

and the takhalluc of Khalyl and of iJal.

He was

born at Patna, and his mother's grandfather was

the learned Moll a

Mohammad Nacyr who was

a pupil of
died dur-

Akhund Molla Shah Mo/zammad Shyrazy and

ing the middle of the reign of

Mohammad
office

Shah.

'Alyy

Ibrahym was honoured with the friendship of Warren

Hastings, and held under
trate at Benares.

him the
1

of Chief Magis-

He

died in

008. Jorat wrote the followi&JUfi J\j>a

ing chronogram on

his death

^^ U*

J y.

Yiitof 'alyy and Shorish mention

'ishqy under Hk\.

He left

him under Khalyl and besides this Tadzkirah a memoir

is

on the
8vo.
I.

trial

by

ordeal,

which

printed in the As. Res.

p.

389, and two or three Tadzkirahs of Persian

alludes to

poets.

He

two of them

in the preface without

giving any details or even their

in a letter dated

titles.

Mr.

J.

B. Elliott

Patna, 19th July, 1852, informs

is

me

that one of the Persian Tadzkirahs

called

Kholacat

alkalam and contains Mathnawies, and the other Co/zofe

Ibrahym, containing Qacydahs, Ghazals, &c. The former

is

very rare and the latter probably not extant.

relatives,

"

have
all

made, he continues, inquiries from

that I can
for the

&c. and

make out

is,

that he collected materials (poetry)

it.

work, but did not live to complete

have two

volumes of unarranged materials.

the Bayadh and critical notices of

But he did complete

all

the poets, this

is

is

what Mr. Bland

calls

the Co^of.

It

a very thick,

No. 45.]
closely written 8vo.
it

'alyy ibra'hym.
and
is I

181
I

believe unique,

met with
159,
"

by mere accident."
printed
Elliott

In a letter to Mr. Bland which

is

in

the

Journ.

Roy. As. Soc. IX.

p.

Mr.

gives the following further details.

is

The

Kholacat alkalam

appropriated

to

selections

from,

and abstracts of the Mathnawies

of seventy-eight poets,

who have produced

style of

the most approved works in that

is

poetry.

It

contained in two large

quarto
lines

volumes of 2005 pages, each page containing four

in

breadth and twenty-one

in
I

length.

To

give some
that a

idea of the extent of the work,

large royal octavo
is filled

may mention

volume of 694

closely written pages

poets.

solely

with the biographical notices of 3263

The

poetical extracts of this scarce

work are not

it

in

my
it

possession."

From Mr.

Bland's notice of the Bayadh

in 1205.

appears that the author completed

Now

as

he had completed two Persian Tadzkirahs previous to

1195 and

as the Co//of

have never been completed, he

must have written another Tadzkirah, with the name of

which we are not acquainted.
poets on a very large plan in

Yusof 'alyy Khan informs

that he was engaged in compiling a Tadzkirah of Persian

1

180.

This Tadzkirah was compiled during the years 1195

and 1196, and

extracts,

is

distinguished by the copiousness of the

and by the pains which the author has taken in

It

fixing the dates.

appears that he entered into corre-

spondence with most contemporary poets to obtain information of themselves, and extracts from their
for insertion.

Dy wans
^'^;
hand,

The

biographies are in Persian.

Beginning

^^

c^^l ^

^>~l ^-JX-U a^-> JK

As. Soc. Beng. No. 45, 4to. about 800 pp. 19

lines, a fair

but unfortunately not very correct.

182

re'khtah tadzkikahs.

[Chap.

I.

(46)

'Jfe ffp
of Sayyid
called

(P.)
is

The Tadzkirah
familiarly

Gholam JEZbsayn who

takhalluc

Myr Bhayna and whose

is

He was a native of Patna and a nephew of Molla Myr JVahyd. He was first a pupil of Myr Baqir who had the poetical names of Hazyn and of Tzohtir, and who died previous to 1193; and subsequently of Myrza Ghasyta 'ishqy. He was a good improvisatore
Shorish.

and had written, when he compiled

this book, a Persian

Dywan
ticism.

of about

4000

verses most of

which dwell on mys-

He
in

died in 1195, and he probably compiled this

latest date that occurs in it is

book

1193; for the

1192, and

men who
It

died

in

1194 are mentioned as

title

being

alive.

has no preface or

page, nor does

is

it

appear

from
it,

the

autobiography

that Shorish
article

the

author of

(though he speaks in the

on Shorish
I

in the present tense,) the only authority

for ascribing
it

which

have

^^^ pic

the postscript which runs \j>;j* j \Ji< al AJ. It contains 314 short bioto
is

him

graphies written in Persian with extracts.

Beginning ^^ij\2>
Mr. B.
heard
15
of,

*"-$

s^6 \jtjte*^*j*k'm

m^*J

J.

Elliott

possesses the only copy of this book I have

it

and has kindly lent

tome;

a small 4to. about 500 pp.

lines.

(47)

^*

^It^A Jfi

L_ft~^J

u?^ A

V^

(P")

The Hindy Tadzkirah, by Gholam Hamdany Muphqfy. He was of a good family of Amrohah in the Moradabad
district,

and spent

his early years in Dilly

where he used

to hold

Mosha'arahs or poetical assemblies, and came to

No. 48.]
celebrity as early as

MUCHAFY.
1195.

183

Subsequently he went to

Lucnow, and

it

would appear from 'ishqy he supported

himself by commerce.

He

died according to the Gul-

shane Bekhar about the year 1243.

When he wrote this

Tadzkirah,in 1209,he had composed two Persian Dywans, one in answer to Nacyry Nayshapiiry and the other

Urdu Dywans, a Shahnamah which comes down to the geneology of Shah 'alam, an Urdu Dywan containing verses which he had made at Dilly and a
containing original poems and three
Persian Tadzkirah, a part of a

rough copy of a Persian

were stolen from him.

Dywan

in the style of Jalal

Asyr, and one in the style of Nacir 'alyy, but both these
It

appears from the Gulshane

Bekhar

that he continued his literary activity after he

this book,

had written

and composed three more Rekhtah

poets.

Dywans, and another Tadzkirah of Rekhtah

tor

He wrote this Tadzkirah at the request of his instrucMyr Mosta^san Khalyq, and inserted in it very full
who
flourished

biographies written in Persian of about 350 Rekhtah

poets

from

Mohammad Shah

to his

own

time, paying particular attention to the biographies of

contemporaries, with most of

acquainted.

whom

he was personally

Beginning

I;

js*

u>U,|

ks^a f^fyc

<*.<

*J>S>

u/i^*&*

As. Soc. N. 142 8vo. about 400 pp. 14 lines copied in 1219, not
very correct.

(48;

j&c
He

\SiS

(p.)

The Tadzkirah
Mojrim.

of 'ishqy of Patna a son of the poet

used to write Persian poetry, and his verses

were corrected by his father, and by Shah

Mohammad

184

ItE'KHTAH TADZKIItAHS.
These are
all

[CHAP.

I.

Wafa Wafd.
of his
life

the details which he gives us

under the

letter 'ayn.
is
it.

The
is

latest date

which

occurs in this book

1215, this

probably the time at

which he completed

It contains in alphabetical order

439 short biographies of Rekhtah

sian without a preface.

poets, written in Per-

Beginning $J\
Patna,

^
is

ty>d\

gf*

4*)i***- f>'

&"400 pp.

A carefully written
who has
17
lines.

copy

in possession of

Mr.
it,

J. B. Elliott of

obliged

me

with the loan of

8vo. about

(49)

<ikJ \jj> lJuA-oJ o^*

y&

(H).

The Rose garden

in

of India,

by Myrza Lutf. His father

Lutf wrote this

Qasim Beg Hijry, was a native of Astrabad and came

1154, with

Nadir-shah to Dilly.

tadzkirah at the request of Mr. Gilchrist in 1215.

This
I

is

the fullest of the

Rekhtah Tadzkirahs which

It contains

have seen, and includes only the names of those persons

obtained some celebrity as poets.

who have

about sixty articles in alphabetical order.

Beginning ^J

^1 o^ jL\ f-J*" d Ub Or^j

8vo. about
is

)}

^r'^;

Mr. Hall has a copy large

600 pp. 17
collection.

lines.

copy

of nearly the same appearance

in

my

(50)

k'i

6aa

l-j>*L

U4s**J

\yt&i\

jLc

(P.)

The Touchstone
is

of poets being a Tadzkirah of Rekhtah

poets by Khiib Chand, a native of Dilly,

whose takhulluc

Dzoka.

He gives

under the

letter

dz an account of his

No

51.]

dzoka'.

185

ancestors, but says very little of himself.

His grandson

informed
this

me

that he died in 1846, A. D.

He

left

besides

book a Dywan, some Persian poetry, and some He undertook this comelegant compositions in prose.
pilation at the request of his teacher

Myr Nacyr
it

aldyn
it

Napyr

usually called

Myr

Kalhi in 1208 or 1213, but

for

appears that he continued making additions to

more

than thirty years, the

It

last date

we

find in it

being 1247.

contains in alphabetical order an account of near

1500 poets who flourished from the commencement of

Hindustany poetry

to the author's time with specimens

of their writings. It abounds in repetitions and inaccuracies of every description,

and contains many persons who

It
is

have never dreamt of writing poetry.

without

exception the most uncritical labour of the kind.

biographies are in Persian.

The

Beginning
Mr. Hall's

>

y^jSi <*SiL> iS ay*

)j

^j^d

A**

^
(P.)

collection, large 8vo. near

1000 pp. 15

lines.

(51)
poets
Ju9
is

jjw* JjaJl

JM

f A >

aAs^^o^c

Excellent Selections being a Tadzkirah of Hindustany

by the Nawab Myr

Sarwar and whose

Mohammad Khan whose takhultitle is

A'tzam aldawlah.

The

title

of the book does not occur in the preface, but in

verses of Sayyid Ghalib 'alyy

some

Khan

towards the end

of the

work which form a chronogram

it is

for 1216,

when the
it

book was compiled. There are other chronograms in

1215, and in the postcript

for

stated that the chrono-

gram of the work

This

is

c\s^

lfcL

e^**j

which gives 1242. which

may

be the date
it

when
1219.

the book was completed, or

perhaps when

was

copied.
is

The

latest date

have

observed in the text

2 B

18G

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
near
1

[Chap.

I.

It contains in alphabetical order

200 biographies

of

Urdu

poets in Persian with short extracts from their

works.

This

may

be considered a somewhat improved

edition of the preceding Tadzkirah.

Beginning
Mr. Hall's

\j^^y

\-f*)$j

*M

f>^

c**'.

collection 8vo. about

6700 pp. 15

lines.

(52)

jfc *cj=*

(P.)

Rare Collection being a Tadzkirah by Sayyid Abu-1-

Qasim of Dilly who

is

usually called Qudrat Allah Qadiry

and whose takhalluc

is

Qasim.

Among his

forefathers he

counted Isma'yl Ghawrbandy and Sayyid Fadhil Gujraty, a Saint, whose tomb is at Gujrat and up to this day a Qasim was in Arabia a pupil of place of pilgrimage.

Mawlawy Fakhr
Khan.
distichs

aldyn, in poetry, of Hidayat Allah

Khan
7000

Hidayat, and in medicine, of

Hakjm Mohammad
a

Sharyf

In

1221 he had written

Dywan

of

and a Mathnawy on the Mi'raj in the measure of

the

verses

Mathnawy of Jalal aldyn Rumy containing 30,500 (?) and a Mathnawy in the measure of the Bostan of
;

5200

verses

on the miracles of 'abd al-Qadir.

title is a

He

died

about 1246. The

chronogram

for

1221 the date

of the compilation.

The

biographies

are

in

Persian

and alphabetically
It

arranged.

The specimens

are well chosen.

contains

about 800 biographies and seems to be chiefly founded

upon the preceding Tadzkirah.

Beginning ^jSJoUll^fc^ Jbi
Mr. Hall's
copy, and one in
*S

^UJ o^Lai

J^j,
;

collection large 8vo. about

my

collection

800 pp. 15 lines a modern transcribed from the same original,

from which Mr. Hall's has been taken.

No.
(53)

53.]

>hq.

187

^c lJ*uJ

&tek

(P. H.)

Periods of poetical composition by Shaykh

Gholam
father,

Mo^yy

aldyn Qorashy of Myrath (Meerut).

His

Shaykh Ni'mat Allah

assisted

Niamy, was a good Persian poet

in the arranging of

and wrote a thick Dywan,

which he
This gave

him when only twelve

years of age.

him a

taste for poetry

and he wrote himself a

Dywan

in

which he used the takhallu9 of Mobtala.

ing however his studies.

Subsequently

he devoted much of his time to archery, without neglect-

He

learned Arabic grammar,

it

but having a weak chest he was as

seems obliged to

abandon

it.

When Shah

'alam came from Patna to Dilly

title

he gained the friendship of one of his courtiers, whose

his takhalluc,

was Nawab Najaf Khan, and his name Ibrahym Beg, and Alam, he was induced by him to write
another

Dywan

in

which he used the takhalluc of

700
verses, it is in the

'ishq

and a Persian Mathnawy containing the story of Shahrokh and Mahrokh

of the
(

in about

measure
title

Mathnawy

of Jalal aldyn

Riimy and has the

m ^^i.

He

also wrote

a Persian Tadzkirah which

has the
fills

titles

of <j^

^*^
The
also

and of
latter

^^ ^^
name
is is

j^-i

and

about 1280 pages.

for 1187.
it

a chrono-

gram
pages,

He
title

wrote an Insha of about 200

a chrono-

has the
1 1

of

Jj^y^o J\*~ which

gram
A** *
1

for

99, and a

treatise

on chronograms

called

y\j~

In
$ )

1220 he composed the

^i^

j*^ and Jp&*A

this

(i*)

gU!,

The latter treats on Cufism. He wrote

two chapters
tftdt*

Tadzkirah in 1222,
It is divided into

this date is contained in the title.

the

first

contains

notices of upwards of a hundred

Rekhtah

poets,

and the

second notices of Persian poets of the same period.

biographies have the advantage of being original.

His

2 B 2

188

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
is

[Chap.

I.

Beginning
the second part

wanting.

Private collection 8vo. 484 pp. of 15 lines, the greater portion of

is

wanting.

(54)

c^ &\y6
m

(H.)
of Lahor.
to

The Tadzkirah
It

of
in

Beny Narayan Jahdn

was compiled

1812

A. H. 1227 and dedicated

Mr. Roebuck, at whose suggestion the work was undertaken.

The author

gives in Hindustany the takhalluc, name,

place of residence and the

name

of the teacher of about

1 50 Rekhtah poets and specimens of their writings, but The compilation is wanting in research. not one date.

Beginning L

I**-

^^

{i

/*

'i&Jk
lines, beautifully

As. Soc. Beng. No. 89, 8vo. of about 300 pp. 13

written under the superintendance of the author in 1812.

Mr.
la

Garcin de Tassy has made good use of this book in his Hist, de
Lit.

Mind.

(55)

tU3

**df

(H.)

The Nosegay
compiler
is still

of pleasure being selections of Persian

and R^khtah poetry by

alive

Mannu Lai made

in

252, the

and resides in Calcutta, his native

matter and

town.

The
into

extracts are arranged according to

divided into seven chapters VL*tiU, which are sub-divided

numerous heads

called ji

The

first

eight chap-

ters contain Persian poetry,

and the seventh, which begins

No. 57.]
in page 395,

she'ftah.

189

R^khtah
t

poetry, the

names of the poets are

*^'

printed in the margin, in red ink.

Beginning

jlyx

fjK

^ J^

ty.

Beautifully printed in types, Calcutta

f**^ 1252=1836

folio

463 pp.

(56)

>W j&

(P.)

tafa

The Rose garden without thorns by the Nawab MocKhan Bahadur who has in Rekhtah the takhalluc

of SheYtah and in Persian of /Zasratry, he resides at

Dilly and began to compile this book in 1248 and completed
it

in 1250, he

was then twenty-six years of

age.

It contains
sian,

about 600 very short biographies in Per-

he seems to have chiefly used the Tadzkirah of

It is

Qasim.

more

correct than

Beginning

\Jl*"*i$j)a

most other Tadzkirahs. ^t^^. ^s^ cU^-u, J.*. ar

1253=A. D.
1837, 8vo.

Lithographed at Dilly, second edition, in

383 pp.

(57)

a^U

^
is

(H.)

The Rose garden without autumn by JF/akym Sayyid Gholam Qofob aldyn, whose takhalluc is Barin. His
family was of 'arab-saray which

about

five

miles south

of Dilly, but his grandfather settled at

practised as physician and died in

Agra where he 1 259, the author was

born at Agra.
This

may

be considered a translation of the preceding

Tadzkirah into unintelligible Hindiistany, with some

idiotical

remarks.
*>^.
{Lf

Beginning

c^*Lc pJyljIy)

^^.

Mr. Hall has had the goodness to lend me a copy of this work, large 8vo. about 300 pp. 21 lines.

190

re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

(58)

iryji

Jijjjr* l^V^ y$s*

v^i

(H.)
poets,

Selections
viz.

from the most celebrated Hindustany

Walyy, Dard, Sawda, Myr Taqyy Myr,

Jorat,

Myr

Hasan, Nacyr, Mamniin, Nasikh, Mulchand, Zawq, and

Mumin Khan with a few popular songs and an introduction on the different kinds of Hindustany verses by Mawlawy
Imam-baksh Cahbayiy, Professor of Persian
College.
in the Dilly

The author

is

near sixty years of age and acat Dilly.

knowledged the best Persian scholar

His other
extracts are

works will be described in their place.

The

preceded by short biographical notices written in Urdu.

Beginning K

JL

*^V

^^ UV **"-

Lithographed at Dilly 1844 A. D. 8vo. 273 pp.

(59)

^jU te.'jf

(H.)

An
is

Anthology from R^khtah poets without biogra-

phical notices,

by Mawlawy Karym aldyn of Dilly who now teacher of the Hindustany language in the Agra

College, he

may

be thirty-five years of age.

After the

publication of this book, he edited a kind of periodical

called &5j jl, containing the

poems made by the memit

bers of a

Mosha arah

of Dilly, but

died soon for want

will be

of support.

His other literary labours

mentioned

in their place.

Beginning

fc

^S*** *UJy %#$/**

folio

^j

^f+'.'jbt^Jv*
legible.

Lithographed at Dilly 1261=1845

330 pp. hardly

NO.

61.]

KARYM

AI.DYN.

191

(60)

Mi^'fijft*-**^ &** L^N*^

History of

'*j>&

(H.)

A
who

Urdu

poets chiefly translated from Garcin

lit.

de Tassy's Histoire de la
is

Hind, by F. Fallon, Esq.

now

a teacher in the Agra College and

Karym

aldyn with some additions, but also several omissions and

hardly any improvement, the biographies are in Hindiistany.

For a

notice of this book, I refer to Hall's erudite

remarks in the Benares Magazine.

Beginning

**-** ^ yf X

^U ^1

^/&

Lithographed at Dilly, 1848, 8vo. 504 pp.

(6i)

y^
Urdu
poets by

^
which
title
is

(p. h.)

Garden without equal, being Elegant Selections from

Persian and

informs us in the preface

Mohammad Ibrahym. He that Mohammad Uosayn had

extracts from Persian

some time ago published elegant

poets,

and that he requested him to make a new edition,

and

this led

him

to compile this book,

it

would

appear embodies the said extracts.

The

a chro-

nogram

for

A. H. 1265.
is

The book

divided into two parts the

first

is

called

^^j^UJI 5I^ and contains extracts

chiefly Ghazals,

from

50 or 52 ancient and modern Persian

out notices of their

poets,

72

pp.,

and the

second part contains extracts from 187

lives,

Urdu

poets with-

249 pp.

192

re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.
^jAx*.

I.

Beginning
Lith. at

^a
is

gijjgd

JU*I

$*

li *'

dj^jHj

Bombay

1265, 8vo. 19 lines in a page.

Executed with
title

great care, there

'dr.*

an edition of 1266 which has the

of Majma'

(62)

J^JcUl^i

*/*

(P.)

Tadzkirah of Persian poets by Yiisof 'alyy Khan who

compiled this work at Murshidabad in 1180 and completed
it

in

184 and died previous to 1195.

It contains in alphabetical order

about three hundred

short biographies of Persian poets from the beginning of

poetry to the author's life-time.

He

informs us in the

postscript that he intended to add

two volumes containit

ing the history from 'alamgyr to the year 1184, but

is

very likely that he has not carried out his plans.

The
Bg.

book has no preface.

porary poets

The appendix

contains contem-

who have not been

noticed

by Arzu.

Large 8vo. 642 pp. 11

lines,

copied in 1213 from a

MS. which had

been executed in 1195, this volume came accidentally to hand, after

the preceding sheets had been printed, this
is

the cause

why

it

has

not been noticed in

its

place in page 161 before No. 33.

* Besides the Tadzkirahs described in this catalogue, Mr. Hall in an

article in the

Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Vol.

:

XVII.

p.

542 mentions the

(see

following ones

Majma'

alintikhab
I. p. 1

by Shah

MoAammad Kamal

Journ.

Asiatique Serie IV. Vol. rae Jahangyr

;

and Vol.

II. p. 361)

Tadzkirahe Sho'a'alyy
j

Shahy Tadzkirah by

Myr Mohammad

Tirmidzy

Tadzkirah by

Myr Fakhr

aldyn

Tadzkirah by Abu-1- IZasan

Tadzkirah

by Myrza Jawan-bakht Jahandar Shah.

No. 62.]

yu'sof 'alyy kha'n.

193

Contents of the appendix

A'caf, this is

the takhalluc of Acaf-jah (see p. 153 supra).

his

His
held

forefathers

were of Ttiran,

grandfather,

'abid

Khan

under 'alamgyr the rank of four thousand, and

aldyn

his father Grhaziy

Khan

Fyruz-jang rose under the same sovereign to the rank

is

of seven thousand, which

India.

the highest rank that

is

bestowed in

Acaf-jah was under

Mohammad Shah

Cubah-dar of the

whole Deccan and died in 1160.

He

wrote good Persian poetry.

Mohabat-jang, his father was in the service of

MoAammad A'tzam
same
prince.

Shah a son of 'alamgyr, and he was

in the service of the

Under Parrokh-siyar
dar of Patna.

his fortunes

changed frequently, but in the

he was appointed Qtibah-

beginning of the reign of

Mohammad Shah

He

died in 1170, of dropsy.

A' lam aldawlah -Hajy

MoAammad Khan Bahadur was

'alam
:

generally

known by the name

Patna.

of

-ffajy

his father

came

as a

merchant to

A 'lam

aldawlah was governor of Tirhoot and a patron of

it
sl

the author of this Tadzkirah,

seems he was

alive in 1180.

Kama! aldyn Khan Ahqar

his father

Kashmyry, came

after the death of

from Dilly to Bengal where he resided in 1180.

'alyy Tajryd, his father

Myr Mohammad
under 'alamgyr
I.

was of Tazd, and came

to the Deccan, where he married the daughter of

Myr Mohammad

Shafy' Tazdy.

Tajryd was born at Awrangabad in

1116, he studied at Ispahan, and returned about the time of the invasion of Nadir Shah by sea to India.

He

remained for some time in

the Deccan, and came in 1150 to Bengal.

In 1165 he

sailed

from

Hooghly

to Arabia for the sake of

making the pilgrimage, and came

back to Bengal in 1169, and in 1180 he resided at Murshidabad and 1U &JLj +j &A4JI// &d[s: K aJUj ~ (j-^s^ had written

^^

which treats on ascetics

y ^a^o

>Uil

j& &JLj

j&

cUfji j&

&JLj

Myr Mortadha

Haydar, in poetry a pupil of

Myr Mohammad

Afdhal Thdbit, came to Bengal under Shuja' aldawlah and resides now,
1180, in that province, he has written a Dy wan of about 10,000 bayts.

Myr

Baqir

who has the

is

title

of Mokhlic 'alyy

takhalluc of Khorram,

a relation of the late 'alyy

Khan and the Wirdy Khan

to Bengal
is

and composes Eekhtah and Persian poetry.

Myr Mohammad Taqyy

under the
late 'alyy

Kliiyal a pupil of Thabit

came

Wirdy Khan, and

2 c

died in

1173, he

the

194
author of the
rolumes.

RE'KHTAH TADZKIRAHS.
J
lj =>>

[CHAP.

I.

jsjULj

which is a novel in Persian prose, in fourteen

Faqyh Q&hib Dardmand, a

left

friend of the author, died in

1179 and

a Dywan.

Myrza Baqir a son of Aqa Myrza was a Persian by birth, who came to India during the administration of Mohabat-jang. Myrza Baqir was born in the Deccan, he was a good physician
and
alive in 1180.

'alyy

Ibrahym Khan Khalyl.

Hdlat died two years ago.
relation of

Myr Mortadha

Murshid Quly Khan Hostam-jang Mdhhmur of Surat a

the Natzim of Bengal,

who

sent him as governor to Orissa, subse-

quently he lived at the Court of A'caf-jah, and died a few years after
him, he
left

Eekhtah poetry.

"Wajid has the title of Fakhr altojjar, the pride of merchants, his
ancestors were of Kashmyr, but he was born at Patna, where he

resided in 1180.

Mortadha Quly Khan Firdq was under Mohammad Shah a Munshiy at Billy, towards the end of the reign of
to

AAmad Shah

he came

Bengal where he now, 1180,

resides.

Nawab Sayyid almulk Asad

in 1180, at Murshidabad.

Allah Ghalib-jang Ghdlib resides now,

.Hakym Mohammad Shafy' Khan Forugh of Shyraz came

to India,

and was appointed a physician to the emperor, subsequently he was

attached to the governors of Oudh, and about 1160 he came to

Bengal, and now, 1180, he

iZajy

is

attached to the Natzim's court.

an uncle of 'alyy Ibrahym Khan now at Patna. Sultan Mokarram Sultan, a descendant of Abu-1-IZasan king of iJaydarabad, has travelled much in Arabia and Persia.
'alyy Qiy&mat,

A^mad

Khalyl, resides

Before concluding this chapter

insert

an Index to the

Urdu

Tadzkirahs.

The

reader must remember that con-

sistently with the plan of the

work this is not intended to be

list

an elaborate biography of Rekhtah poets, but merely a

besides their

of the materials available for such a biography, containing

names and the

titles

of their works, the

No. 62.]
principal dates.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
I

195

am

therefore not responsible for

any

mistakes or repetitions which

indexed.

may

occur in the books

remarks, I refer

For farther

details

and

critical

to Garcin de Tassy's Hist, de la Lit.

Hind.

For the

sake of brevity,

make use

of the following abbreviations

:

in referring to the above Tadzkirahs

A = Qayim see
No.

No. 44

B = Gurdezy
;

No. 43

C ='alyy Ibrahym
No. 47;
;

45;

D = Dzoka

No. 50;

E=Mu^afy

G=
42;

Gulshane Hind No. 49 H == Sarwar No. 51 No. 46; Qasim No. 52;

J= Shorish
No.
Be-khi-

P = Gulshane
zan No. 57
I
(I

K=

M=Myr

Be-khar No. 56

R = Gulshane

used this book only occasionally, whereas

all

made

it

a rule to abridge
;

the notices contained in

the other Tadzkirahs)

T=

Tabaqate Sokhan No. 53

V='ishqy No

48. I use the tense

which

found in each

Tadzkirah, this being in

cation of the time

many instances the only indiwhen a poet flourished, though not

always a

safe one. It is hardly necessary to say that

list

many

of the persons mentioned in this

have not

left

Dy wan

nor any other works.

I

I should

have omitted them had

the grain with the

not been in danger to throw

away

chaff.

Such

criticism is the

duty of the historian.

'abd, 'abd

al-RaAym of the Deccan, H.

He may

be identical with

the 'abd al-Ba^ym mentioned by

'abd al-Barr,

M.

M.

'abd Allah flourished previous to the time of

Myru Myrza, H.
is

Garcin de Tassy informs us that 'abd Allah of the Deccan

author of a

the

which a copy
which

of Mathnawy which has the title of I give the verse is in the India House in London. quotes of him, as it may enable the reader to decide on the

uJlsrl j& and

identity of the

two poets.
fciflaa.

K ^'U^f
'abid a

*j& ut*jg*g-!*a

^J jb f?d

4fJ

^x* oj\f

contemporary of Walyy, his language and style are obso-

2 c 2

196
lete,

Re'kHTAH TADZKIRAHS.
D.

[CHAP.

I.

He

is

probably identical with 'abidy the author of a Math(

nawy

called

^15 La a

^S"

*aa.j

Do&ya Kalby

r)

mentioned by

Garcin de Tassy.

Abjady author of a Dywan, see 2nd chapter.

Abru, Shaykh

Najm aldyn

'alyy

Khan, commonly

called

Shah

Mobarak, was a descendant of Mo7iammad Ghawth Gwalyary and a

near relation of Arzti,

who used to
;

revise his verses.

for

He was born
at

at

Gwalyar but came early to Dilly

some time he lived

Narnawl

in the Society of Gurdezy's father.

He

was blind of one eye, and

died previous to 1161, about fifty years of age,

M, A,

B, G.

Abu-1-jffasan king of Golconda, see Tanashah.

Acaf, Acaf aldawlah

governor of Oudh.

I give here a

list

of

the governors, (now kings) of Oudh, because most of them were patrons of Eekhtah poetry.
1-Aajj,

afdar-jang died on the 17th of Dzufor

1167.

In the Lucnow Almanack

it

1848 and in Prinsep's

Useful Tables,

is

said that he died in 1170, but the

chronogram
five

above the eastern entrance to his beautiful Mausoleum

miles

from Dilly, gives the above date,

it

runs.

^ji

%zJL i(i

^jJa/o

IjL &S

pij

j\

}j\3

JL, ^xi^

He

was succeeded by Shuja' aldawlah who died in 1188, then

followed Acaf aldawlah

who

died in 1212.

Sa'adat 'alyy

Khan

brother of Acaf aldawlah died in 1229.

Ghaziy aldyn iZaydar 'imad

almulk obtained in 1235 the

aldyn .Saydar
d.
d.

title

of king

and died in 1242.

1258.

JSTacyr

1252.
'alyy is

Nacyr aldawlah

d.

Amjad

'alyy

Shah

1263.

Wajid

now, 1853=1269 A. H. on the throne.

Acghar,

Myr Amjad

'alyy of Agra, a holy

man who

derived his

spiritual genealogy

from 'abd Allah Baghdady, H.

He

had

also the

takhalluc of Amjad.

E paid him

two

visits

and says that he died

and

left

Persian and

Urdu poems.
'alyy of

His Urdu Dywan has been

Dilly,

printed at Agra.

Acghar,

Myr Acghar

Mahrerah near
is

D.

He

has

also written Persian poetry.

'acim,

His Dywan

celebrated,

K.

Nawab amcam aldawlah Khan

Khwajah Burhan aldyn

Manctir-jang of Agra.

'acimy,

of Dilly composed

many mar-

thiyah and died in 1166, A, B.

'abd Allah A^rar,

He

was descended from Khwajah

'aciy,

H.

Shdrish calls him

and says that he was

skilled in chronograms.
'aciy,
~B.

Nur Mohammad
is

is

a good poet of Burhanpur in the Deccan,

He

also

mentioned by J and V. Garcin de Tassy mentions

NO. 62.]

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
'aciy

197
Musal-

two Mathnawies of

on the

religious duties of the

is

mans, of which a copy, written in 1146 and 1147

library at Paris, one has the title of

in the Imperial

o^*U.J|

aueiU.

and the other of

f/ki\

*.
Karani 'alyy* of Dilly was a perfectly illiterate man, and kept a

'aciy,

perfumer's shop at Patna.

He was a pupil
D, P.

of

Myrza Bhuchchu Mdwy.

aciy is a poet of Eampiir,

Adab, Gholam Mo^yy aldyn of iZaydarabad a pupil of Paydh, E.

Adham
^xa^U
copy of
Afaq,

/*>',

'abd al-'alyy author of a

is

Mathnawy

called tej+s.*

of which a description
it is

contained in Grarcin de Tassy, a

in the British

Museum.
b.

Myr Faryd
D.

aldyn

_Baha aldyn of Jalalabad

?)

(half

way
has

between Dilly and Saharanpur

lately left Dilly,

was a pupil of Firaq, P.

He

He

was a friend of K.

Afaryn, Shaykh Qalandar-bakhsh of Saharanpur, lives in his native

town, D. He has written a book on the figures of speech under the title of jU^J| &^>, H, P.
Afca^, Shah FacyA, a pupil of

Myrza

By-dil,

was a darwysh

at

Lucnow and

died in 1192 at a very advanced age, C.

He

left

Persian Dywan.
Afca^, Agha .ZZaydar 'alyy a son of Myrza iZasan 'alyy Beg of Lucnow where he now resides, E. Afdhal, Mo7*ammad Afdhal of Jhanjanah not far from Meerut, a mystical poet, but without much education flourished, it would appear
;

from Qayim, previous to 'abd Allah Qo^ob-shah (came to the throne

in 1020).

He is the author of a poem called the Story of hardship jyUl^ a^ixj of which there is a copy in the India House in London.
Afgar,

Myr Jywan went

to

Mashhad and remained there attached

to the

tomb of Imam Eidha, C.

Afghan,
his

Imam 'alyy Khan of Lucnow, H, D, T. According to C name was Alif Khan and he lived in great poverty. Afear, Gholam Ashraf a son of Grholam Easul and a pupil of Muc^afy
chiefly

composed

Marthiyahs, E, H.

He

is

now

at

Lucnow, D.

Afsar of Moradabad.

says " I have never

met him."
spell

* According to the rules of Persian grammar we ought to

'alyy
;

Karame

but in proper names which are compounds

like this the idhafat is

invariably dropped in Urdu, I also write agreeably to the

tion

Urdu pronuncia-

and prosody Nawab and not Nowwab.

198
Afsos,

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
Myr Shyr
'alyy

[Chap.

I.

was first in the

the uncle of Acaf aldawlah at

Jawan-bakht, and

finally

service of Nawab IsAaq Khan Lucnow and subsequently of Myrza he was recommended to Lord Wellesley

and appointed a Munshiy of the College of Port William. He died His writings will be mentioned in their at Calcutta in A. D. 1809.
respective places.

Afsos,

Myrza Ghafur Beg of

Dilly.

His ancestors came from

Turan.

He

died some years ago,

Afsurdah, Myrza Panah 'alyy

H. Beg of Lucnow composes

chiefly

Marthiyahs, T.
Aftab, this
is

the takhalluc of the emperor Shah 'alam II. reigned

1173-1221.

Agah,

Mohammad

QalaA lived at Dilly under the emperor Mo^anidied a long time ago,
is

mad-shah, B, D.

He

H.
Is a pupil

Agah,

Nur Khan a Patan

a clever

story-teller, C.

of Shah Waqif, went some time ago to Patna where he entered the

Nawab Karym Quly Khan a son of Monyr aldawlah. It is not known where he now is, V. He may be identical with the following.
service of

Agah,
Dilly.

Myr

ilasan 'alyy one of the story-tellers of the king of

says that he was lately appointed to that post, and

who wrote in 1121, that he still held the office. Agha, Myrza Agha Khan of Lucnow is skilled in writing Marthiyahs, D, H. Aghaz, Munshiy Lachman Narayan was in the service of General Ochterlony who died about 1826 A. D. H. Ah, Myr Mahdiy a son of Myr Mohammad, whose takhalluc was
Soz, is a promising

young man, V.

Afanad of Guzrat was a contemporary of "Walyy of the Deccan, he knew Sanskrit and Bhaka and wrote some times in Eekhtah, C.
According to

M and D his takhalluc

is

AAmady,

this

however seems

to be a mistake.

Ahmad, Sayyid Gholam Mo^yy aldyn of JSaydarabad a pupil of

Faydh, E.

AAmad, Sayyid A&mad

clever

'alyy of

Sarawah was a well educated and

man, he translated the Nal

Daman and

Zalykha into Eekhtah

verses

and

left

a Eekhtah

Dywan, D.

He

is

probably identical with

the author of the

Mathnawy

called^? y**> 2 <3% and of the two Hin-

diistany prose works called

is^tjj* and (SJi '^"J mentioned by Garcin de Tassy, the latter two were written in 1241 at Faydhabad.

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199

He

AAmad, Myrza A&mad Beg a Qazalbash is a good soldier, H, D. has latterly given up writing poetry, K. Afanad, .Hafitz Shaykh Gholam A/imad Akhond is a very learned
his forefathers

man,

were of the Panjab, but he was born at

Dilly,

H. According to D his name is AAmad, Qamcam Allah a son of In'am Allah Khan Yaqyn was a soldier by profession, and died in the Eastern provinces (Oudh ?), K. Afanad, Shaykh AAmad Tar writes Persian and Rekhtah poetry, K.
Shaykh AAmad. Shaykh AAmad
'alyy of Dilly a pupil of

Myr

Kallu

jffaqyr,

D.
a

He

is

probably identical with the preceding.

'alyy

AAmad, Myrza Afanad

promising young man, D.

Khan

a son of ~Fath 'alyy

Khan

is

A^mad, Gholam Afanad 'alyy resides at Burhanpur, H, D. AAmad-shah familiarly called Basawan, J.
Afanad-shah Bahadur emperor of Dilly
J.

AAmady, Shaykh Afanad "Warith of Zamanyah near Ghaziypiir

nourished in 1196, C, V.

AAmady, Nitzam aldyn, a distinguished

went in 1229 to Malabar (Malywar).
and of an Urdu Dywan.
but that he did not

calligraph,
is

was born in 1200

He

the author of a Persian

H says that there was an AAmady of Gujrat,

his

know

name.

AAqar, Myrza Jawad 'alyy a Qazalbash was born at

Lucnow where

he resided in 1209, he was then about 22 years of age, E, D. A^san, A^san Allah a contemporary of Ishtiyaq, Madhmtin and
of Abrii

whom

he imitates.

"Was dead in 1165, A, B, Y.

A^san, Myrza A^san 'alyy

(K

writes

Quly instead of

'alyy)

was

of Persian descent and a pupil of

Myr Dhiya and

Nawab

subsequently of

Sawda, found patrons in Shuja' aldawlah and A'caf aldawlah, H.

present 1215, he
is

At

in the service of

Sarfaraz aldawlah at

Lucnow, G.
luc

Besides this poet,

'alyy

AAsan and

Myrza Ahstm Allah with the takhalAAsan Khan Ahsan who was the Khansaman
t2

of 'umdat almulk are mentioned in V.

AAsan,

Mohammad Mawla is a poet of the Deccan (^y^Khan

of Dilly a pupil of

)j

D.

A^san, AAsan Allah

and a friend of

H.

He

is still,

1852, alive at Dilly.

'ajayib
'ajiz,

Ray Munshiy, J. 'arif aldyn Khan visited twelve

years ago Dilly, but some

it is

time ago he went to the Deccan, and

said that

he resides at

Burhanpur, M, B.

He

used to write Kabits, J.

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'ajiz,

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
from

[Chap.

I.

M who mentions him

as well as

'ajiz

of Burhanpuir, it

appears that he lived at Dilly in 1164 and was given to unnatural

vices.

He

is

probably identical with

'arif 'alyy

Khan

'ajiz

of

Agra

mentioned by C.
'ajiz, Zdrawar Singh a Khatry and a grandson of Bay Anand Earn Mukhlic resides at Dilly and writes Persian and Eekhtah poetry. He is a pupil of Shaykh Nacyr aldyn Gharyl, D, H. 'ajiz,

Myr

Grholam iZaydar

Khan
is

of Dilly a son of

Mohammad
Baghib

'atzym Allah

Khan and

nephew of Mohammad

Ja'far

Panypaty a relation of H.
Patna, D.
'ajiz,

He

a pupil of Qudrat, and resides at

He

died young, V.
of Afghan origin was born at Khiirjah which is

Ulfat

Khan

thirty koss east of Dilly,

H.
called

Ajmal, Nacir aldyn

or

Mohammad, familiarly

Ajmal Mohammad
JNacir

Mohammad
a learned

Ajmal, a son of Shah

Mohammad
Eekhtah

Afdhaly of

Ilahabad, a pupil of his late brother G-holam Qofob aldyn Mogylat,

is

man and

writes sometimes

verses, J.

He

has

written several works, V.

Akbar, Shah Bhuchchu or

Myan
was

Bhuchchu, a pupil of Hatim, used

at Dilly,

to have Mosha'arahs whilst he

H. As long

as

MucAafy

was

at Dilly he used to correct

Akbar' s verses.

He

has written a

Dywan, the

style of it is far-fetched

and disfigured by puns, E.

Akbar, Mokarram aldawlah Sayyid Akbar 'alyy

jang, brother of Jawan-bakht's mother.

Khan MostaqymK.

He

died a few years ago,

Akbar, Akbar

Khan

a younger brother of

P and a pupil of Mumin

Khan (who
Akbar
D, H.
Akhtar,

fell

from the roof of his house and died in A. D. 1852).

resides at Dilly.
is

Akhgar, Lalah Tek Chand

treasurer of

Myrza Khorram-bakht,
Muc^afy and
Jorat,

Myr Akbar

'alyy of Sirhind a pupil of

resided at Lucnow, and was in 1209 upwards of 30 years of age.

He

had

first

the takhalluc of Anjam, E.

'akif

was a friend of Sawda, D.

friend of

Khwajah Akram of Dilly was a

title of his

Qayim and embodied the

conse-

Tadzkirah into chronogrammatic verses, A, C; V, D.

f

Alain, a7*ib ]y[y r a son

Khwajah Mohammad Myr, and

in 1221,

quently a nephew of

Myr

Dard, was in 1194 at Murshidabad and in

still alive

1215 at Dilly, G.

He

was

K.

According to

and

H he was a son of

Myr

Dard.

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Alam, Mo7*aminad
'aliy-jah
is

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'alyy is a pupil of

201

Dzawq, P.

the takhallu9 of a son of

Nawab Nitzam almulk

Natzar, P.
'aliy

a prince of the imperial house of Dilly, and a pupil of

Dzawq, P.
'alyra,

Dakhny poet with whose circumstances

'alyy, a

was not

acquainted.
'alyy,

Shah Nacir

very pious man, was born and brought

spells Sirhind),

up

at

Sahrand near Dilly

(H

he

left

a Persian

Dywan

and some Mathnawies, H.

'alyy, 'alyy 'alyy,

Mohammad Khan
'alyy of

an Afghan of Moradabad, D.
of

Myrza

Lucnow was

Moghol

origin

and a pupil

of Dywanah, D.
'alyy Jan, familiarly called

Bahman

of Dilly, a son of Qadhiy

Budhdhan uses
'alyy,

D. He is a youug man, H. Myrza 'alyy Quly of Dilly left a short but good Dywan, D. Amanat, Amanat Bay resided in the Darybah at Dilly, H, P. Amany, Myr Amany of Dilly son of Khwajah Burhan aldyn
his

name

as his takhalluc,

A'thimy.

says he died in 1187 and

says in 1177.

He

wrote

chiefly Marthiyahs.

Amjad, Mawlawy
Mu'jiz,
sian

Mohammad Amjad,
D.

a pupil of Nitzam

Khan

was near seventy years of age in 1209, and had written Perverses, E,

and Eekhtah

According to

he was a son of
the author of a

Mawlawy Arshad, whose

al-Bafanan, a friend of P.

takhalluc was Arshad (he

is

commentary on the Myna Bazar) and the father of Mawlawy 'abd

Amyn, Myr Mohammad Amyn

of the Deccan.

H
is

was not able

to obtain any information respecting him.

Amyn, Myr Mo/iammad Amyn

Grholam 'alyy A'zad, D.

of Benares

a pupil of

Myr
K.

He went

to the

Deccan and

settled there,

I suppose he

is

identical with the preceding.

Amyn, Khwajah Amyn

origin, in

aldyn, a native of Patna,

was of Kashmyry
His poems which

1194 he had been some years in the service of Nawab

Motzaffar-jang, C.

Myr Mohammad Ridha Khan

are very highly spoken
Grhazal
sian
of,

have been collected in a small

IJchldg

Dywan

of

D,

Gr.

He

was a pupil of Holas Bay

and

left

a Per-

Dywan, V.
Isma'yl of Dilly had
first

Amyn, Myrza Mo/tammad

2

the takhalluc

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REKHTAH TADZKIRAHS.
first

[CHAP.

I.

of "Wa^shat, he was
friend of D.

a soldier and then a teacher, D.

He

was a

Amyn, Amyn aldyn Khan

he died at Benares in 1186.

a son of Qadhiy

WaAyd

aldyn

Khan

is

the grandfather of the present

Amyn

of the Calcutta Madrasah,

Amyr, Nawab Mohammad Tar Khan a son of Nawab 'alyy Mohammad Khan of Afghan origin. He was a good musician and
resided at Tandah.

His attention having been directed to Rekhtah

poetry, he invited Soz and

Sawda to come to him, but they did not

accept his

offers,

he then invited

MoAammad Qayim who

resided

then at Bisawly, and gave him a salary of one hundred Rupees a

month. Besides Qayim he assembled other poets round himself,

like

MucAafy, Na'ym, Parwanah Moradabady,

Sambhaly.

'ishrat,

and

Hakym Kabyr
'aqil

He
The

was

also

an admirer of paintings and ordered

Khan

to paint portraits of all celebrated poets

and formed an album

'alam and the

of them.

defeat of Dhabitfah

Khan by Shah

Mahrattas put a stop to this happy state of things, and he died soon
after 1188, E.

According to

K he was originally

of the Jat caste

and was adopted as son by Dawiid Khan of Moradabad.

Amyr,

Amyn

aldawlah

Mo'yn almulk

Nacir-jang, familiarly called

Myrza Medhii (pronounce Mewdhu), a brother of A'caf aldawlah, held the office of Myr Atishy (i. e. he was in charge of gun-powder,
fire-works, &c.) at the court of

Shah

'alam, he resides

now at Lucnow,

H. He seems to have been still alive in 1221. Amyr, Amyr aldawlah Nawazish Kfcan of Dilly was called .Hainyd al-Ra^man Khan he was a pupil of Nitzam aldyn and used to hold Mosha'arahs in his house at which all poets of Dilly assembled, H. Amyr, Shaykh Amyr aldyn of Narwar where it is said he was for some time Kotwal, H, D. Amyr, Amyr 'alyy a Sayyid of Dilly went some time back to the Deccan, H, D. Amyr, Sayyid Amyr Allah of Dilly is an amiable young man who is well versed in astronomy, H. He was a friend of D who calls
him Myan Amyr Allah.

Amyr, Shaykh Amyr Allah of Dilly a pupil of !Nacyr

Ramal, D, P.
ing and that
(It
is

is

clever in

not unlikely that he

is

identic with the preced-

mentions him twice).

Dilly,

Amyr, Shaykh Amyr-bakhsh a son of Zfosayn-bakhsh of

holds an appointment at Hatras, R.

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62.]

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203
origin,

was a soldier by profession, and resided at

A'la,

Andoh, Myrza Ghafiir Beg a Moghol (Persian or Tatar) by Dilly, D, H.

Myr

'alyy of Dilly a son of the late

Myr

Wilayat Allah

Khan, he was

in the service of Shuja' aldawlah of

Oudh and C saw

him during the Nawab's wars with the English.

Anjam, Nawab 'umdat almulk
dered in 1159 and

Amyr Khan

held a high office under

to

MoAammad-shah. Qayim was much attached

left

him

he was mur-

Persian and Rekhtah poems, A, B, G,

H.

He

was a descendant of Ni'mat Allah Walyy and composed

chiefly

logogriphs, T.

Anwar, Mohammad Mawla of the Deccan.

would appear that he was
his contemporary.

H says

that he has

not been able to obtain any information regarding him, from

it

Anwar, Gholam
Anwar, "Walyy

'alyy

was of Kalpy, C.
office,

Anwar, Aftab Ray was a writer in a public

D.

Mohammad Khan

a Shaykh-zadah of Dilly, his

ancestors were Daroghahs of the imperial court of justice (of Dilly),

he writes Persian and Eekhtah poems, more particularly Ghazals, H.

'aqil,

Ray Sukh Ray

'aqil-shah led

of the Panjab served in the army, composed

a few verses and assisted Qayim

'aqil,

much
life,

in compiling his Tadzkirah.

a roaming

but was

much

at Dilly
soldier,

where
but I

he frequently visited E.
suppose that

According to

he was a

^^

is

a mistake for c$^i**

'aqydat of Burhanpiir, a contemporary of JNawab A'tzam Khan, D.

Aram, Prem Nath a Khatry lived

penman.
Left a Rekhtah

first at Dilly,

but retired subse-

quently during the war to Bindrabun.

He

was a clever archer and

Dywan

of about 2000 verses

if

and some

Persian poetry.

H speaks of him as

he had

been alive in 1215.

Aram, Makhan Lai of the Kayet caste was a pupil of Insha Allah

Khan, H.
Aram, Khayr Allah of Sirdhanah an arrow-maker, was much in
the Society of a son of Simroo

and the takhalluc of

a/iib.

who had the title of Tzafaryab Khan Aram died of cholera at an early age
lives since

and previous to 1215.

'arif,

Myr

'arif 'alyy

of
is

Amrohah

some time at Mura-

dabad, he says that he

'arif,

a pupil of Muc&afy, P.

MoAammad

'arif

a Kashmyry born at Dilly (C and

call

him Akbarabady, and say that he had a shop

close to the Dilly-Dar-

D 2

204
wazah at Dilly)
pupil of
.

re'khtah tadzktrahs.
He
was a
Abrii.
tailor

[Chap.

I.

by profession and in poetry a

Madhmiin and

He

died a short time ago, E.

He

was

a contemporary of Myrii Myrza,

who knew him

says, that his

Dywan was
'arif,

arranged after his death by one of his pupils.

lived at the shrine called

Shah /Tosayn a Darwysh, who

Qadam
I

Sharyf near Dilly, H.

Arman, Shah

'alyy a son of Ja'far 'alyy i/asrat of

Lucnow, H.

have been told that he was Natzir at Alwar and died there.

Arman, Nawab Mojahid-jang of Haydarabad, a pupil of Myr Asad

'alyy

Khan, H, D.
aldyn 'alyy Khan, see
p. 133.

A'rzu, Siraj

Asad, Asad Allah

Khan

usually called

ancestors were of Samarqand, he was born at Dilly,

Myrza Nawsha. Hia H. This is the

His Dywan has been

same poet who

will

be mentioned under the takhalluc of Ghalib.

He

is

now, 1852, near sixty years of age.

printed.

At

present he writes only Persian verses.

He

is

also the

author of a Persian Insha and of a

Mathnawy

in praise of 'alyy.
skilful

Asad, Lala Kyrat Singh, a Khatry of Dilly, was a

caddiy (writer), he
is

Motathe

the author of a short Persian Dywan.

first at Dilly, after

Asad,

Myr Amany, a pupil of Sawda, resided

at

death of his patron

Nawab Afdhal Khan he went

an age of about
fifty.

to

Lucnow, and
left

was murdered on the road

He

a thick

Dywan kt E, H. cards &*& Asad, Myr Asad

Bengal, V.

and^ several Mathnawies among them one on the Pack of

'alyy of Dilly a pupil of

Sawda

lives

now

in

As'ad Myrza As'ad-bakht a son of A7*san-bakht and a grandson of

Shah

'alam.

It

seems that he was

alive in 1121,

K.
east of

'asas,

Shaykh Badr aldyn of Sikandrah (about forty miles

the Kotwal of that village, D, H.
is

Dilly)

is

Ashfaq, Shaykh Sarferaz 'alyy of Bareilly

a pupil of

Myrza

Khany

JSTawazish JZbsayn,

D.
spells

'ashiq,

Mahdiy

'alyy

Khan (P

Mahd

'alyy

noble family of Dilly, having been the grandson of

Khan) was of a Nawab 'alyy

Mardan Khan.
present, and

He

used to hold for about ten years every Friday

poetical assemblies in his house, at

which

all

poets of Dilly were

among them

and D.
'ashiq
is

He

died two years ago,

fertile

H.

He

died four years ago, K.

a most

poet having

No: 62.]
written three

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Urdu Dywans, two

205

Persian Dywans, a Yusof 6 Zalykha,

Khosraw 6 Shyryn, and an Urdu Mathnawy in which he describes Lucnow, and other poems. He is also the author of a Tadzkirah of some poets who attended his Mosha'arah, he left in all near 200,000 verses. He had begun to translate the Shah-namah into Urdu verses, but died
a iZamlahe iZaydary in Urdu, a

Majnun 6

Layla, and a

before he had completed

'ashiq,

it.

Myr YaAya
it is

familiarly called 'ashiq 'alyy

Khan

is

a poet of

the Deccan B, C, V.
of

In
he

D
is

a poet of this takhalluc

of iZaydarabad.

is

mentioned

whom

said that

'ashiq, 'alyy

A'tzam Khan, a brother of Khwajah

pupil of
'isq,

Mohtaram and a
of

V.

He

is alive,

J.

MoMaram Khan He was a friend

is

C and
'ashiq,

died shortly previous to 1195.

Myr Burhan

aldyn, a pupil of

Myr
f

.Hasan,

a good artist,

C, V, J.
.

'ashiq,

Mohammad Khan

of the

<~Jiibah

Narwar, H, P.
(JalaA

'ashiq,

Shaykh Nabyy-bakhsh of Agra, a son of Mohammad

and a pupil of Natzyr of Agra, P.

'ashiq,

Mawlawy

Jalal aldyn

was a man of

learning,

who wrote

sometimes poetry, D, H.
'ashiq,

Baj ah Kalyan Sing Tahawwur-jang, Natzimof the

ubah
poetry,

Behar, a son of Baj ah Shitab Bay, wrote Persian and

Urdu

H.

He

left

a Persian

Dywan,

J.

'ashiq,

Bhola Nath of Dilly, a son of Lalah Gopy

Mth Pundit, was

a

Treasurer of
friend of
'ashiq,
left

Nawab A'tzam aldawlah Myr MoAammad Khan and D, he composed Persian and Urdu poetry.
Singh, a Khatry of Dilly, was acquainted with

Bam

and

a Dywan.

He

died some time ago,

H.
of

'ashiq,

Munshiy

'ajayib

Bay, C.

'ashiqy,

Agha ZZbsayn Quly-Khan, a son

at

Agha

'alyy

Khan,

his

ancestors came from Khorasan, he was born at Patna,

it is

said that

he now, 1252, resides

Ashk,
a poet of

Lucnow, he
of

is

the author of the

&Le

^x&i

in Persian, but as he does not

is

know Arabic he fell into many

Afghan descent, H, D.
Shah Kalb
'alyy of

errors,

Bampur

Ashky,

Myr Warith

'alyy a son of

Patna a

pupil of Y.

Ashky, Myrza Grholam Mo7iyy aldyn, B.

Ashna,

Myr Zayn

al'abidyn

is

mentioned by

as a

contemporary

206

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
usually called

[Chap.

I.

K adds that he was

son of the

Myr

JNawab, and that he was a

distin-

Hakym

AclaA aldyn Khan, who was equally a

Arzu.

guished man and knew

Ashna, Myrza Juggan, a son of Eafanat Allah Khan, was a contemporary of D. Ashna,

Maha

Sing a Khatry, writes Persian and Rekhtah poetry,

H.

He

resides at Dilly,

D.

Ashraf a contemporary of Walyy, D.

Ashraf,

A contemporary of Abru, C.
is

Mohammad

Ashraf.

says that he

of the neighbour-

hood of Lucnow and writes good poetry.

V says that he
of him.

formerly

resided at Murshidabad, and was in the service of

John Bristow, and

that he did not

know what had now become

C who

quotes

the same verse of him as D, and

ascribed to him. Ashraf,

V says

that a

poem

called */oli^ is

Mohammad

Ashraf, a son of
is

Imam

aldyn of Kandhelah in

the district of Saharanpiir,

thirty years of age, J.

a well educated young

man

of about

Ashraf, i/afitz
luc of iZafitz,

Gholam Ashraf

of Dilly used sometimes the takhal-

he was a good musician and wrote Persian and Hindu-

stany verses.
is

He

was a friend of

K and a young man in 1221,

Myr Eawshan
is

and

probably identical with Ashraf Khan son of iZakym Sharyf

Khan
Khan
is

'alamshahy of Dilly mentioned by T.

Ashub,

Myr Imdad

'alyy

Khan, a son of

'alyy

Forogh of

Dilly, a pupil of

Mamnun,

P.

Ashuftah, 'atzym aldyn Khan, his sobriquet

Bahory Khan, he

a soldier by
Mayil.

profession, E.

He

was of Patan origin and a pupil of

He

used to attend the Masha'arahs of Mahdiy 'alyy Khan,

gained his livelihood by commerce,

but subsequently he became a Chishty ascetic and gave up composing

poetry.

He

H.

It would appear

from

that he was alive in 1221.

Ashuftah, jffakym Myrza Bidha Quly

Khan was

a physician and a

son of the physician MoAammad Shafy' Khan, some say he was of Agra

and others say of Lucnow.

Ashuftah,
cian, P.

He

was in 1215, in Calcutta,

at Meerut.

Gr,

H.

Sayyid Monawwar 'alyy, a native

is alive

of Dilly, a clever physi-

I believe he

and resides
'askary a

'askar 'alyy
'askary,

Khan was

of Murshidabad, V.

Myrza Mohammad

Moghol

(i.

e.

of Persian or

Tatar origin) of Patna, D.

pupil of Qudrat Allah,

H.

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207
Khan
(this

Asyr, Balthasar, a half-caste,

a friend of Tzafar-yab

was the
Asyr,

title

of Soomroo's son).

His poems are corrected by Moforty-five years of age,

hammad Nacyr

aldyn Nacyr, D, H.
is

Myr

Gulzar 'alyy

now abont

E.

Asyr,

mentions, besides the above, two other Asyrs (No. 56

and 66) but says that he knows nothing respecting them.

'aa,

Khwajah

'aa

'alamgyr and was a Atal c

f

(Mohammad 'aa Allah, D.) man of bad character, A, J, K.

According to

flourished under

Myr

'abd al-Jalyl, a Sayyid of Belgram, was a descendant

of Abu-1-faraj Wasity D, K.
Dilly.

P and E

he was of

and in the

Though a great scholar, his Eekhtah verses are humoristic He was a contemporary of Mostyle of Myrza Zetely.
'a^a

hammad

and

is

the author of Persian and Arabic Qacydahs

in

Persian he has the takhalluc of Wasity.

Athar, JTosayn 'alyy Athar, Sayyid

Khan

is

a pupil of Imam-baksh Nasikh,

H, P.

Mohammad Myr of Dilly a son of Nacr aldyn and of Khwajah Myr Dard, he was a pious man and given to a brother He left a small Dywan and a Mathnawy. K says he died fiifism.
many
years ago, V.

Athym, Mohammad 'alyy of Gorakpiir, E. Athimy, Sayyid Burhan aldyn of Dilly composed
ahs, V.
Atish,

chiefly

Marthiy-

Myrza Gholam IZbsayn

is

b.

Myrza Karym Allah Beg a

pupil

of Tapish

the author of a treatise on Prosody and of one on rhyme.

He

is

now

at Murshidabad,

V.
first

Shah Mohammad A'tzam of Sandhelah was

lead subsequently a retired
life

a soldier, but

at

Muradabad.
it

He composed Persian

and Eekhtah poetry, but did not commit

A'tzam,

to paper.

Mohammad

A'tzam, son of a druggist of Lucnow, had an

appointment at the court of Acaf aldawlah, C.

A'tzam, A'tzam

He

died young, V.

Khan of Afghan origin resides at Dilly and is a pupil of Shah Mohammad Nacyr, H, D. A'tzam, Myr A'tzam 'alyy is a young man and resides at Lucnow,
he
is

a pupil of Nacyr and has visited Dilly, D.

A'tzam, Myrza A'tzam 'alyy Beg held an appointment at Ilahabad

and

is

about sixty years of age.

He

is

a pupil of Atish, E.

He

resides now, 1853, at Agra.

A'tzam, Munshiy A'tzam 'alyy teacher of Persian in the College

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REKHTAH TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

He is very old and resides now, 1853, at Agra, of Agra, E. he has made a free translation of the Sikandernamah into Urdu
verses,

and

also a

Mathnawy

in the style of that of Jalal aldyn

Rtimy.

A'tzam, A'tzam 'alyy

old poet,

Khan a son

of Sayyid Qalandar 'alyy

is

an

H, D.

Atzfary,
called

Mohammad Tzahyr
Mo^yy

aldyn

Myrza

'alyy-hakht familiarly

Myrza Kalan Gurgany, N.

aldyn resided at Dilly and was a pupil of

Atzhar, Gholam

'alyy, he supported himself by H. According to D and K he was a son of Sarwary. Atzhar, Khwajah Atzhar resided in old Dilly and was in the service of the late Nawab 'imad almulk, who was then Wazyr, D. He died many years ago, H. Atzhar, Myr Gholam 'alyy of Dilly, a pupil of the late Shams

.Hbsayn Sarwary and

Myr

Earzand

teaching,

aldyn Eaqyr Maftun, resided some time at Murshidabad, but as he

was a conceited man and had a whimsical temper, he could not go on there, he went to Patna and died in 1192. He was a good Persian
scholar, C,

D, V.
Shaykh 'atzmat Allah was
In K. the takhalluc
'atzmat Allah
is

'atzmat,

first

a soldier and subsequently

a teacher, D.
'atzmat,

spelled 'icmat.

Myr
I

Khan

a son of

Myr

'izzat

Allah

Khan

Jadzb born at Bareilly travelled in Bokhara, &c. and resides now at

Dilly, P.

am

told he died about 1842.

is

Myrza Zayn al-'abidyn of Patna 'atzym was a young man in the army,
'atzym,

a good poet, D.

M met him at Awnlah.

He
is

mentions

Mohammad
C

'atzym and says that he was a pupil of Sawda,

and that he
pears from

lived formerly at

Earrokhabad and now at Dilly.

It ap-

that he was at Dilly as early as 1195.

is evident-

ly identical with

Mohammad

'atzym 'atzym

who

mentioned by

D and
pious

K, and who was

familiarly called

Shah Jhiilan and was a very

man and wrote i^y^ M j <^*} and other Rekhtah Mathnawies. 'atzym, Myrza 'atzym Beg (E spells A'tzam Beg) a native of Dilly, his ancestors were of Kabul. E who knew him says, that he
was a conceited young man.

He

was a pupil of Shah

a Dywan, K, D, H.

jffatim

and

Sawda and was dead

Awarah,

in 1221 and

left

Myr Mohammad Qasim a brother of Zayn al'abidyn A'shnd

"and a brother-in-law of B.

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Amyr

209

alzaman Bijnawry a Shaykh-zadah of Luc-

now and
Awla,

a pupil of Muc/zafy, E, D.

Awj, 'abd Allah of Sirdhanah near Myrath (Meerut), H.

Awliya,

Myr Awlad 'alyy a Sayyid of Barh, Myr (Myrza, J) Awliya of Mohan

in Bengal, V.

C, V.

near Lucnow,

it is

said

he

lives

now

He

resides at Murshidabad, J.

'ayan, Sayyid Ghalib 'alyy

and a son of
vice-governor

Khan was one of the Sayyids of Gurdez Khan he was for some time Nayib or Sayyid 'ewadh of Labor under Myr Mannu and fought against AAmad
;

Khan

Abdaly, D, K.
is

'ayan
'ayn,
'aysh,

the takhalluc of a young

J.

man

in the army,

D.

Shaykh Mo'yn aldyn,

Myrza ifosayn Eidhayiy (H

spells Eidha), a pupil of

Myr

Soz,

is

a promising but conceited young man, J, E.

Resided at

Lucnow, D, H.
'aysh, Myrza Mohammad 'askary of Dilly, a son of Myrza 'alyy Naqyy who was for some time Naw&b JSbsayn Quly Khan's governor

of Jahangyr-nagar (Dacca), 'aysh was a friend of

C and

resided
G-.

mostly at Murshidabad where he held an appointment, C,

died in Bengal, V.
'aysh,

He

Amyr Khan

of Dilly has lately taken to writing poetry, D.

'ayshy, Ta\ib 'alyy b. 'alyy-bakhsh

Khan

a pupil of MucAafy and Myrza Qatyl, he wrote 10,000 verses in

and 16,000

in

Persian, besides several

Lucnow and is Urdu Mathnawies, D, H. 'ayshy

resides at

occurs also in
his

V and it

is

said that he

had written a Mathnawy, but

name

is

not mentioned.

'ayyash,

Khayaly Earn of Dilly a pupil of Nacyr aldyn Nagyr, D.

K.

Was

alive in 1221,

'ayyash, Grholam Jylany

familiarly called

Ghaziy aldyn
'ayyash,
origin
is

Khan ('abd al-Qadir is meant by Jylanv) Myr Bakhshu or Myan Bakhshu, son of JNawab Khan 'imad almulk, D and K who knew him.
'abbas 'alyy

Myrza

Beg of Moghol (Persian

or Tatar)

a poet of the Deccan, D. In

H the takhalluc
a

is

spelled 'abbas.

'ayyash,
A'zad,

Myr Ya'qiib of Lucnow MoAammad Fadhil a poet

writes chiefly Marthiyahs, P.

of the Deccan, led the

left

life

of an
called

ascetic, B.

Garcin de Tassy says that he

Mathnawy

Tzqfar-ndmah on the victories of

Azad,

Mohammad
V) an

iZanyf.

Myr Faqyr

Allah (Faqr Allah,

ancient poet, his poems

2 E

210
are in the

re'khtah tadzrikahs.
mouth
of the people, D, P.

[Chap.

1.

He

was of iJaydarabad, and

had heard that he had

visited Dilly with Firaqy

Dakhany.

Azad, Khwajah Zayn al'abidyn nourished under MoAammad Shah, V.

Azad,

Myr

Motzaffar 'alyy (Tzafar 'alyy,

K)

of Dilly.

'alyy

Ibrahym came often in contact with him

than
*jj

at Murshidabad.

Garcin de

Tassy ascribes to him a work on amulets. If he has no other authority

for doing so,

he

read^^

ffi\j

instead of

" I have frequently seen the said

Myr."

^jj^^j^j^- f*L> He died in Bengal, Y.

Azad, Shaykh
'ishrat,

Amyr

aldyn of Bareilly a pupil of Grholam 'alyy

D, P.

Azad, Shaykh Asad Allah, E.

blind.

Azadah (Azad, E), Earn Singh was

He

used to

visit

the

Mosha'arahs of Mahdiy 'alyy Khan, and made Eekhtah and Persian

verses,

H.

He

Azurdah,

died on his way to Labor, D. Mawlawy a(lr aldyn Principal fadr Amyn

at Dilly, P.

He is
of

now, 1853, upwards of seventy years of age.

In the biography

Sawda P says that adr aldyn has written a short Tadzkirah of

poets,

Urdu

though the author of this catalogue

it.

is

intimately ac-

quainted with him he has never seen

'azyz,
'azyz,

Shah 'azyz Allah was a sublime poet, B.

Mohammad
is

'alyy of Dilly a descendant of

Shaykh Salym

Chishty
'azyz,

a teacher, D.

Bhikary Lai a Sry Basath Kayeth and a pupil of

at Dilly, his family

Myr Dard

was born
and

was of Jawnpiir (Jddhptir, D), formerly

he was in the service of the emperor.

it is

He

writes very elegant prose,

said that he resides at Ilahabad

D, H.

In

his

name

is

spelled Bhikary Das.

'azyz,

Mawlawy

'azyz Allah a son of

left

Molla Mobarak and a descen-

dant of

Wa^yd

aldyn Chilian
verses, J.
Dilly, P.
is

a Persian

Dywan and composed

occasionally
'azyz,

Eekhtah

Shyu Nath of

'azyz,

Simbhu Nath

a Mahajan or merchant of Dilly, D.

'azyz Allah of the Deccan, J.

H.
disciple of

Babar was a contemporary of Abru, D. Babar 'alyy, Babar 'alyy Shah of Dilly a

Myr Mo^am-

mady

is alive.

On

the 13th and 29th of every month a party of

singers assemble, in his house, and

many

people are present, D, K.

Bahadur, Eajah Beny Bahadur a Eajah of Behar, H.

father of Parwanah, P.

He

is

the

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is

211
Daya Rain
K.

Bahadur, Eajah Earn Pandit

Pandit, D.

a brother of Eajah

He

used

also to write in the dialect of ladies,

is

Bahadur, Bahadur Singh a Kayeth of Dilly

a pupil of iZatim,

some time ago he has gone

to Bareilly,

D.

Myr Bahadur

'alyy of Dilly a soldier

by

profession, I have heard,

says J, that he has lately been killed.

He

was rather an admirer of

the author of several

poetry than a poet.

Bahar, Tek Chand of Dilly, a friend of B,
works,
is

among which

mentions the Persian Dictionary called

out several errors of A'rzu and other
1

f^ jty in which he
Lexicons, and the
it

points

Ojj^ J ^'-

says that he travelled in Persia,

seems that he was dead when C wrote.

Bahjat,

Mawlawy

'abd al-Majyd studied at Dilly and possessed

considerable learning, D.

Bismil, K.

He was a pupil of Mawlawy Mohammad know nothing regarding him, says P. Bakhshy, iZbsayn-bakhsh of Agra is a merchant by profession, D.
BaAr, I
Bala,

EaAm

Eastil of Narerah, his ancestors were of

Belgram and
in the

descended from Shah Barakat, D.

Balygh,

Mawlawy

-Hajy Qudrat Allah of O'ldhan

\^^

Diiab, a fertile Persian

and Urdu poet, D.

poet, D.

Banjhya or Banjhy nourished under

Mokhannas but a good

It
is

In

Mohammad Shah, he was a C he is called Shah Banjhyah.

or a

not certain whether he was a

Hindu

Musalman, K.

Baqa, Shaykh

graph .Hantz
of Makyn, C.

Khan a son of the calliLutf Allah of Agra resides at Lucnow and is a pupil Had formerly the takhalluc of Ghamyn and wrote
Baqa. Allah

Mohammad

also Persian poetry,

was a friend of

his,

and according to

his

statement he was alive in 1209 and resided at Lucnow.

that he was alive
Baqir,

too says

when he

wrote, but according to

G he died in 1206.
a bro-

ther of

Myr Baqir 'alyy of Samanoh resides at Dilly and is Myr Farzand 'alyy, he writes chiefly Marthiyahs, K.
Khan
resides
at

Barakat, Barakat Allah

Kotanah and has a

a most amiable

pension from Zeb alnisa Begam, he writes chiefly Persian verses, D.

Barakat, Sayyid Barakat 'alyy

Khan of Khayrabad

is

and talented man, D.

Barq, Qadhiy

Was

appointed by General Ochterlony as

Mokhtar of the Eajah of Patyalah, P, K.

MoAammad Najm
2 E 2

aldyn, E.

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Barq,

REKHTAH TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Myrza Khoda-bakhsh Bahadur is a prince of the house of Dilly, Nacyr corrects his verses, D. Barq, Bhagwan Dat of Lucnow called himself a pupil of Nacyr, D. Barq, Myan Shah Jyu j& (Myan Shah Jy, K) a pupil of Gholam

Hamdany Mughqfy.
Bashyr,

Myr

Basharat 'alyy went from Dilly to Lucnow and

became the pupil of Mammin, E.

Bashyr, Sayyid
died in 1263.

Died

at Murshidabad,

D. Others

say he died on the road back to Dilly.

Mohammad

'alyy

was police Daroghah

a great Qiify,

at Coel

and

His father Qadir-baksh was

ne was ^

Dilly, but resided for

some time

at

Salawn in Oudh, E.

Basy, Lalah Anand Sarup is Ta^cyldar at or near Benares, B. Bay an, Khwajah AAsan Allah is a native of Agra and a pupil Myrza Matzhar, A, B, J. He resided at Dilly and left a Dywan,

of
C.

He

went some time ago to the Deccan where he holds an appoints

According to D, K, and
originally a

ment, E, G.

his

name

is

AAsan aldyn

Khan, and he was

Kashmyrian but born

at Dilly.
is

He

is

now
of a
his

at IZaydarabad,

where he holds an appointment and

a pupil of

the author

Mathnawy called 4/ol J *-^>, D. He was Mathnawy **li -^$^>

is

who

calls

Bazzaz, /Zosayn-bakhsh

a shop-keeper of Agra, P.

Be-bak,

Myr

Najaf 'alyy a

Musawy Sayyid

of Arabia

is

originally

a native of Coel, but resides since nine years at Dilly, E.

He
his

was a
name.

good physician, P.
Be-charah,

and J who mention him do not know

He

was a poet of the Panjab, D, H.

Munshiy Besawan Lai a pupil of Matzhar died at an left a Persian Dywan, V. Be-dar, Myan (Myr C, Shaykh K) MoAammady, A. He was a friend of Myr Dard and left a Dywan, C. In V are two poets of
Be-dar,

advanced age at Patna and

this takhalluc

and nearly the same name, one

is

Myr Mo^ammady

of Dilly a pupil of Dard, and the other

ciple

*jj** of Fakhr aldyn, he resided

a Persian and

Mo^ammady-shah a disat Agra and died in 1212

Urdu Dywan. Besides these two, V has name is Myr Mohammad 'alyy, it appears however from E who knew him, that he is identical with Myr Mo/iammady, and perhaps also with Myan Mo^ammady. He residand
left

a third Be-dar whose

* I translate

Muryd

invariably by disciple.

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213

ed before he went to Agra in the 'arab-saray near Dilly.

the following account
of him, Shah

gives

Mo^ammady

of

Agra wrote

Urdu and Persian poetry, in Persian he was a pupil of Mortadha Quly Khan Piraq who was a native of Persia, and in Urdu he was a pupil of Myr Dard and -ffatini, for some time he lived in the 'arabsaray, but subsequently he returned to his native town and died
there.

In Qiinsm he was a

disciple of

Pakhr aldyn.
'alyy.

In

and

he has equally the name of

Myr Mohammad

Be-dar, Grholam IZaydar born at Dilly brought up at

Be-dil. (By-dil),

Lucnow, D.

Myrza 'abd al-Qadir has written a Persian Dywan of 50,000 and several Mathnawies. Was when young in the service
of Prince

Mohammad A'tzam

Shah, subsequently he lived in retire-

ment, he wrote only very few Rekhtah verses,

Be-dil,

M.

Khwajah Gholam iZbsayn a pupil of .ffafitz 'abd al-RaAman

a schoolmaster, D.
is

Khan

Thsdn, R.
is

Be-hosh, Shaykh Dydar-bakhsh of Agra

Be-hdsh,

Myr 'abd

al-Eashyd of Shikarpur where he

a teacher, D.

Be-jan, Shyii Singh a

Khatry of Dilly

is

strong in the various

kinds of divination, D.
Be-jan, Zdrawar

He

died two years ago,

K.

Be-jan, 'azyz
Be'-kal,
'uzlat,

Khan of K61 (Coel), H. Khan a Rohela, E met him at AVnla.

is

Sayyid 'abd al-Wahhab

of Dawlatabad and a pupil of

at

B.

He

was acquainted with C who met him

Murshidabad.

Be-kas,

Myrza Mohammad

resides at Patna, his ancestors were of

Persia, he has written a very

good Persian Dywan, D.

of Dilly a poor man, was attached to

Be-kas,

Myr Imam-bakhsh
is

the Mosque, which

not far from the Ajmyry Darwazah, D.

a

Be-khabar,

Mohammad Beg
is

Moghol

of Khayrabad has lately

taken to poetry, D.

Be-khabar of Lucnow

a pupil of Niir alislam Mantzar, D.

Be-khud, Narayan Das a Mahajan (merchant) of Dilly, a pupil of

Hidayat and Thana Allah Khan Piraq and a friend of D.

to

According
informs us

H who has seen him, he

Amyn
Be-Khwab, P and

was a pupil of

Myr

Dard,

that he was

in the Magistrate's Court at Meerut.

do not know his name.

Be-nawa of Sunam came to Dilly in the beginning of

Shah's reign and described in a

Mohammad

Mokhammas

the riot of the shoe-

makers of Dilly, which took place

at the

Juma' masjid on account of the

214

re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

murder of one of their number, which was committed by a rich jeweller of the name of Subkaran Das, A, M. He was a pupil of iZasrat, V.
Be-nawa, Maqbul-shah of Dilly, a disciple of Rafy' aldyn (who
alive), leads the life of
is

a Qalandar, he

is

a pupil of 'ishq, D.

Be-qarar,

Khwajah Katzim a son

In

of 'alyy

A'tzam Khan is

alive

and

Fidwy

is

his instructor, J.

is

of Dilly a pupil of Nacyr, and a

Myr Katzim iZbsayn Be-qarar cousin of Nawab Sayf aldawlah

a
of

Eadhyy Khan alabat-jang and a Myrza Katzim iZbsayn Be-qarar

Dilly equally a pupil of Nacyr,

and

like the

preceding a contemporary

of D. I suppose
or arrangement

all
is

these are one and the same man.

it is

As no order

observed in D,

not surprising that he should

spells

have entered the same name twice.

and says he

is

young man, and

K calls him

Be-qayd, Sayyid Fadhayil 'alyy

hammad
shah and

'alyy
left

Khan of Khan was (^ubahdar of Thatah under MoAammadan erotic Mathnawy of about 500 verses, C.
first

Myr Katzim .Hasan Myr Mamrii. Dilly a son of Myr Mo-

Be-rang, Dilawar Khan, a soldier by profession, died some years ago,

B.

He

was a pupil of Yak-rang and had

the takhalluc of

Ham-

rang, V.

Be-tab,

Mohammad
fall

Isma'yl a pupil of Yak-rang died young, pre-

vious to 1168 by a

from his horse, A, B, V.

brother of Qadhiy
Shah-'alam, C.

Mohammad 'alym of Ilahabad a Mofakhkhar and a learned man flourished under

Be-tab, Shah

In

V is

Shah 'alym Allah Be-tab, and

it is

said that he

may

possibly be

Myr Mohammad 'alym. Be-tab, Myr Mohammad 'alyy, J who mentions him says that he knows nothing of his life. He is probably identical with the preceding. B6-tab Mohammad 'alym ('alym aldyn, D) of Ilahabad has a very
identical with

high opinion of his

own

poetical talents,

and most young poets have was

alive

their verses corrected

by him, D, H.

If he

when

and

H wrote he cannot be identical with the Be-tab of

Be-tab,

C.

Myr Madan

of Dilly was of a good family and held at

Murshidabad under

Siraj

aldawlah the appointment of Bakhshy

(Pay-master of the forces).

Be-tab,

He

was

killed in battle, V, J.

Shaykh Khayr aldyn of Agra a pupil of Mujrim, D.

Be-tab, Sayyid Kalb 'alyy of Patna, a son of

of Shah

Faydh

'alyy, a

brother

Kamal

'alyy

Kamal, he wastes his time in attempts to find

the elixir of

life,

V.

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Khan
of Dilly a brother of

215
Kangyn and
a

Be-tab, Khoda-wirdy

pupil of

Mamniin

is

a soldier-like man, D.

He

was a friend of H.

Be-tab, 'abbas 'alyy

Khan

of Bampur, a son of
it

Nawab

'abd al'alyy

Khan

lived long at

Lucnow, but

is

now some

years that he

resides at Dilly, D, P.

Be-tab,

Shaykh Walyy Allah

is

a teacher at Panypat,
Dilly,

D.

Myrza Kallu Bahadur is a prince of Be-tab, Sewak Earn is a fair poet, D.

Be-tab, Be-tab, Santokh

D.

Be-tab, Bahadur Singh of Bareilly writes sometimes poetry, D.

Bay was

a contempory of Qayim, A, C.
title

Bhed,

Myr Myran had

the

of Sayyid Nawazish Khan, he was

a son of the Persian Ambassador Sayyid Mortadha Khan, D.

Birishtah,

a young

Myan Mosharraf (Myan Sharaf aldyn, K) man and a pupil of 'atzym aldyn A'shuftah, D.
Chunar resided long
spells the

of Dilly

is

Bismil, Sayyid Jabbar 'alyy of

at Patna,

C
is

met him
of Bismil

in

1196 at Benares.

name

of the birth-place

Sjfi**, it

seems not to be identical with Chunar which

known

for its fortress.

H speaks of

him

as if he

was

still living.

Bismil, A,

M, B and C

are unacquainted with his

name

or cir-

cumstances.
Bismil, Myrza Bhuchchu Beg of Dilly a pupil of Sawda was of Moghol (Persian or Tatar) origin and a soldier by profession he left a good Dywan, D. Perhaps he is identical with the Bismil of
;

A,

M,

B, C.

Bismil,

Gada

'alyy

Beg

resides at present at Faydhabad,

and

is

the author of a
Bismil,

Mathnawy

called **tt >SjH* (the white ant book) C.

Sydy iZamyd

b. Bilal

Mohammad Khan

of Patna

is

one

of the Sydies (Negroes) of

Monyr

aldawlah, he probably resides

now

in Bengal, V.

Bismil, iZafitz iZafytz Allah a schoolmaster at Dilly is a pupil of

Nacyr, D.
Bismil,

Mawlawy MoAammady,
is

familiarly called

Myan

aAib

is

learned Mawlawy, that

to say he has read the

usual Arabic

school-books and has written a Persian and

Urdu Dywan, and two

*M*>

or three small

Urdu Mathnawies
jiy$
e>/<ko

chiefly

on questions of law, D.

He

translated the

^fl the

v&

and compiled a
it cijjflifl

book on grammar garf in tabular form and called

^j **.
1

Besides this he wrote several elementary treatises for a boy of the

name

of Ilahy-bakhsh of

whom

he was very fond, K.

216
Bunyad,
it is

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
said that he
is
is

[Chap.

I.

of

Lucnow and a

pupil of MucAafy, D.
practice

Bymar

of

Muradabad
is

young man who has not much

in writing poetry, he

mentioned by

T who was

his friend,

and puts

him into the chapter on Persian

poets.

aba a pupil of Myr Dhiya aldyn Dhiyd of Patna, D. 9 aba, Myrza Rajah Shankar Nath a son of Myrza Rajah
JNath Dzarrah,

says that he

is

his friend.

He

was a pupil of

Ram Myr

Taqyy Myr, K.
aba, Lalah Kanjy
his ancestors

Mai

a Kayeth of
far

Lucnow

(of Fyroz&bad P)

were of Fyrozabad (not

left

from Agra), he died at the

age of twenty-five years, and

a short

Dywan, E.

abay of AAmadabad, M,
(^abir,

J.

Myrza

Qabir,

r
Mohammad Shah and

Qabir Shah of Dilly was a contemporary of

a pupil of Fidwy, D. But, according to R, Myrza Fiday Beg Fidwy

was

his pupil.

abr,
of Dilly

Myrza Grholam JZbsayn Beg (iZbsayn Khan, R) a Kashmyry is a son of IZakym Bu 'alyy Khan and a pupil of Myr 'izzat
D.
'alyy of

Allah

'ishq,

Qabr,

Myr Mohammad
Myr
Qadiq 'alyy
is

Faydhabad composes

chiefly

Marthiyahs, C.
adiq,

a son of the Fawjdar

^Jadiq
fills

Khan

(i. e.

the ele-

phant leader) of Shah 'alam.

man-shikoh, E.
9adiq,

the same office under Salay-

He is a pupil of Insha Allah Khan, H. Myr Ja'far Khan of Dilly, a grandson of Myr Sayyid Mohammad Qadiry who was a Saint and is buried near Dilly, Qadiq
left

died in the east (Oudh) and

adiq,
office in

a work called {Sj**^

a young

M^j^,

C.

Myr

Qadiq 'alyy

Khan

man

of Patna holds an

the medicine- shop of the king of Dilly, K.

'alyy

Qadiq, Qadiq

Shah familiarly called JEfaydary resides at

a relation

Farrokhabad, K.
Qadiq, Prince

Myrza Mohammad

is

(i. e.

son-in-law) of

Shah

'alam,

K.

(JJafa,

Mannii Lai a Kayeth of Lucnow and a pupil of Muc&afy.

Qafa,

name not known, D.

R mentions

Mirza Naththan Cafd.

Qafdar,

Myr

(^afdar 'alyy of

Jaypur (Sunypat, P, R) where he

holds an appointment, K.

Qafdary //aydarabady

is

an ancient poet, C.

No. 62.]

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217

afdary of Patna was a good Persian poet and a contemporary of

A'caf-jah,

he died at Dilly, J.

Qafdary,

Myr

Qadiq

'alyy, a son of

a younger brother and pupil of

a young man, K, D.
^afiy,

Myr Qaraar aldyn Minnat and Myr Nitzam aldyn Mamnun, is

when young,
J.

He

was

killed

P.

Myr Matzhar

'alyy of Behar, a pupil of

Myrza Mohammad
by instructing

Fakhir Makyn, writes chiefly Persian poetry,

Qafiy, Lalah

Budh Sen used

to earn his livelihood

children and died shortly ago, E.

Qafyr, Jan

Khan, E.
title of

Q&hib, a son of Somroo has the

taz almulk

Motzaffar aldawlah

Mom-

Nawab Tzafar-yab Khan Bahadur JNucrat-jang,

holds some-

times assemblies of poets in his house, D.

a great scoundrel, K.

He was

a pleasant

man but

He

was a pupil of Khayraty Khan Dilsdz, P.

left

aAib an ancient poet who

QaAib,
^JaAib

a Dywan, P.
familiarly called ^aAibjy, P.

Amat
Qiran

al-Fatimah
is

Begam

a comical poet of Lucnow, V.

Is the author of a
'alyy

very obscene Dywan, K, D.

His name was Imam

Eidhawy

and he was of Belgram, T, P.

famad, Myan 'abd al-^amad of #aydarabad a pupil of Faydh, E.

aincam,

Amyr

alomara

Qamcam

aldawlah

is

dead, B.

He

was

familiarly called

Khwajah Mohammad 'atzym and was an Amyr

of Farrokhsiyar, C.
of

Mohammad Shah
ani',

Though he was apparently the Amyr alomara he was in reality his Wazyr, he fell in the war

against Nadir Shah, J.

Nitzam

aldyn

AAmad

of Belgram
after 1195,

resided

chiefly

at

Murshidabad and Calcutta and died

he

left

a Persian

Dywan,

G-,

C.

awab, Shaykh Mo/^ammad Ashraf of Ghaziypur a pupil of Mucyb

of Ilahabad
is

a young man, J.
is

Qayyad, Myrza Gholam .Hasan

'ishq,

a pupil of

Myr

'izzat

Allah

D.
servant

Champa was a

Chanda, Mak-laqa a dancing

some and has written

woman of Nawab iJosam aldawlah, K. woman at iZaydarabad is very handa Dywan which has been revised by Sher
Grarcin de Tassy informs us that there

Mohammad Khan Ymdn, D. is a copy of her Dywan in the

herself presented to Capt.

East India House Library which she

the
1

Malcom on

st of

October, 1799.

2 F

218
Chawgan, Bahar

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
'alyy

[Chap.

I.

Shah of

Dilly,
is

D.

Chawgan
Qidq,

of the south (Deccan)

a good poet, D.
of

Mohammad Qiddyq
(in

f -Haydarabad, a pupil

Myan

Eaydh, E.

^ on' at
V)
is

a relation of the

(JJon'at,

B is Qifat), Moghol Khan (Moghol Jan, Nawab Mtzam almulk Acaf-jah B, J. Karym aldyn (Myan Karym Allah, E,) of Muradabad is a
one copy of

goldsmith, P.

Dagh
Dagh,
of Ah,

of

haydarabad a pupil of Paydh, E.

the takhalluc

Myr Mahdiy (Myr Mo&ammady, E) had first he was a son of Myr Sdz and died young, E.
D) Fadhl
he
'alyy of Dilly usually called
is

Dana, (Myr,
a pupil of

Shah Dana

is

Madhmun

(or was) in the service of the

Siraj

emperor

A, B.

Subsequently he entered the service of

aldawlah of

Bengal, now, 1194, he has retired from employment, C.

He

left

Dywan but
Dara,

it

seems to be

lost,

D.
Dilly has a great pre-

Myrzd Dara-bakht a Eoyal prince of

D.

dilection for poetry,

Dard, Khwajah

Mohammad Myr

of Dilly, a son of

Khwajah Nacir
is

who

is

one of the greatest Shaykhs (Saints) of our age. Dard

the

greatest poet of the age, he was formerly in the

army, but he has

given up that profession on the advice of his father and he

leads the
life

of a Devotee.

Besides a

now Dywan he has written a treatise

on Cufism called oi^'j $JLj, A, B.

everybody
with his
year, E.
fled

When

during the

fall

of Dilly

from that

city,

Dard remained

in poverty contented

lot,

he died in 1202, G.

He

died in 1196,

M. He

died last

He

died on Thursday, the 24th of fafar, 1199, P.

He
was

also left a Persian

Dywan, K.

The takhalluc

of Dard's father

'andalyb, P.

Dard's father was familiarly called Shah Gulshanandis

the author of the v- J^U aJl^

Dard died

in 1195, the following

chronogram on his death tj^y)

made by Hidayat Allah

gives 1199), T.

is

v^3

^j jfc*
'*> ty

is a &^js^ another chronogram

\j^~ d

^A

-ft*^

(this

Other biographers say that he was a

disciple of

Shah Gulshan meaning Shaykh Sa'd Allah.

Dard, (Sayyid, K) Karam Allah Khan Amyr Khan Anjdm, A, B. Pell in battle
is

a nephew of

Nawab

against the Mahrattas

under A7jmad Shah, C.

Dardmand, Karym Allah Khan a

relation of 'umdat almulk

flou-

NO.

62.]

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
It appears to

219
that this poet
is

rished under Shah 'alam, P.

identical with the following.

me

Dardmand, (Myr, D) Mohammad Fakyh a pupil of Matzhar has

B.

some time ago removed to Bengal, he is the author of a Saqiy-namah, His ancestors were of the Deccan and he was born there but
brought up at Dilly, he died at Murshidabad in 1176 and
Persian Dywan,
G-.

left

a good

In

is,

besides this, a

Dardmand

of the

Deccan

who has

lately visited Dilly,

but both are pupils of Matzhar and

probably identical.

Darwysh, Shah

'alyy of Dilly a pupil of

r

Mamnun,

his father

was

a Faqyr and he follow s the same profession, K.

Dawiid, a pupil of 'uzlat, B.

Mohammad
of the one

Shah, C.
is

Myrza Dawtid Beg nourished under J has two poets of this takhalluc, the name
is

who

the pupil of 'uzlat

Dawiid Beg, he does not

is at Dilly.

mention the name of the other, but he says of him that he

Dayim, Dayim
Narayan.
Dhab,

'alyy

was at Calcutta and

is

mentioned by Beny

Dhafak,

Myr JJasan Shah is a poet of Lucnow, K. Myr Gholani iZbsayn, the father of Myr
when

.Hasan

is

humoristic poet and resides now, 1196, at Faydhabad, C, J. It seems

that he was dead

V wrote.
Khan
of Dilly, had the title of JSTacyr

Dhamyr, Hidayat

'alyy

aldawlah Bakhshy almulk Asad-jang Bahadur, he went to Patna and

died at Hosaynabad, C, V.

Dhamyr, Nadzyr aldyn was an

given to opium eating, T.

excessively avaricious

man and

Dhamyr, Shaykh Madary of Agra, a pupil of Mohammad Walyy

Nacyr and of Be-dar, K.

Dhamyr, Granga Das, a Kayeth, resided

a pupil of
'isq,

at Dilly, he

was in Eekhtah

K.

Mohammad Nacyr, and in Persian of Myrza Mohammad He knows also Sanskrit, D. He died some time ago, H.
Ttikor Das, J.
'alyy a son of

Dhamyr,
'alyy of

Dhaygham, Mawlawy Ghadhanfar

Lucnow,
~R.

Mawlawy iZaydar

Dhiya was an ancient poet of A^madabad, D.

Dhiya, Myrza Dhiya-bakht Bahadur
is

a son of the late Myrza

Parkhundah-bakht, K, H.
Dhiya,

Myr (Myan,

J) Dhiya aldyn of Dilly was a contemporary of

2 F 2

220

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
many
pupils.
life

[Chap.

I.

Sawda, when he went to Lucnow he had

In 1196 he
at

came

to Patna, C, G.
left

He

spent the evening of his

Murshi-

dabad and

a Dywan, G.

About

forty years ago he settled at

Patna and he died there, Y.

aldyn

mentions besides this another Dhiya"

who was given to love and drinking. Dhiya, a poetess, H. Dhiya, Shaykh Walyy Allah of Dilly, E.
Dil,

Shaykh

Mohammad

'abid of

Patna

is

a brother of Joshish,
his

G.

He

was a friend of C and sent him extracts from

verses.

Dywan,

which according to J had about 2000 Patna and

left

says he died at

a treatise on Eekhtah Metric called ci"^^'

U*jj*

(the awkwardness of the use of the article with Hindy, leads

me

to

suppose that the

Dil,

title is

a chronogram for 1174.)

Shah Fat Mohammad, a physician, was a contemporary of

and a grandson of the Saint

Abrti,

Mohammad

of Gwalyar, C.

He

was

a native of Agra, but resided at Faydhabad, V.

Dil,

Nawab

'imad almulk, a grandson of Nitzam almulk has every

J.

good quality which man can possess,

Dil,

Gholam Mocfofa, Khan of Dilly, a son of Gholain Mohyj aldyn Khan, D. He is dead, H. Dil, Mawlawy Shams aldyn of Dilly is a pious man, D, K. From

it

would appear that he was dead in 1250.

Dil,

Beny Prashad, a Kayeth

is

of Patna, K.

In

his

name

is

Deby Prashad, and it is said that he is a young man. In H is a Deby Prashad Dil of Dilly, and one of MurshidaMd. P mentions only Deby Prashad Dil of Murshidabad. Dil, Madhoram of Farrokhabad is of the Banian caste called
Aggarwalah, V.
Dil, Dil,

Azad Khan has

lately

been converted to the Islam, H, D.

Dilly, it is said that
is

Zorawar Khan, a Kayeth of

he has lately

embraced the Islam, D.

He

is

of Coel, and

author of a large

Dywan, and several Mathnawies, P who knows his son. Diler, Shah Diler of Patna, was a studious and pious young man, K. Diler, Chhoty Begam, E.
Dilgyr,
in

Myr

Ifimayat Allah Khan, a son of 'alam Khan,

is

skilled

Eamal and
Dil-khosh,

astrology, P.

son of Khosh-Ml

Kunwar Bahadur Singh, a Khatry of Dilly, is a grandEay who used to compose chiefly Hindee Eags,

No. 62.]

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

221
is

Ddhrahs &c, and flourished under Mohammad Shah, Dil-khdsh

inferior to his grandfather,

far

D, H.
origin, a pupil of Firaq
is,

Dil-soz,

Khayraty Khan, an Afghan by

it is

was

in the Society of Somroo's son,

not

known where he now

in the society

K.

It

is

said that he died at Jaypiir, P.

He

was of Tapal two stages

of Simroo's

from 'alyy-garh, B.
son.

His father was

Dil-soz was formerly a great drunkard but of late he has

reformed, T.

Diregh,

Myr Zayn
it is

al'abidyn of Dilly,

is

a pupil of Nacyr, D.

Dorakhshan, Mangii Beg (Myrza, Mangu, V) flourished under

Shah-'alam,
said he died at Faydhabad, C.

Dost, Dost

Mohammad

of Sikandarabad was a iZafitz and lost his

eye-sight in his youth.

He

left

a Persian

Dywan, H.
Khalyfah

He

was a

pupil of Mu'jiz, T.

Dost,

Gholam Mohammad
of the Behar,

familiary

called

Grholam
translated

AAmad

C saw him

at Murshidabad.

He
it

the Bahare Danish into Bekhtah verses and called

cA^J^'*

Y does not know what has

great energy P.

become of him.

Dulhan Begam, Nawab Bahii a wife of Acaf aldawlah was a lady of

See Jany.

Dydar

'alyy Shah,

D.

He may
the

possibly be the author of the

title

Dakhny Mathnawy, which has

and of which
small
folio.

of

yb

*lL+&jjy\*lo

&*aj

G-arcin de Tassy has a copy. It is a

volume of 22 pages

Dywanah, Griiru-bakhsh Bay, J says that he never met him or found him mentioned in any Tadzkirah, but that he had heard that
he
is

of Dilly, and resides at Murshidabad.

Dywanah, Bay Sarab Sukh a relation of Bajah Maha Narayan wrote two Persian Dywans of more than 10,000 verses, and most
poets of

Lucnow were

his pupils,

he died in 1206, P.
'alyy

Dywanah, Myrza MoAammad

Dzahyn,
young.

Khan

of Benares held

an

appointment under the British Government, he met P.

Myr Mohammad

Mosta'idd was a friend of

and died

According to J and

C who

quote

as their authority, his

takhalluc was Dzihn.

Dzahyn, Jay Sukh Bay of Dilly had formerly the takhalluc of Khayal he writes elegant prose

and poetry both in Persian and Urdu, D.

Dzakir, Sayyid iTbsayn-ddst of Muradabad, C.

222

re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

Dzakir, Myrza, Padhl 'alyy an accomplished man, his ancestors were

of Afghanistan, he resides

now

at Patna, J.
is

Eostam Beg, D, H. Dzaqyy, Mohammad Dzaqyy a son of Mohammad Taqyy Taqyy is a studious young man,J5Tantz 'abd al-Eahmanl^san corrects his verses, K.
a pupil of

Dzakir, Myrza Afanad Beg of Dilly

Dzaqyy, Ja'far 'alyy Khan held formerly a high

office

under the

crown and the rank of

B.

five

thousand, but

He

is

dead and

left

a Mathnawy, C.
is

now he is in great distress, The Mathnawy which he

very celebrated, J.

composed by order of

Mo/mmmad Shah
is

Dzaqyy, Shaykh Mahdiy 'alyy of Muradabad was for some time

revenue collector of Saharanpur, he
author of a Dywan, P.
Dzarrah, Myrza Eajah Earn Nath, was in the service of the emperor
a well-informed man, and
is

and conformed in making

ta'ziyahs, &c. to the habits of the

Musal-

mans, he chose the takhalluc of Dzarrah,

to A'ftab, the takhalluc of his patron

Atom

or Dust, in reference
II.

Shah 'alam
is

K.

Dzarrah, Lala Jannaty Das

( Juthy Das, K)

of Jahanabad, he is

a teacher and his poems have a mystical tendency, D, K.

pupil of Shawq,

Dzawq, Shaykh Mo/iammad Ibrahym of Dilly a young poet is a H. He is called the Khaqany of India, and is
far the best poet of Dilly,

by

though he has now written poetry

it

these thirty years he has not yet collected

is

into a

Dywan, P.

He

now, 1853,

alive,

and the author of the Dywan ascribed to the king

is

of Dilly whose takhalluc

Tzafar.
J.

Dzawq, Munshiy Asa Earn of Patna a pupil of Myrza Pidwy,

Dzawqa, Dzawqa Shah a Darwysh of Banares, H.
to Meerut, P.

He

went

Dzawqy, Dzawqy Earn of Muradabad

is

a pupil of Dzaqyy, he

composes chiefly poems on the occasion of the Holee, P.

Dzawqy

Shah, a

Darwysh

resides at

Lucnow,

J,

H.

It

would

appear from

K that he was dead in 1221.

is

Dzikr of Dilly
Dzikr,

only fourteen years old, Y.

Myr

fibsayn of Muradabad, Y.
(or son) of

Dzoka, Dzoka. Allah

the

Khan of Lucnow, a descendant Nawab Ma^abbat Khan b. iZantz EaAmat Khan, P.

Faccad, a barber of Dilly and a pupil of

Myan

Nacyr, D.

Facy, Myrza Ja'far 'alyy a pupil of Nasikh, P.

chiefly

He

composes

Marthiyahs, T.

NO.

62.]

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Fadhil Shah of Dilly.

223

Fadhil,

Was

friend of

and died

shortly before he wrote.

Fadhil,

Fadhl,

Mohammad Fadhil of fZaydarabad, a pupil of Faydh, E. Myr Fadhl Mawla Khan of Lucnow came to Dilly and

composed a Qacydah in praise of the emperor who conferred the title of Afdhal alsho'ara upon him, D. He went to Calcutta and thence
to Murshidabad and entered the service of the Natzim; he died

young, P.
Fadhl, Shah Fadhly (Shah Fadhl 'alyy, C) of the Deccan
poet, B.
is

a good

He

was a contemporary of

Abrii, C.

Fadhly, Fadhl aldyn

A-j J.

Khan

(Afdhal aldyn Khan, C) of the Deccan

He
verses

wrote a Mathnawy in the Dakhny dialect which has about

500

and

is

a Sarapa or description of a Prince, C.

jPalib

He
is

was
the

either a contemporary of

or nourished before him.

Fakhr,

Myr Fakhr

aldyn a son of Ashraf 'alyy

Khan who
when

author of a Tadzkirah of Persian poets, and a pupil of Sawda, he

resides now, 1196, at

Lucnow, C.
it

He

was

still alive

wrote.

See also Mahir which

seems

is

a second takhalluc of this poet.

Myrza Fakhr aldyn iZosayn Khan a friend of D. Fakhry a pupil of Walyy and a very fertile poet, A. Faqyr, Myr Shams aldyn wrote chiefly Persian verses, A. Travelled in the Deccan and made in 1170 the pilgrimage to Makkah, and was
wrecked on his return to India; he
sciences particularly
left

treatises

on almost

all

on Prosody, Ehyme, Ehetoric, &c.

Gr,

his Persian

poetry has been collected into a Dywan, C,

K.

According to

Abu

Talib's

Lobb

alsiyar, his

death took place in 1181

of Grulawthy resided at Dilly, and
;

Faqyr,

Mawlawy Faqyr Allah

supported himself by teaching, he was a pupil of Minnat

dead, K, D.

he

is

Faqyr,

Mawlawy Faqyr Allah of Hapiir resides

in his native town,

D.

Faqyr,

Myr

Faqyr Allah of Dilly

is

particularly strong in

Bhakha

poetry, but composes sometimes also

Eekhtah poetry, K, D.
Dilly,
is

Faragh,

Mawlawy Mohammad
FaraA,
is

F'aragh was a pupil of Bismil and

died young, K, D.
Fara/,

Myr

Fara 'alyy resides at

H.

Fara^-bakhsh

a public

woman
'alyy,

of Azkath, which

a place

in the east

(Oudh ?)

P.
'alyy

Farhad,

Myr Babar

(Shyr

D)

of Faydhabad a pupil of

Myr

#asan, D, P.

224
FarAat,

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
Myr Amyr
by
'alyy
is

[Chap.
'izzat

I.

a pupil of

Myr
to

Allah

'ishq

and a
ago, P.

soldier

profession,

K.

Went

Lucnow

several years

FarAat, Shaykh Far/*at Allah, A.

He

was a son of Shaykh Asad

Allah and was brought up at Dilly, went to Patna where he met C.

He

died in 1191 and left a Persian and a Eekhtah

Dywan,

C,

Gr,

J.

His ancestors were of Ma-wara-lnahr, H.

a,rhat,

FarAat Allah was a

man

of

some learning and many poets

had their verses corrected by him, H.

FarAat,
talented

Myr

FarAat 'alyy a pupil of

Myr

'izzat

Allah 'ishq

is

young man, H.
is

Farigh, Farigh Shah of Bareilly

a ufy, D.

He

resides at

Shikarpur,
Farigh,

H,

T.
is

Myr Afanad Khan

Mokand

a son of Sarwar and a friend of P.

Farigh, Lalah
heart,

Singh, a Khatry

who

is

Musalman
is
is

at at

he held formerly an appointment

at Dilly,

but now he

Bareilly,

he

is

a pupil of Shaykh Tzohur aldyn iZatim, K.

at Dilly, C,

He

disciple of

Fakhr aldyn and resides

V.

He

has written

a Dywan, D.
Farqy, an Imperial Prince
dur,
is

a pupil of Myrza,

Abu

Tzafar Baha-

D.

Farrokh,

Myr

(Myrza) Farrokh 'alyy of Etawah served in the

Eesided at Luc-

army, and composed chiefly Persian poetry, A, C.

now, and was a friend of Myrza Fadhl 'alyy Beg,

Faryad, Lalah Qkhib
is

J.

Bay

of

Lucnow where he
a pupil of

resided in 1196, ho

a son of Sendhy

Mai a Kayeth and

Myr Soz, he had forNawab Faydh Allah

merly the takhalluc of Qorban, C, V.

Myrza Yath
Khan, D.
Faydh,

'alyy

Khan Bahadur

a son of

Myr Faydh

'alyy of Dilly a son of

Myr

resided at

Lucnow

in

196, C.

"Was

Myr Mohammad Taqyy He alive when V wrote.

was in the service of Acaf aldawlah, H.

Faydh,
Faydh,

Myr Faydh
//afitz

'alyy

is alive,

P, E.

Shams aldyn of 7/aydarabad writes Persian and

a

Eekhtah poetry, E.
Faydh, Pandit Kripa Kishen
Fayiz J-J^, his
is

Kashmyry
at

of

Lucnow, P.

Faydh, Myrza 'alyy Eidha Khan resides

Lucnow, D.

name

is

not known, P.

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225

Fayyadh, 'abd al-Eazzaq resides at IZaydarabad, K.

Fida, Sayyid

Imam

aldyn of Dilly (Farydabad, T), a pupil of Mor-

tadha Quly

Khan

Firaq,

came under Nawab Wirdy Khan to Murshi?) to C.

is

dabad and settled there, he showed his verses in 1184 (1196

He

is

a pupil of Hidayat and a talented young man, V.

He

very

aged, T.
Fida,

He

resides at Lucnow, D.

Myrza Fida 'alyy Beg, Myrza Fidwy corrects his verses, J. Fida, Myrza Fida ITosayn Khan of Lucnow, familiarly called Xqa ZZosayn Khan, a son of Aqa Myrza is about twenty-two years of
age,

Mamnun, K.

and a pupil of Minnat and of E. It is said he is a pupil of He was a friend of D and has written a Dy wan. He
birth,

was a Moghol by
art of divination,

and

his ancestors

were without equal in the

H.
'aqibat
is alive,

Mawlawy Mohammad Isma'yl who is called Khan ('afiyat Khan, D) is a Kashmyry of Dilly, he
Fida,
fills

MaAmud
K.

He

the

Fida,

office of adr godiir, H. Shaykh (Myr, D) 'abd al-amad of Farydabad

(Dilly,

P) has
resides

written a

Dy wan

of Persian and

Urdu poems, he

is alive

and

in his native town,

K, D.
of Dilly,
is

Fida, Pandit

Daya Dhan, a Kashmyry

Khan,

mostly present

at the Mosha'arahs of the Maharajah, E.

Fida, Grholam 'alyy

stances.

is

unacquainted with his circum-

Fida, Sayyid

Mohammad

'alyy,

familiarly

called Fida

Shah of

Lohary in the

district of Saharanpur,

was

first

a soldier, subsequently

he lived in retirement, D.
probably died, P.
Fida,

He

left Dilly

eleven years ago and has

ago he went to

Lachmy Earn Pandit resided long at Dilly, but some years Lucnow where he obtained an appointment and was
is

sent to Bareilly, he

a pupil of Sawda, K, D.
for

Fidwy,

Myr

Fadhl 'alyy of Dilly resided

?)

some time

in the

East (Lucnow

and died

at Murshidabad,

K.

Fidwy, Mo7*ammad MoAsin (Shah Mo/^sin,

'alyy

K)

a son of

Myr Gholam

Moclafa Khan a Sayyid of Lahdr and a friend of Abrii was

first

rather a musician than a poet A, V. In the

year of Farroksiyar

when

sixteen years of age, he

came

to Dilly, E.

He

died about

twenty years ago, K.

Fidwy,

He was a Myrza Mohammad of

2

pupil of Najiy,

H.

Dilly was familiarly called

Myrza

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re'khtah tadzkirahs.
for

[Chap.
some years

I.

Bhuchchu, he was a good musician and resided

Murshidabad.
Ghasyta, J, C, G, D.

at

In 1194, he was at Patna and a

disciple of

Shah

He

died at Patna, V.

Fidwy of Lahor

resides

now
It

at Dilly, J.

He

came

to Farrokha-

bad to enter a poetical combat with Sawda, but was defeated and
returned to his home, C.
is

said that

he was the son of a grainfaith.

merchant, and embraced the

fcibir 'alyy

MoAammadan
at

He

was a pupil of
upwards

Shah Cdbir, and died

Muradabad
K

at an age of

of

fifty years.

For some time he was

his request a l**j j

in the service of Dhabitfah

Khan,
was a

and wrote at
complete
it,

^L~*ji

in Bekhtah, but did not

E, H.

His name was Myrza Fiday Beg.

sect,

He

Moghol and of the Shy'ah

MucAafy
states.

but not the son of a baqqal as

When

young, he travelled in Persia and stayed

After he had
left

four years at Ispahan.

the service of Dhabitah

at the Court.

Khan he went

to

Lucnow, where he obtained a place

at Bareilly, T.

He

was murdered

Fidwy,

Samman

Lai a Kayeth of Dilly

is

a son of

Mul Chand
In

Munshiy, D.
Fidwy, Myrza 'atzym Beg was a merchant, E, K, D.
he has the takhalluc of Fidayiy.
Figar, Figar,

H and P
ago,

Myrza Qofob

'alyy Beg, a plagiarist, died

some time

K.

Myr

//osayn of Dilly a grandson of

Myr Faqyr

Allah

JPaqyr

is

a pupil of Ghalib, P.

Fighan, Ashraf 'alyy (iZashmat 'alyy, E)

of Myrza, 'alyy

Khan

of Dilly a son

Khan Zankanah was Tutor

title

in the family of

A^mad

Shah, and

had therefore the

of Tzaryf almulk

Kokah Khan,
left

after his death he

went

to Patna, A, B.
at

His verses were corrected

Patna in 1186 and
Gr,

by
of

'alyy

Quly Khan Nadym, he died

Dywan Ummed, D.
Fighan,
Jah&n.
Fikr,

containing about 2000 verses, C,

J.

He

was a pupil

He

died in 1196, P.

H
is

says his title was Kokil-

tash Khan.

Myr Shams

aldyn of Dilly

mentioned by Beny Narayan

Myr A7*mad

'alyy of
is

Lucnow, H.
a pupil

Firaq, Kayqobad-jang
Firaq,

a poet of the Deccan, K, D.

is

Myan Thana

Allah of Dilly a nephew of Hidayat

C, D.

of Sawda and Khwajah Myr Dard,

He now

resides at Dilly

and practises medicine, V, E.

Most poets

of Dilly are his pupils, he

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62.]

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He
died some years ago and
left

227
Hidayat

is alive,

K.

a Dywan, P.
T.

the uncle of Firaq was a pupil of

Firaq,

Myr J)ard,

Myr Mortadha Quly,an artillery

came
to

officer,

wrote chiefly Persian

verses, he

Murshidabad and settled

there, he died in prison,

into which he was cast

by Rajah Shitab Ray because he could not

;

account for some public money

Left a Dywan, D.

he was a friend of Sawda and of C.

Prem Kishor has visited repeatedly Lucnow, Benares and Calcutta, he writes Urdu and Persian poetry as well
Firaqy, Kiinwar

as Kabits and Dohras, he

several Persian

is

a pupil of Aram, he

is

the author of

Dywans, K. D.

Firaqy, a poet of the

Deccan a contemporary of Faqr Allah Azad

and of Walyy.
Fifrat,

in another t5*!
title

of

(in one place this name is spelled ^-i^l and may be an orthographical error of 'ysa) has the Khiradmand Khan and is of Jaypur, but resides now at

Ifakym Anys
it

Bhurtpiir, R.
Fifrat see

Musawy Khan,
'alyy

p. 109.

Fordgh,

Myr

Akbar a pupil
is

of

Myr Shams

aldyn Faqyr,

writes also Persian verses and

skilled in medicine

and astrology,

c,v.
Forogh,

Forogh,

Myr Thana aldyn iZbsayn Khan of iZaydarabad, K. Myr Rawshan 'alyy Khan is a pupil of Mamnun, K.
1

Fotuwat, Myrza Gholam IZaydar of Dilly, D.

Akden e^^ J~*J 9 (?) a son of Gobinet **+* (eH^"^ R) is a Frenchman and composes good verses, D. He was in the service of Begam Samroo, P. Furcat, Myrza Alaf Beg of Ilahabad, his grandfather had emigrated from Persia to India, C. He was formerly a pupil of My an MaAzun and now he is a pupil of Jonun, J. He was still alive when V wrote, but was dead when Beny Narayan wrote.
Frasu, Captain Francois

Furqat,

'ata.

Allah Khan, his father was in the service of the

Emperor, and he himself made in the service of the princes various

journeys, at present he resides at Kalpy, K.

Granna (or Kanna) Begam, some say her takhalluc was Mantzar,
she was a daughter of 'alyy

Quly Khan Shash-angushty and a

wife of imad almulk Grhaziy aldyn

Khan Bahadur, Sdz and Sawda

Minnat corrected her
verses, P,

corrected her verses, she

is

dead, K.

2 G 2

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re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

Ganchin was a poetess, V.

Garm, Myrza Z/aydar

pupil of E.

'alyy of Dilly a son of

Niyaz 'alyy Beg

is

Resided formerly at Lucnow, but lately he went to

/Zaydar&bad, D.

Gawhary Badawny, E, D.
Ghadhanfar, Ghadhanfar 'alyy

Khan

familiarly called

Myan Kallii,

(Beny Narayan
Karorah
is

spells

j^^)

a great grandson of

Gholam ZJosayn
Besides since

a young man, and a pupil of Jorat, E.

at

some years
Ghafil,

Lucnow, K.
is

Bakhtawar Singh

a Kayeth of Muradabad, D.
is

Ghafil,

Myr Mohammad
is

(Afanad D, H,) 'alyy

a native of Benares,
is

but his family

of the Deccan, he resides at Murshidabad and

pupil of Shah Qudrat Allah Qudrat, K, D.

Ghafil,

Shaykh Mohammad Mas'ud Khan of

it is

from Panypat,
time ago, H.
Ghafil,

said that he is a clever

man, D.

Mohamm not far He died some

a pupil of

Monawwar Khn an Afghan

Ray Singh was

of

Lucnow

MucH.

Aafy,

H.
a good accountant and letter-writer, D,

Ghafil,

Ghafil, Lala

Sundar Lai a son of the Bakhshy SuUan Singh and a

brother of Sha'ir, knows

Ghalib,

many

verses

by -heart, D.

Asad Allah Khan

first

familiarly called

Myrza Nawsha

is

of a

noble family and resided formerly at Agra,

now he

resides at Billy,

he

is

an old poet and

imitated the style of Bedil,

now he

has

a style of his own, P.

Ghalib,

Nawab Asad

Allah

Khan

of Dilly had the

title

of Sayyid

almulk Qiyam-jang (jTalib-jang) resided for some time at Murshi-

dabad and met C.

Ghalib, Ghalib

He

wrote sometimes Persian verses, Y.

(Ghalib 'alyy Khan, E) a grandson of
chief,

Khan

Dundy

Khan who was an Afghan

Ghalib, Lala

D.

Mohan

Lai a Kayeth of Agra, writes Persian and

Bekhtah poetry, D.
jang
aldawlah Bahadur Beg Khan GhalibH, a son of Ghalib-jang, D) of Dilly a son of Niyaz Beg Khan Badakhshy is in the service of Shah 'alam, V. His father
Ghalib,
(2&lib-jang,

Nawab Mokarram

accumulated great wealth, but Ghalib squandered

it

away, he was in

Persian a pupil of Mawziin and in Eekhtah of Hidayat and Piraq,

K.

He

used to have Mosha'rahs in his house.

He

died in 1218,

H.

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229
Myr
A'bbu Q&hib

Ghamm, Myr Mohammad Aslam

resides at present at Murshidabad, J.

Ghammgyn, Myr Sayyid 'alyy third son of the late Myr Sayyid Mohammad and a nephew of Acaf-jah is a young man, and a pupil
of Eangyn, he has written a Dywan, K, D.

Ghammgyn, Myr
pupil of

'abd Allah a son of

is

Myr

/Zbsayn Taskyn, E.

Gham-khwar, a Sayyid of Dilly

a soldier by profession and a

Gholam

JEfosayn Shikyba,

K.
is

Ghanyy, Shaykh 'abd al-Ghanyy of Thanah near Saharanptir

talented man, D. In of Shikohabad

H and P

is

besides this, a

Myr

'abd al-Ghanyy

who

died young of consumption.

Gharyb,

Myr

'abd al-Walyy was an ancient poet, K, D.

Gharyb, Lala Kanjy Mai a Kayeth of Bahadur-gadh a son of Khiib

Chand and a nephew of the Dywan of Nawab Dhabiah Khan, resided

first at

Dilly subsequently at Ijrarah, he

is

a young man, D,

H.
late

Gharyb, Kallu was a contemporary of Abru, V.

Gharyb,

Myr Mohammad Taqyy

Mohammad Zaman,
B.

was in the service of the

'aliy-jah, C,
is

Nawab Myr Mohammad Qasim Khan

Gharyb,

K, D.
he stammered

He

at Dilly, as

he used sometimes the takhalluc of Alkan, J.

In D, H, and

his

name

is

erroneously spelled

Mohammad Aman.

Gharyb, Shaykh Nacyr aldyn A7amad is a Kashmyry of Dilly, he composes chiefly Persian verses, and has written a thick Persian

Dywan, K, D, H.
Gharyq, his name
is

not known, E.

Myr Ghasy
Ghawthy,

&*! a friend of

Myr Mohammad Taqyy composed

a son of Qofob aldyn Qadhiy of

a few Eekhtah verses, A, B.

Mohammad Ghawth

iZaydarabad died at Makkah, A.

Ghawwac (Ghawwacy) an ancient poet of the Deccan, J, H. Ghayrat of Lucnow a pupil of Jorat, E, D. In D is a Ghayrat of Lucnow besides this, and in H is an addition to these two, a
Ghayrat of the Deccan.

Nawab Ghaziy aldyn Khan composed

a few Eekhtah verses, A,

He

was of the Deccan, D.

Gholam, Kunwar Gopal Nath second son of Eajah Earn Nath Dzarrah was a pupil of Firaq he was at the Court of Shah 'alam and
died some time ago, K.

2 30

re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

Myr Gholam Nabyy Belgramy, his takhalluc is not known, he is a nephew of 'abd al-Jalyl Belgramy (V spells Balgram, most people
pronounce Bilgram) and a clever musician,
it

is

said that he has

composed 2400 Dohras which are as good as those of Binary, C. Gholamy, Shah Gholam Mohammad was one of the ancient poets

and a friend of /Zatim.

He

was a Darwysh and had his takiyah in

Shah-Taslym at Dilly, E, H.

Ghorbat of Muradabad, D. Myrza Giramy a son of 'abd al-Ghanyy Beg

chiefly Persian poetry

Qabul, composed and died towards the end of Mohammad Shah's

reign, A,

M.
Myrza Sangy Beg of
Dilly a son of

Giriftar,

Ba^ym Tar Khan

was of Moghol origin and a pupil of iZatim, K.

Giriyan, Myr 'alyy Amjad (Myr Amjad 'alyy of Lucnow, K, D, Myr Mohammad 'alyy of Lucnow, P, Myr MoAammady, B) is a son of Myr 'alyy Akbar and a pupil of Qudrat and Dhiya, C.
Giriyan, Bajah

Bhawany Singh Bahadur

is

familiarly called Bajah

Kunwar, D.

He

Dywan

of the emperor
is

and a son of Shitab Bay

a pupil of

Momtaz
J.

almulk, he resides at Dilly and

Myan Fidwy,
Bhuchchu,

He

was a brother of

'ashiq

and died at Calcutta, V.

Giriyan,

Myr

/Tosam aldyn 'alyy familiarly called

Myr

composed
and died
Giriyan,
late

chiefly Marthiyahs,

he went from Dilly to Murshidabad

there,

D.
is

Gholam Mo7*yy aldyn Khan of Jhanjanah Mawlawy Sajid, K, D.

is
is

a son of the

Godaz

a soldier by profession and a pupil of //asrat, V. of Lucnow, D.

Gostakh, Myrza 'alyy Beg

Gulshan,

Amyr

Singh

is

a Khatry of Dilly, D.
at

is

not

Guman, Natzar 'alyy Khan of Dilly resides known where he now resides, V.

Faydhabad, C.

It

Guya, Shaykh .Hayat Allah (Hidayat Allah, E) of Parrokhabad

much with Europeans, H. Guya, iZbsam aldawlah Nawab Faqyr Mohammad Khan Bahadur he is a pupil of of Lucnow is a great patron of poets,
associates

Nasikh, P.

i/abyb of iZaydarabad a pupil of

copies of B, and in

'uzlat,

B.

In one out of three

who quotes one

In C
is

of the verses quoted

by B,

his takhalluc is iZasyb.

a ZZabyb Allah but the verse quoted

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62.]
is

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B
and M, and in J
is

231
a

of him
.Habyb.

not the same as in

MoAammad

iZabyb of Muradabad, E.
IZabyb, Sayyid ZZabyb iZbsayn of Dilly, his father was Eesidency

Munshiy
and

at Dilly,

and iZabyb

is

now Wakyl

in the MunsifFs court

at I'timadpur.
<fcc.

He

has visited with his father Bareilly, Calcutta,

his verses are corrected

by Tzafar-yab Khan Easikh of

which had about 700

Bareilly, E.

Hadiy of
verses.

Dilly,

A has seen a Dywan of

his,

Shaykh FarAat informed C that he had not been a man of

also the takhalluc of a poet of the

any attainments.

Hadiy
Hadiy,

is

South (Dec can), D.

Myr Jawad

'alyy

Khan

of Dilly (familiarly called

Myr

Hadiy, D,) used to

visit

the Mosha'arahs of E.

He

was Kotwal or on
and

superintendent of the military Bazar under Ghaziy aldyn IZaydar

Khan, he

is alive

and the author of a Dywan and of

treatises

Grammar, Law, &c. in Bekhtah verses, he has Dywan in which no letter occurs with a
another in which
all

also written
diacritical

one small

point,

have diacritical points, D, K.

He

died in 1215,

H.

In T

JTafitz,

name is Myr Mo7*ammad Jawad. ITafitz Khayr Allah of Dilly, E.

his

iZafitz, JEZafitz

Mohammad Ashraf

of Dilly

is

a pious man, D.
or

Either he

is

identical with ZZafitz

Gholam Ashraf Ashraf,

con-

founds the two poets.

iZafytz a poet of iZaydarabad,
iZafytz, iZafitz

H.
a

Mohammad

iZafytz,

Kashmyry of

Dilly, is a

pupil of K, he composes chiefly

year, P.

Marthiyahs, D.

He

died last

iZajjam, 'inayat Allah of Saharanpur

was

for a long time a barber

at Dilly, he professed to be a pupil of Sawda, he

was a friend of

and died
years, E.

six years

ago at Dilly at an age of more than eighty-five

familiarly called

He

is

KaM

iZajjani, J.

He

has also

the takhalluc of Parwarish, K.

.ZZakyni,

Nithar, but has lately changed

Mo^ammad-panah Khan had formerly the takhalluc of it, he is a son of Mo/jammad Sharyf
(Zar-bakhsh, P,) he was a

Khan Lakh-bakhsh

man

of rank, and
skilled in

resided for some time at Dilly and visited

Lucnow, he was

music, medicine, and even in history, E.

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IZakym,
he
is

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
Mohammad Ashraf Khan
of Dilly where he

[Chap.
now

I.

resides,

an eminent physician, D.

Died a short time ago, P. D.

[Khan, P.

.Hakym, Nihal aldyn, E.

iZaly,

Myr MoAibb

'alyy resides at Murshidabad,

Hamdam, 'ibad 'alyy of Eampiir a son of Nawab a,th 'alyy Hamdam, Myr Maftfutz 'alyy of Patna is a son of Myr Mohammad
fiayat Hasrat and a pupil of Qudrat and others, he resides at
shidabad, C.

Mur-

He
is

is

young, J.

Myr

/Zamid

a disciple of

He is probably dead, V. Myr JNacyr of Lucnow

and has a

great predilection for poetry, C, V.

Hamrang, Dilawar
Yakrang, D.

'alyy

Khan was

a brother of Moctafa

Khan

See Yakrang and Be-rang.

'azyz aldyn of Awrangabad is a 9 ufy an(i a pupil Gholam Kibriya Khalyl of Murshidabad, he has written a short Eekhtah Dywan with a Persian preface, D. He also writes

Hamrang, Myr

of

Persian poetry, H.

Ham-za

!>*,

Shah Ham-za a Darwysh of

Dilly,

who

settled

some

time ago at Patna and has

many

followers,
is

D, H.

iZamzah, Shaykh IZamzah 'alyy

a schoolmaster of Etawah, D.

K.
in

Haqyqat,

Myr Shah

^Tosayn of Bareilly brought up at Lucnow,

is

his ancestors

were of Balkh, he

a pupil of Jorat, he was

first

the cavalry, subsequently at the recommendation of Jorat, he was

appointed tutor in the family of Imam-bakhsh

Khan Kashmyry,

whom

he assisted in compiling a Tadzkirah of poets. The Kashmyry

obtained the loan of the rough copy of MucAafy's Tadzkirah, and

appropriated the contents of nearly the whole without acknow-

ledgment, E.
iZaqyr,

In T he has the name of Myr Imam aldyn familiarly

iZasan Shah.
called

Myr

Kallu of Dilly

wrote Persian and Urdu poetry more particularly Marthiyahs, Euba'ys, &c.

he now earns his livelihood by instructing children, D, K.

iZaqyr, Munshiy Nabyy-bakhsh a son of Shaykh iZosayn-bakhsh BahJishy of Dilly, where his ancestors who were of the Panjab, settled

about one hundred years ago, is since many years Sirishtahdar of the
Magistrate's court at Coel, E.
IZaqyr, Shyii Sahay of

Meerut was a Minstrel who

lived

on making

verses on the occasion of marriages, &c. he wrote Persian and

Urdu

poetry and
visited

Eawshan Shah Eawshan used to Dilly and made the acquaintance of D.

correct his verses, he

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233

Har Chand, Har Chand Kishor of Dilly, V. He is a son of Kunwar Prem Kishor Eiraqy, and attends most Mosha'arahs, D, K.
Hariya, Har-sahay a
physician, T.
iZaryf, Khwajah Mokarram Khan of Dilly a son of Khwajah Mo7*ammady Khan who held an appointment in Bengal where he now is, his son iZaryf lived with him but died young, J.

Brahman

of Sikandarabad,

H.

He

is

a good

iZasan, Hafitz Abu-1-iZasan of Kandhelah

is

a son of

Mawlawy

Hahy-bakhsh NisMt, D.
Hasan,
Dhdhik.

Myr

Grholam Hasan of Dilly a son of

Myr

Grholam Hosayn
life

His ancestors were of Herat, iZasan went early in

Khan, he
the author of a

to

Oudh, where he was supported by Nawab Sirdar-jang and by

his son

Myrza Nawazish

'alyy

is

Dywan

of about

8000 verses and of a Tadzkirah of Eekhtah

celebrated work of
his is

poets, but the

most

used

to correct his

the^^ j*j, he died in 1205, Myr He died about four years ago, verses, Gr.

Dhiya
V.

.Hasan, Grholam iZasan of Patna a pupil of

Bhuchchu and of V,

composed
death

chiefly

Marthiyahs, he died young, the chronogram of his

is e>~^ fU gHj 1206, Y. Hasan, Khwajah Hasan (Khwajah AAsan, V) of

Dilly, a son of
is

Khwajah Ibrahym
Paharganj which
at Dilly,) b.
is still is

b. Grhiyath

aldyn (whose beautiful little tomb

plain outside the

in

now an open

Ajmyry Darwazah

Mohammad

Sharyf (a celebrated

9 u fy whose Khanqah

at Dilly near the Earrash Khanah Kirky) b. Ibrahym (he was Khwajah Kumhary and is buried in the same place as his grandson.) Hasan was skilled in music and astronomy and in

called

mysticism, he was supported in 1215 by N"awab Sarfaraz aldawlah,

he was in love with a

woman

of the

name

of Bakhshy, and she

is

the

Laura of

his

poems which he

collected into a

was in the

service of

Acaf aldawlah at

Dywan, G, E, V. He Lucnow where he still resides,

some time resides
at

D.

He

is

a very pious

man and
H.

since

Rostam-

nagar, he

is

a fertile writer,

iZasan,
iZasan,

Myr Hasan a friend of Y. Myr Hasan Shah of Dilly, a son of Myr

Sayyid

Mohammad

of Bokhara, a friend of D.

Hasan, Myrza Mohammad Hasan (Myrza x^Asan R, Myrza iZasan, P) a son of Nawab Sayf aldawlah Sayyid Kadhyy Khan is a fair poet, D, K.

234
Hasan,

re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

Myr Mohammad Hasan, of Dilly was a pupil of Sawda,

'alyy, his birth-place is

C, V.

speaks of him in the present tense,

Hashim, Hashim

not known, H.

Hashimy
Hashimy,
'alyy,

of Dilly has some years ago left his native town, K, D,

H,

Myr Hashimy (Myr Mohammad Hashim,

is

P,

Myr /Zashim

K, D, H,) a pupil of Sawda

upwards of sixty years of age, E,

iZashmat, Myrza Pakhr aldyn, E.

JZashmat,

Myr Mohammad

'alyy

(Mohammad

'alyy

Khan, K) of

Dilly a soldier went in 1158 to Moradabad and was killed in battle,

A, B.
Qabill

He

was a Kashmyry and a pupil of Mo/tammad Ghanyy Beg

not

and the instructor of Taban and of MoAtasham 'alyy Khan,

V, E.

His Dywan

is

much

read,

D.

IZashiriat,

Sayyid

Mo7itasham 'alyy

Khan

of

Dilly, a son of

Myr

Baqiy, a soldier by profession died in 1161 and left a Persian

Dywan, A, B.
in 1163.
/Zashrat,

His ancestors were of Badakhshan and he died

Basul-bakhsh of Badawn came in 1240 from Cal-

Myan

cutta to Dilly, D.

Uasrat,

Dzawqy Bam

of Dilly was a good Persian poet and left a

Dywan, D, K.

Besided at Farrokhabad, P.

iZasrat, Myrza (Myr J, Myan, H) Ja'far 'alyy a son of Abu-1Khayr who kept an apothecary's shop in the JNakhkhas bazar or

cattle-market at Lucnow, iZasrat continued for some time the business

of his father, subsequently he retired from active

life

and died in

1210, and

left

some Qacydahs and a Dywan of Bekhtah Ghazals,

for

G, V.

He

was

some time in the

service of the late

Myrza
Haybat

Jahandar-shah and was a pupil of Dywanah, H.

iZasrat,

Myr Mo7iammad

i/ayat of Patna had the title of

(of

Quly Khan and was a pupil of Matzhar

Mohammad Baqir iZazyn,

Nawab Shawkataldawlah of
Siraj

V), he was for some time attached to the service of

jangat Purnyyah and for some time to that of

shidabad,

Mmv

and in 1195 he was with the (pubahdar of Bengal, he died

in 1215 and left a

Dywan

of abont 2000 bayts,

G-,

V.

.Hasyb see Habyb.

Hatif,

Myrza Mohammad
the
life

Hatif,

it is

said that he resides at Dilly

and
is

lives

of a

Darwysh (poor man),

C.

He

used to attend
it is

the poetical meetings, in the house of Thana Allah Piraq,

dead, E,
First he was attached to the

said he

tomb of the

fiify

Myr

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Julian at Dilly but

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lie left

235
known where he

his native town, it is not

now

is,

D.

He

went to the East, K.

iZatify

was an ancient poet and a contemporary of "Walyy, D, H.

IZatim,
nnin, he

Mohammad .ffatim of Dilly a friend of Abrti and Madhwas during the reign of Mo7*ammad Shah a companion

and the butler of Nawab 'umdat almulk, he wrote a Dywan of

about four thousand verses, subsequently he made selections from
it

and

called

them fc^e&*>
in B.
alias

This

is

the account of A.

He

is

also

called

Mohammad

But E, who knew him personally

by profession.

calls

him

Tzohur aldyn

Shah IZatim, and says that he was born

at Dilly

in 1111 and was a soldier

farther informs us that

there was another IZatim at that time, and that the two were fre-

quently confounded.

aldyn

may

also have the

Though a man who has the name of Tzohur name of Mohammad, it is not unlikely that
and that

A and others confounded the two,

tinct

Mohammad

IZatim

is dis-

from Tzohur aldyn iZatim, the latter being the more celebrated

and the author of the Dywan-zadah.

nion
is

Mr. Hall however, whose

in Dilly.

opi-

very valuable, identifies the two. It would appear that iZatim

first

gave the
of

impulse to

Urdu poetry

In 1132 the Dywan

it

Walyy was brought

lips, this

to Dilly and verses from

were on every

body's

induced him and three friends of

his, Najiy,

Madhtaste

mun and Abru

for
it

to apply themselves to

Eekhtah poetry.

The
it

spread rapidly and iZatim, according to his

less

own

statement,

had no

than forty-five pupils.

Up

to the time of iZatim

would

appear that Indian poets wrote in Persian, and made only occasionally,

Eekhtah

verses, there

seem

also to have existed

many popular
The
first

songs,

which however, were almost purely Hindee.

of iZatim
far-fetched

productions

(and probably also of his early contemporaries) were

and obscure, but when Eekhtah poetry had attained

greater perfection he

made a

selection
it

from his former

Dywan and

improved

the style

and called

X^j &^.& as has already been stated

on the authority of A.
every

It has about

5000 verses and the metre of

It
is

poem

is

noted on the margin.

stated by

that his

object in

making these

selections was, that his

poems might not be

confounded with those of the other iZatim.

years ago, E.

He

died two or three

H and K inform us further that, he turned a

Eaqyr,

that he had his takiyah near the Dilly gate of the palace and that

many

persons used to come to him for spiritual advice.

For extracts from

the preface to the Dywan-zadah see chapter on Eekhtah Dywans.

236

re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

Hatim, Sayyid IZatim 'alyy Khan of Jawnpur was a pupil of

Myan

Madhmun, V. Hawas, Myrza Mo7iammad Taqyy

Acaf aldawlah Salar-jang
JVfr^afy, V.
is

of

Lucnow

a talented young

He

is

a son of

Myrza

'alyy

Nawab man and a pupil of Khan of Lucnow and the

a relation of

author of a Majnun 6 Layla, T.

Hawayda, Myr Mohammad A'tzam of Dilly a brother of

Myr
Tatar

Mohammad

Ma'ciim composes chiefly Marthiyahs,

C was

his friend.
i.

IZaya,IZantz

Mohammad Hayat, his

Makkah
or

father was a Moghol,

e.

or Persian, he died at

Madynah, D.

He flourished under

Mohammad
J/aya,

Shah, H. Myrza Ba^ym aldyn visited IZaydar, Gholam IZaydar, C.

Dilly in 1265, E.

IZaydar,

Myr

IZaydar 'alyy of Dilly

is

a soldier at Farrokhabad,

D, K.
IZaydar,

Myr

IZaydar 'alyy

Khan

of Lahor a descendant of 'abd

al-Qadir Gylany resides

now

at Pashawar,

IZaydar, IZaydar-bakhsh of

D. Jawnpur a son of Tsur al-Haqq,

resides at Ilahabad,

is

learned man, wrote a Saqiy-namah in praise of 'alyy, J.

IZaydar,

Myrza IZaydar Beg

D.

IZaydar,

Myr

IZaydar Shah of the Deccan, a gallant soldier, was in

Bengal in the service of Nawab Sarfaraz Khan, he put the

Dy wan of

Walyy

of the Deccan into

Mokhammas and

interspersed that of

Hafitz with verses of his own, he died in Bengal (at Hooghly) near

one hundred years of age under A/jmad Shah, C.

thinks that he
is

Garcin de Tassy

the author of a

Mathnawy
is

entitled

e^

j*-^

****

jLaUj

IZaydar,

Hosam
Gholam

aldyn, R.
'alyy

IZaydary, Shaykh

familiarly called

Shaykh Jum'ah

of Dilly went to Patna and has lately taken to poetry, C.

He

is

good physician and resides now at Ubsaynabad, V.

IZaydary,
says

Myr Haydar-bakhsh

of Dilly resides

now

at Calcutta

Beny

JSarayan.

Mawlawy Gholam IZaydar

little

informs

me

that he

was a man of great talents but

ago, that
places.

education, that he was attached

to the College of Port "William, and died

is

upwards of
will

thirty years

to say about 1823.

His works

be mentioned in their

IZayf,

Myr

Chiragh 'alyy of Jawnpur, a pupil of Afsos, lives now

Besides at Lucnow, E, D.

at Benares,

V.

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.Hayf,

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a pupil of

237 Myr
Soz lives now,

Moty Lai a Kayeth and

1196, at Lucnow, C, V.
iJayran, .Hafitz

Baqa Allah Khan, a son of the calligraph Hafitz

D,

Ibrahym Khan,
iZayran,

resides at Dilly,

Myr

IZaydar 'alyy of Dilly, a pupil of Sarab Sukh Dy-

wanah, commands now, 1215, a troop of cavalry at Lucnow, G.

killed in the Behar,
JBTayran,

Was
In

D.
of Patna died at the age of thirty.
left

Myr Mammin

the Marthiyah he used the takhalluc of Matzlum, he

but six

hundred

verses, J.

He

died young, V.

/Zayrat,

Ajudhya Prashad a Kashmyry of Lucnow a pupil of

at the age of

Jorat,
five

was a good musician and died in 1234

left

twenty-

Dywan and some Mathnawies, P. iZayrat, Gholam Pakhr aldyn (Mo/fcyy aldyn D) Khan, a grandson of Nawab Mo'yn almulk Myr Mannii resides at Kalpy and writes
years and

a short

Persian and Eekhtah verses, D.

iZayrat,
Jfayrat,

stated

Khwajah Kalian of Dilly resides now at Patna, J. It is 'alyy (Myr Murad, D) of Muradabad, A. him, but that when he wrote he was by E that he knew

Murad

dead.

According to

and Garcin de Tassy

I. p.

220, he had the

takhalluc of iZasrat, this however

may be merely

a wrong reading.

.Hay rat, Shaykh Ka7*m 'alyy of Patna a son of Shaykh Gholam

Mohammad an uneducated man and a drunkard, is dead, Y. iZayrat, Myr Say dan (?), a nephew of the late 'alyy Quly Khan,
was
for

some time Nayib of Behar and a friend of

J.

fZazyn, Myrza Khojastah-bakhsh Bahadur is a prince of the house of Dilly, D, K. There was also a poet of the takhalluc of Uazyn at the time of Mo^ammad-shah, but nothing is known regarding

him.
JETazyn,

Myr Mohammad
for
is

Baqir of Agra (Dilly, G) a pupil of

at Dilly,
left

Myrza Matzhar, held

is

some time an appointment

now he

in Bengal, that

to say, at Patna, A, B.
J.

He

a Eekhtah

Dywan, G.

He

left

two Dywans,
and

In some Ghazals he has the In

takhalluc of Tzohur, he died at Patna, V.

'alyy iZazyn is mentioned,
it

Shaykh Mohammad
mentions

is

stated that he was a friend of

Myrza Matzhar and

Hidayat,

left

a short Dywan,

also

Myr

Baqir

Hazyn, and says that he resides at Lucnow.

Myr

Hidayat Allah a son of

Myr

'alym Allah had the

238
title

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
of

[Chap.

I.

Nawab Hidayat
is

'alyy

Khan and was

the deputy governor of

Haybat-japg of the Behar, he was a great patron of poets and

learned men, he

buried at ifosaynabad, J.

Hidayat, (Shaykh, G) Hidayat Allah

Dilly, of

Afghan

origin, a pupil of

Khan (Hidayat Khan, E) of Myr Bard, A, B, J. He has

"Was
still

written a

Dywan and
wrote.

Mathnawy

in which he describes Benares, C.

alive

He

is

upwards of one hundred years of age, E.

when

in 1219,

D,

He was the uncle of Thana Allah Firaq and died H. He died in 1215, P. Most of the poets of Dilly were
left

his pupils,

he

Dywan

of about 9000 verses and several

title

Math-

nawies and also a Bisalah which has the

/Tazyn,

of o*j|j.a ^j*-,

K.
E.

Myr Bahadur

'alyy a pupil of JNawab

Zayn al'abidyn Khan

(who

is

now,

1853, alive at Dilly

and about

sixty years of age),

Hidayat, Hidayat 'alyy was a contemporary of Shaykh FarAat

Allah, C, V.

Hidayat, Hidayat 'alyy of Agra a pupil of "Walyy

Mohammad

Natzyr sent some of his verses to

inserted in his Tadzkirah.

for the purpose of their being

//imayat, a poet of /Taydarab d, writes chiefly Qacydahs, D.

Himmat

is

familiarly called

Akhdnd Himmat, he
H.

lives at

Eampur,
is

and supports himself by teaching, D, K.

another poet of this takhalluc in

Besides him there

Hindu, Kokal Chand of Labor, a brother of Mihr Chand Mihr, he

resides

now

at Farrokhabad,

and writes both Persian and Eekhtah

the son of a Qadhiy,

poetry, V.

jgbbb

v^S Myr

Ahwiad 'alyy of Farydabad

is

and a promising young man, he studies Arabic and Persian, D, K.

iJodhur, Lalah Balmakand of Dilly a pupil of

Myr
now

Dard, E.
at

Is

a good Arabic and Persian scholar, and resides

Lucnow, D.

He

was a Musalman

at heart says

K, and

is

dead.

iZbdhur, Shaykh Gholam

his livelihood

TaAya

of a good family of Patna, gained

Is the author
at Patna,

by commerce and was a friend of C.

of a Dywan, J.

He

was a man of learning and died

V.

Myr

IZosayn 'alyy of
'alyy

Eampur

resides

now

at

Muradabad, H.

Uosayn
Allah had

Khan

resides at Mirzapiir, D,

H.

jHosayn, Sayyid
first

Gholam 17osayn of Dilly a son of Sayyid 'abd the takhalluc of 'azyz, was Munshiy of an officer at

Meerut,

whom

he accompanied to Calcutta, P.

No. 62.]
/Zosayn,

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Nawab Gholam J/osayn Khan,
D.

239

of Afghan origin, resides

at Shahjahanpur,

Hakjm Myr J7osayny (IZbsayn K) of Dilly a disciple of Mohammad Eakhr aldyn is a good calligraph and musician, and writes chiefly Persian poetry, D. He is dead, K.
ZZosayny,

Hosh, Gholam Mortadha of

Dilly, a pupil of Nacyr, is a

new

poet,

D.

In

H his takhalluc
Myr Shams

is

spelled

Hawas.
is

Hdsh,

aldyn of

Lucnow

a young

man and

a pupil

of Soz, E, K, D.

Hunar, Mo/jammad Dawud of ifaydarabad, K, D, H.

Besides

him
ago,

is

another poet of this name,

who seems

to have flourished long

H.
of Dilly, he has been killed C, V.

Myr Hynga

'ibrat is a poet of

Kampur, D, H.
a pupil of

He

is

probably identical with

Myr Dhiya aldyn

by P.
Ihsan,
celebrity,

'ibrat,

Nawab MaAabbat Khan mentioned

lately acquired

Myr Gholam
D, H.
jffafitz

'alyy

of IZaydarabad has

IAsan,

'abd al-EaAman a court poet of Shah 'alam, corrected

the compositions of the princes, and wrote

Urdu and Persian

poetry,

(D, K.)
in

He

had

first

the takhalluc of Kafanan, K.

He

died at Dilly

1851 at an advanced age.

IAsan of Lucnow
is

particularly distinguished in the Marthiyah,

D, H, K,
IAsan,

Myr Shams

aldyn a son of

Myr Qamar

aldyn Minnat, C.
is

Ilham, Shaykh Sharaf aldyn familiarly called Shah Malul,

Darwysh and

resides at

Lucnow, and corrects the verses of most

poets of that city, C,

H.

He

is

upwards of sixty years of

age, E.

He

had formerly the takhalluc of Malul, G.

He

wrote two Persian

Dywans, V.
Ilham, Padhayil

Beg

a pupil of Sayyid 'abd al-TValyy 'uzlat, B, J.

'imad, Ghaziy aldyn 'alyy

Khan Bahadur

has the

title

of 'umdat

almulk and

is a well-informed man, Y. Imamy, Khwajah Imam-bakhsh of Dilly was formerly

in

the

service of Haybat-jang

and in very good circumstances, but since

whose friend he was.

thirty years he lives in poverty at Patna, V,

In

his takhalluc

is

spelled

Amany.
'alyy

'inayat, 'inayat 'alyy

Khan, a son of Nawab 'abd

Khan,

is in

240

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
who
is

[Chap.

I.

Persian a pupil of Imam-bakhsh,

College, P.
'inayat,

now

Professor of the Dilly

Shaykh Nitzam aldyn

son of a Qadhiy of Katol Jjj

studies,

came

to Dilly for the sake of prosecuting his

is

and some

time ago he went to Calpee, he

a disciple of

Mawlawy MoAammad

Fakhr aldyn.
family,

and Hidayat, D.

He has in his He died at

Persian poems the takhalluc of Masriir

Calpee, where he was tutor in a private

K.
al-Ka&man Khan resides at
Dilly,

Incaf, 'abd

and attends most

Masha'rahs, R.
Insan,

Asad Yar Khan had the

Jognuw

title

of Asad aldawlah Bahadur, but

was

familiarly called

fire-fly,

he was an

Amyr

of 7000, and

rather a
says B.

man

of business than a poet,

He

died a few years ago

Insha,

Myr

Insha Allah

Khan

the son of Ma-sha- Allah Khan,

his

whose takhalluc was Macdar was a native of Murshidabad, but

and one of the most and
skilful poets of India.

ancestors were of Najaf, and he like his father was a clever physician,

He

was, in 1215, in the

service of Solayman-shikoh at
left,

Lucnow.

He

knew, several languages

besides his

Urdu

Kullyyat, a Persian Dywan.

Among

his

Mathnawies is one
of

called *jj>

)ji

in which he imitates the

[^ j ^
letter of

Baha aldyn

'amily.

He

also wrote

Turky verses and he wrote

dot,

some poems, no
which has
ago, P.
Intitzar, 'alyy

letter of

which has a

and others every

diacritical

points, C, E.

He

died about twenty years

Naqyy Khan

a son of the late 'alyy

Manykbashy

(?) resided

during the time of 'alyy

Akbar Khan Wirdy Khan Mo-

habat-jang at Murshidabad.

He

was a friend of C.

He

died at

Murshidabad, Y.
Irshad,

Isfan

Anwar 'alyy, E. &vu\ (Stephen?)

alive in 1215,

is

the

name and

takhalluc of a Christian,

born at Dilly, his father was a European.

of D.
'ishq,

He

was an acquaintance

Was

H.

Hafitz
is

Myr izzat

Allah a son of iZakym Qudrat Allah

is

Khan

Qdsim (who
a Dywan, D.
'ishq,

the author of the Tadzkirah No. 52)

the author of

with

He is a good physician and alive, P. Myr Mohammad 'alyy of //aydarabad, D (perhaps identical Myr Yahjk 'ishq.) K speaks of him as if he had been alive
;

in 1221.

No. 62.]
'ishq,

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241

Shah Eokn aldyn, familiarly called Shah Ghasyta &*-^, of

saint of Dilly.

Dilly,

was a grandson of Shah Fakhal a great

When
office

a young man, 'ishq went to Murshidabad, and though he had no

he was much respected and led the

Patna as his place of residence.
character, he
sides a

life

of a gentleman

subsequently

he followed the example of his family and became a Darwysh choosing

Owing

to

the independence of his

was held in great veneration.

He

died in 1203.

Be-

Dywan

of about 1500 verses he left a mystical

Mathnawy,

B, J, V.
'ishq, 'ishq,

Myr YaAya of the Deccan had the title of 'ashiq, J. Myr Zayn of Dilly, want of means compelled him to
Urdu
poetry,

leave

his

home, he went to Patna and stays with Myrza Ghasyta, he writes

Persian and
'ishqy

and

is

author of a Dywan, J.

was a poet of the Deccan, regarding

whom

was not able

in the

to obtain any information.

'ishqy of Moradabad,
district of

J saw him
different

at

Awwla *VT which

is

Faydhabad.

'ishqy,

Myan BaAmat,

from 'ishqy of Muradabad, D.

'izzat.

'ishrat, 'abd al-Wasi',

'ishrat,

H.

See

Bhola Nath a Pandit, V.

'ishrat,

Shaykh Gholam Bangaly of Patna, a son of the

late

Shaykh
of him,

Lutff Allah, turned a soldier after the death of his father, subse-

quently he ran mad, and

J does not know what has become

he described in a Mathnawy called **^

Haybat-jang.
'ishrat,

*^*

the wars of the

Nawab

Myr Gholam

'alyy resides at Bareilly

is

and

is

the author of

a good Dywan, D.
Ishtiyaq,

He

a pupil of

Myrza

'alyy Lutf,

H,

T.

Shah "VValyy Allah of Sirhind.

of the second Millennium

Gurdezy and some other

authors say that his grandfather was Shaykh the Benewer

AAmad who

is

called

^b

t^ll

started the theory that every thousand years a

a^s* because he man was born, who

it is

has a thorough knowledge of the Islam, and whose vocation

revive

to

and strengthen

it,

and that he was the man

for the second Mil-

lenium.

Others say, that he was the grandson of

Mohammad

Gul.

It is likely that, as

Lutf

says,

he

is

connected by spiritual genealogy

only with the Shaykh A7*mad.

lah close to Dilly,

Shah Walyy Allah resided in the Kot-

and was a distinguished Theologian and 9 u fy1161 and left several works like the JU=-?i died about

He
1

^ c^^

*j>

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re'khtah tadzkirahs.
3jl 4

[Chap.
Shah 'abd

I.

&#~J\

~ and ^Ux>

IpSti*

^3

&Jlx)t

&*>.

al'azyz,

the most celebrated Indian Theologian in modern time, was a son of

Shah Walyy Allah, A, B, G.

Islam, Shaykh alislam of

Thanah

in the district of Saharanpiir

is

now

the best poet of that part of India, D.

Ittifaq is a poet of Bareilly,

'izzat,

H.
said he
is

Myr

'abd al-~Wasi',

it is

of Lucnow, D. See 'ishrat. of Bareilly

is

Jadzb, Sayyid 'izzat Allah

Khan Bhikhary

a young
died

man, D.

"Was two years ago at Dilly, H.

Travelled

much and

near Bokhara, P.
Jadzb,

Myr Matzhar
is

'alyy

was a learned man, he died about

V.

twenty years ago, and

probably identical with the poet who had in

Persian the takhalluc of

Ja'far, Ja'far 'alyy

9 a fyj>

Khan, a son of Myrza Muniin Beg, was an

Amyr

of the time of

Mo/iammad Shah, and had the rank

alive in

of three

thousand, V.

He
i.

was

1168 and composed by order of Mo-

hammad

Shah, a

Mathnawy
e.

of 500 verses on so elevated a subject

as the Qalyan,

the machine for smoking tobacco, A, D.

Ja'far or Ja'fary,

Myrza

Ja'far of Patna a son of

Faydh

'alyy

Khan

is

a well educated man, J.

Was

Thanadar, he

is

dead, V.

Ja'far,

Myr

Ja'far Zetely of Narnawl a

contemporary of By-dil was

the most celebrated humoristic poet of Hindustan, his compositions

are a mixture of Persian and Urdu.

He

is

the author of a Shah-

namah

in Bekhtah, A,
is

D.

Ja'fary
Ja'fary,

at

Lucnow, D.
Baqir 'alyy of Dilly, a brother of Nitzam aldyn

Myr

Mamnun and
D.

a son of

Qamar aldyn Minnat,

is

a talented young man,

He

is alive

and has the takhalluc of

Ja'far,

K.

He

died last

year on his way back from Makkah, P.

Jahandar, Myrza (Prince) Jawan-bakhsh Jahandar-shah, a son of

the emperor Shah-'alam, went in 1198 to Lucnow, and held every

month two
present.

poetical assemblies in his house, at

which

Gt

used to be

He

died at Benares in 1201,

Gr.

G-arcin de Tassy informs

us, that there is a

work

of his in the India house, which has the title

Of WJJ

/0

violip

o^.
Lucnow was formerly
in good cir-

Jahangyr, Myrza Jahangyr of

cumstances, but
poetry,
is

now

impoverished, he writes Persian and Eekhtah

D.

He

died in prison, P.

No. 62.]
Jalal aldyn of

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Murshidabad had the
Faydhabad, E.
'alyy a Sayyid of Dilly, his ancestors
title

243
is

of Jalal aldawlah, he

the author of a

Mathnawy and was

skilled in chronograms, J.

Jalal resides at
Jalal,

Myrza Bandah

were of

Persia, he died young,

Jalal,

H.

Jamal aldyn iZbsayn a younger brother of Kamal aldyn

1/osayn of Dilly, D, H.

He

is

identical with the

is

Jamal of

J.

Jam, Kunwar Sen of Badhawly

a pupil of Sharaf aldyn Masrur,

who

is

a son of 'ishq, P.

Jamal,

Myr Jamal

aldyn iZbsayn of Patna a son of Niir Allah

office

Khan, who held a high

Persian verses, J.

under the emperor, writes

chiefly

See Jalal.
JjJ^*|

Jamal, Jamal 'alyy of Jewish extraction (?

a grandson of
'ishq,

fj> )\

Mawlawy Gholam AAmad

also

of

Meerut and a pupil of

who has
is

the takhalluc of Mobtala, D.

He

went some

time ago to .Haydarabad, H.

Jan

the

name and

takhalluc of a poetess of Parrokhabad, E.

Jan, Jan 'alyy Shah, a cousin of of Bengal, was a pupil of

Nawab Qasim

'alyy

Khan Natzim

Nathan Shah
Paqyr, H.

Myr Mohammad Taqyy and a disciple of Sikandarabady, D. He lives at Sikandarabad as a

him
in the present tense.

speaks of

Jan, Jane 'alam Khan, a cousin of

Nawab Eawshan aldawlah,

is

pupil of Sayyid

Mohammad

Soz, C.

He

writes very elegant

Naskh

and Naskh-ta'lyq and he studied Arabic.

Jany,
of

Begam Jan, known by the name of Bahii Begam, a daughter Nawab Qamar aldyn Khan, and a wife of Acaf aldawlah, P. See
Gholam Nacir
of Dilly, his ancestors were of Kashmyr, he

Drilhan Begam.
JarraA,
is

a son of the Surgeon

iZMtz Eamadhany and a talented young man

and a good Surgeon, K.

Jawahir,

He

died some years ago, P.

is

Myan Makkhu
Bay Hridyaram

of Patna

a great admirer of poetry, J.

Jawahir Singh a pupil of T.

Jawdat,
of Dilly (of Murshidabad,

V) was

origin-

ally of Cuttack,

he was a friend of

and died
J.

at

Murshidabad, C.

He

was a good Persian poet and a pupil of

Jawhar, Myrza

AAmad

'alyy of Dilly, his ancestors

were of Persia,

he wrote mostly Persian verses and was killed in an affray at Dilly, C.

Jawhar, Dywaly Singh a Khatry of Bareilly, D.

244
Jawhary,

REKHTAH TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Mawlawy Ayat Allah of Phulwary is good scholar, J. Has in Persian the takhalluc
Jawhary, Inderjyt a jeweller of Dilly
Jawlan,
is

a Persian poet and

of Sozish, and died

about fifteen years ago, V.

a pupil of Nacyr, D.

Myr

fZbsayn (ZZasan,

K)

'alyy

Khan

is

a poet of the

Deccan, he has composed a very beautiful Qacydah on spring, H.

Jawlan,

was a contemporary of
'alyy Shah, but

Myr Ramadhan 'alyy has written a few verses, A. He MoAammad Shah, C. He is called Bahar
had
first

the

name

of

Ramadhan

'alyy, it is eight

years since he
'alyy

died, E.

It does not appear to

me

that

Ramadhan

and Bahar 'alyy are identical as

makes them.

Nawab Jayna Begam

wife of

a daughter of the late Myrza Babar and a Myrza Jahandar-shah writes Rekhtah and Persian verses, D.

She

is

probably identical witli Jana Begam, the authoress of a treatise

on the Rag mentioned by Garcin de Tassy.

Lala Jhaman Nath (Jhaman Lai,

K)

of Dilly, a brother of Jagar-

nath, a son of Bishen Nath of the Kayeth caste, wrote Persian and Hindawy poetry, he put the Bahare Danish into verse and made

material alterations in the style of

it,

D.

Jonun,

Myr Eadhl
is

'alyy

(Eaydh

'alyy,

H)
now

a pupil of

Myr Amany

Asad, a soldier by profession, had for a short time the takhalluc of

Mast, he
stances,

fond of reading, D.

He

is

in very poor circum-

K.

K) Gholam Mortadha of Ilahabad a pupil of Mawlawy Barkat, he is since many years blind, C, V, D. (Barkat, says
Jonun, Shayk (Shah,

Tek Chand, Bahar, is a licensed abbreviation for Barakat, and in India the word is universally pronounced, as if it had only two syllables.)
Jonun, Nawab Mahdiy Khan, a son of Khanahzad
Sarbaland Khan, a pupil of 'ishq Grhasyta, was at

Khan

b.

Nawab

Patna (where J

saw him) on
Jonun,

his

way

to Calcutta, J.
alislam of Dilly a pupil of

Mohammad Eakhr

Mamnun
of the

has lately taken to poetry, D.

Jonun,

Mohammad Jywan

is

a learned and pious

man

neighbourhood of Serawah, D.
Jonun, Myrza Najaf 'alyy
'alyy

Khan

of Benares, a son of

Mohammad

Khan Dy wanah who

first

holds the office of Ta^cyldar, P.

jffafitz

Joriit,

Qalandar-bakhsh a son of
supported by

Aman

a pupil of iZasrat.
in

He

was

Nawab MaAabbat Khan Mahabbat but

1215 he was in the service of Solayman-shikoh at Lucnow, he was

No. 62.]

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and other
sciences, but

245
had the misfortune
his family

skilled in music, astrology,

to lose his eye-sight,

Gr.

It appears that Jorat

and

had

the family-name of YaAya Man, because they said that they were

descended from Ya/jya Ray

Man who

resided in a street at Dilly

is still called

which
street.

is

close to the

Chandny Chawk and

In

it is

stated that he was descended from

the Ray Man Ray Man who

was executed by Nadir Shah and that he died upwards of twenty

years ago.
Jorat,
soldier

Myrza Moghol
In

of Bareilly a son of 'abd al-Baqiy Khan, a

is

by profession and a pupil of Sawda

a good poet, D.

He

died at Bareilly, K.
Jorat,

H this poet has the takhalluc of

a son of Sayyid

Jamyl.

Myr MoAammad Ridha

the
title

who had

of Sayyid (JJadr aldyn and was a

Mohammad Wahyd man of rank and

held a Jageer from the emperor.

sian poetry, he

Jorat was a soldier and wrote Per-

had a salary of sixty rupees a month, and being a very

bigoted Shy' ah, he gave out of this twenty-two rupees as alms to Sayyids
;

he died at Purniya, J.

He

seems to be identical with

the following.
Jorat,
it is

Myr Mostaqym was

a contemporary of
life

Mohammad

Shah,

said that he lived a pious

and resided at Purniya, Y.

Jorat,

Myr

Sher 'alyy was a fine-looking and learned

man but
;

not

much
is also

of a poet, he used to visit G-urdezy, but some years previous to

1165 he went to the Deccan, B.

He

is

a native of the Deccan

there

a Jorat of Faydhabad, whose

name I do not know

says J.

Josh,

Shaykh Niyaz Afanad a pupil of Dzawq, R.

Josh,

RaAym

Allah a young

man who

resided at Dilly and was a

pupil of C, E. Is a humoristic poet, wrote two

tic

Dy wans, one is humorisD.

I have not

and the other contains

Grhazals, Ruba'ys, &c.

heard of him since a long time, his poems are in a low language, H.
Joshish,

Mohammad
it is

'abid a son
is

of Jaswant Nakir

(Jaswant
resides at

Nager, P)

said that he

a clever young

man and

Patna, E, D.

There

is

no doubt that D, and E are under a mistake

and mean the brother of Shaykh

takhalluc
is

Mohammad Rawshan Joshish whose

Dil.

Joshish,

Shaykh MoAammad Rawshan of Patna a brother of Mo-

hammad

'abid Dil, imitates

Myr
is

Dard,

Gr.

In 1194 he sent extracts

from his Dywan to C.

about 3000 verses,
J,

He

an excellent poet and his

Dywan

has

Y.

246

RE'KHTAH TADZK1RAHS.
is

[CHAP.

I.

Jowan, Katzhn 'alyy of Dilly

now, 1196, at Lucnow, C.

lie

In

A. D. 1800 he went to Calcutta where

Jowan, Shaykh Mo/*ibb Allah
(
?

was

still alive

in 1812,

and

attached to the College of Fort William. of

Dilly
of Jewish
'ishq,

extraction

cW*l

i>VJ

j!

is

a physician and a pupil of

is

D, K.

In

H instead of being a Jew he

t^iy..

Jowan, Myrza Na'ym Beg of Dilly is a clever and talented young man in the service of Solayman-shikoh, he is a pupil of E, but not much of a poet, E. He died many years ago, P. Myan Juggan, a cousin of Sher-afgan Khan, was born in Hindustan, B.

He

is

a pupil of Taqyy Myr, J.

According to

he was a

slave of Sher-afgan

Khan,

this

however

is

certainly a mistake.

Kabyr, IZakym Kabyr 'alyy Sanbhaly was an Ancary Shaykh,

met him
Kafir,
first

in the

house of

Mohammad Yar Khan.

of Dilly a soldier and a friend of B.

Myr

'alyy

Naqyy

Had
him

the takhalluc of Taskyn and Jonun, A.

frequently saw

at Murshidabad.

Some say he

is

dead, J, V.

He

called his

poems

Kafir-Kattah, K.

Shah Kakul of Dilly was a Faqyr and a contemporary of Abru, C, V.

Kalamy, Gholam Nabyy Khan was supported by the
aldyn Khan, D.
late

Ghaziy

Myr

Kallu of Dilly was a relation of

Myr

Dard, D, P.
is

Kalym, Shaykh Kalym Allah of Sarkot which

Muradabad, P.

in the district of

Kalym, Mohammad i/osayn, B.

composed a thick Dywan, A.
translated the

Myr
on

Talib

JTosayn, D.

He

He

was a relation of

Taqyy Myr and wrote an Urdu

treatise

f^l <jr^

into Urdu, he

Shah and died

at Dilly, C,

J2ajy Tajalliy, E.

Mathnawies, P.
prose,

He was Gr. He was a physician and He is also the author of a

Myr Mo7*ammad Prosody and Rhyme and flourished under AAmad the father of Myan Myr left a Dywan and several
tale in elegant

Eekhtah

H. Kamal aldyn was an ancient poet, D. Kamal, Shah Kamal aldyn 2/osayn, his
to

forefathers were of

Karah

Manikpiir, but his father resided in Behar and was a

man

of rank,

Kamal went

Lucnow and

lives in

the house of Rajah Holas Bay,

is

he has collected the Dywans of about thirty Eekhtah poets and

pupil of Jorat, E, D.

No. 62.]
Kamal,

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Myr Kamal
'alyy of

247
Dyrha
J.

Gyamanpur

resides at

(or

Deorha) in the Behar, writes Persian and Bekhtah verses,

He

on was a man of learning and wrote a large work called A*^' He died in Philosophy, and one called ty& B^Vt on * ne I m ^ ms
1

JW

1215, the chronogram on his death

is

&!j&.

Kam-gd, Myrza ifabyb Allah

died some time ago,

is

of

Khayrabad

in

Oudh, D.

He

H.
is

Kamil, Shaykh Lutf Allah was a pupil of Shah Khaksar, V. Kamil, Myrza Kamil Beg
profession,

of

Moghol

origin

and a

soldier

by

D.

Kamil, Thakor Das a son of Eajah Earn a Kashmyry, holds the

appointment of Wakyl at Dilly, D.

He
is

is still

in the

same

office,

P.

Kamtar, Kamtar Shah

at Parrokhabad, V.

is

a Darwysh residing at Lucnow, D.

of Persian origin and resides

Kamtar, Myrza Khayr Allah Beg

Kamtar, Mawlawy Kifayat 'alyy author of the

version of the Shamayil of Tirmidzy, E.

*f

A *^i and

of a

Kamtaryn an Afghan,
humoristic poetry but
part of his
life it

his
is

name

is

not good,

Myan Kamtaryn, he writes M. He spent the greater

His name was
sell

at Dilly

and died in 1168, A, B, C.

sit

Pyr Khan, he used to

his

in the evening in the

Chawk, and to

poems which he had written on detached pieces of paper, D.

wrote mostly satires and humoristic poetry, H.
of Dilly, a pupil of

He

Karam

MucMy,

resides at i/aydarabad,
at

K.
Dilly,

Karam, Shaykh Grholam Dhamin of Kutanah resides

formerly he resided at iZaydarabad, he
is

a pupil of Miimin

Khan

and

is

an old man, P.

He may

be identical with the preceding.

of Murshidabad has lately left

Karam a, Myan Grholam Karama

that city, J.

Karamat,

from Dilly, a son of

Myr Karamat 'alyy of Awrangabad, six days' journey Myr Amanat 'alyy and a grandson of Sayyid
Darwysh
lately

Murad

'alyy Bokhary, he leads the life of a

or devotee at

Shikarpiir,

K.
taken to writing

Karym, Karym Allah Khan an Afghan has

poetry, D.

Shah Karym-bakhsh of Patna a

rian

disciple of

Shah Karak

is

a Qadi-

9 u fy>

J*

Laid Kashy Nath of Ambalah (Umballa) a bad poet, A.

248

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
is

[Chap.

I.

Kashy Nath of Patyala a son of Nawnidh Eay

V.

a young man,

His father I believe

is

the author of the

is

\d&* jj*~&.

Katzim, Katzim 'alyy

young and a pupil of Mohammad

Nacyr, K.

Kawkab, Bay Makand Bay of /Taydarabad a pupil of Paydh, B.

Kawthar, Mahdiy 'alyy Khan of Lucnow a son of Qofob aldyn

Khan, came two years ago to

Kayfy,

Dilly,

he

is

a pupil of Nasikh, P.

Myr

/Zidayat 'alyy a Sayyid of Barh, composes chiefly

Persian verses, K, D.

Khac is a poet of the Deccan, T). Khadim resides at Panypat, D. Khadim, Khadim 'alyy of the Panjab was
Nacir-jang Bangash, V.

in the service of

Nawab

He

was a native of Khaytal but brought

up

at Dilly, his uncle

was

in receipt of a salary of
is

500 Es. a month

Motzaffar-

from Nawab Bangash. Khadim

in the service of

Nawab

jang and receives a salary of Es. 100.

He

is

the author of a Persian

and Urdu Dywan, H, D.

He

was of Farrokhabad, E.

Khadim, Nawab Khadim ZTosayn Khan Bahadur of Dilly a son of

Nawab Ashraf aldawlah

'alyy Qiy&mat

Afrasyab

Khan and

a friend of D,

H.

Khadim, Khadim Zfosayn Khan of Patna a son of .Hajy A/iinad

and a relation of C.

He

is

dead, V.
Kallu,
is

Khaksar,
to a

Myr Mo^ammad-yar, familiarly called shrine close to Dilly called Qadam Sharyf, A,
I,

attached

B, E.

It appears

from

that he has written a Tadzkirah in which he assumes the ap-

pellation of Sayyid alsho'ara.

He

used to

visit

H, but was dead

(Dilly,

when he
E)

wrote.

Khaky, Gholam iJaydar Beg was born in Hindustan,

his ancestors

were of Badakhshan, he

is

in the

Deccan

in the

army, D.

Khalah, a lady of the name of Badr alnisa

Begam

of Farrokhabad,
this

was the aunt of the Nawab 'imad almulk, and hence she used
takhalluc, V.

Khaliq, 'abd al-Khaliq was attached to the service of the late

Myrza

(Prince) Solayman-shikoh, he

was marked with small-pox

he was constantly present

and stammered in reciting

not

his verses, yet

at the Mosha'arahs of the Maharajah.

is

He

went to Gwalyar, but

it

known where he now

resides,

E.
is

Khaliq, Shaykh Khaliq-bakhsh

originally of the Panjab, but

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62.]
at
Dilly,

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He
is

249

was born
/Taqyr,

a nephew of Shaykh Nabyy-bakhsh

and has

lately

taken to poetry, E.

Khalyl, Sayyid Ibrahym 'alyy, a son of the late Sayyid

'alyy Bashyr, is a

Mohammad
and

young man, who has

lately taken to poetry,

submits his verses to

Myr

Gulzar 'alyy Asyr for correction, E.

Khalyq, Karamat Allah Khan, a cousin of

Eaghib, and a pupil of Myrza

MoAammad Ja'far Khan Mohammad Eakhr Makyn, was a

left

good Insha writer, and died young, and

Kholq, E.

a Persian

Dywan, V.
at

Khalyq, Myr Mosta&san of Lucnow a younger brother of Myr AAsan

He is

tutor in the family of Eajah Tiket

Bay

Lucnow, D.

He

is

a son of

Myr

iZasan, the author of the Badre

Monyr, H.
is

Khalyq, Myrza Tzohiir 'alyy of Dilly, a son of Myrza Hoshdar,

skilled in

Hindee music, and in composing Marthiyahs, knows a

is

little

Arabic, he

now, 1199 at Murshidabad, C.

In the Marthiyah, he

has the takhalluc of Tzohiir, he died at Kerbala in the

'iraq, V. Khan, Ashraf Khan of Dilly went some time ago to Lucnow,
is

he

a pupil of Muc/iafy, H.

Khan, Mo^ammady Khan, a Pathan, and a pupil of Eangyn, resides

in the Deccan, has visited Dilly,

D.

know where he resides. Khastah, Mohammad 'abd Allah Khan familiarly called My an Jywan of Dilly, a son of Sa'd Allah Khan, who was called A'qa Yar Khan, was of Kashmyry origin and born at Dilly, and a pupil of I am told that he died about 1840. Firaq, D, H, K.
Khandan,
does not

Khastah, Gholam Qofob-bakhsh, a descendant of Sayyid

Mohammad

Kirmany, was attached to Nitzam aldyn Awliya's tomb near Dilly,

he was a pupil of Ashuftah, D, H.
Khayal, Brij Nath of Dilly has gone to IZaydarabad, H.
Khayal, Gholam i7osayn Khan (Gholam iZasan Khan, H, P), a nephew of Barkat Allah Khan Barkat and a relation of Myr Juggan, resides now at Sunypat, D. It is said he left two Dy wans
containing nearly one hundred thousand verses, P.

Khidmat, EarAat 'alyy resided at Lucnow, says Beny

Khirad,

JNTarayan.

Nawab Fakhr
is

aldyn Khan, a son of

Nawab

Sharaf aldyn

Mohammad Khan,
Kholq,
age, E.

a relation of P.
visited Dilly,

Khod-gharadh of Agra has

D.
is

Myr Afoan

a son of

Myr

.Hasan

only nineteen years of

II,

Eesides since a long time at Lucnow,

K.

250

re'khtak tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

Kholq, Bay Jadun Eay of iTaydarabad a pupil of Eaydh, E.

Khorshed

'alyy of Dilhar a clever

young man, D, K, T.
eyesight by small-pox, and,
is

Khosh
though

of Dilly, his ancestors

were of the Panjab, his father was a

lost his

celebrated calligraph.
blind,

Khosh

made the pilgrimage

to

Makkah, he

a fertile poet,

H.
?)

Khoshdil, Grhasy Earn of Dilly kept a shop at Faydhabad, V.

Khosh-dil, Lalah Gobind Lai a son of Lalah Kanjy Dil (sic

Mai

Gharyl, a Kayeth,

is

a talented young man, D.

Khoshnud
Khoshras,
musician, D.

is

mentioned by

M and E.
of Dilly
is

i/afitz

Gholam Mohammad

blind,

but a good

Myr
poetry.

Khosraw,

thinks that he has written

much Eekhtah
V.
Dilly,

A notice on

him

is

in the following chapter.

is

Kishen Chand a Khatry of Lahor

new

poet,

Kdchak, Prince Myrza Wajh aldyn ("Wajyh aldyn, D) of

familiarly called

now, and died

Myrza Kdchak aAib, went some time ago But he is buried at Nitzam there, K, D.
Dilly,

to Luc-

aldyn'

Mausoleum near
Latfyf,

H.

Myr

Latyf 'alyy of Dilly, a pupil of

Myr

Dard, used to

sell jewellery,

K.

He

died in 1214,

H.
is

Latyf,
age, E.

Myr Shams

aldyn of Siirat

about thirty-two years of

Eesides since some years at Lucnow, K.

In

H he has the

takhalluc of Luf.

Layiq,

Myr

Layiq 'alyy of Lucnow, came in 1208 to Dilly to

is

prosecute his studies, he

Lisan,

a pupil of Nasikh, D, K.

Myr Kalym

Allah was a friend of B, but died young before

wrote his Tadzkirah.

Lutf,

Myrza

'alyy a pupil of Sawda, T.

at

He

is

a pupil of Shah

MaMl and resides Lutff, on whom see

Lutff,

Lucnow, H.
but

identifies

him with Myrza

p. 184,
is

distinguishes between the two.

'atzym

Beg

a pupil of Sawda, T.
is

Lutfy was an old poet, his name

not known, J, C.

Macdar,
was,
it

Myr Ma-sha

Allah Khan, the father of In-sha Allah

Khan

would appear,

alive

when

wrote.

Was first Eisaldar in the

cavalry of

Nawab Mohabat-jang, now he is in the service of the Nawab "Wazyr at Eaydhabad, J. Died some time ago, H. Myr Madad Allah, the father of iZamzah Bind was a good musi-

cian flourished under

Mohammad

Shah, C.

See Myrza.

No. 62.]

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251

Madhmiin, Sayyid Imam aldyn Khan a son of Sayyid Mo'yn aldyn

who commanded

the king's body-guard, C.

Madhmiin, Shaykh (Myan, E) Sharaf aldyn a descendant of Ganj

Shakr was born near Gwalyar
(at Jajhaii

near Agra, M).

"When he
al-

was past

forty,

he took up his abode in the Mosque called Zynat

life

masajid, and led the

of an ascetic.

Qayim

visited

him there
called

twice or three times.

He

died about 1158.

lost his teeth,

He

was a pupil of

Matzhar and

Arzti.

Having
B, C.

Khan Arzu

him

Sha'ire Bedanah,
is

M, A,

Myr

says that the Zynat almasajid

at Agra, this is a mistake,

it is

in Daryaganj at Dilly.

Madhiish,
Maftiin,

Myr Nabyy Jan

is

is

a pupil of Sdz, C, V.
is

Shaykh 'abd al-Ba^ym

of Arabic origin, but born at

Lucnow, he
Maftun,
Maftiin,

a pupil of Nitzam aldyn Mamniin, K.

Myan 'alyy-bakhsh of Patna was a Persian poet, J. Myan Badr aldyn is originally of the Panjab, but was
is

born at Dilly, he
poetry, which
is

a cloth-merchant and writes Persian and Kekhtah

corrected by

Myr

Earzand 'alyy Mawzun, K.

is

Maftun, Myrza (Prince) Karym-bakhsh

of Dilly, P.

of the Imperial house

Maftun, Katzim 'alyy

is

of Ilahabad, C, V.
is

Maftun, Moty Bam, a Kashmyry Pandit,

a pupil of Minnat and

Mamniin, D.

In Persian he has another takhalluc, H.

Maghmum, Myrza IsMq Beg of Dilly holds an office at Court, D Maghmum, Myr Mashyyat 'alyy (Mast 'alyy, D) a pupil of 'izzat
'ishq, P.

Allah

Maghmum, Earn
met him

Jas of

Lucnow

is

in the service of

Mr. Jones, C
D.

at Benares in 1199. 'alyy

Mah, Myr Mohammad

Ma7iabbat,
of

Khan

resides at /Zaydarabad,

Myr Bahadur
Eiraq, V,
called

'alyy of a

good family of

Dilly, is a pupil

Thana Allah

K.

Nawab MaAabbat Khan (Ma^abbat Allah Khan, K), a son of Uafitz EaAmat Khan, a pupil of Myrzd Ja'far 'alyy ifasrat resides now, 1196, at Lucnow, and has written a Mathnawy
Ma^abbat
called Sirsy d Bannii at the request of

Mr. Jones, who,

it

would

appear, had the title of

Momtaz

aldawlah, C.

I give here a verse

from the Mathnawy

He

drew a handsome allowance

from Acaf

aldawlah, was

still

K 2

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alive in 1215,

rekhtah tadzkirahs.
and had written a Dywan, G.
According to

[Chap.

I.

He

live8

now

at

Luenow, V, K.

he received an allowance from the

British Government, he was in Persian a pupil of

Makyn and

in

Bekhtah of
in 1222.

jffasrat.

According to a chronogram in Jorat he died

See Mo/abb.

MaAabbat, Shaykh Walyy Allah of

Maharaj, Bajah Holas (Bhilas,
/Zafitz

Dilly.

K) Ray,
and
is

a Kayeth, was
a Bekhtah

Dywan

of

Ba^mat Khan

at Bareilly

Ma7^bub,

Myr Qoraysh

of Dilly

Dywan, K, D. mentioned by Beny Narayan.

left

Mahdiy, Myrza Mahdiy, Y, who says that he knew nothing of

his circumstances.

MaMiitz, Munshiy (Sayyid,

H) MaMutz

'alyy

Khan

a Sayyid of

Khayrabad
Mahir,

is

Munshiy

in General Ochterlony's office at Dilly, writes

poetry very rarely, D.

My an

(Myr, K) Fakhr aldyn

Khan

of Luenow, a son of
is

Ashraf 'alyy Khan (whose takhalluc was, Fighan, P)

noble family.

man

of

Dywan, E.
is still

He was the Boswell of Sawda and He had first the takhalluc of Fakhr,
sixty

used to copy his

obtained through

Sawda a pension of
at

Bupees a month from Shuja' aldawlah, and

a pupil

Luenow, K.

See Pakhr.
is

Mahjur, Mo7*ammad adr aldyn, a Kashmyry of Dilly,

of

Mamnun, K, D.
MaAmiid,
.Hafitz

Sayyid

MaAmud Khan

is

of

Afghan

origin,

K.

He

is

not yet old, and a nephew of A'tzam aldawlah

Sarwar, P.

Myr Mohammad

Khan

He

is

the author of a Tadzkirah of Bekhtah and

Persian poets, T.

MaAmud

Ser of the Deccan was a contemporary of "Walyy, A,

Ma/iruq, his

name and circumstances

his

are

unknown, B.
and wrote both

Ma^shar, Myrza 'alyy Naqyy (Taqyy, K), a Kashmyry of Luenow,

had a very high opinion of

own

poetical talents

Persian and Bekhtah verses. After he had killed Mohlat he fled from

Luenow

to Dilly where he
his crime

met E, and subsequently

to

Agra

when

he thought

was forgotten he returned to Luenow, where

See Mohlat.
has some pupils, D, T.

he was put to death in 1208, by the relatives of Mohlat, at the age

of about thirty years, E.

MaAshar, Ikram Allah

Was

well

known

in his

Khan of Badawn own country, P.

of

MaAw, Shaykh 'atzym Allah

Myrath (Meerut)

P.

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62.]

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'alyy

253

MaAw, /fosayn MaAw, KaAm

Khan

of Agra,

is

in the service of the

English Government, H, D, P.
'alyy

Khan
is

of Dilly, a son of the late Luf alnabyy

J.

Khan, resides now at Pajna,

MaAzun, 'alam-shah
of

a descendant of Ganj-bakhsh and a pupil

Mohammad Mas'ud

of Dilly, D.

He

is

certainly identical with

the following, though

distinguishes between the two.

MaAzun, 'alam-shah (Gholain Shah, D) a Pyr-zadah of Amrohah,

was celebrated when he was young, E.
of

Amrohah

as

MucAafy

states, P.

He was of Makdesar and not He died some time ago, H.

JayAiin,

Ma^zun, Khalyfah

JEfafitz

Allah of Earrokhabad supports himself

by teaching, and had formerly the takhalluc of

D.

MaAzun, Mawlawy Sayyid Mohammad .Hbsayn (Mawlawy Sayyid

Gholam iZbsayn
and
visited

of Dilly,

V) a Musawy Sayyid and a

pupil of

Mawhe

lawy Mohammad

Barakat,

has seen him.

He

was of Awrangabad
his studies,

Hindustan for the sake of prosecuting

died in 1185, at Ilahabad where he had resided for some years, at the

age of forty-one years, J.

Ma&ziin,

Mohammad Taqyy Khan

resides at Patna

holds the rank of

five

thousand

and a Jagyr,
(a son of

and composes

chiefly Persian poetry, J.

MaAzun, Myr Nacir Jan, a son of Sayyid Mohammad Nacyr Banj

Myr

Dard, H),

is

skilled in

Mathematics, and went lately

towards the east (Oudh) P.

Majbiir,
Majbiir,

Myan

iZaqq-rasa

is

a young

man and a pupil of Nacyr, K.

Kay Khush-Ml Singh

of Patna a son of Maharajah Shitab

Kay

is

a good poet, J.

Majdzub, Myrza (Myr, G) Gholam #aydar Beg of Dilly (of Lucnow, H), an adopted son (a son, C) of Sawda, resides now, 1196, at

Lucnow, C.
G.
lives at

He is still, 1215, at Lucnow, and has written two Dywans,

is

His name

Myrza .Haydar Beg, he

is

of

Moghol

origin

and

Lucnow, K.
child,

He

said that he

was a son of Sawda, as Sawda

had no

he probably adopted him, T.

'alyy of Dilly resides at Murshidabad, is a pupil

Majnun, jEfimayat

of Qudrat, and has written a Saqiy-namah by order of Nawab

'alyy

Mobarak

Khan, he was a friend of C.

He

is

also

mentioned by V.

Majnun, Shah Majnun

descendant or son of the
the takhalluc of Khafiy,

familiarly called

Darwysh Sar-barahnah a

Dy wan of Mohammad Shah, uses sometimes he is a pupil of Myr and resides at Lucnow,

254
C.

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
He
has written a Dywan, E,

[Chap.

I.

He

had

first

the takhalluc of
is

ZZasrat and subsequently of .Haly, he embraced the Islam, but

free-thinker, he lives in great distress at
tors

Lucnow, V.

His ancesin the

embraced the Islam, H.

Beny Narayan speaks of him

past tense.

MajruA, Munshiy Kishen Chand a Kashmyry born in Hindustan,

is

a pupil of Matzhar and resides now, 1196, at Lucnow, C.

He

has been brought up at Dilly but resides at Lucnow, V.

Majyd, Majyd aldyn Khan a Kashmyry of Dilly,

is

a son of

Muftiy Mo'yn aldyn Khan, D.

Brahman of Dilly, is a new poet, D. Makarim, Myrza Makarim of Dilly was a Mancibdar at

Makand

Singh, a

Dilly,

but

fell

into great distress,

and was reduced to

his family

live

on the

sale of his

ghazals, which

he sold at two pice (about a penny) a

piece, Dilly,

D, H.
he
is

Makhkhu, of Farrokhabad but

calligraph,

was of

and

who mention him, do not know

his takhalluc.

See Motzaffar.
Malal,
this,

Myrza Mohammad Zaman, D. In

H are two Malals besides

D)
is is

one was a Darwysh and a pupil of Matzhar.

a Darwysh, he

Mahal, Shah Sharaf aldyn (Ma'ruf aldyn,

uses in Persian the takhalluc of Ilham, K, D.

Mamliiw, Tsry Prasad a Kayeth of Lucnow

Qatyl, he was in 1231 at Dilly, D.

a pupil of Myrza

Mamnun,Myr Amanat 'alyy of Patna studied for some time at Dilly, Myr Mawzun, K does not know where he is. Mamniin, Myr Nitzam aldyn, a son of Minnat, is alive and has many pupils, E. He resides at Lucnow, V. He obtained from the
and was a pupil of
emperor of Dilly the
emperor's service, K.
at Dilly
title

of Eakhr alsho'ara, he lately left the

His family was of Panypat, but he was born

and

lived long at

Lucnow

some years ago he went

to

Ajmyr, he has written a Dywan, P.

Manjhu Khan,
visited Patna, C.

see Matzhar.
it is

Mantzar, Khwajah-bakhsh of Ilahabad,

Ma'niy,

said that in 1190, he

Mohammad Amyn

died at Coel, P.

Maqbiil,

My an

Maqbul Nabyy, a son of the

late

Yaqyn, resides at

present at Farrokhabad, J.

He

has the

title

of Matzhar aldyn

Khan.

He

has collected sixty thousand verses from about three

this collection has unfor-

hundred ancient and modern poets, but

NO.

62.]

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fire,

255

tunately been destroyed by

of Firaq, P.

K.

He

was a friend of D and a pupil

Maqbul, a new poet, a pupil of Nacyr, visited Dilly in 1247, D.

Maqciid of Lucnow a water-carrier
verses are sung on
Maqtiil,
is

a popular poet, and his

Hindu

festivals,

E, K.

Myrza Ibrahym Beg

of Dilly a son of
is

Myrza Mohammad
In

'alyy, his forefathers

were of Ispahan, he

a good prose-writer and

upwards of thirty years of age, E, whose pupil he was.

poet occurs
first

this

under Maqtiil and then under Maqbul.

Ma' qui, P does know any thing regarding him. Marhun, Myrza (Myr, D) 'alyy Eidha (Myrza 'alyy of Dilly, K) had formerly the takhalluc of Madhmun, his forefathers were of

Mashhad but he was born and educated at Dilly, he is a pupil of Nitzam aldyn Mamnun and a son of Qamar aldyn Minnat, E. He
went to /Zaydarabad and was attached
as a poet to the Court of

Moshyr almulk Nawab Nitzam Es. 200 a month, H, D.

'alyy

Khan Bahadur on

a salary of

MarMm, IZakym Myr

Ma'ruf,

'alyy

was a Sayyid of Saharanpiir, H.

is

Mawlawy IAsan Allah

Khan

a Shaykh, and resides in Bengal,

he writes good Persian poetry.

Ma'ruf, Ilahy-bakhsh
of Dilly a son of
'arif

Jan (Khan, E)

who was

a great
is

Amyr

of the days of Dzu-1-Fiqar aldawlah Najaf

is

Khan. Ma'ruf
of Nacyr, E.

a young man, has lately visited Lucnow, he

a pupil

He

has embraced (^ufism and

is

a disciple of Fakhr

aldyn, he has written a

Dywan, D, K.

He

is

a good soldier,

H.

He

was a brother of Nawab AAmad-bakhsh Khan, he died in 1242, and

left

two Dywans, P.
is

Masarrat, Shankar a Kayeth

a pupil of Nacyr, K.

Masarrat, Shaykh "Wazyr 'alyy a son of

and a pupil of

'ishq

went some years ago to ZZaydarabad,

Mashhiir, his

P.

name and circumstances

are not known,

H.

He

is

a Kayeth of Bareilly, P, E.

Masrur, Myrza Acghar 'alyy Beg familiarly called Myrza Sangy

Beg

of Dilly

is

a pupil of

Myr

'izzat

Allah

'ishq,

D.

Masrur, Nawab Gholam JEfosayn Khan, E.

Masrur, Lalah Girdhary Lai a pupil of Faydh, E.

Masrur, Shaykh Pyr-bakhsh of Kakory, which

is five

farsangs from

Lucnow,

is

a pupil of Muc^afy, visited Dilly in the suit of Solayman-

shikoh, P.

He

has collected his poems into a Dywan, H.

256

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
Ahmad
a son of Grholam
is
}

[Chap.
aldyn

I.

Masriir, Sharaf aldyn

Mo^yy

'ishq,

who had

also the takhalluc of

Mobtala
[

of Meerut, P. T.

He

was

born in 1209, the chronogram is {J> > Mast, Myan 'alyy Eidha of Dilly, J. Mast,

J^

Myr

Fadhl 'alyy was a pupil of

Myr Amany Asad and used

to visit E's assemblies of poets at Dilly with his instructor, D.

Mast, Mast 'alyy

pupil of

Khan

V was

at Ptirniyah

nephew of Acalat Khan Thabit and a when V wrote.

Mast, Lala Eatan Lai of iZaydarabad a pupil of Faydh, E.

MasyA,
of

Myan

(Myrza, D) Baraty a

Nawab

"vVajyh

aldyn

(aldawlah,

Kashmyry of K) Wajyh

Dilly a
lives

nephew
on com-

merce, K.

MasyA, Myrza MasyA Allah Beg commonly called Myrza -Hajy was a
ago,
soldier

and a pupil of Grurdezy Uosayny, he died some time

K, D.

In

H his name

is

Myrza Shaykh Allah Beg.

MasyA, MasyA Allah Khan a young man who writes Persian and

Eekhtah poetry, D, K.
Masy^, Nawab Mo/*ammad MasyA Khan of Lucnow, E.

Matyn an ancient poet, his name is not known, D. Matzhar, Myrza Janjanan of Agra. His father's name was Myrza
Jan and out of
affection

he called his son Jane jan or Janjan, that

This
is

is

to say the soul of Jan.

the statement of J, but

it

seems to

be an error, his name

Bokhara, he
is

is

no doubt Janjanan.

His ancestors were of

is

now upwards

of sixty years of age, he

a learned

man and

a 9ufy> and though not a professed poet, writes beautiful

poetry both in Persian and Eekhtah, B, A.

M has seen a Persian

Khan Yaqyn, Dardmand and Taban and Munshiy Besawan Lai Bedar are among

Dywan

of his.

He

resided at Dilly and In' am Allah

his pupils, he interdicted the ta'ziyahs

and was therefore murdered

is

by a Shy'ah
|*j^ P)

in

1194

(in

1192 the chronogram

oU
Or.

\+=>.

^^

when

nearly one hundred years of age, C,

considers

him

as the originator of

Eekhtah poetry.

He

has selected only

one thousand verses out of 20,000 which he had composed, and

embodied them in his Dywan, K.

he gave the
title

He

collected an

Album

to which

of j*^*

^ij^;

in the selection of the extracts

he shows very great

taste.

says that he lived at Dilly in the

Imam

street,

which

is

close to the Jami' masjid,

and he confirms the

statement that he was murdered in 1192.

No. 62.]
Matzhar,

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Manjhii Khau, a son of TZakym 'askary Khan,

257
is

brother of iZakyin Bii 'alyy Khan, H.

He
is

was dead when

K wrote.
Khan

Matzhary, Ma7ibub 'alyy of Kdtanah

a pupil of Barkat, (a bro-

ther of Barkat Allah Khan, H,) and instructor of 'abd Allah

Awj, D.
Matzliim, Sayyid

Imam

aldyn Khan, a son of Sayyid

Mo'yn aldyn

Khan, was
Shah,
it

in

command
V.

of the mounted body-guard of

Mohammad

is

said

that he compiled a Tadzkirah of contemporary

Bekhtah

poets,

Mawj, Khoda-bakhsh of Agra

ago at Lucnow, P.

lived long at Dilly, died

some years

He

is

distinguished in the Marthiyah,

H.
is

Mawziin, Bay Chatur Singh a Kayeth of Dilly, he says that he

a grandson of Madhoram, he writes also Bhaka verses, K, D.

Mawziin,
fertile

Myr Farzand

'alyy of

Samanah

(of the Deccan,

;

V) a

poet both in Persian and Bekhtah but very vain

he has

written several Persian Mathnawies, and considers himself a pupil

of Faqyr, E.
pupils,

Besides since

many

years at Lucnow, and has

many

D, K.

He

was a pupil of

Myr Shams

aldyn Faqyr and died

at

Lucnow

in 1229,

H.

Mawziin, Lalah Nihal Chand was in the service of the late Bay

Bam

Batan in the capacity of writer, D.

is

Mawziin, Khwajam Quly Khan Dzii-1-Fiqar aldawlah

the Deccan, B.

a poet of

He

was (Jiibahdar of Burhanpur, and held the rank

According to D, Mawziin was a brother of the
is

of seven thousand, J.
^Jubahdar.

In

H his name

Ba&ym Quly Khan. There was

who wrote poems K.

also a

shop-keeper's son of this takhalluc,

Sajy Sindhyah, the Marhatta chief,

in praise of

Mawziin, Myrza Qadir-bakhsh,

tense.

speaks of him in the present

Mawziin,

Myr

Ba7*m 'alyy of Dilly a good Arabic and Persian

scholar was a friend of B, and alive in 1165.

Mawziin, Maharajah

Bam Narayan of Patna was governor of Patna,

chiefly

and a pupil of J2azyn, wrote

Persian poetry, and was dis-

tinguished as an elegant prose- writer, being convicted of a crime, he

was drowned
Mayil,

in the

Ganges by the

late

Nawab Myr Mohammad

H.

Qasim Khan, C.

Myrza Aqa Beg

J.

a pupil of 'ishrat,

Mayil,Myan Fakhry,

Probably identical with

My an MpAammady.

2 L

258
Mayil,

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
Myr

[Chap.

I.

Hidayat 'alyy of Patna has gone to the Deccan, he

for

had from childhood a predilection

away

his time in love-adventures, C, J.

'alyy Talab

Eekhtah poetry, but fritter* He was first a pupil of

in 1208,

Shah Moshtaq
Mayil,

and of Mojrim, he died

V.

Mayil, Sayyid Qasim 'alyy of Khayrabad, died young, D, P.

Mayil, Myrza.
of

Myr Mahdiy of Dilly died some time ago, H. Mohammad Yar Beg of Lucnow is a young man
descent,

Moghol
Mayil,

and a pupil of Jorat, E, K.

resides

Myan (Shah, K, Myr, P) MoAammady of Dilly, A. He now at Murshidabad, C. His house is close to the Eat&pury
(at Dilly) E.

Mosque
left

He

is

a pupil of Qudrat Allah Qudrat, he has

Murshidabad, and
a pupil of

does not

know where he

is.

According to

he

Qayim and the instructor of Bahory Khan Ashuftah, of Mohammad Nacyr aldyn Nacyr and Khosrawy. MidAat of Lucnow is a pupil of iZasrat, H, P. Mihman, his name is not known, D. MiAnat, Myrza jffosayn 'alyy Beg (Myrza JJosayn Beg, K) of
is

Dilly, a son of

Myrza SulMn Beg,

five

resides at Dilly, C.
is

Came

to

Oudh when

only

years of age, he

a pupil of Jorat, E, D.

Was

brought up at Lucnow, T.
?)

Mihr, Bedar-bakhsh (Bedar-bakht

a son of Khoda-bakhsh Mawj,

was poisoned, he was a pupil of

the takhalluc of this poet
inserted
is

Myr

Gulzar 'alyy Asyr, E. Though

clearly spelled

Mihr

in the text,

E has
is

him

in the letter

lam and in the index

it is

spelled Lahar.

Mihr, Myrza IZatim 'alyy of Earrokhabad resides at Dilly, and

a friend of E.

Mihr,

Nawab Mancur Khan is

a son of

Nawab Ma^abbat Khan, E.

Urdu Dywan,
it,

Mihr, Munshiy Mihr Chand a Khatry of a place in the province

of Lahdr, resided long at Earrokhabad, has written an

he also wrote Persian poetry and used the takhalluc of Dzarra in

J,

V.

According to

he was of Mahdiyabad in Gujrat, and has

written a Eekhtah

Dywan.

Mihr, Eajab Beg a brother of Mafanud Beg

Zm% D,

P.

Mihrban Khan
Minnat,

see Eind.

Myr Qamar

aldyn of Sunypat (of Dilly C,

G-,

V)

is

promising young man, A, whose pupil he was.

of Sayyid Jalal Bokhary

He

is

a descendant

who was a son

of Sayyid 'adhod Yazdy,

whose biography

is

in Kashy's Tadzkirah (see supra p. 18,

No. 69)

No. 62.]
and a pupil of and a

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Myr
Ntir aldyn

259
aldyn Faqyr

Nawyd and Myr Shams

fertile
is

disciple of

Fakhr aldyn and a

Persian poet, having

written several Mathnawies, he

Jones, whose title
is

now, 1196, in the service of Mr.

Momtaz
is

aldawlah, C, G.

Has
in

written in Per-

sian about 100,000 lines, he

is

also the author of the

&&*jZ which

an imitation of the Gulistan.

He

went

1101 from Dilly to

Lucnow.
G.

Mr. Jones took him

to Calcutta,

and introduced him to

the Governor- General, Mr. Hastings.

cutta,

He

left

a Khamsah, V.

He died in 1207 at CalHe also left a Mathnawy in

Deccan and received
five

imitation of the SiAre JTalal, he visited the

thousand Rupees for a Qacydah in praise of the Nitzam, K.

150,000 Persian verses, among his compositions

He

died at Calcutta in 1208 at the age of forty-nine years and left

is
:

the u''***> in

which he gives the following account of his works

^i *!&

^y jj^j i^ b
.

***? LSI***

**j**

&j* ^'

jUA
P.

pASjZ

tffej ^-Ailj j

j\ya>

tr.

dy

j*

^jxZ
is

&y

His son
is

is

Nitzam aldyn Mammln, D.

His name

Myr Shams
is

aldyn he
of

a companion of Mihrban Khan, and a Chela (Protege)

J.

Nawab A/miad Khan Bangash,

Perhaps the Minnat of J

not identical with the Minnat of other authors.

Miskyn, Sayyid 'abd al-WaAid Khan

is

young man,

as long as he at present

was
he

at Dilly his verses

were corrected by

Mumin Khan,

is

at Indore, P.
is

Miskyn, Myrza Kallu Beg

of

Moghol

origin, has of late retired

from the world, he must be distinguished from the Miskyn who has
written chiefly Marthiyahs, K.
'abd Allah.

The name of the

latter is

Myr

Miskyn, Lalah Takht Mai of Patna,

poet, but his verses are bad, C.

it is

said that he is a fertile

Mismar, Sayyid Karam 'alyy of Shahdhurah in the province of

Dilly a son of

Qays Qadiry, has

visited Patna, J.

Mo'atztzam, Mawlawy Mohammad Mo'atztzam

writes good Persian and

of Moradabad,

Kekhtah

poetry, D.

Mo'azzaz, his

name and circumstances

are

unknown

to E.
in

Mobariz, Mobariz
poetical meetings.

Khan

of Dilly,

saw him several times

2 L 2

260

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
Moluk Chand a Kayeth
a pupil of

[Chap.

I.

Mobtahij, Lalah
intelligent

of Shahjahanpur was an

man, K.

Mobtala,
nares,

Myr Ainyn

Myr

resides probably at

Be-

V.

Mobtala, Myrza Qasim of Dilly (of Lucnow, P) a son of

Nawab
Khan,
J,

Mohammad

'alyy

Khan, had the

title

of

Myr Mardan

'alyy

his forefathers

were of Mashhad, he resides now at Benares,

V.

He

has written a Persian

Dywan and

a Tadzkirah, P.

I strongly
p. 187.

euspect

confounds this Mobtala with the one mentioned in

called

Mocybat (Mocyb, C),

bad,

Shah Grholam Qofob aldyn of Ilaha"Went in 1186 on the

was a learned man and a friend of C.

pilgrimage and died in 1187, and was buried at Makkah, J.

Modda'a,

Myr

'iwadh 'alyy of Dilly was a good physician, and in

the service of late iZafitz Rafanat Khan, he composed a Rekhtah

Qacydah, in which he mixed many Pashtii words, C.

Modhforr, Shaykh (Myr, D) //asan 'alyy of Lucnow
is

a pupil of

Mamnun, K.
Modhfctrr, Lala

Kunwar Sen

a son of the

Dywan Deby Prashad

at

a Kayeth,

his family

was of Dilly, but he was born

Lucnow, had

from childhood a predilection for poetry, but he concealed his compositions, at length, however,

he became a pupil of Tanha. If he takes

is

pains he

may

improve, but at present his poetry

is

not very good, E.

Since twelve years he

Modhtfarr,

Ta^cyldar in the district of Bulandshahr, P.

Allah Khan, R.

Mohammad Asad

Myrza Sangyn a friend of P. Modhtfarib, Lala Durga Prashad of Lucnow, a son of Dywan Bhawany Prashad, a Kayeth, a young man and a friend of Mo/*ammad He is a pupil of Mo/iammad 'ysa, Tanha, H. 'ysa, E. Modhtarib, Myan Mohammad -Hajy a Kashmyry of Dilly, third son of Qadhiy Ra^mat Allah Khan, is a pupil of Mamnun, K. He
Modhtfarr,

has given up writing poetry, P.

Moghol, Myrza Moghol 'alyy a Kashmyry of Dilly a son of Khwajah

of

Hynga
Moghol

(Acghary, D)
'alyy a son of

is

a merchant, K.

In

H he

has the

name

Mohammad

'askary.

Sayyid Mohammad Khan of Dilly is a grandson of INawab Muryd Khan and a son-in-law of Nawab Motzaffar Khan, J. Sayyid Mohammad Khan a grandson of the late INawab Morta-

dhawy Khan,

resides at Patna,

and

is

a relation by marriage of the

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261

Cubahdar of Bengal, he composes

chosen a takhalluc, J.

Marthiyahs, and has not yet

Mohammad. Shah Khan

of Haptir, composes sometimes poetry,

D.

Mohammad Wahid,
earliest

J.
is

MoAaqqiq of the Deccan

mentioned by

and C among the

dialect

Eekhtah
V.

poets.

His language resembles the

went some years ago

spoken

in Hindustan,

MoAibb,

Myr Mohammad

'alyy

to the Deccan,

he composes chiefly Marthiyahs, D.

MoAibb, Shaykh Walyy Allah of Dilly a pupil of Sawda, and a

friend of

Mihrban Khan Eind, resided long

lives,

at Farrokhabad, it

is

not

known where he now

C. V.

Was

for

some time in the

service

of Solayman-shikoh and died at Lucnow, K, P.

Is the author of a
in the service of

Eekhtah Dywan and a Persian Mathnawy, he was

Solayman-shikoh, and died two years ago, E.

In the copy of C, pre-

served in the Asiatic Society of Bengal, this poet has the takhalluc of

Ma^abbat, but

has copied this article from

C and

has Mo/abb,

we

must therefore consider the reading

in C, as a mistake of the copyist.

Mohlat, Myrza 'alyy a pupil of Jorat, had some years ago a dispute

with 'alyy Naqyy MaAshar, and they agreed to fight a duel on the
other
in
it,

(left)

bank of the Grumpty

(at

Lucnow), Mohlat was wounded

son of
is

and died of the wound, E.

See MaAshar.

Moftsin,

aldawlah

Myr ZZasan Khan Bahadur a Myr Ma' ciim Khan Bahadur-jang

Nawab Sayyid
Ge-

in the service of

neral Perron, D.

Mo^sin, (Myr, Y)

young man and a

Taqyy, A, B.

relation (a nephew,
is

Mohammad Mo^sin (Mohammad 7/asan, B) is a V) and pupil of Myr Mohammad

now
is

He

in the cavalry of JNawab Salar-jang, C.

His name

is

Mokmmad
V.

Mo^sin Samiryyah, but according

It
is

to one
is

Tadzkirah his name

alive or has died,

IZasan, J.

not known whether he

to

He

was related

Arzu and inherited

his

property, and he composed chiefly Persian poetry, but left also a

Eekhtah Dywan, K.
Mo^sin, Mo7iammad Mo/jsin of .Haydarabad,
with his circumstances.

E is

not acquainted

Mo^sin, Khwajah Mo&sin a nephew of Khwajah 'atzym Sh&r

is

young man, and a pupil of Easikh and Eidwy, V.

MoAsiny, iZakym Mo/*ammad-bakhsh
Saharanpur, D.
is

of the neighbourhood of

262

re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

MoMaram, Khwajah Mohammad Mo^taram Khan

Khwajah Mo^ammady Khan
friend of Grhasyta

(Khwajah
late

Mofttaram 'alyy Khan, K, D, P) of Patna, a brother of the

resided at Murshidabad, and was a

is

and of G.

He

a native of Dilly and resides in

Behar

J.

Mojrim,

He died about two Myr Pat k 'alyy

years ago, V.

has since

many

years left Dilly in

search of the mysteries of alchemy, the pursuit of which has

into a

monomania with him, K.

In

H his takhalluc
late

is

grown Marram.

Mojrim, Shaykh Grholam Z/osayn of Patna a pupil of

Allah Sarskdr, the father of

Myr

'abd

Y is particularly

skilled in

chronograms,

and has written a short Persian Dywan, of

takhalluc of Taqdyr, Y.

he also uses the

Mojrim, Shaykh Ea&mat Allah of Agra

is

a pupil and disciple of

at Dilly,

Shah MoAammady Be-dar, was some time

dead, E.

K, P.

He

is

Myr Baqir, a nephew of Mohammad Khan ShaMniat-jang, is a the late Nawab Nawazish young man and resides in Bengal, C. He died probably in 1207 and In D and P is besides Myr Baqir Mokhlig of left a Dywan, Gr. whom they say, that he was of Agra and a pupil of Yakrang and a contemporary of Mohammad Shah, also Mokhlic 'alyy Khan Mohhlig
Mokhlic of Murshidabad commonly called
of Murshidabad.

According to

K both are one and the same person.

of
of

Mokhlic,
Dilly,

Ray Anand Earn (Eab kJj Nand Earn, A), a Khatry was "Wakyl of the Wazyr I'timad aldawlah, and a pupil

By-dil and Arzu, he composed chiefly Persian poetry and died about

a year ago,

M.
Khan was
in the service of

Mokhlic, Bady' alzaman

aldawlah, C.

Nawab

Shuja'

"Was a pupil of Shah Waqif, Y.

Mokhlic, Myrza
his

MoAammad
Grholam

of Dilly was alive in 1168, A.

In

name

is

Myrza Mohammad JZbsayn.

/Tafitz

Mokhtar,

Grhaziy aldyn's tutor, had first the takhalluc of

chiefly Persian poetry,

Nabyy Khan Bahadur a son of Nawab Kalam and composed

A.

D, K.
'alyy,

Momtaz, #afitz Fadhl

Was

a pupil of Sawda, wrote a

Mathnawy
zan

in praise of a walking-stick, in the

measure of the MakhPersian

alasrar, C.

He
is

is

now

in the Deccan,

Y.
chiefly

Momtaz, Mawlawy Shaykh IAsan Allah writes

poetry, D.

He

of

Awwanam, which

is

eight miles from Cawnpore,

and one of the best Persian poets of our days, T.

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263

Momtaz, Mawlawy
father of

Nur AAmad

of Dilly was the grand-

Myr

'izzat

Allah

'ishq,

he was a very learned

man and

died

thirty-three years ago, he recited every year on the 11th of Baby' II.

poems

in praise of

Shaykh 'abd al-Qadir Ghylany, he composed both

'alyy is

Bekhtah and Persian poetry, K.

Monawwar, Myr Monawwar

Mon'im, Qadhiy
district of

an

intelligent

man, K.

Mo'nim, a brother of Qayim, was a Persian poet, C.

Mohammad Mon'im Khan

left

of

Thanah

in

the

Saharanpur,

a Persian and a Bekhtah Dywan, D.

He
has
is

died shortly ago,

H.
is

Mon'im, Mohan Lai a Kayeth

written a Persian
clever Insha- writer,

a pupil of Nacyr, K.

He
and

Mathnawy
D.

in the style of the ancients,

Mon'im, Qadhiy JNur al-ZZaqq was Qadhiy of

Bareilly, is a

good
his

Persian poet and has written upwards of 300,000 verses,

compositions
is

among

a commentary on the Qoran in verses, and Arabic

and Persian Qacydahs, several Mathnawies and three Persian Dywans

of Ghazals, he

was

in

1200

(?) at Dilly,

D.

Mon'im, Sayyid BaAat

'alyy is of Farrokhabad,

D.
girl of

Mon'im, Mawlawy Satr the name of Subhany who

Allah was in love with a dancing

is

the Laura

of his poems, he is

dead but

Subhany has his Dywan, and sheds tears when she reads a poem from MoAammad Yar Beg it, he was a pupil of Bangyn and Matzhar, K.
Sdyil had also for some time the takhalluc of Mon'im, K.

Montatzir, Khwajah 'abd Allah

Khan of Dilly,

a nephew of the late

Mo^ammady Khan, was

Montatzir,

a physician, he died of apoplexy, J.

is

Asad Allah

originally of 'alyygarh, B.

Montatzir, Shaykh

Imam

aldyn

is

of Agra, D, P.

Montatzir, Khwajah-bakhsh of Ilahabad came in 1190 to Patna

and returned again

to his

home, C.

Is a pupil of Betab

and resides

now

at Murshidabad, J.

He

entered the service of an English

gentleman who was going to the N.

Montatzir,

and died on the road, Y.

Myan

Niir alislam of Lucnow, a son of Shah

Eaydh

'alyy, familiarly called

Pyr Gholam (Myr Salam T),

saints,

is

a young

man

and belongs to a family of

he studied Arabic and since the age

;

of twelve years he cultivates poetry

he

is

now about

twenty-five and

my
of

pupil, says E.

He may

be about twenty years of age, T.

Monyr,

Myr

Aftab 'alyy

is

poor but of a good family, and a pupil

mtim,

D.

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RE'KHTAH TADZK1RAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Monyr, Khwajah Aftab Khan of

Dilly, is a pupil of Sa'adat

Yar

Khan Eangyn, K,

P,

D.
Jaleser,

Monyr, Sayyid Monyr aldyn a Pyr-zadah of

Monyr, Ismayl iZbsayn of Shikohabad
Lucnow, E.
lives

B.
at

since

some years
'alyy

Monyr, Myr Nitzam aldyn,

alyy D), he
is

his father is

Shah Shyr

(Babar

a young man, K.
a son of

Monyr (Myr D), "Wajyh aldyn (Wajh aldyn, H) is Nacyr (Mohammad Nacyr H) has written a Qacydah
it

Shah

called Sarapa,

has several Mania's and under each are 51 verses, D.

He

died

young, P.

Moqym,
a son of
bad,

J.

Mortadha,

Myr Mortadha Myr Qudrat Allah

much

of Patna, familiarly called

b.

Myr
at

Ayyiib,

Shukr Allah, resides now

Faydha-

and

is

respected by the

Nawab Wazyr,

J.
'alyy,

Moriiwat, Shaykh aghyr 'alyy

(Shaykh A9ghar

K)

of

Sambhal, familiarly called the son of Micry, a son of the physician

Mo/^ammad Kabyr (Kabyr

said,

'alyy,

E)

is

in the service of

Nawab
it

Faydh Allah Khan and a pupil of Sawda, .Hasan and

is

Jorat,

he resides now, 1196, at Eampiir, C.

Was

alive

when

wrote.

Composed a Mathnawy

in imitation of the Badre

Monyr, K.

Moriiwat,

Myr Mohammad
new
poet,

'alyy of Dilly a son of

Myr Bahadur
Allah

'alyy Mohibi, is a

D.

Moryd, Moryd flbsayn Khan, eldest son of the late In' am Khan Yaqyn, is dead, K. Mosafir, J does not know his name. Mosafir, Myr Khayr aldyn of Lucnow, a disciple of 'ishq,
distinguished from the preceding Mosafir, J.
Mosafir,
fled

to be

Myr Pabandah

(Payindah,

K)

of Jurapat resided at Dilly,

during the troubles of Dilly to Bareilly where he died, K.

Moshfiq,
'alyy,

Myrza AAmad B6g

of Dilly a pupil of

Myrzd A'tzam

E.
left

Moshriqy, Lala Syl Chand, a Kayeth,

settled at Dasah.

some time ago Dilly and

"Wrote Persian and Eekhtah poetry, D.

Moshtaq, 'abd Allah

Khan had from

the emperor the

title

of

Moshtaq
Allah

'alyy

Khan, a son of Abu-1-lZasan Khan Hasan

Bahadur Shah.

b.

Sayf

Khan

Jadd, an Afghan of the Yusufjay tribe.

His grand-

father was the teacher of

Moshtaq has a mancab

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(rank) of
five

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265

hundred and a Jagyr

the superstition called Jafar

verses corrected

much given to alchemy and At Ilahabad he had his (Cabalistic).

;

he

is

by Shah Mohammad 'alym

/Zayrat,

and

at Dilly

by

Myr, E.

He

was a pupil of Soz and died some time ago, D, K.

He

was of Bareilly, T.
Moshtaq, Gholam

He
is

died seven years ago,

of Dilly, T.

H.

Moshtaq, Bala Earn

'alyy,

E.

Moshtaq,
dhabad, 0.

Myr

.Hasan

is

now an

old

man and

resides at Eay-

Moshtaq, iZbsayn-bakhsh, a Qawwal of Coel, a pupil of 'iwadh

'alyy

Khan Tanha,
H.

is

now

in the service of

Begam Samroo

at Sir-

dhanah,

Moshtaq, (Myr, D) 'inayat Allah of Dilly, a Sirhindy Pyrzadah, has

not

much

education, but he used constantly to attend the meetings of

poets.

did not

know what had become

it is

of

him

at the time he wrote.

He
is

is

an old man, and

said that he lives at Eaydhabad,

V.

He

a descendant of Sayyid Jalal Bokhary and went about twenty years

ago to Eampur, H.

He

died at Eampiir, K, D.

of Patna, a son of Hashim Quly Khan, was Daroghah of the household of Nawab Zayn aldyn AAmad Khan Haybat-jang, he is a young man and a clever musician, C. He

Moshtaq,

Mohammad Quly Khan

is

a pupil of
?)

(Eekhtah
is

Myan Mohammad Eawshan, he has collected the Dywan of all the poets of Hindustan and Bengal, and
J.

engaged in making an anthology from them,

His forefathers
(3&*

were Turkomans of Hamadan, he was a pupil of

shan Joshish, he
jC^sk
c^lftJ,

Mohammad Eawis
z_y>

is

dead, the chronogram for his death

(1216 perhaps

we ought
is

to read *&J in that case the date

would be 1206) V.
Moshtaq,

Mohammad Wacil

of Badawn, P.

In T and

he

has the takhalluc of

Mohammad.

Moshtaq, Moshtaq .Hbsayn of Coel, E.

Moshtaq, Qorban 'alyy Beg of Dilly a pupil of Myrza Eostam Beg

Shakir,

D.
is

Moshtaq, Hafitz Taj aldyn of Myrath (Meerut)

extraction and a grandson of
.

of Jewish

eyesight by small-pox.

Mawlawy Gholam A^mad, he lost his He was when young my pupil, says T, and

now he
month.

is

a court poet at iZaydarabad on a salary of Es. 150 a

266

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
is

[Chap.

I.

Moshtaq, Shaykh Thana Allah

of Pat7*pur near Agra, D.

Moshyr,

IZafitz

Qofob aldyn of

Dilly, it is said that

he

is

a pupil

of Shah Nacyr,

and

have seen him.

Moshyr, 'inayat iZbsayn Khan a pupil of Asyr, R.

Mostamand, Tar

'alyy

a pupil of Fidwy and

Khan of Dilly (Yar Dardmand resides at

'alyy

Beg

of Patna,

K)

Patna, C.
It is not

pupil of

the late Faqyh resides at Murshidabad, J.

known where
is

he now

is,

V.

Mottaqiy,
a

Myr Mottaqiy

a son of Myr Jawad 'alyy

father,

Khan Hddiy,

skilful archer

and a pupil of his

Of late he devotes himself

office,

to Qufism, and has read

many Arabic and Persian works thereon, H.

D.

Moty Lai
Motzaffar,

a Kayeth of Hapiir where he holds an

Myrza

(prince) Khosraw-shikoh, familiarly called

Myrza

A'gha Jan,

is

a son of Solayman-shikoh, D.

In

H he has the takkalKhan Bahadur,

a

luc of Modh^arr.

Motzaffar,

Myr Makhkhii Khan

(Sayyid Motzaffar 'alyy Khan,

is

D, P) of

Dilly, a son of Sayyid

Qalandar 'alyy

young man and a pupil of Mamnun, K, D.

See Makhkhii.

Mo'yn, Shaykh Mo'yn aldyn (Mo'yn aldyn Khan, P) of Badawn

is

a pupil of Sawda, resides now, 1196, at Lucnow, C, V.

his

In

and

K
D

name

is

Grholam Mo'yn aldyn

Khan

of Ilahabad or of Dilly,

says he is a pupil of

Sawda and

resides at Patna,

when

wrote,

he was dead.

Mozzammil,

Mohammad Mozzammil
life

a contemporary of Abru, to-

wards the end of his

service

he

lost his faculties,

and he gave up
It is

and led a retired

life

at Dilly, where he died B, C.

said that he

was a Darwysh, E.

In

K he

has the name of Mozzam-

mil Shah.

Munis,

MoMbb

'alyy lived at Eampiir,

and used to deal in

'ottar

of roses, P.

Mujid,

Mawlawy

Siraj

aldyn 'alyy Khan, a very learned and pious

is

man, resides for many years at Calcutta, where he

Miimin, iZakym
at Dilly

Muftiy, Y.
the best poet

Mohammad Muniin Khan

is

now

and a good physician, he writes Persian and Rekhtah poetry,

he has written a

Dywan and

several Mathnawies, P.

He

fell

from

the roof of his house and died in A. D. 1852.

Muncif, Muncif 'alyy

Khan

of Patna of Afghan origin, a pupil of

Nitzam Khan Mo'jiz, and though not without education a super-

No. 62.]
stitious

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Died some years ago at
Dilly,

267

man, K.

he was a good Per-

sian scholar, P.

Muncif, Shaykh ~Fath 'alyy of Ghaziypiir the father of Ma'shuq

Myr 'imarat under Nawab 'aliy-jah, J. Hakym Sa'adat 'alyy of Benares is a good physician, P met him at Bulandshahr.
'alyy

was

Miinis,

witty man, and a

Munshiy,

'ajayib

Earn of Murshidabad a pupil of Qudrat, V.

Munshiy, Grholam

Ahmad

Qadiry of Dawry in JNarnawl a pupil of

"Waqif, writes

Matzhar had formerly the takhalluc of

Persian poetry and elegant prose, C, V.

Eekhtah and

Munshiy,

Myr MoAammad
who was

7/osayn of Dilly, a son of the calligraph

Myr

Abu-1-/Zasan,

familiarly called
is

Myr
;

Kalian, his foreis

fathers were of Persia.

Munshiy

a good prose-writer and

Munshiy

in the service of Solayman-shikoh

he

is

about twenty-

eight years of age, E,

K.
is

Munshiy, Mul Chand a Kayeth

the emperor he
is

a pupil of Nacyr, by order of

putting a story into verse, K. Translated at Dilly

the Shah-namah into Eekhtah verses, P.

Has

written a Eekhtah

Dywan, D. He died about A. D. 1832. Murad, Myrza Murad-bakhsh of Patna familiarly called Myrza Ammu a son of JNacir Mo/iammad Khan Wakyl of Munny Begam,
was a pupil of Basikh and resided mostly at Murshidabad and Calcutta, he died at the age of about thirty years.

Another Murad
Firat, only

nourished under

Mohammad
is

Shah, V.

Miisawy had

also the takhalluc of Mo'izz

and of

one Eekhtah verse of his

Mushkil, Shaykh

recorded by A.

See p. 109 supra.

Amyn

aldyn, E.
is

Musliman, Lala Bakhtawar Singh of Mogholpurah, which

quarter of the town of Patna, J.

Myr, JSakym Myr

verses,

'alyy of Saharanpdr wrote Persian

and Eekhtah

D.

Myr, Mohammad
into Soz,

Myr

is

a good poet and changed his takhalluc

is

M, A,
is

B.

See Soz, the verse which

quoted by

M and B

under

Myr

in C.

among the
the
J, B.

extracts from Soz.

Myre Maydan had

Sayyid of the Deccan,
called

title

of Sayyid Nawazish

Khan, was a

In one copy of

and in

M he

is

See

Myr Myran, and in the best copy of B he is also Bhed with whom he is identical.
2

called

Myr

Mirza.

268
Myran,
Myran,

REKHTAH TADZKIRAHS.
Myr
'askary of Dilly
is

[CHAP.

I.

a young

man

of good family,

and

a pupil of Firaq, K.

In

H he has the name of

Myr

'askar 'alyy.

Myran Sabzwary resided at Dilly, composed chiefly poetry in praise of the Imams and had five new poems ready on the 21st of every lunar month, he was wounded at Dilly by a fanatic, and went to Lucnow where he. died by the fall from the roof of a house, J.
Myran,

My an

Myr Jahan was

a very great Qufy and wrote mystical

poetry in Persian and Rekhtah,

K.
at Dilly but resides since

Myrza, Myrza

Mohammad Beg was born

many

H. Myrza, a nephew of IZakym Myrza MoAammad Khan Dzawq and a pupil of Eostam Beg Shakir, H, P.
years at Ilahabad,

Myrza, Abu-1-Qasim was a courtier of the Sultan Abii-1-IZasan

who

is

usually called Tana-Shah (succeeded in 1083).

When

his

patron had been made a prisoner, he retired to 'abdallahganj near

Haydarabad, and lived as a Faqyr, A.

Myrza, Myrza 'alyy Eidha of Dilly, a relation of Nawab _Hbsm
aldyn

Khan

the Deputy Governor of Jahangyr-nagar, lived long in

It
is

the Behar, now, 1196, he resides at Benares, C.

not

known

where he now

is.

V.
his instructor

Myrza, Xqa Myrza of Lucnow, his ancestors were of Mazanderan,

his father

was a merchant and

was Myr, P.

Myrza, ^Jadiq 'alyy Khan of Dilly familiarly called Myrza Madad

Allah, was a witty

man and

a good musician, he was a pupil of

is

Myan

Ki'mat Khan and a friend of Sawda, he

1202,

dead,

K, D.

He

died in

H.

See also Madad.

Myrza, IZakym Fadhl Allah of Panypat familiarly called Myrza

Naynan (Byna, D)
poetry,

is

a young

man and

writes

Rekhtah and Persian

K, P.

He

is

a descendant of

Myrza

By-dil,

H.

Myrza, Hidayat Allah of Dilly

Myrza, Myrza

is skilled

in music, P.

Mohammad
profession,

of IZaydarabad was of Turanian origin

and a

soldier

by

K, V.
title

Myrza, familiarly called Nawab Myrza has the

IZasan

of

Mohammad

Khan I^tiram aldawlah

a son of

nephew
resides,

of Be-qayd, and a brother of

Nawab Ashraf Khan, a Rostam, resides now 1196, at

it is

Benares, C.

He

is

a native of Dilly,

not

known where he now

Myrzay a son of

V.

Myrzay,

Mohammad

'alyy

Khan, familiarly

called

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62.]

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269

Na'ym Allah Khan, was

a good musician and held an appointment

under Shuja' aldawlah, V.

Nacir, Nacir 'alyy of Patna
Nacir,
is

mentioned by Beny Narayan.

Nawab

Nacir-jang a son of Motzaffar-jang Bangash, died

in 1228, P.

Nacyr, Shah Nacyr aldyn of Dilly familiarly called

a son of Shah Gharyb

My an

Kallii,

who was

tify, and
(Myr

according to E,

T and V

a descendant of

Myr

Q&dr-jaih-dn

i/aydar-jahan,

E) who was a
after

great Saint, but, according to

K and H, Shah Gharyb as well as Nacyr

Nacyr took
to

were followers of Myr-jahan.

Eekhtah poetry

the death of his father, and had his verses corrected by Shah Mo/jam-

mady Mayil and

other masters.

It appears from
at Dilly,

that he used in
dis-

1209 to attend the poetical meetings

tinguished as a poet
;

but was not yet

but when

K wrote he was one

P
says
it is

of the greatest

poets of Dilly and had

since he has

many

pupils.

now

sixty years

commenced his poetical career, he has visited Lucnow and ZZaydarabad, and made the acquaintance of most poets, when he is at Dilly he holds on the 9th and 29th of every month mosha'arahs
in his house.
his life

Cahbayiy informs us, that he went towards the end of

to IZaydarabad into the service of Eajah Chanda Lai, and that

he died there.

Karym

aldyn adds that this event took place about

A. D. 1843.
Nacyr, Sayyid Nacyr aldyn Ghawthy of Jalesar, a descendant of
'abd al-Qadir Gylany,

times Eekhtah poetry,

who is usually H, K.
is

called

Ghawth, composes some-

Nacyr,

Myr Nacyr

aldyn resides at Dilly, H.

a pupil of Taskyn, K.

Nadim, a poet of Dilly

A. In J

Nadir died of consumption in the Kdtlah close to Dilly in 1166,

his

name

is

Shaykh Nitzam aldyn

E.
Easiil
is

'alyy of Dilly.

Nadir, Lala Granga Singh (Ganga Prashad, E) of

pupil of

Lucnow

is

Myr

.ZZasan,

Nadir, Shaykh

Gholam

of Gwalyar,

D.

Nadir, Kalb ZTosayn

Nadir,

mad

'arif

Khan is Deputy Collector of Etawah, E. Myr Mohammad 'alyy (Mohammad 'arif, E, Myr Moham'alyy, P.) a Kashmyry of Dilly, familiarly called Myr Jagan,
'alyy

composes sometimes indifferent Eekhtah poetry, K.

Nadym, Myrza (Shaykh, V)

vice of the emperor,

Quly of Dilly was

title

in the serchiefly

and has the

of

Khan

he writes

270
Marthiyahs and
'alyy
is,

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
1168, alive, A.

[Chap,

He

was the teacher of Ashraf

Khan Fighan, came to Murshidabad and took service under Nawab Myr Mo7iammad Ja'far Khan and died there, 0. According to J who met him at Patna, his name was Myrza Nadym, and 'alyy Quly Khan was his title. JN"adym Mo/^ammad Qasim of Dilly, is a pupil of Firaq, K. Na^yf, Lala Lakhpat Kay a Khatry and a Wakyl, lived long at Bareilly, and met D when on a visit to Dilly. His father is Munshiy Mulchand mentioned above, (p. 267) H.
Na&yf, Sayyid Barkat 'alyy of Muradabad, E.
Najaf,

name not known, E, H, P.

Najaf, Shah

Mohammad A'la of Ilahabad, a son of Shah Walyy Allah

after the fall of Dilly

Be-tdb,

H.
Shaykh #asan Eidha of Dilly went
his friend.

JNajat,

to Patna, of late he resides in Saran, he composes chiefly Marthiyahs,

C,

who was

He

was

for

some time

in the service of

Sa'adat 'alyy

Khan

at Benares

and died

in 1207, the

chronogram

is

Najat,

Myan Mo/jammad
no doubt
In

of Dilly

is

since

some years

at

Patna in

the service of Abii-l-Qasim Khan, and composes chiefly Marthiyahs,

J.

He

is

identical with the preceding.

Najat,

Myr Zayn

'abidyn of Saharanpur composes chiefly Persian

poetry, D.

K he has the takhalluc of

Mohammad

Kajabat.

Najiy (Myr, K),

Shakir of Dilly was a soldier by

profession and a friend of Mon'im,

who was

a brother of A, and a

good Persian poet.

saw him when young, but he was dead in

1168, having died young.

as
it

He

left

a Dywan, but his style

is

farfetched,

was the fashion of

his time to write.

He

is

distinguished in

humoristic poetry,

M, Gr. Najm, Qadhiy Najm aldyn Kakory has been

D.
***&,

appointed Qadhiy of

Calcutta,

Nakhat

Nadzr

'alyy

Beg

a pupil of Nacyr has translated

the Sikandar-namah into Eekhtah verses, P.

of Niyaz 'alyy Beg, and
it is

In

H he has the name

In

said that he

is

a pupil of Nacyr.
'alyy Beg,

E are two poets

Niyaz
'alyy.

of this takhalluc, one

Nadzr

and the other

Nalan, Shaykh 'abd al-Qadir of FatMbad, a descendant of Shaykh

'abd al-iZaqq, D.

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Nalan,

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271

Sawda,

Myr A&mad C saw him at

but

'alyy of Dilly considers himself as a pupil of

Murshidabad, and found him very deficient in

educated man.
'askary of Dilly of

abilities,

V thought him a well

(Myrza,

Nalan,
origin,

Myan

K) Mohammad

Moghol

he used to attend the poetical meetings at Dilly, and was a

friend

and pupil of E, but at the time when he wrote

Iu C and

his tadzkirah,

he did not know what had become of him.

Y he has the
Yakrang

name

of

Mohammad

'askar 'alyy

Khan, and they say that he was a

pupil of ZZatim, this

is

controverted by E.

He was

a pupil of

and of MucAafy, D.
Nalan,

He

died two years ago at the age of ninety, P.

Myr Warith

'alyy of
is

Behar a son of

now, 1195, at Patna and

a pupil of Eighan, C.

Myr Arzany resides Myan Mohammad

it

AYarith of Patna a son of the late

Myr

Sayyid Rasty, attended every

ap-

Eriday the meeting of poets which took place at Patna, where

pears he resided

when J wrote. His Dy wan has about 1300 verses, Y. Namy, Shaykh Mtzam aldyn of Earrokhabad, resides since some

time at Etawah, Y.

Namy, Myr IZbsam aldyn iZaydar Khan Mobariz aldawlah Musawy

a son of Myrza Mo7*ammad Grhiyath (Myrza Grhiyath aldyn

Mo-

hammad Khan, D) who was an

is

Insha- writer.

The family

of

Namy
is

originally of Najaf,

he

is

a pupil of Khalyq, D.

He

is

an admirer

of poetry, but

no longer himself composes verses, P.

He

relation of the late Shuja'

aldawlah, for some time he resided at

Eaydhabad, but now he

is

again at Dilly,

H.
first

Namy,

Lala,

Mithan Lai a Kayeth of Dilly was

a pupil of

Insha Allah Khan, and after this poet had gone to Lucnow of Nacyr,

he composes Persian and Rekhtah poetry, K.

lah ZZaydar

Namy, Myrza Rajab 'alyy Beg, a nephew of the late Amyr aldawBeg Khan, is a high officer of A'caf aldawlah, D, K. Naqd, Mihr 'alyy Khan of Dilly resides since some years at Patna
is

and

a friend of Y.

JNasikh,

Shaykh Imam-bakhsh a Sayyid of Lucnow In

is

one of the

best poets of that city, D, P.

his takhalluc

is

NacU.

Nasym,
he

Grulzar 'alyy, P.

He was

one year

my

pupil, says T, then

left this place

with a view of making the pilgrimage to Makkah.

Nasym, Rajah Kidar Nath a grandson of Ram Nath Dzarrah is a young man and a pupil of Nacyr, K, D. Holds the post of Natzir at the Court of Dilly, H. He died two years ago, P.

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re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

Natzim of Lucnow, P.
Natzyr of Benares professes to be a pupil of Sawda, D, P. Natzyr, Lala Ghanpat Eay a Kayeth of Dilly is a new poet and a pupil of Nacyr, K, P.
Natzyr, Shaykh
of

Walyy Mohammad (Walyy Mo7*ammad Khan, D)

Died

Agra

is

an old poet, and supports himself by teaching, K.

shortly ago, P.

Nawa, Shaykh Mohammad Tzohur of Badawn (Shaykh Mohammad

Tzohiir Allah

son of
the

Khan of Lucnow resides Mawlawy Dalyl Allah, and a pupil

died at Lucknow, V.

at

of

Badawn, H, D, V, P) a Myan Baqa Allah, has

stated that he visited

title

of Khush-fikr Khan, and writes Persian and Eekhtah poetry,

E.

He

In

P
is

it

is

Persia and died about two or three years before he wrote, at an

advanced age, the latter statement

incompatible with that of V,

who wrote
Nawaz,

thirty-five years before P, the

two authors may

refer to

different persons.

Nawaz Khan is of Patna, V. Nawaz, 'alyy Nawaz Khan familiarly called Myrza Mad ad a companion of Nawab 'umdat almulk, Y. Nawazish, Nawazish iZbsayn Khan of Lucnow, familiarly called Myrzd Khany (Jany, D) a grandson of Nawab Nacir Khan, is a good poet, H, D. He was a pupil of Soz and left a Dywan, P.
'alyy

Nawyd
Na'ym,
say that

is

an opulent man, D.
a pupil of
J.

Myr MoAammady of Dilly he is a pupil of Myr Dard,

Myr

Sajjad,

some

He may

be identical with

the following Na'ym.

Having returned the copies of J and

satisfy

to

the owner, before I put this table of contents together, I was in

this,

and in several other instances, unable to

myself as to the

identity or diversity of poets

their

by comparing the verses quoted from

Dywans.
he had many poetical contests, C.
left

Na'ym, Na'ym Allah of Dilly a contemporary of iZatim with

whom

Na'ym Allah Khan

his friend.

died of

dropsy and

a thick Dywan, E,

who was

His poems are

much sung by
was a
she
soldier,

all classes,

Y.

Shaykh Mohammad Na'ym of Dilly

and a pupil of iZatim, he died many years ago, K, D.

Nazakat, Bamjii a lady of Narnawl brought up at Dilly, where

now

resides, P.

Nazuk, Zynat a lady, P.

Nek,

Myr

Ja'far 'alyy, R.

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Ni'amy, Sliaykh Ni'mat Allah of Meerut, familiarly called iZadhrat

Ni'amy the father of Mobtala

'abd al-Hadiy of Bengal, he

('ishq), is

a very pious man, and has

written a thick Persian Dywan, D.

is

He

was a pupil of Mawlawy In

dead T.
is

Nida,

Myr Mortadha

of Dilly

a young man, V.

is

Nida of the Deccan.

Nigran,

Myr Bandah
is

'alyy of Ijrarah,

sometimes he uses the

takhalluc of 'ashiq, he

a pupil of

Myrza Arjumand Nuzhat, D, K.

Ni'mat,

Hakym

'abd al-jffaqq of Sikandarabad, a converted Hindu,

had originally the name of Harsahay, retired very young from the
world and was very pious, he was in the service of Shah 'abd al'azyz

and died some years ago, P.

Ni'mat, Myrza

In

lie

has the

Mohammad

JETafytz a pupil of

name of Ni'mat Allah. Qamar aldyn Minnat

wrote Persian poetry, and when he came to iZaydarabad, he also

composed Eekhtah
Nishaf,

verses, H. Mawlawy Ilahy-bakhsh

of Kandhelah writes good poetry,

D,P.
NishaV, Lala

Tsry Singh of Dilly,

familiarly called

Basant Singh, a

son of Lalah Sundar Das Munshiy, was a pupil of Insha Allah

Khan

and when

this poet

had gone to Lucnow

Prashad

his verses

were corrected by

Nacyr, K, D.
Nishatf,

Ray

Nilajja

is

Treasurer of the Nitzain of Ha.y-

darabad, and a pupil of Eaydh, E.

jang had under

Nawab 'imad almulk Ghaziy aldyn Khan Bahadur FyrozAAmad Shah the title of Bakhshy almamalik, and 'alamgyr II. that of Wazyr almamalik, he lives now, 1195, in under
Nitzam,
Sind and composes Persian and Eekhtah poetry, C.

Had

formerly

the takhalluc of

A'caf,

he

is alive,

E, D.

He

died at Kalpy and left

Arabic and Turky Grhazals and a thick Persian Dywan, and a Math-

nawy
and

in which the miracles of

Mawlana Fakhr aldyn

are related

and other Mathnawies, K.

He

was a patron of Walih Daghistany

Myr Shams

aldyn Faqyr, P.

Was

already dead

when
K.

wrote.

Nitzamy, Sayyid Nitzam aldyn

a long time a high
office (that

AAmad

Qadiry

is alive,

he held for

of Kotowal ?) at Dilly,

Nithar, (Myr, C,

V)

'abd al-Easul of Agra, his ancestors were

Mancabdars under Farrokhsiyar, and he was a friend of

Myr Mohamwent
sixty

mad Taqyy, he was

to

first at

Dilly in the army, subsequently he

at

Amrdhah, A, B, C.

E
2

met him

Amrdhah, he was about

2?4
years of age, but
not.

RE'KHTAH TADZK1RAHS.
E
does not

[CHAP.
was

I.

know whether

in 1209 he

alive or

His family was of Agra, but he was born at

Dilly,

he died

many years ago, K. Mawlawy Nithar A^mad of Bareilly, his family is of Shahjahanpur, he is a learned man and betrays in his poems a tendency to Qufism, T. Nithar, Shaykh Mohammad Qayim of Dilly resides now at Patna,
and Eidwy corrects
his verses, J.

He

was teacher in the house of

the late ifakym JZadiy 'alyy

Nithar, Mo7iammad-panah

Khan and died suddenly, V. Khan of Dilly a friend of Myr

it

JETasaii

and a pupil of

Myr Dard
is

is

said,

he resided for some time at

is

Eaydhabad, now he

at Dilly,

V.

In other Tadzkirahs he

men-

tioned under the takhalluc of iZakym, see p. 231 supra.

Nithar, Mortadha

Khan

of Dilly, a brother of Malik

Mohammad

Khan

Mo7*ibb, composed chiefly Marthiyahs and died at Patna, V.

Nithar,

Mohammad Aman

a Shaykh, his ancestors were distin-

guished mathematicians and architects and the Jami' masjid of Dilly

was built by them, formerly he was in the service of Nawab Mohammad aldawlah as architect, subsequently he entered the service of Nawab Dhabifah Khan and now he is in that of Kajah Tiket Kay who has been Acaf aldawlah' s Treasurer, he is a pupil of JZatim, and has written a thick Dywan, E. He resides now at Lucnow, K. His father's name is Sa'adat Allah, H. In T he has the takhalluc of
Niyaz.
Nithar, Nithar 'alyy of Belgram, P.

Nithar, Sadasukh of Dilly, C.

Niyaz,

Myr

Afdhal 'alyy of Patna familiarly called

Myr
first

Jan, J.

He

was a nephew of

Myr Mohammad Salym

Salym, at

he was

a pupil of Joshish, then of Mojrim, and

when he was

at

Murshi-

dabad of Qudrat and Salym, from Murshidabad he went to Lucnow,

and

after

some years residence in that

:

capital,

he came back to Patna

where he died

he was a famous

plagiarist,

and appropriated the whole

gone to iZaydarabad,

Dywan

of Salym, V.

Niyaz,

Myr Mohammad
Myr Mohammad

'alyy of Dilly has

composes chiefly Marthiyahs, K.

Niyaz,
ing,

Sa'yd of Agra supports himself by teach-

K, P.

Niyaz,
is

Myan Niyaz Afonad, born in Sirhind brought up at Dilly, man of considerable learning and great piety, he resides at
Kekhtah poetry, K, P.
In

Bareilly and composes Persian and

liia

takhalluc

is

Naniy and

his

name Nithar AAmad.

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275
calli-

Niyaz, Shah Niyaz 'alyy of Dilly

graph, on the 12th of every
sing,

is

Darwysh and a good

month the ^ ufi ea meet

in his house

aud

D.
(?),

Niyazy

Bahadur Khan of Lucnow, a

for

relation of

Eajah Kamgar

Khan, resided
Nizar,

some time

at

Patna and died there, V.

is

Khwajah Mohammad Akram (Mohammad Ikram, V) pupil of Myr, C.

Nucrat, Lala Grobind
of Nacyr, K.

Kay
is

(Grdbind Earn,

H)

a Kayeth,

is

a pupil

Nudrat, Myrza Moghol

dead, he used to compose Marthiyahs,

and used the takhalluc of Imamy in them, K.

Niir Allah
like

An

ancient poet,

H.

Myrza

of Dilly

fell

in love with an

European and was

mad, V.

Molla Nury the son of a Qadhiy of A'tzampur, was distinguished

as a Persian poet

and wrote also Eekhtah

verses,

he was a friend of

Faydhy, A.

Nury, Shuja' aldyn was a native of Gujrat, but spent his

Abu-I- .Hasan's Wazyr, A.

life

at

TZaydarabad, where he was appointed tutor of the son of Sultan

Nuzhat, Myrza Arjumand was Munshiy of Nawab Ghaziy aldyn

Khan and
clever in

resides

now

at Ijrarah,

K.

He

is

an ingenious man being

making

lire-works,

&c, he writes

chiefly Persian poetry,

D.

He

is

dead,

K.
aldyn of Dilly a pupil of

Nuzhat,
'oshshaq,

Myr Imam
is

Myr

Dard, J.

Shaykh A^mad-bakhsh, a son of Shah A^mad Chirma relation of Sharaf aldyn Monery,
far

posh of Behar,

Moner

is

a place

on the banks of the Son not

'oshshaq,

from Daynapur,

J.

Jywan Mai
(or

Khatry of
Grholam

Dilly, is a pupil of

Mayil and a

friend of

Myr

Taqyy, A, B, D.

Owaysy

Owysy

?),

Mo^yy

aldyn a Pyr-zadah, resided

in 1213 at Bareilly,

and in 1215 he was in the Deccan, D, H.

He
is

died at Bareilly previous to 1221, K.

Padzyr, Sayyid Nithar 'alyy, a son of Sayyid Gulzar 'alyy Asyr,

only thirteen years of age, E.

Pakbaz, Sayyid (JalaA aldyn, familiarly called
of Sayyid Shah Kamal.

Myr

Maklian, a son

A.

He

was a very pious man and a friend of was a pupil of Takrang, J.

fertile poet, C.

He

Shah Panchhya was a Darwysh and a

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re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

Parwanah, Eajah Jaswant Singh, familiarly called Kaka-jy, a son

of Maharajah
sides at

Beny and a pupil of Lalah Sarap Singh Dywanah, reLucnow and writes Persian and Urdu poetry, C. "Was alive

in 1209

and

was

his friend.

Parwanah,

Mohammad Beg

of Khayrabad, P.

Parwanah, Sayyid Parwan 'alyy Shah of Muradabad has of late

retired

from the world, C, K.

:

He

was a drunkard and given to the

use of bhang
to

he was introduced by Qayim, who corrected his poems,

E.
chiefly Persian
his.

MoAammad Yar Khan,

Payam, Sharaf aldyn 'alyy Khan of Agra, composed

poetry, but left also a
flourished under

Eekhtah Dywan,
Shah, C.

M was
He
left

a friend of

He

Mohammad

a very good Persian

Dywan, K.

Prem
Qabil,

JNath

Kay a Khatry, A. Myrza 'aliy-bakht is a prince of the

al-Ghanyy Beg of Kashmyr, C.
is

royal house of Dilly,

and pupil of Dzawq, P.

Qabiil, 'abd

See Persian poets.

Qacd, ZZasan Myrza of the Deccan

of the

Daroghah of the perfumery

a pupil of Eiraq, lived

Nitzam of iZaydarabad, E.

Qacir,

Myrza Babar

'alyy

Beg of

Dilly,

formerly on commerce, he came to Murshidabad and went to Patna

and thence to Calcutta, but returned to

he now
is,

V, K. In

H his name

is

Dilly, it is not known where Myrza Amyr 'alyy Beg T informs

us that he was a brother-in-law of Tzafar-yab Khan.

Qadhiy, 'abd al-Eattah of Sambhal composes chiefly Persian verses,

he

is alive,

K.
'abd al-Qadir of -Haydarabad,

Qadir,
fifty

Myr

when he had passed

years of age he gave himself up to asceticism, A.

Qadiry, Sayyid Khalyl lives in the Deccan, B.

Qadr,

is

a good poet, B.

His name

C) of Dilly, he flourished under

very bad character, C, Y.
Qalandar,

is Mohammad Qadr (Qadir, Mohammad Shah and was a man of

Budh Singh was

the son of a rich

man but
far

did not care

for wealth, A, C.

Qalandar, Shah

Gholam Qalandar

of

Mukhrah not

from Mon-

gher, a disciple of

Myr Mohammad

Aslam, went about three years

ago to Dilly, J.
Qalandar, Shah Qalandar was a Eaqyr and a pupil of Matzhar, K.

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277
f/a-

Qalandar, Qalandar-baksh a descendant of the

nyfah
thick

is

a native of the district of Saharanpur and has written a

Dywan, T.

Qalandar,

Munshiy Tar Mohammad

of Dilly was originally a

Hindii, he embraced the Islam and

went to Murshidabad, and found

service in the house of Shaharaat-jang, J.

He

is

probably identical

with

Budh

Singh.

Qalaq, a son of

Nawab Qalandar

'alyy

Khan Bahadur

of Dilly,

is

a young man, D.

Qamar, Grulab Khan, familiarly called Qamar aldyn,

Qamar, Myrza Qamar aldyn, familiarly called Myrza.
of

is

the editor

of a newspaper called As'ad al-akhbar and a friend of E.

iZajy, a son

Myrza Taqyy Haivas and a pupil of Myrza Qatyl, P. Qamar, Myrza Qamar Tali' (Qamar Beg, E) a son of Yzid-bakhsh, who is usually called Myrza Nyly and a pupil of iZantz IAsan, is the author of a Dywan, P. Qana'at, Myrza Majhle, E. Qana'at, Myrza Mohammad Beg of Lahor, a son of iZasan Beg, a
pupil of iZasrat, resides now, 1196, at Lucnow, C, V.
Qani', a grandson of

Nawab Nacir Khan,

is

writes

Persian and

Eekhtah poetry, V.
Qarar,

Myr

iZbsayn 'alyy of Dilly

a young

man and

a pupil of

Myr Nacyr

aldyn Eanj, K.

Qarar, Jan

MoAammad

of Lucnow, a pupil of Shah Mahil, a chob-

dar of the king of Oudh, D.

Qaryn a Kashmyry of Lucnow

iZasrat,

is

young man, and a pupil of

In J are besides
their

V.
is

Qasim of the Deccan

this,

a pupil of 'uzlat, B.

two other poets of the takhalluc of Qasim, but

names are

not mentioned.

Qasim, Abii-1-Qasim

Khan was

distantly related to the imperial

family of Dilly and resided at Calcutta

when Beny Narayan

wrote.

Qasim, Sayyid Qasim 'alyy Khan, a grandson of 'aa ZZosayn

Khan

Ta^syn who
Qasim,

is

the author of the JNawfcirz Moracca', he was formerly

in the English service,

Myr Qasim
is

'alyy

now he resides at Lucnow, Khan was of Bareilly,

P.

P.

Qatyl a Khatry of Dilly has embraced the Islam, he

at

now

resides

Lucnow, and

one of the best Persian scholars alive, D.

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re'khtah tadzkirahs.
first

[Chap.

I.

Qayim, Shaykh Qayim 'alyy of Etawah had

Qays, Myrza

the takhalluc of

TJmmedwar, went to Farrokhabad to see Sawda, K, D.

A^mad

'alyy

Beg, familiarly called Modara Beg

'alyy Beg, his ancestors
is

(Madar Beg, K), a son of Myrza Morad

Qismat,

were of Mashhad, he was born in Oudh and

a pupil of iZasrat, E.

Nawab Shams aldawlah of Lucnow is the eldest son of Nawab Quly ('alyy, P) Khan and a pupil of /Tasrat, E, K. Qorban, Myr Jywan was a pupil of Sawda and fell in a fight against
the English at Faydhabad, C, V.

Qorban,

who

is

Myr MoAammady of Dilly a son of Myr Imam familiarly called Myr Kallu JTaqyr a pupil of Thana
Is a

aldyn
Allah

Firaq,

Y.

young man and

'alyy

in the service of Tzafaryab

Khan y

K, D.
Qorban,

Myr Qorban

Khan, a son of
is

Myr Mohammad Qasim

Khan, a pupil of Qudrat, he

Natzim, V.

skilled in

music and resides at Patna,

where he draws a salary of one hundred Rupees a month from the

Qudrat, Qudrat Allah resides at Dilly, B.

Shah Qudrat Allah

was a Darwysh, A.
a Saint, he having
left

He

was descended from Shah 'abd al'azyz

Shakr-bar a saint, H, P.
is

He was

descended from Eakhr aldyn Zahid

fertile
is

one of the most distinguished and

Persian poets

Dywan

of 20,000 verses, his poetry

in the style of

Myrza By-dil, towards the end of his life he also used the Tygh (Tatabbu' ?), T. Left Dilly and settled at Murshidabad where he met C, and where he probably died in 1105, Gr. He resides at Patna, E. He was first a pupil of Myr Shams aldyn Eaqyr, who was his uncle, and subsequently of Myrza Janjanan Matzhar, K, D.
that of
takhalluc of

Qudrat,

Mawlawy Qudrat Allah

is

is

a good Arabic scholar and I have been told

is

physician, he

a friend and pupil of Firaq, E.

that he died about A. D. 1834.

Allah, a pupil of Rafugar.

In

and

Shaykh Qudrat

Qudrat,

Urdu

poets,

Mawlawy Qudrat Allah is the author of a Tadzkirah of and resides now at Rampiir, E met him one day in the

society of

Mohammad Qayim.
Bampur when

It

seems he was
calls

still

alive

and

resided at

K wrote. H

Allah of Rampur, he mentions his

him Mawlawy Qudrat Tadzkirah, and says that he is in

the habit of holding Mosha'arahs in his house.

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Quwwat,
his

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name
is

279

not

known

to R.

Ganga Prashad a Kashmyry of Lucnow, E. Eadhyy, Sayyid Eadhyy Khan, C, V. Eadhyy, Myrza Eadhyy Khan Monajjim of Lncnow is of the
Ba'd, Lalah
royal house, which rules over Oudh, and has written a Layla Majniin,

P.

See Hawas, Basa, and Eidha.

Eadhyy, Nawab Sayf aldawlah Sayyid Eadhyy aldyn Bahadur alabat-jang, writes Persian

and Urdu poetry, K. Holds an appointment

under the English government, H.

Eafaqat,

He

died some years ago, P.

Myrza Makhkhan Bay (Myrza Makyn, P) of Lucnow, a

a poet of Lucnow, H.

pupil of Jorat, died of consumption at the age of twenty-two years, E.

Eafat
Eafat,

is

Myan

Eawiif Afanad of Lucnow a Pyr-zadah, and a pupil

of Jorat, resides at Eamprir, K, H.

He

is

a 9"fy an d nas several

times visited Hilly, P.

Eafat, Shaykh

Mohammad
office, J,

Eafy' of Ilahabad resides at Patna,

C, V.

where he holds a high

Eafat,

Mohammad
V.

'ysa

Khan
A.

Ancary, a son of

Nawab Imtiyaz

Khan

is alive,

Eafdgar,

Mohammad

'arif,

Eafy', Eafy'

aldyn Khan, a Pathan of Moradabad, has visited

Makkah, D.
Eafyq,

Amyn

Allah, P.

Eafyq, Myrza Asad

pupil of

Beg

of Hilly, where he
Firdqr,

now

resides,

he

is

Thana Allah Khan

V. It would appear from

that

he was dead in 1221.

Eaghbat,

Myr

Abii-1-Ma'aliy

( Abu-1-Ma'aniy,

H)

a pupil of

Mam-

nun

resides at

Lucnow, K, H, H.
of Hilly a cousin of

Eaghib,
Allah

Mohammad Ja'far Khan Khan Cdidiq of Panypat lives

Nawab Luf

of late at Patna in poor circum-

stances, he writes chiefly Persian poetry, C.

left

He

died at Patna, and

a Persian

Eaghib,
tors

Hywan and two Eekhtah Hywans, V. Myrza SuMan Quly Beg born in Hindustan,
is is

but his ances-

were of Persia, he

a soldier, and writes Persian and

a pupil of Insha, K, H, P.

Urdu

poetry, in the latter, he

EaAman, an old

poet, having

been a contemporary of Walyy, H.

Hilly, is the

EaAmat, Qadhiy alqodhat Ba/nnat Allah Khan of

author of a Persian Hywan, H.

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re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

Raja,

Ra&ym was a contemporary of Walyy, H. Myan Gholam MoAyy aldyn of iZaydarabad,

D.

a pupil of Paydh.

Raja, not known, V,

Rajab, Rajab 'alyy

now

at Farrokhabad,

Beg of Dilly, of Moghol (Persian) K, D.

origin, resides

Rajah, Maharajah Balwant Singh, a son of Chet Singh Bangor, in

1245 he used to hold poetical assemblies at which Bakhtawar Singh

Gh/tfil,

A'qa

Myrza Myrza, Agha /Taydar

'alyy Afgah,

Shaykh Pyrof Ben-

bakhsh Masrur and other poets attended, R.

Rajah, Rajah Bahadur a son of Rajah Shitab Ray,
gal,

Dywan

K.

Rakhshan, Mo7*ammad Chand nourished under Afonad Shah.

Ramz, Myrza Mohammad Sultan Pat h almulk Shah Bahadur, R. Rangyn, they say he is of Kashmyrian origin, he lived at Dilly
and was a contemporary of Sawda, C, V.
under

He

is

probably identical

with the poet of the same takhalluc mentioned by H, he nourished

Mohammad

Shah, and his Grhazals are sung by dancing

girls.

Rangyn, Myrza
of

Aman Beg

is

a calligraph, C.
'alyy

Is in the service

Nawab

Iftikhar aldawlah

Myrza

Rangyn, Lalah Bilas Ray a son of Rajah

the son of
dabad,

Khan Bahadur, V. Man Ray is Dywan

of

MoAammad
Lai, a

'alyy Rohelan,

V.

He

resided at

Mura-

D.
Kayeth of
Dilly, is a queer

Rangyn, Puran

man, K.

Rangyn, Sa'adat Tar Khan of

Tiirany

Dilly, a son of

^ahmasb Beg Khan

(Rumy, H),

is

a good soldier but not a great scholar,

revised his

Dywan.

He

was

first

a pupil of i7atim, and after i/atim's

death, his compositions were corrected

byMthar, he has composed four

Dywans, one of Ghazals, one of humoristic poetry, one in the idiom x of ladies, he is also the author of the &&j (j^s ^ which contains
critical
title

remarks on various poets, D. His Dywans together have the

of tjbj* ^Naw Rattan.

He

died at the age of eighty in 1251.

is

Ranj,

Myr Mohammad
Has

Nacyr, a grandson of Khwajah Myr,

young man, K.

given up writing poetry, P.

Dilly, a pupil of

Raqim, Bindraban of

Sawda, C.

He was of Mathra

and had a wonderful memory, A. He is the author of a short Dywan, and it is not known where he now is, D. Some say he was
of Mathra, and
it is

very likely that this statement

is

correct, P.

Raqim, Khalyfah Grholam

Mohammad

of Dilly studied Persian,

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and has

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281

also taken to Arabic,

about twelve years ago he went to

is

Lucnow, but he has now returned to Dilly and

Rasa,

studying medicine, K.

Mawlawy

'alym Allah resides in Oudh, D.

Rasa, Myrza Balkhy a son of

Myrza 'ydu Bahadur

is

a prince of

the house of Dilly, D.

Rasa,

Myrza Taqyy, a

prince of the house of Oudh, author of a

Layla Majniin, H.
Rasay,

See Ridha and Radhyy.

know his name. Rashky, Mo/iammad iZasan Khan of Patna, a son of the late Khadim /Zosayn Khan Khddim, is a studious young man, Y. Rashyd of Lucnow, a pupil of the late Molla Nitzam aldyn, was killed when young, C, V. Rasikh, Khwajah Afanady Khan is dead, J. Rasikh, Shaykh Gholam 'alyy of Patna, J. First Myrza Bhujjii
does not

Fidwy corrected
alive,

his verses

and subsequently Myr Taqyy Myr, he

is

V.

He

died in 1240, P.
is

Rasikh, Tzafaryab Khan, of a noble family of Bareilly,

a talented

young man, R.
a son of

Rasikh, Talib iZbsayn.

Rawnaq, Myr (Myrza) Gholam /Zaydar (Khan, H) of Patna,

Wahib

'alyy

Khan,

is

a brother of Asad-jang, V.
Dilly, is

Rawshan, Khwajah iZasan 'alyy of

Acaf aldawlah, V.

now

in the service of

Rawshan, Rawshan Shah a Kayeth of Bareilly embraced the Islam

and writes Persian and Rekhtah poetry, D.

He

is

the author of a

Dywan, H. He resided at Meerut, T. Ray, Myrza Ya'qub Beg was born in Hindustan, but his ancestors were of Turan, he is a young man, K. He is dead, D. Ridha, Myrza (Myr, D) 'alyy Ridha of Manikpiir, a friend of
Dywanah, wrote
love-adventures
is

several Mathnawies, one of

them containing

his

celebrated, C, Y,

D.

Ridha, Myrza 'alyy Ridha

Beg

of

Agra a pupil of Myan Walyy

for

Mohammad

Natzyr, D.

Ridha, Shaykh 'alyy Ridha of

Lucnow was
he
is

some time

JNatzir

in the court of justice at 'alyygarh,

the author of a Mathnawy,

Ridha,

knew him personally. Mawlawy Dhiya aldyn of Thanesar a contemporary of

Sawda, D.

He

is

probably identical with the poet Ridha of

whom

says, that he does not

know

his

name.

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re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

Khan of A'tzampur, is a son of the phyMawlawy Kalhi of Chandpur, D, P. Eidha, Myrza Hasan, is familiarly called Myrza Jywan, a son of Mohammad Myrza Jan (Khan, K, H) Korbegy, is a young man and
Eidha, iZainyd aldyn
sician

a pupil of Nacyr and Mamniin, K.

He

was a friend of

and died

some years before

wrote, and left a

Dywan.

Eidha, /Zafitz MoAammad-bakhsh, a Shaykh of Lahor, resides of

late at Farrokhabad,

D.

Eidha,

son of

Myr Mohammad Eidha (Myr MoAammady, V) of Patna, a Myr Jamal aldyn iZbsayn Jamil and a pupil of Myan Dhiya
Eekhtah poetry, C. The grandfather

(of Sawda, E), has lately taken to

of Jamal was Qadhiy Niir Allah Shushtary,

who

is

the author of the

ys?\ (3&A.I and of the &&**j) {

u*^^

J-

Eidha wrote a Dywan, E.

He

died at Murshidabad, V.

He
In

is

familiarly called

Myr

Patnawy,

and resides at Lucnow, K.

are two poets, one

Myrza Moham-

mad Eidha

of Lucnow a pupil of Sawda and author of a short Dywan, and Myr Mohammad Eidha Shushtary, usually called Myr

Mohammad

Patnawy, a native of Patna resided at Lucnow, and was

a pupil of Dhiya.

In

are also two poets of this takhalluc, one

Myr Mohammad
Lucnow
Eidha,

of Patna a pupil of Dhiya, and

Myr MoAammady

of

equally a pupil of Dhiya.

Mohammad Eidha

of the Deccan, D.
is

Eidha, Z/afitz MoAsin resides at Parrokhabad, and

of the

Kam-

boh caste (regarding which, see the Fawayid alnatziryn) wrote a Persian and Eekhtah Dywan, V.
Eidha,

Myr

(Myrza,

K) Eidha

'alyy of

Lucnow, a Toghra- writer

and a pupil of E, K, D.
Eidha, Myrza Taqyy of Lucnow, a relation of the Wazyrs (now
kings) of Oudh,
is

the author of a

Majnun

6 Layla, D.

See Easa,

Eadhyy and Hawas. Eidhwan, Gholam IZosayn of Patna, a son of Shaykh Eakhr aldyn, a pupil of Salym and of Mujrim and of V, who mentions him. Eiha, Gholam Mohammad Khan of Dilly a brother of 'inayat ifosayn Khan Moshyr and a pupil of Grulzar 'alyy Khan Asyr, E. Eind, Ganga Prashad a Kashmyry and son of Kishen Chand
Pandit was a pupil of Jorat, resided at Bareilly and Lucnow, D.
Eind,

Narayan of
says

Eay Khem Narayan, a grandson of Maharajah Lachmy Dilly, resides now at Hooghly and is my elder brother, Beny Narayan.

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283
in music

Eind, Mihrban Khan,

said that

he

is skilled

and in

composing Kabits, Ddhras, &c. he

in

lives at

Farrokhabad, C.

He died

Eostamnagar which
Eind,

is

a quarter of the city of Lucnow, E.

Myr

(Shah) iZamzah 'alyy of Dilly was originally a soldier

by profession, subsequently he used to beg barefooted in the streets

of Murshidabad, and now, 1194, he
is

at

Patna at the shrine of Shah

I have seen a

Arzan in company of other Faqyrs, 0.

about 2000 verses of
his, J.

Dywan

of

He

had

first

the takhalluc of Shayda,

he

is alive,

V.
'alyy called 'iraqy of

Eiqqat,

Myrza Qasim

Moghol

(i. e.

Persian)

origin, his ancestors

having been of Mashhad, whence they emigrated

to

Kashmyr.
is

He

was born at Dilly and brought up at Faydhabad,

Joriit,

he

about thirty years of age and a pupil of

aldawlah iZadziq almulk ifakym

E.

Eokn
is

Eokn

aldyn

Khan Bahadur

a physician of Dilly, writes Persian and Bekhtah poetry, but par-

ticularly the former,

D.
title

but was usually called

:

of Eustam 'alyy Khan I&tisham aldawlah, Nawab Bahadur, he was of Dilly and a son of Nawab Ashraf Khan in 1194 he gave to C specimens of his poetry.

Eostam, he had the

He

was a friend of H.

EM alamyn of Dilly mentioned by Beny Narayan.

JKiky a Pyr-zadah of iZaydarabad, A.

Bukhcat,

Myr Qudrat

Allah of Dilly a son of

Myr

Sayf Allah, a

pupil of Ja'far 'alyy .ffasrat resides at present at

Lucnow, C, V.

Euswa,

A'ftab

Bay (Mahtab Bay, C) the son

at length he

of a goldsmith, did

not conform to the tenets of the Hindus, (C says he turned a

Musalman) and was a great cynic

young, A, B. There
not
is

became mad and died

another Euswa of

whom

says, that

he does

know

his

name, but he had ascertained that he was distinct

from A'ftab
Bahadur.
Sa'adat,

Bay

and flourished under Nawab Najyb aldawlah

Myr

Sa'adat 'alyy (Sa'adat Allah Khan,

forty,

B) died before

he attained the age of

A.

He was

a disciple of Wilayat Allah

and

left

Mathnawy

in imitation of
Dilly, C.

Lay la Majniin, containing the

history of

two lovers of

He

was a son of

Myr
'alyy

Grholam

'alyy 'ishrat,

H. Sabqat, Myrza Moghol

of

Lucnow a son
is

of

Myrza

Akbar

Akhiind, his ancestors were of Persia, he

a pupil of Jorat

whom

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re'khtah tadzkirahs.
He
is

[Chap.
now

I.

he surpasses in the Qacydah, E.

of Dilly but resides

at

Lucnow, H, P.
Sa'dy of the Deccan
is

the author of the verses which are erro-

neously ascribed to Sa'dy of Shyraz, B, J, H, K.

identified with Sa'dy of Shyraz.

In

A and D
D.

he

is

Safar Shah, a Sayyid

Sajjad,

and Darwysh resides

Sajjad of

at Dilly,

Myr Mohammad
is

Agra

(of Dilly,

A)

his ancestors

were of A'dzarbayjan, he
B, C.

a pupil of A'bru and superior to his master,

left

He

was brought up at Dilly and

Dywan,

Gr.

It

would appear from

that he was a

young man

in 1168.

Qayim saw

about 800 verses of

Salam,

his.

Najm

aldyn 'alyy

Sharaf aldyn 'alyy

Khan of Dilly Khan Paydm, is a pupil

(Agra, D, K), a son of

of his father, B.

Went

with Qafdar-jang's army toward the east (Oudh), A.

Salamat, Salamat 'alyy, J.
is

Munshiy Salamat

'alyy of Grhaziypur,

a Munshiy in the English service, V.

Salamat,

Myr

Salamat 'alyy of Purniya in the Parganah of

Arwal

in Behar, J.

Salik,

Salim,

name not known, M. Gholam Moclaia was a

friend of V.

He

was

first

a pupil

of Eidwy, subsequently he was appointed

Munshiy

in

an English

corps of cavalry, he died at Lucnow, V.

Salym, Salym Allah

Khan

a son of the late Shaykh Faydh Allah

Kaliyah resides at Patna, J.

Salym,

Myr Mohammad Salym

Murshidabad and
left

of Patna was a merchant, he died

in 1195 at

a Mathnawy, C, J.

The chronogram

on

his death is j*^-Jl jl*J o-jj

pm3 V.
composed chiefly Persian poems, B.
Dilly,

Saman,

Myr

Nacir of Jawnpur (of Dilly, J) a pupil of Myrza

ago, he

Matzhar died a few years

He

came during the beginning of Mohammad Shah's reign to

A.

Samiy, Myrza
steppes of

Mohammad Jan
(Qipchaq,

Beg, his ancestors came from the

Tymaq

D)

to India, his father resided for

some

time in Kashmyr, then he came with his son to Dilly (Bareilly, D)

Samiy was a

disciple

and pupil of Khwajah Myr, he wrote

is

chiefly

Persian poems,

among them
it.

Mathnawy

in the style of the Shah-

namah recording the events

before he had completed

of the reign of Shah 'alam, but he died

His Urdu poetry

is

not equal to his

Persian compositions. II says that Samiy was his teacher in Persian.

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62.]

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285

Sanjar,

Shaykh Mo/ammad Ya'qub

Qadhiy

'alyy of a place near Ghaziy-

pur, a son of

Mohammad

(^iddyq,

and a pupil of Nasikh,

resided long at
Saqiy,

Lucnow and

visited Dilly in 1260, E.

Myr

ZZosayn 'alyy, C.

In

a Saqiy of the Deccan

is

mentioned.
Sar-sabz,

Myrza Zayn
late

al'abidyn

Khan,

familiarly called

Myrza

Mendu, a son of the

Nawab

Salar-jang, is a studious

young man,
K.
son

and when only seventeen years of age composed a Dywan, E, V.

Sarshar, Lala Tilok

Chand

Sarwar, A'tzam aldawlah

a Khatry is a young man of Dilly, Myr Mohammad Khan Bahadur a

of A'tzam aldawlah Abu-1-Qasim Motzaffar-jang, was a pupil of

Myrza

Jan Beg Samiy and

left besides

Myr Farzand

'alyy

the Tadzkirah (described in p. 185) a thick

Mawzun. He died 1250 and Dywan, P.

Mujrim
D.
]$.

Sarwar

(Soriir ?),

Shaykh Mohammad Amyr Allah a son of Shaykh

in 1243 at Dilly, he is a pupil of

'abd Allah of

Agra was

and of Ghalib, D.
Sarwar
(Soriir ?),

Myrza Eajab
P.

'alyy

Beg

resides at Cawnpore,

He was a pupil of Nawazish,

Sattar, 'abd al-Sattar of

He is the author of the

&*&j *jU* ?

Lucnow composes

chiefly Marthiyahs,

D.

Sawda, Myrza Rafy' aldyn of Dilly, his ancestors were of Kabul,

he

is

a soldier by profession, and the best poet of our times, B.

is

His

father was a merchant, and this

probably the reason

why he adopt;

ed the takhalluc of Sawda ware, A.

the
fall

He lived

sixty years at Dilly

after
;

of that city, he wandered for

some time
at

to various places

finally

he settled at Lucnow and

A'caf aldawlah gave

him a stipend
>^

of Us. 6000 a year.

in 1195, the

He
G-.

died at
is

Lucnow

an age of seventy years

chronogram

Wjjjr % ***

oy^

iS^Jjj*

11994
that

[#)m H95,
is

In

K it is stated in the Biography of Sa'dy

Urdu poets. Beny Narayan. Sa'yd, Qadhiy Sa'yd aldyn Khan of Kakory in Oudh, a son of Qadhiy Najm aldyn Khan who was Qadhiy of Calcutta, Sa'yd visited
Sawda
the author of a Tadzkirah of
Sayah, Salym was of Dilly says

Dilly in A. D. 1822.
Sayf,
Sayil,

He

is

blind, P.

Myrza Sayf 'alyy is dead, K. Sayyid Asad Allah of l/aydarabad,

familiarly called

Shah

Samajh-biijh resides
Sayil,

now

at Patna, J.

Myrza Mohammad Yar Beg of

J.

Dilly of

Uzbek

origin, a

companion of Badzl Beg Khan,

"Was a pupil of Shah //atim and

286

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
He
is

[Chap.

I.

subsequently of Sawda, E.
first

died

many

years ago, K.

He

had

the takhalluc of Mon'im, D.

Sayyid,

Myr

(xholam Bastil

of Agra, K.

He

is

a Shaykh of

Muradabad, P.
Sayyid,

Myr

Grhalib 'alyy

Khan
it

is

chief

Munshiy

of the king of

Dilly and writes

Urdu and

Persian poetry, D.

He had
is

formerly the

takhalluc of Gharyb, he changed

title

because the king conferred the

of Sayyid alsho'ara

upon him, K.

He

a native of Meerut,

but was brought up at Dilly, T.

Sayyid,
Sayyid,

He

died some years ago, P.

Myr Imam aldyn, C. Myr (Myrza, D) Qofob

aldyn

(Myr Qofob

'alyy, P), fami-

liarly called

Qofob 'alam of Sikandarabad, writes sometimes Bekhtah

verses,

K.

Sayyid,

He is a physician, P. Myr Yadgar 'alyy of Bahadurpur

army and
resides at Dilly, A.
is

in

Mewat,

is

a young

man

in the

Shad a poet of Budhanah

Shad,

since

some time

settled at Bhopal,

D.

Myr AAmad

iZbsayn, his forefathers came from the ZTijaz

resides at Shikohabad near

to India under

Shams aldyn Altmish, he

Meerut, P, H.

Bay Deby Prashad of Haydarabad a pupil of Paydh, B. Myrza Hahy-yar Beg (Ilah Beg, D) Kayamy a pupil MucMfy, K. Shad, Prashady Bam, a Brahman of Sikandarabad, is a friend
Shad,

Shad,

of

of

Zindah-dil, D.

Shad,

witty young

Munshiy Bam Prashad, a Kayeth and a man and resides now at Dilly, B.

pupil of Nacyr,

is

Shad, Sayyid Tafadhdhul i7osayn visited Dilly and met B.

Shadab, Lalah Khushwaqt

a clever Insha- writer,
is

Bay

of

Chanpur JNadyah, A.
Qayim, P.

He was

A pupil of

In T

his takhalluc

Shad.

Shadan, Lala Basawan La'l of Patna attends regularly the poetical

assemblies,

and

is

a good Insha-writer, J.
is

Besides at Dilly, H.

Shadan,

Myr

Bajab 'alyy

a pupil of Bahdry

Khan

Ashuftah, K.

I have not seen

him of

late,

and do not know what has become of

him,

H.

Shafiy,

Amyn

aldyn of Dilly lives now, 1196, in poverty at Patna,

C.

He
at

died in 1198, V.

Shafy',

Myr Mohammad

Shafy', a friend of

Sawda and Myr,

lives

now

Lucnow, C, V.

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Khan
of Dilly, familiarly called

287
Myrza BuJ.

Shafyq, Matzhar 'alyy

dhan,

is

a pupil of Eiraq and of Qasim, K.

is

Shaghil

a pupil of Bismil,

whom

he surpasses, A, B,

Shah, Shah Sa'd Allah called

'ishq 'alyy of Patna, a disciple of

is

Shah Karym Allah the successor of Shah Arzan,

Dard, J.

a pupil of

Myr

V.

He is He is dead, K. Myr Shah 'alyy Khan

it is

a Paqyr, and has his Takiyah near Betiah in Sarun,

of Dilly was a poor young man, came to
to the

Murshidabad and went subsequently to Lucnow, and thence

Deccan, where
said he died, C.

Shahamat, Shah Shahamat

'alyy

is

a Darwysh, D, resided in

Oudh, P.
Shahwat, a son of Shah Ma' ciim Mohawwis was a very obscene
poet,

K.

Shahy, Shah Quly

Khan

of Baghnagar (iZaydarabad, C) was in

the service of Tana Shah and composed chiefly Marthiyahs, A, C.

Shahyd,

Banares, C.

Mawlawy Gholam iZbsayn of Ghaziypur was He is now Muftiy at Banares, Y.

in 1196 at

Shahyda was an old poet, D, H.

Shahy dy,

Myr Karamat

'alyy is of

Lucnow,

it is

said that he is a

pupil of Nasikh, D.

Resides mostly in the Panjab, and comes some-

times to Hilly, P.
Sha'ir,
is

Lalah Mathora Das familiarly called Mithan Lai, a Kayeth,

clever in the science of music

Sha'ir,

and in mechanics, K.

Myr Kamal aldyn IZbsayn, familiarly called Myr Kallu, is a He is dead, V. relation of Myr Dard and resides at Dilly, J, C. He is called Myr Nacir-parast, D. He was a son of Myr Nacir
aldyn JRanj and
Shakir,
left

Dywan, K.
Shakir of A'tzampur was a friend of

MoAammad

Moham-

mad

'alyy

iZashmat and of Qayim, and was skilled in astrology, A, C.

Shakir, Shah

(Myr) Shakir

'alyy of Dilly

is

a young

man who

studies the

Mathnawy

of Jalal aldyn

Bumy

and other 9"fy books

under Shah
Shakiy,

Mohammad
'ishq,

'atzym,

K, H, P.
of Meerut, a pupil of

Munshiy Jawahir Singh

D.

Gholam

Mo^yy

aldyn

Shams,

Myr Shams aldyn 'alyy is familiarly called Myrza Juman, K.

Shams, Walyy Allah, a celebrated poet of the Deccan, visited Dilly

under 'alamgyr and was received with distinction by the emperor, he

left

Dywan

in the dialect of his native country,

R.

288

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
D.

[Chap.

I.

Sharaf, a poet of the Deccan, Sharaf,

dawran,

Myr MoAammady of Dilly is a nephew of JNawab KhanWas a mystic, K knew him, but he was dead when C. V.
Myrza Sharaf aldyn
is

he wrote.
Sharaf,

a poet of Lucnow, D, P.
is

Sharaf,

Shaykh Sharaf aldyn iZbsayn (Hasan, K)

skilled in the
Dilly,. P.

Marthiyah, K.
Sharafat,
is

He

was attached to the Qadam Sharyf near

(Sharaf,

Myrza Ashraf
(Jadiq

K)

'alyy is of

Lucnow, K.

He

a grandson of
Sharar,
Sharar,
Sharar,

Myr Mosharraf and

Grhiyath aldyn, E.
Ja'far

a pupil of Mamniin, P.

Myrza

was a humble man, P, was a younger brother of Myrza Mo7mmmad,

Myrza Myrza

who

has in Persian the takhalluc of 'ishq, he was a soldier-like man,

he went to the Deccan and died there, H, K.

Sharar,

He

died at Punah, D.

Myrza Ibrahym Beg born

Myrza MoAammad

at

Lucnow was

a fair poet, E.

"Was a pupil of Nawazish, P.

Myrza Eaydh Sharyf is a young who wrote two commentaries on the f*w man and a pupil of MoAibb Allah Mohibb, some years ago he left
Sharyf,

Sharyf, a son of the late

o^,

Dilly,

K.

Sharyf,

Myrza Mo/mmmad Sharyf

chiefly

is

a convert to the Islam, and

is

composes

Marthiyahs, K.

He

probably identical with

Myrza Sharyf Beg,

Sharyf,

familiarly called

Lala Sharyf Beg, a son of

Lala Dawlat Earn a Khatry mentioned by D.

Myrza Sharyf Beg

is

of a good family and a witty poet, P.

is

Shawkat, Myrza 'alyy of Lucnow

a younger brother of Sabqat,

he has written a small Dywan, D. Shawkat,

Mohammad Munyf
'ishrat,
is

'alyy of Bijnawr,

son of

Eostam

'alyy

who was an author and a

D.
at

calligraph, is a pupil of

Myr Myr

Gholain 'alyy
at Banares,

He

was converted to the Christian religion

in Missionary labours, P.

and

now

Meerut engaged

I have some where seen a short biography of this convert in English.

Shawq, Bhdgy Lai, P.

Shawq, Faydh 'alyy was a contemporary of Sawda and had many
pupils,

he wrote Persian and Eekhtah poetry, D.

is

Shawq, Hafitz Gholam Easiil of Dilly Shawq, iZasan 'alyy (Hasan

a pupil of Nacyr, K, P.
'alyy

Khan

a Pathan, P, .Hasan

Khan, H) of
the service of

Dilly, a pupil of A'rzu, B, J.

Nawab

'imad alniulk, C, V.

He was a soldier and He left a Dywan, K.

in

No. 62.]

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
is

28#
Munshiy of

Shawq, Shaykh Ilahy-bakhsh of Agra

at present a

Myrzii Motzaffar-bakht Bahadur at Farrokhabad, H.

of a Rekhtah
in 1241, P.

He

is

author
died

Dywan and

of a book called c*UxL,

u^]js.

He

Shawq, Jawhar Beg of Lucnow, a pupil of Muc^afy, was strong in

logogriphs.

He went

to

Mashhad, P.
is

Shawq, MoAainmad-bakhsh
Allah

of

Kotanah and a pupil of Barkat

Khan Barkat, D. He was a soldier-like man, K. Shawq, Mawlawy Qudrat Allah of Rampur (of cs>*> P, of Raypiir, H) is the author of a Dywan and of a Tadzkirah of Rekhtah poets, V.
It is said that he

composed one hundred thousand

is

verses, T.

Shawq, Bawshan Lai

a clever musician, and a pupil of Nacyr,

K, D.
Shawq, Shyw
Gropal, familiarly called

Kakajy of Patna, a son of

of the Deccan, K.

the Mahajan Sawdagar Mai, died young, V.

Shawq, Tahamtan-jang Bahadur

is

an

Amyr
in

Shawqy,
Shayda,

Mohammad Fac\ h a son of V,

he is twenty years of age, V.

Calcutta, says

Mawlawy Anianat Allah was

Beny

Narayan.
Shayda,

Myr

Fat7* 'alyy of Shamsabiid

Mhow, Myr Sdz has adopted

V.

him
his

as his child,

and Sawda

is

his instructor, C,

He

was an

officer at

Lucnow and

received 500 Rs. a

month from Acaf aldawlah,

It will be observed that I

Dywan

has about 6000 verses, K.

distinguish between this

and the following poet on the authority

of K. Shayda, Khwajah Hynga, a

Kashmyry

of Dilly, was a pupil of

Shah Mo^ammady Be-dar, he died young, K, E.

Nawab Mo'yn aldyn Khan resides at grandson of Nawab Ghaziy aldyn Khan Nitzam, P.
Shayda,
Shayiq,

Kalpy, and

is

Myr Badr

aldyn -Hasan of Bareilly

is

a well educated

man, D.
Shayiq,

Pyr Myan (Myr, K) Mohammad of Lucnow was formerly

a pupil of Myan JEfashimy and

Shayiq,

now
is

of Jorat, E.

Mohammad Hashim
Myr

a pupil of

Myr

'izzat

Allah

'ishq,

and

skilled in the

Marthiyah, K.

He

is

a tailor by profession, H.

Shayiq,
is

-Hajy of Dilly, a pupil of

Myr

Hidayat 'alyy Kayfy,

young, and composes chiefly Persian verses, K.

Shayiq, Natzyr aldyn ^dljJa.)
f Bareilly,

D.

In

and P, he

2 P

290
has the name of

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
Mohammad Nadzyr
aldyn

[Chap.

I.

i^H^O-^ Hasan

a sou

of Shah Gholam Mo^yy aldyn Owaysy (Eiimy, H)

Sirhindy.

H
and

speaks in the present tense of him.

He

is

a very learned

man and

has composed a treatise on arithmetic and one on prosody and rhyme,

it is

in verse,

and the

first
it

half of every verse treats on prosody

the second on rhyme,

has the

title

^*#

<^j.

He

writes chiefly

Persian poetry, T.
Shayiq,

Myr Qamar

'alyy of

Patna writes Eekhtah poetry,

J.

Sheftah, Hafitz 'abd al-amad, a Panjaby of Hilly, was a pupil of

Bahory Khan
Sheftah,

A'shuftah,

K.
of Hilly a pupil of Asyr and a friend of E.

A^mad Khan

Sheftah, Sayyid Ilah-bakhsh of Hilly resides since

some years

at

Patna, and composes chiefly Marthiyahs, J.

Sheftah,

Myr MoAammady

resides at present at Hilly, but

is

not a

native of that city, J.

Myr

Sher 'alyy of Hilly resides since some years at Patna,

J.

Shifa,
Shifa,

IZakym Mohammad Hasan Khan of Hilly is Hakym Tar 'alyy is a good physician, A.

a young man, H.

Shiguftah,
A'shuftah,

Budh

Singh, a blacksmith,

is

a pupil of Bahory

Khan
Shuja'

K.

Shiguftah,

Myrza Sayf

'alyy

Khan

is

a son of the

Nawab

aldawlah, he had formerly the takhalluc of Bayan, and

'alyy

Myrza Qasim

Jawan corrected
at

his verses, of late

he has changed his takhalluc,

met him

Lucnow.

He

left a

Hywan, H.

Shiguftah,
familiarly

Myrza Shiguftah-bakht (Bedar-bakht, P, H.) Bahadur, called Myrza Hajy-QaAib, a son of Myrza Jawan-bakht

Jahandar Shah, resides at Banares, H.

Shikoh,

Mohammad Eidha

of

Lucnow

is

a friend and pupil of

Myrza Qatyl and

years ago,

writes Persian poetry, E,

K.

Shikoh, Sayyid Shikoh 'alyy of Sarawah, died about twenty-five

H.
is

Shikyba, Shaykh Grholam ZZbsayn

a poor

man and

a pupil of

Mo7iammad Taqyy Myr, K.

Sho'a', Prince

Has

written a Hywan, H.

Mohammad Akbar a son of Shah

'alam Aftdb (hence

the takhallu^
Shohrat,

is

the heir-apparent to the throne, H, K.

Hilly, is a pupil of

Amyr-bakhsh Khan, a Kashmyry of

Firaq and resides at Hilly, H.

died young, P.

He

has gone to the Heccan, K.

He

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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291
'alyy

Shohrat, Iftikhar aldyn 'alyy Khan, a brother of

Khan, resided in A. D. 1814 at Calcutta and

Narayan.
Shohrat,
Jorat,
is

is

mentioned by Beny

Myrza MoAammad

'alyy of Dilly, a pupil of

YaAya Anian

now, 1196, at Lucnow, C.

He

is

of Lucnow, V.

Nath is a Kashmyry of Lucnow, P, H. Khwajah 'atzym Khan of Dilly, a son of Khwajah MoAammady Khan, is a pupil of Myrza Ghasyta and resides at Mothary in
Sho'lah, Aniar

Shdr,

Behar, J.

He

is

dead, Y.

Shdr, George
Shdr,

o*\J J^ (?) a Christian, E. Myrza MaAniud Beg of Dilly, familiarly

called

Malhu Beg,

was a

soldier-like

young man and a pupil of Sa'adat Yar Khan Eangyn

and Insha Allah Khan, he died young, K. and K.

He

was a friend of
a young

Shdrish,

man and
is

a pupil of

Gholam AAmad, a son of Mohammad Akbar, Mumin Khan Ashna, P.

of Patna, a son of

is

Shdrish,

Myr Mahdiy

Myrza Gholam iZbsayn,

H, D)
of Dilly

a clever young man, Y.

Shdrish, JNacir iZbsayn (Khalyfah Nadir .ETosayn,

is

a young man, and a pupil of Thana Allah Firaq, K.

He

had

formerly the takhalluc of Moruwat, D.

Sho'ur, Sho'ur

AAmad

of Rainpur

is

the father of Kawiif A&inad

Rawuf, K.
Sho'ury, of Jowalapur, D, P.
Shuja',

Of Chandpur,

J.

Nawab

Shuja'

Quly Khan, a son of Nawab Monyr aldawlah

of JZaydarabad a son of iZasan

Nadir-jang, resides since some years in Mogholpurah at Patna, J.

Shukr,

Mohammad Myrza

Myrza

Qacd and a pupil

Shywan,
dead, J.
Si/ir,

of Faydh, E.
is

Shukr, Eiidha Kishen a Kayeth,

of Moradabad, P.
is

Myr AAsan

of Patna was a soldier by profession, he

Mohammad

Khalyl

Khan

of the Deccan,

K.

Mo//ammad 'alyy (C and Sikandar, but H, who knew him, says that this
Sikandar, Khalyfah

G
is

call

him Shaykh

a mistake) of the

Panjab, familiarly called Khalyfah Sikandar, composes chiefly Marthiyahs and writes in the

Marwary and Panjaby

dialects,

he

is

the author of the story in verse of the boatman and the fish and

king Dilkhwar.

He

considers himself as a pupil of Najiy,

J.

2 P 2

292

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
upwards of fifty years of age, E.

[Chap.

I.

He

is

On

the invitation of the

Natzim of iZaydarabad, he repaired to

Sipahy of Lucnow,
Sipahy,
said that

his capital.

He

died there

and his remains were carried to Karbala, K.

it is

he has been

killed,

K, D.

Myr Imam-bakhsh
Siraj

died some time ago, K.

Sipahy, Shah Quly Khan, D,

Siraj,

H.

Myr

aldyn of Awrangabad was a pupil of Sayyid

Ham-

zah of the Deccan, A, B, C.

He

left

among other poems a Math-

nawy

called

Jk^- l^***, D.

See page 148 supra.

Siraj, Siraj

aldyn 'alyy different from Siraj Awrangabady, P. aldyn of

Siyadat,

Myr Mojahid

Lucnow

pupil of

Mamnun,
D, P.
of Dilly,

D, K, H.
Sohrab,

Myrza Sohrab Beg, a Moghol,

resides at Dilly,

Sokhon, .ffakym Myrza

is

Mohammad
was

7/osayn, a

Kashmyry

a good physician and writes Persian and Rekhtah poetry, H, K.

In

it is

said that there

also a poet of this takhalluc at the

time of JNajiy and

Madhmun, and he mentions

is

a third Sokhon

who

was a poet of the Deccan.

Sokhonwar, Lalah Dalwaly Singh
Dilly,

Munshiy of the king of

he

is

a young man, K, P.

Solayman a pupil of
Taban, 0, V.

Myr

'abd al-ZTayy, A.

contemporary of

Solayman,
Patna,

Myr Murad
is

'alyy of Dilly resides since a long time at

J.

now he

gone to Behar,

Solayman, Solayman

Khan

of Dilly a pupil of Ashraf 'alyy

it

Khan

Fighan, J. Resided for some time at Patna, but

is

not

known

where he now
learned men,

lives,

V.

Solayman, Prince Solayman-shikoh, a great patron of poets and

among

his proteges are

Muc^afy, Jorat, Insha Allah

lives at

Khan, &c. E.
P.

Resides mostly at

Lucnow but now he

Agra,

He

died on the 24th of February, 1838.

Sor'at,

R, who mentions him, does not know his name.

?),

Sorur (or Sarwar

Myr Faydh

'alyy of Ijrarah, resides at Dilly,

and

is

a pupil of 'izzat Allah 'ishq, D.

?), jfiTimayat

Sorur (or Sarwar

the Dilly Palace,
Soz, Sayyid
is

Allah

Khan

of Dilly, a Darogah in

a pupil of Nacyr, D.
of Qarawal-

Mohammad Myr (Sayyid Mohammad, C)

purah near Dilly, a son of Dhiya aldyn Bokhary, was skilled in archery

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exercises, in

293
it

and other manly

1191 he went to Lucnow, but

seems

that he lived there in great poverty, he therefore went in 1212 to

Murshidabad and being not successful

takhalluc of Myr,

in finding a livelihood, he re-

turned to Lucnow and died the same year, G, V.

Had

formerly the

now

that of Soz, he

now

resides at Eaydhabad, J.

He

was a friend of E, and was upwards of seventy years of age when

he wrote.
Sozan,

Nawab

Mirza,

Afanad 'alyy Khan Shawkat-jang of Lucnow,

lives at

a son of Iftkhar aldawlah Mirza 'alyy Khan,

A'caf aldawlah, C, V, E.

the court of

Sozan, Shaykh

Shams aldyn of

Dilly resided at Earrokhabad,

was

a soldier by profession, and a pupil of Soz, K.

Sub^an,

Myr

'abd al-SubAan was a pupil of Abru, D.

SulMn, Mirza (Prince)

familiarly called Mirza

Mohammad
is alive,

E'zid-bakhsh Bahadur of Dilly,

Nyly

D.
of

Sultan,
is

Nawab Nacr

Allah

Khan Bahadur
is

Afghan

origin

Jagyrdar of Kampur, D.

He
is

dead, P.

SulMn, SulMn Quly Beg

Ta'ashshuq,

a soldier by profession, D.

Myr

Sayyid

'abd al-Qadir Jylany and a

lately taken to poetry,

Mohammad of Dilly, a descendant of relation of Myr 'izzat Allah 'ishq, he has

D, H.

He

is

at present, 1852, Professor of

Arabic in the Dilly College and

Tab,

may be

about sixty-five years of age.

Mahtab Kay, P

(see Tayib).

Taban,

Myr

'abd al-Sayy of Dilly, a

handsome but
'alyy

profligate

man,

who

died young of dropsy contracted by drinking, A, B.

He

was a

friend of

Sawda and a pupil of Mohammad

Hashmat.

His

Dywan
ness,

contains about one thousand verses, J, E.

^Tabyb, Sayyid

Shah of Lahor writes Urdu with great correct[Eiraq,

D.

D.

Tabyb, Walyy

Mohammad

is

a Surgeon of Dilly, and a pupil of

Tacawwur, Sayyid I^san Allah a son of JBTosayn Khan, a native of

Pankor not

far

from Lucnow, may be about 25 years of age, he

is

a pupil of Jorat, E.

According to D, the name of Tacawwur was

according to H, Sayyid IZbsayn Khan, and
'ally,

Sayyid .Hasan

Khan and

according to K, Sayyid /Zaydar

jffaydar .Hasan

and according to P, Sayyid

Khan, and according to T, Sayyid I&san .Hosayn.

Dilly, a pupil of

Tacawwur, Sayyid Eajab 'alyy of

taken to poetry, D.

Nacyr has

lately

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re'khtah tadzkirahs.
lady, says E, with

[Chap.

I.

Tacwyr is the takhallu9 of a

I

whose circumstances
a poor man,

am

not acquainted.
is

Tacwyr, Shah Jawad 'alyy of Murshidabad,

has lately taken to writing poetry, D.

who
H.

TaAayyur of

Dilly, a clever poet,

is

D.

Died some time

ago,

In K,

P and E
of

the following account, his

'aldyn,

name
is

is

Grholam

MocMa,

a son of

Mawlawy Eafy
him

who was
alive.

a very learned man, K,

clear that

and
tical

E speak

as if he

was

It

he

is

iden-

with the Ta^syn of D, and not with his Ta/*ayyur,

who must

have been dead when

TaAsyn,

wrote.

My an

Grholain

Moc/afa a son of Malawy Eafy 'aldyn has

recently taken to writing poetry, and Eiraq corrects his verses, D.

See preceding notice.

Ta&syn, Munshiy JETosayn 'aa
TaAsyn,

Khan

resides at Etawah,

H.
title

Myr MoAammad
is

IZbsayn Khan of Lucnow, has the

of Moracca' Eaqam, he

a good calligraph and Insha- writer,

H. His

name is Myr MoAammad -ffosayn 'aa Khan, he is a son of Mo/*ammad Baqir Khan Shawq, he lived at the court of Abu Mancur 'alyy

Khan

(Jafdar-jang.
fijIjS

He

is

the author of the isjij^\ ^\y*> and of

Persian and of the fj j^y which is an Urdu kS**^ He seems to be version of the story of the four Darwyshes, T.
identical with the preceding,
Tajalliy,

though

H distinguishes between the two.

'alyy,

Shah

Tajalliy

(Shah Tajalliy

D, K.) of JETaydara-

bad a Darwysh, occupies himself usually with poetry, D.

Tajalliy, familiarly called

Myan

//ajy, his
is

name

is

.Hasan, (//osayn
.ZZbsayn

H, MoAsin K), he

a son of

Myr Mohammad Myr Mohammad

(Hasan H) Kalym (D says Talib Hbsayn Kalym) and a

is

nephew of Myr JfoAammad Taqyy Myr, he

the author of a thick

Dy wan

and of a

&y^

c$*V 3 he

is

a soldier by profession and about

forty years of age, E,

whose friend he was.

He

lives

now
the

in the
-Hajy,

'arab-saray near Dilly,

and had
is

for
.

some time the takhalluc of

According to

D.

I have heard he

dead, II
'alyy,

Tajalliy

was

Myr Gholam

and the theme of

name the Mathnawy

of
is

the affection for him of a Brahman's wife

whom

he married.

E makes

a distinction between Mo/^ammad iZbsayn, familiarly called iZajy,

and

Myr Gholam

'alyy the author of the Layhi

Majmm.

Tajammul, of Lucnow, D, H.

Tajammul,

Myr A'tzam (Mohammad

'atzym H, P) of Lucnow, a

pupil of Jorat, writes chiefly Marthiyahs, D.

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295

Tajarrud,

'abd Allah of the Deccan, a pupil of Sayyid 'abd-

al-Walyy

'uzlat,

A, B, D.
'alyy

Mab,

Shaykh Talib

of

Samanah came
to

in

the suit of
his

Dzii-1-Eiqar aldawlah Najaf

Khan

Meerut where he had

Eekhtah verses corrected by T, subsequently he entered into the

English military service and rose to the post of Jama'ahdar, T.
T-d\i\

Lala Hindu Lai of iZaydarabad, a pupil of Eaydh, R.

Ta\i\

Myr Shams
Myrza Abu

aldyn of Dilly, died young, B.

He

was a native

of the neighbourhood of
Talib,

Lucnow, C.
of a village near

^Talib,

Awrangabad served in
to

the army of Bahadur Shah

(who succeeded
A.
late

the throne in 1118)

and spent part of

Talib, 'ashiir

his life at Dilly,

Beg Khan a son of the

Eiraq,

Dawlat Beg Khan,

is

his

ancestors were of Tiiran, but he was born in Hindustan, he

a pupil

of

Myr Taqyy and

K.
Eampiir and a pupil of Mawlawy

Talib, iZafitz Tklib is a poet of

Qudrat Allah Shawq, P.

Talib,

Shayk Talib 'alyy of Patna, a brother of Gholam

'alyy

Bdsikh, J.
left

He

was a pupil of Eidwy, he died young in 1206, and

following chronogram on his death,

Dywan,

V composed the
'alyy is a son

Talib, Talib

and pupil of

Myr

Ghalib 'alyy

Khan

Sayyid,
2fclib,
I'alib,

H, K, D.

Myr Mib 'alyy of Hahabad, a nephew of Mocyb, J. Talib Ho say n Khan a Kashmyry of Dilly, a son of My an
Ndlan
is

'askary

a daroghah or steward to Prince Solayman-shikdh,

E, K.

He

is

a pupil of Insha Allah Khan,

H.
descendant of

Myan Ilalib 'alyy is a Buzurg-zadah (i. e. the celebrated man or saint) and resides at Lucnow, D.
jPalib,

Moghol by

('alyy Khan, K) of Dilly was a knew him, but he was dead when he wrote. Tamanna, Myr Asad 'alyy Khan of the Deccan a contemporary of Nawab Nitzam 'alyy Khan, D. Tamanna, Myrza Moghol Khan is a great man of Dilly, E. When
origin,

Tamanna, 'abbas Quly Khan

I was at Dilly, in 1845, he used to hold Mosha'arahs.

Tamanna, Khwajah
'abd Allah Tdyyd,
'alyy Kidha,
is

Mohammad

'alyy of Patna, a son of

Khwajah
is

a friend of C. According to J, his

name

Mirza

he mentions besides him a Tamanna of Dilly regarding

296
whom, he

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
says, neither Grurdezy

[Chap.

I.

nor Taqyy give any information,

'alyy that this verse is

but he learned from

Myr Awlad
c5&^
1

crH&f iSJ^
origin,

fcW

a A

fc

trit>

&*

&

<!* 3 <-

&*
[

by him fj

Tamanna, Mohammad IsMq Khan born

dar Shah and died there,

at Dilly

was of Kashmyry

he went to Banares and entered the service of Myrza Jahan-

H.
at Dilly but his ancestors

Tamkyn, Bakhta Mai Pandit was born

were of Kashmyr, he resides at Bareilly, H. His father was Lachmy

Ram

Fidd, K.
Qal'dh

Tamkyn,

aldyn resided at Dilly and

flourished

is

fertile

Rekhtah
calls

poet, A, B, J.

He

under MoAammad-shah,

him

Myr

ala aldyn.

informs us that he was a great drunkard.

Tamkyn, Mo/^ammad Tusof, E. Tamkyn, Myr Thana 'alyy is skilled

in the superstition called

Rami.

In 1238 he came with Shawkat-jang from Earrokhabad to Dilly and

made

his acquaintance.

Tana-shah, Abii-1-iZasan (Sayyid Abu-1-iZasan) king of Golconda,

after the fall of his capital,

he was confined by 'alamgyr to the town,

and treated with great

missed

severity.

As he had been given to pleasure, he

This indulgence

much

the luxuries which he used to enjoy, and solicited from

the Emperor to be allowed the use of the Huqqah.

was granted, and he now smoked day and night using ottar of roses
and other perfumes instead of water to allow the smoke to pass
through, to increase the intoxicating effects of the huqqah.

At

first

he used daily hundreds of bottles of rose-water, but the Emperor

when he heard

of

it,

restricted

him to sixteen
still

flasks

and to eight

Bed-mushks and

after

some time he

farther reduced his allow-

ance until Tana-shah gave up smoking altogether, being disgusted

with the stinginess of his
jailer, Gr.

Tanha, Shaykh 'iwadh 'alyy Khan, a son of

Mohammad
Khan
b.

Wa%d
Qasim

Khan
'alyy
is

b.

MoAammad

Sa'yd

Khan
'alyy

b.

Qayim

'alyy

Khan now at Dilly, D.

and a pupil of Muc/jafy, was a soldier by profession and

Qasim

Khan was

a native of

Madynah

and came with

Humayun

to India

and under Akbar he was honoured

responsibility
'alyy

with a Mancab.

His descendants occupied posts of

under the emperors.

cavalry in the

Tanha served

first

in

MaMmb

Khan's

army of Nawab Dzu-1-Fiqar aldawlah,

after the

Nawab's

death he entered the service of Jahandar Shah and subsequently of

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297

Khan and then

Mahdiy

'alyy

Khan, and it seems he was

his

in the service of the latter

nobleman when T wrote, who made

acquaintance at Meerut.

Tanha,
Dilly, he

Mohammad

'ysa

born at Lucnow, his ancestors were of

years of age and
is

may be about twenty-seven

'alyy, a

a soldier, E.

Tanha, Sayyid Kifayat

son of the late Sayyid Ilahy-bakhsh,

was in 1261 at Dilly and attended the Mosha'arahs held in the house
of Moghol

Tanha, Sa'd Allah

Khan Tamanna, E. Khan of Dilly,

a pupil of Firaq, died young, D.

He
is

was of Afghan origin and

my

pupil,

K.

Tapish,

Myr Madad
Mo/iammad

'alyy of Dilly, his ancestors

were of Persia,

a pupil of Asyr and has written also elegant verses in Persian, E.

tapish,
Isma'yl, familiarly called

Myrza
is

Jan, of Dilly,

his father

Yusof Beg Khan was of Bokhara, he

Sayil

a pupil of

Moat

hammad Tar Beg

and of Khwajah

Myr

Dard.

C met him

Benares in 1198, and he was then a young

prince Jahandar Shah, C.

man and

in the service of

He

subsequently came to Murshidabad

for

and thence to Calcutta, where he was

some years imprisoned,

he died after he had again obtained his liberty, V. During his impri-

sonment he composed a Yosuf 6 Zalykha in Eekhtah.

in Bengal, K.
alive

He

is

now

He

is alive,

D. Beny Narayan says

also, that

he was

when he

wrote, but had left Calcutta and gone up-the-country.

Taqyy, Sayyid Mo/*ammad Taqyy of Dilly, familiarly called

Myr

Ghasy, was a pupil of Eakhr aldyn and supported himself by copying

books and teaching, C, D.
'atzym,

He

was a

disciple of

Myr Mohammad

K.
Lai a Kayeth of

2Sunab, Jhanii

Lucnow

is

a pupil of Nawizish, he

composes chiefly Marthiyahs and uses in them the takhalluc of

Dilgyr, he
is

a convert to the Islam, P.

Subsequently he had his

is

verses corrected by

Imam-baksh Nasikh, he

now

at the court of

Oudh, T.
Taraqqiy,

Myrza Mo7^ammad Taqyy Khan of Eaydhabad

Beg
of Dilly a pupil of
'alyy of

is

wealthy man, and a great admirer of poetry, D.

Tarik, Zahid

Myr

'izzat

Allah

'ishq, T,

D.

Tarsan,

Myr Bahadur

Tarz, Grirdhary Lai a

Lucnow is a pupil of Jorat, D. Kayeth of Amrohah a pupil of Qayim, C.

Myr Imam 'alyy is eighteen years of age and my pupil, V. Tasalliy, Myr Shuja'at 'alyy of Dilly a pupil of Nacyr is alive, D.
Tarzy,

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Tasalliy,

RE'kHTAH TADZKIRAHS.

[CHAP.

I.

Lalah Tyka Ram, a son of the paymaster Gopal Ray,

;

is

about twenty -five years of age

his ancestors

bourhood of Etawah but he was born at According to collection of works of poetry, E.

this poet

came from the neighLucnow, he had a large

the takhalluc of

was Taskyn.

says he

is

a pupil of Matyn.

Taskyn, Ganga Das a Kashmyry Pandit, D.

ancestors

All Hindus whose

came from Kashmyr are

all

called Pandits if they are Brahcaste.

mans, and almost

Taskyn,

Kashmyries are of that

descended from
is

Myr IZbsayn, Myr

Myr IZaydar Khan

Qatil the

"Wazyr of Farrokh-siyar,
Taskyn,

a pupil of Miimin

Sa'adat 'alyy, a pupil of

is

Khan and a friend of P. Minnat (D says of Nitzam

aldyn Majnun),
Taslym,

a promising

young man, E.

He

is

of Bareilly, T.

of Khalyfah

Mohammad Kabyr Khan an Afghan of Rampiir a pupil Gholam Mohammad 'abbasy ('ayyashy?) Dihlawy (Barei$adiq 'alyy of IZaydarabad, D.

lawy, H), T, D.

Tathyr,

Myr

Tayib, JZafitz 'abd

I^san,

AUah
is

of Dilly

is

a pupil of 'abd al-Ea^man

D.

Tayib,

Mahtab Kay

originally of

Kashmyr, H.

Thabit, a poet of IZaydarabad of

whom

quotes a Euba'y on

Nawab
Afghan

Aristu-jah x^jk.**>j\.

Thabit, l9alat

Khan

(Ijabat

Khan, P.

Ijabat 'alyy Khan,

E) of

origin, a pupil of

Fidwy, lived long at Patna and died in

1210, V.

Myrza (Prince) Mo'izz aldyn Bahadur, a brother of the celebrated Myrza AAsan-bakhsh, is alive, and I7jsan usually corrects
Thabit,
his verses,

D.

Thabit, Shuja'at Allah

IZasrat, C.

Khan

of Panypat a pupil of Ja'far 'alyy

He

resided at Lucnow, K.

Thana,

Myr Shams
^alab, E.

aldyn born at Patna was a pupil of Shah

Moshtaq

Thana, Thana Allah

Magistrate's court at

Khan
Coel,

of Farrokhabad

is

Sirishtahdar in the
five

where

met him

years before

he wrote.
Thanesery, Shah Imam-bakhsh, a Darwysh of Thaneser,
tic,

is

a mys-

H.

Thaqib,

Myr

Ghalib aldyn was a contemporary of "Walyy, his

style of the ancient poets,

poems are in the

D.

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Thaqib, Sayyid
of A'bru, D.

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299

of Dilly and a pupil

Thaqib, Shihab aldyn a pupil of A'bru,

resided at Dilly, C.

saw him in 1164.

He

He

was of Loharah, T.

Tharwat, Sayyid Darwysh 'alyy was a queer man, P. Tharwat, Mufty Gholam

Makhdum

of Phulwary, a son of

Maw-

lawy Jamal aldyn and a pupil of Mawlawy Ayat Allah Jawhary, was
first

a poor man, but obtained forty thousand Eupees by inheritance,

he was a learned

Mawlawy and

resided at Patna, he
(padiq of

is

dead, V.

Tharwat, Myrza

MoAammad

Lucnow was

usually called

A'gha Tharwat, he was tutor in the house of Rajah Tiket Bay, D.

Thurayya Shah
jfifl,

is the name of a poetess, T. Myrza (Prince) 'abd al-Moqtadir a grandson of Shah

is

'alam,

K.

He

the author of three Dywans, H.

Tomas, John Thomas a native of Dilly, and a son of Mr. George,

who was
Torab,

familiarly called Jihaz QaAib, is a soldier-like

Mawlawy Torab
B.

'alyy,

a very pious man,

years of age, he resided formerly at Dilly, I

man, D, H, K. now about fifty do not know where

is

he now

is,

2brrah, Torrah-baz

Tar, a poet of
of Nasikh, P.
Tzafar,

Khan of Benares, P. Lucnow is a pupil of Mo7*ammad Bidha Barq and

Tzafar, king of Dilly, is the author of a

Myrza Abu
reality has

Dywan,

which in
Tzahir,

been composed by Dzawq.

Myr

Lutff 'alyy, a son of

Myr Mo7*ammad

Baqir Tzohiir a

pupil of JQTasrat, pays

Tzahir,

now

less attention to

poetry than to music, J.

Khwajah Mohammad Khan, a pupil of Myrza Matzhar, died

probably after the invasion of Nadir Shah, B.

'alyy Nawaz Khan and came

He

was a son-in-law of

for his sake to Patna.

He died young, J.

Tzahir,

Myr MoAammady

of Dilly resides since some years at

Agra, where he practises medicine, D, K.

Tzahyr, Nacyr aldyn, a pupil of Mobtala,
is

a good Persian scholar,

he lately intended to go to Najaf but remained in the Deccan, I

have no news of him, says his instructor, T.
Tzaryf,

Khoda Wirdy Khan (Khoda Burdy Khan, D, K)

is

is

brother of Sa'adat Tar

of Be-tab, he
verses,

Khan Bangyn, and had formerly the takhallucsoldier-like young man and his brother revises his
p.

K.

See Be-tab

215.

2 Q 2

300

re'khtah tadzkirahs.

[Chap.

I.

Tzohur, Bady' aldyn iZaydar the second son of T.

Tzohur,

Myr Mohammad

Baqir, a pupil of

Myrza Matzhar, bad

formerly the takhalluc of iZazyn, he adopted the takhalluc. of Tzohur

when he went from Patna to Jahangyrnagar, he wrote a Saqiynamah and a Uywan, he died under AAmad Shah, J. Tzohur, Lalah Sheo Singh resides at Agra and imitates Taqyn, B.
Flourished under A7*mad Shah, C.
Tzohur, Tzohur Allah was a contemporary of

Mohammad
Khan
at

Shah, B.
of Beda-

Tzohur, Tzohur Allah

lun (?) obtained the

Khan
cf

a son of Dalyl Allah

title

Khan from Myrza

Jawan-bakht.

He

was an exceedingly pleasant companion, and made

acquaintance of most poets, as Jorat,
the pilgrimage to Najaf

Lucnow the Insha- Allah Khan. He made

the court of

and lived some years at

Persia; the Shah conferred the title of Sa'dy of India upon him.

He
ing,

lives

now

in his home, T.

He may
Beg
is

be identical with the preced-

but the verses quoted are not the same.

a

Tzohur, JTantz Tzohur Allah

ancestors were of Tiiran, D,

young man of

Hilly, his

H.

Ulfat a poet of Motzamirnagar,

TJlfat,

H.

Mohammad

Ulfat a native of the neighbourhood of .Hay da

rabad,

H.

He

is

probably identical with

p. 32.

Mohammad

'othman Ulfat

mentioned in the (^ubke Wato,

Ulfat,

Ray Mangal Sen

for

of the Kayeth caste was a native of Patna

office at Hilly.
is

and held

some time an

'umdah, Syta Earn a Kashmyry

a contemporary of A'rzu, C.

a pupil of Yaqyn, B.

He was a pupil of Jorat, H. He was

'umdat almulk a son of Nawab

Ummed,
H, D.

a poet of .Haydarabad of

Mohammad 'alyy Khan, H. whom nothing farther is known,

the
title

Ummed, Myrza Mohammad Bidha had

Khan.

of Qazalbash

He

was a native of Persia and a pupil of ^ahir AYa^yd, he

to India and obtained rank

came under Bahadur Shah

died in 1159.

and

title,

and

He

left

a celebrated Persian

Dywan and

a few

Bekhtah

verses,

A, M, C, H.
'alyy,

Ummed, Ummed

a son of

Nawab

Khanjahiin, resides

now

at

Hooghly says Beny Narayan.

Ummy, Bawshan Beg

of Dilly, a pupil of Nacyr,

is

a young

man

of considerable poetical talents,

H.

He

died young, P.

NO.

62.]

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Khan
of the Heccan was a

301

'umr, Mo'atabar

man
E.

of rank and a

pupil of Walyy, B, G.
ITstiid,

Shaykh MoAaramad-bakhsh of
Sayyid 'abd
al- Walyy,

Bareilly,

'uzlat,

a son of Sa'd Allah

who was

a very

learned and pious

confidence,

man and

in

whom Awrang-zeb had

very great

was born

at Surat,

but his family was according to

of

Bareilly, he was a good Arabic and Persian scholar and was alive in

1105, B.
place near

According to

C and

the family of 'uzlat was from a

Lucnow,

after his father's death 'uzlat

went to
and

Hilly,
it

where he made the acquaintance of many men of

there that he received the
poetry.
'aJyy
first

letters,

was

impulse to devote himself to Bekhtah

From Dilly he went to Murshidabad and was supported by Wirdy Khan. Having committed himself, owing to the levity
died,

of his disposition, he left Murshidabad after the death of his patron

and went to the Deccan where he

Wacil,

he

left

a Bywan, C, G.

Wacif, jEfasan-bakhsh a relation and pupil of H.

Mohammad Wacil (My an Wacil Khan, B) was head porter

was descended from Eayman, D.
of

in the palace, he

He

is

dead,

K.

Mo7jammad Wacil
said

Wacil, (Gholain, J)

Badawn is a fair poet, B. Mokyy aldyn Mohammad

of Belgram,

it

is

that he has written a Bekhtah

J,

Bywan which

has about one

thousand verses,

V.
a son of -Hajy Ibrahym and a grandson of
resides since

Wacl, Myrza
A'qa

Is/*aq,

Qadyr Ispahany,

some time

at

Lucnow and

is

pupil of Shah Malul, he composes chiefly Marthiyahs, C, V.

Wadad, Myrza Dawud a witty poet, D. Wafa, Myrza (Mawlawy, G, D) 'abd al'alyy a Kashmyry
where he resides and supports himself by teaching, he
JNacyr,
is

of Hilly

a pupil of

H, K.
is

Wafa, Lala Nawal Kay

brother of Golab

a young man, A.
of Najyb aldawlah

He

is

a younger
J,

Bay Dywan

Najyb Khan, C,

V.

He

was Nayib or deputy governor of Oudh at the time of

a Kayeth of Meerut where he

^Jafdar-

jang who died in 1167.

WaMat, Jam'yyat Bay

in a public olfice,

is

a writer

H,

P.

Wahm, Myr Mohammad 'alyy of Hilly, a son or grandson of Myr Mohammad Naqyy (Taqyy, V, D) Khayal the author of the ^^j
J presides now
at

Lucnow, and has an appointment under Acaf

aldawlah, G, E, V, K.

302
Wa^shat,

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
Myr

[Chap.

I.

Abu-1-Hasan of Mynii near Dilly was a grandson

pupil of Sawda, he was dead in 1168, A, C.

of Tyr-andaz

Khan and a

V says
with

" It appears from the Tadzkirah of

Myr Gholam
Wahshat

.Hasan and
is

from the Gulzare Ibrahym that

Abii-1- .Hasan

identical

Mohammad

.Hasan Hasan though

Myr Mo7ammad Taqyy makes

is

a distinct person of "Wahshat in his Tadzkirah. It

possible that he

had both the takhalluc of Wahshat and .Hasan and the name of
Abii-1-.Hasan and

"Wahshat,

Mohammad .Hasan." Myr Bahadur 'alyy was at

it is

the court of the late

*L*
sJ->

Nawab

Shuja' aldawlah,

said that he

composed the

in the style

of the

J^*H>,
Khan and

C.

WaAshat, Gholam 'alyy Khan of Muradabad, a son of

Allah

Myr

EarAat

a pupil of Miimin, holds at present an appointment

under the English government at Bulandshahr, P.

Wa/ishy,

Myr Bakhshy of Dilly resides since some

Mawlawy
'abd al-Bawuf of Calcutta
is

years at Patna, J.

Wa7*yd,
scholar,

a good Persian

E.
of

Wa&yd, Jffakym Mohammad Wa/*yd aldyn Khan

well educated

Badawn

is

man and

physician to the Eajah of Bhartpur, B.

Wajid a mystical
"Wajyh,

poet,

D.
(Mobadir-jang,
in Persian

Nawab "Wajyh aldyn Khan Mobarak-jang,

is

K, perhaps Mobariz-jang), a pupil of Eakhir Makyn, uses

the takhalluc of Baryn (see p. 162), he

the author of a Ee'khtah

Mathnawy
in Persian,

of twelve thousand verses, V.

Most

of his Ghazals are

K, D.

Walih a Hindu of Faydhabad, P.

Walih, Mar^amat
service at

Khan a Kashmyry of Dilly was in the English Lucnow and Dilly, and used in his Persian compositions
H, K, D,
P.
'alyy of Dilly a son of

the takhalluc of Thaqib, he died some years ago,

Walih,
Qudrat,

Myr Mobarak

Shah Qudrat Allah

J,

is

Walih,

a man of no learning, Mohammad Akbar of

he resides at Murshidabad, C,
Dilly was a contemporary of

V.

Mo-

hammad
Shah, Y.

Shah, D, K.

Walih,

MoAammad Khan was

in the service of prince Jahandar

He

is

probably identical with the Walih of

whom

says

that he came in 1239 to Dilly.

Waliy, Munshiy

Mohammad Waliy
JSTarayan.

of Pandiia resides

now

at

Hooghly says Beny

No. 62.]

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

303

Walyy, Myrza Mohammad Walyy (Myrza Walyy MoAammad, P)

of Dilly a
dabad, he

nephew of Shah Asrar Allah is now, 1194, is a fertile poet and has written a Dywan, C,

at MurshiJ.

He

was

a friend of Salym and died young, V.

Walyy, Shah Walyy Allah (Mohammad Walyy, J, D) of Gujrat was a descendant of the Saint Shah Wajyh aldyn Grujraty, about
the year 1112 he visited Dilly in company with Abii-1-Ma'aniy, and
it

was there that he began at the suggestion of Shaykh (Shah, D)

Waqif, Myrza Uasan-bakhsh

Sa'd Allah Gulshan to write Eekhtah poetry, A.

Khan

of Dilly, a son of Tarbyyat

Khan,

is

a teacher in the palace, D.

is

Waqif, Shah "Waqif of Dilly

learning, he

a Darwysh and has some school

was put into

jail

by the Nawab Shuja' aldawlah on the

is

suspicion of having

cursed the army, but now, 1194, he

free

and resides

at

Lucnow, C.

He

died several years ago,

K.

Warith, IZajy Shah

Mohammad Warith
to

of Ilahabad a pupil of

Mocyb whom he accompanied

to India, J.

Makkah,

after his death he returned

He

is

probably identical with the following.

Warith,

he was a

MoAammad Warith of Ilahabad where C saw him, man of some education. He wrote Persian and Eekhtah
is

poetry, V.

Warith, Shah Warith aldyn of Dilly

a Qufy Shaykh, and holds

on the 14th of every month meetings in his house at which they sing,

&c, he

is

an exquisite calligraph and a teacher of

is

this art,

D, K.

Wazyr, Khwajah Wazyr of Lucnow

is

a pupil of JNasikh, P.

He

the author of the (JUoJfjyud, E.

Wazyr, Wazyr
known, P.
takhalluc of

'alyy

Khan an

adoptive son of Acaf aldawlah, his

attempt to possess himself of the throne of

Oudh

(in 1212) is well

He

died at Calcutta.

In Beny Narayan he has the

Wazyry.

Wical, Nacr Allah

Piraq,
is

Khan

of Dilly, a son of Thana Allah

Khan

a good physician, D, P.

In 1266 he was

in the service of

the

Nawab

of Jhajar on a salary of 150

Eupees a month, E.

Wila, Matzhar 'alyy Khan, familiarly called Myrza Lurf 'alyy

(Myrza Lutf Allah, K), a son of Solayman

was
familiarly called
is

poet,

'alyy Khan Waddd who Mohammad Zaman and was a good Persian young man and a pupil of Tapish and of E. It is said
is

that he

went to Calcutta and

in the English service, K.

He

was

304
a pupil of

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
Mamnun,
P.

[Chap.
name

I.

Beny Narayan
is

states that his

is

Myrza

Lutff 'alyy

and that he

familiarly called

Matzhar

'alyy

Khan.

Wilayat,

Myr

Wilayat Allah Khan of Dilly elder brother of

Mo&tasham Khan Hashnat, was a brave and generous man and a

contemporary of Qafdar-jang, J, V.
at an advanced age, C.
"Wilayat,

He

died under Shuja' aldawlah

Wilayat Shah a Darwysh of Dilly who went some years

east,

ago to the

D.

He

resides at Coel,

K.
is

Wos'at, Mostaqym

Khan

of

Bampur

new

poet and a pupil of

Shawq, V.
Yad,

Myr Gholam

iZbsayn of Siinypat a relation of

Mawlawy

'abd al'azyz and a disciple of Pakhr aldyn, and in poetry a pupil of

Firaq.

Yad,

He died young, K, D. Myr Mo/eammad iZbsayn

a son of 'abid 'alyy

Khan and

brother of Mokhlic 'alyy

Khan and a

pupil of IZasrat resides at

Murshidabad, J.

YaAya, Munshiy Ya/*ya

Khan had

first

an appointment of trust

at the court of Dilly, after the fall of that city he

went to Bhartpur,
is

where he obtained a comfortable appointment, he

dead, D,

K.

He

was a clever Insha-writer, H.

YaAyay, Mo7iammad Mo/*yy aldyn, a son of Shah

Mohammad

Musa and

a brother of Be-tab,

is

young man, writes Persian and

Hekhtah poetry, he has adopted the above takhalluc in honour of

Shah Khub Allah of Ihihabad whose name was
at present he
is

Mohammad YaAya,
J.

Qadhiy of Sayyidpiir near Ghaziypur,

'izzat

Yakdil,

Myr

Allah of Dilly flourished under MoZtammad

Shah and composed

chiefly

Manqabats,

J.

Yakdil, Dilawar Khau, a brother of Moctafa

for

Khan Yakrang, had

K.
of

some time the takhalluc of Hamrang and

is

also of Berang,

Yakrang, Lalah Bishen Das

Yakrang, Moc-afa (Quly)
Dilly held a

Kayeth of Saharanpur, D.
a contem-

Khan (Gholam Moctafa Khan, K)

Mancab under Mohammad Shah and was

porary of Abru, his

Dywan

contains about 500 verses, A, B, C, G.

He

was a pupil of Matzhar, K.

is

Yakru, 'abd al-Wahhab

Yaksii, Lala

a pupil of Abru, B, C.
close to Dilly,

Yath Chand, a Kayeth of Mogholpurah

was a good poet, D.

Yakta, Khwajah Mo'yn aldyn

Khan

is

a nobleman of Dilly, E.

NO. 62.]
Ya'qub,

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Myr Ya'qub
'alyy of Dilly

305

was a friend of Fakhr aldyn,

it is

many

years ago he went to the east, and

not known what has

become of him, K.
Yaqyn, In' am Allah Khan of
Dilly, a son of

Atzhar aldyn Khan

Bahadur Mobarak-jang, a grandson of the Majaddid or Eeformer of the second year thousand, and a pupil of Matzhar, B, J. Matzhar was
so fond of

him that he wrote most of

his poetry in his

name, he

was

killed at the

age of about twenty-five during the reign of

disgrace

AAmad

Shah by
C, E,
Gr.

his

own father, because he brought His Dywan is very celebrated, J.

on

his family,

Yar,

flourished under

Myr Ahmad of Dilly, a son of Shah Ilah-yar and a pupil of Myr, A^mad Shah and composed sometimes Eekhtah
Myr
now
iZaydar 'alyy of Dilly, a son of the late

poetry, C, V.

Yar,

Khan, and a brother of

resides

Nawab Ma'cum Nawab A sad Allah Khan Sayyid almulk,

at Murshidabad, J.

He

is

probably identical with the

preceding Yar.
Yas,

Myan Banu

of iZaydarabad a pupil of Faydh, E.

it is

Yas, Hasan 'alyy Khan,

is

said that he lives

now

at

Lucnow and

a pupil of iZasrat, C, Y. Yas, iZakym Ikram Allah resides of late at Dilly, R.

Yas, Khayr aldyn of Dilly, a pupil of Miimin, has given up poetry

and devotes himself to medicine, P.

Yma, Myr iZbsayn

'alyy

Khan

of iZaydarabad a contemporary of

Yman, D. Yman, Shyr Mohammad Khan of iZaydarabad, it is said that he is a very great man, K, D. Besides this another Yman is mentioned
by D, but he says that he does not know
Yiinos, familiarly called
his

name.

iZakym Yiinos

flourished probably under

Akbar, C, J.
Yusof,

He

composed

chiefly Persian poetry,

D.
near PatA[ verses,

Nawab Amjad

'alyy

Khan

is

a native of

Dewy

pur Hanswa, E.

H.

Shah Yusof was a Darwysh who composed sometimes Eekhtah

Yiisof,

Myr Yusof
is

'alyy of Dilly is of a

good family and a

disci-

ple of Fatfh 'alyy

D.

He
is

Khan iZosayny, he composes sometimes poetry, a young man and a pupil of Sayyid Fah 'alyy Chisty, K.
'ishq,

He

a pupil of 'izzat Allah

'alyy

H.

He

is

evidently different from

Yusof

Khan

of Patna.

2 R

306

re'khtah tadzkirahs.
Khan
of Patna a

[Chap.

I.

Yusof, Yiisof 'alyy

nephew of Acalat Khan

Thdbit was formerly Thanahdar under the English Government, but

he has given up his appointment

V, whose pupil he was.

Zaman

a poet of the Deccan,

H.
of

Zaman, Sayyid

Mohammad Zaman

Amrohah a
by

talented young

man and an
Zar,
Zar,

acquaintance of E.

Died some time ago, K, H.

soldier

Bahadur Beg Khan was a

profession, J.

Burhan aldyn Khan of

Dilly, a calligraph in the service of

the Emperor, has some knowledge of Arabic and Persian and writes

Persian and
Zar,

Urdu poetry, K, H. Myr Jy wan a Kasmyry born

at Dilly, he is

upwards of thirty

years of age, E.
Zar,

Myr Matzhar
is

'alyy of Dilly, a pupil of

Allah,

in the service of

Mawlawy Shah iZafytz Nawab Myrza A^mad 'alyy Khan at

resides at

Eaydhabad, C, E, V,
Zar,

He

Lucnow, K.

Zar,

Moghol Beg a friend of Myr MoAammad Taqyy, A, C. Myrza Sangyn is a relation of Nawab Monyr aldawlah,
a pupil of Fidwy and resides

J.

He

is

now

at Murshidabad,

V.

Zary, Sopan of Patna a pupil of

Myr Mo^ammady
is

Kidha, died in

Bengal, V.
Zindah-dil,

Harsahay Misr, a Brahman,

a physician at Sikan-

darabad, D.
Zor, Dawiid Beg of Dilly, a young man, Myrza Malhu Beg Shor, K, D.
is

a brother and a pupil of

Zynat

is

the takhallue of a dancing

woman

of Dilly, P.

Zyrak, Jay Sukh Kay, a Kayeth of Dilly, about twenty years of

age,

knows Arabic, H.

THE SECOND CHAPTER.

WORKS OF PERSIAN

POETS.

(63)

Utf '<*/
translation of Yafi'y's

(P.)
saints

Legends of Qadirian

(see Ciifism) into Persian verses

by 'abdy made

in India

under Shahjahan in 1051.

The author
fever and his

is

not mentioned in Tadzkirahs, he himself

informs us that at the age of fourteen he was laid up with

life

was despaired
to

of.

He

fell

into a sleep in

which 'abd al-Qadir appeared

recovery.

him and promised him

the fever
left

From

the

moment he awoke,

him and he

rapidly gained strength and

henceforth he

devoted himself entirely to the service of that saint.

The book
Ui,S jj
)
%

is

divided into

105 chapters
^U*

o :^
:

each

containing the history of a saint.

Beginning
c-rl &IJI *4*o du

vMj lJ^ a*^. m*j

)jJo)

Asiatic Soc. No. 324, a splendid copy about 200 pp. of 11 lines.

(64)

i^ogtl

d yo

(P.)

The Dywan of Abjady. His name was Myr Mohammad Isma yl Khan. He was tutor of the late Nawab 'umdat alomara of the Karnatic, who made him a present of 6,700 Rupees on the completion of the Anwar-namah 2 R 2

308
in

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

A. H. 1174, and in 1189 he bestowed upon him the

of king of poets (Cubhe

title

Watn, p.

27).

Contents: Ghazals about

alphabetically arranged
;

130 pp. of twelve bayts

and sixteen Ruba'ys.

Bg

As. Soc. No. 706, 8vo. revised by the author.

(65)

**U yl ;

(P.)

The Anwar-book by Abjady, a Mathnawy containing an account of the exploits of Nawab Anwar Khan, the
father of the patron of the author.
It

has upwards of

7,500 verses.

Beginning

As. Soc. No. 1312, 4to. 174 pp. a good copy written in 1176.

(66)

Jnjt ^
]

oy.^

(?)

The Dywan of Abu-1-Faraj, according to 'awfy his name was Abu-1-Faraj b. Mas'iid Riiny, he was a native of Lahor, and a panegyrist of Sultfan Ibrahym (succeeded in 451, and died 481) the grandson of Sul/an Ma/miud of Ghaznah. Anwary carefully studied and imitated his Dywan. This statement is borne out by the contents of the Dywan, most Qacydahs being in praise of Sul/an
Ibrahym.
Dawlat-shah mentions Abii-1-Faraj Sajry or
p.

Sajzy (on this name see Walih and the Atishkadah,

114,
it

is

usually but erroneously, spelled

v-T/?"*^),

and

relates of

him

that he was attached to the court of

Amyr

Abu

'alyy Symgtir,

who was governor

of the Samanides

No. 67.]
over Khorasan.

ABU'-L-FARAJ.

309

When

the family of Soboktogyn

war against

this province,

he was requested by the

made Sym-

gur family to write satyres against them.

After the

conquest of Khorasan Ma^miid (succeeded in 387 and

died in 421) intended to take revenge on him, but at the
intercession of 'oncory (died in 441), the grateful pupil of
Abii-1-Faraj, he not only spared his
life,

but treated him

with great consideration.

The

dates

show that these are

two

different persons yet they are constantly confounded.

The
in
it.

verses quoted

found in this

by Dawlat-shah of Abu-1-Faraj are not Dywan but those quoted by 'awfy are found

One copy

begins

In the other copy (No.

of the third Qacydah, the
+x*)jj) yila/o st&

360) this
first

is

the

commencement
:

begins in

it

^akJI^j)

*jJj)

cJiA *^U] ^Jd

^>^)&j\%"
from each
lines

As. Soc. of Bengal, two copies, which

other, one,

differ slightly

No. 510, was copied in 1078, 8vo. 110 pp. of 17 the other, No. 1157, 12mo. about 100 pp. of 15 lines.

(67)

j^\ji\ ***J>\

ot^U,
His

(P.)
full

Tetrashichs of

Abu

Sa'yde

A bu-1-Khayr.

name

is

Abu

Sa'yd Fadhl Allah a son of Abu-1-Khayr,

spiritual guide

he was a great Cufy of Mahnah, his

Abu-1-Fadhl

was

Loqman
361).

of Sarakhs (on

whom

see

Jamy,

Nqf. aluns No.

exercises,

He

devoted himself to ascetic

life

led

a very austere

and spent fourteen

years in the wilderness, he died at the age of forty-four

310
in

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

A. H. 440 (Jamy, Nafahdt alum, No. 365 ; Walih, No. 2). Beginning
tj

Jiffy \&* )

)j

^^
all

&">

\j\*.)j*)J )j\sf

)j

^ Uij
all

As. Soc. No. 1398, a splendid copy written fancifully in Shikashtah,

50 pp. of 10 bayts in Kuba'ys of this poet.

250 Kuba'ys, these of course are not

is

the

In the Moty Ma^all

a commentary (8vo.

which

10 pp. of 20 lines) by an anonymous author on the following Kuba'y is not found in the above collection.

*j

-**"**

Jd ciia. pXij J|*J|

^ o^la/O j^Uy

yfiy ix^

JUL ^f

Beginning of the commentary

wJlkJl ^1

w AJUxf|

JUe^Oj

^Jt\jJ\j ^Cs^f

^L*

&U Jw^|

(68)

^A
of

Jf*
His father

(P.)

The Dywan
Myrza.

Acafy.

Moqym
Abu

aldyn
Sa'yd

Ni'mat Allah was the Acaf (Wazyr) of Sul/an

Acafy was in great favour with Sultan JF/osayn

possessed an astonishing

Myrza and
talents
;

memory and

fine

but he was excessively vain, and wasted his time

in adorning himself.

He was

a pupil of

Jamy and

a friend

of 'alyy Shyr, and died at Herat at the age of seventy, in

928.
his

Ilahy says, that he

death,
1

made the following Ruba'y on

was approaching,
^o\
StmS

own

when he
-US

felt it

alii)

c-s^j )

*S

jUaa

ck# aUi^

f)

**

ftt

J^

have not found

this

Ruba'y

in

any of the copies of

all
it

the
his

Dywan which
Ruba'y s.

examined, but not

copies do contain

Arzu

does not consider

genuine.

NO.

69.]

ACAFY, 'ACCa'r.
a

311

He composed
is

Mathnawy

in the

measure of the Makhit

zane asrar and Qacydahs in praise of the Imams, but

particularly his elegant Ghazals
;

which brought him

1
;

to

celebrity (Ilahy

Append.
His

Taqyy Kashy No. Khoshgu Vol. II. No. 39

70

Dawlat-shah
alsiyar).

Habyb

Dywan

consists almost exclusively of Ghazals

and

a few Ruba'ys.

Beginning

Moty

MaAall, two copies, both very beautiful, 196 pp. 11 lines

Soc.

Topkhanah 90 pp. As.

two good copies are
in

No. 1360 an inferior copy of A. H. 1085

my

private collection.

(69)

IgpUyP
Jupiter, a romantic
'accar.

P -)

The Sun and

poem by Shams aldyn

Mohammad
an

The

takhalluc of the poet ;^ means

it

oil-presser,

he chose

because he followed in his

early years this profession.

and died in A. H. 784.

Qacydahs or panegyrics.

He was a native of Tabryz, He left besides this poem some

1 1

This poem was completed at Tabryz at

o'clock a. m.
differ.

the 10th of Shawwal, but on the year the copies

Hammer

Schoene Redek.

Pers.

p.

254 and one Lucnow

copy have A. H. 778.

Another Lucnow copy has 748,

and the copy of the Asiatic Society has 788.

The author

who seems

to

have been an astrologer as well as a poet,

gives us the constellation of the

this production of his genius,

moment
it

of the birth of
it,

and
is

appears from
it

that

the sun was in the Pisces, that

to say,

was February.

Now

the 10th of

Shawwal A. H. 778

coincides with the

20th of Feb. A. D. 1377.

the correct date.

This therefore seems to be

(SirG. Ouseley Notices of Pers. Poets

312
p. 201,

PERSIAN POETRY.
Baron
et

[CHAP.

II.

Hammer

loco

cit.

and Peiper, Comm. de

very-

Mihri
full

Musht. amoribus Berl. 1839, have given

accounts of this

poem
fU
&$

see also

Kkoldpat alastidr
Beginning

No. 177.)
jJiX. Jti.
(

{J*-**

Cl^*;l

*^ (J
1

(^
;

iC A ^*v^ (&>
Ibidem, 344 pp.

Moty MaMl,
of 14 lines
;

a splendid copy, 422 pp. of 12 lines

As. Soc. No. 1492, 12mo. The poem contains 5320 verses.

(70)

c-^L*

^^1 <****
Star, a

**>])

d*^ iSj^

(P-)

Venus and the

akhtar,

poem by

the prince Baland-

who was

familiarly called

Achchhe CaAib, aud

who
this

therefore chose Achchhe' as his takhalluc, he was a

brother of the

Emperor MoAammad Shah, and composed

1 1

poem

in

39.

The

title

and date are contained

in the following verses

The

contents

of every chapter are expressed in

as the rest of the

distich of the

same metre

poem.

Bg.

jUh

iU^.

Ij^a.

J^ai

:!

tS

jA J^>

Moty

MaAall, 26 pp. 13 lines a fine copy.

(71)

^U
all
is,

v_i*JLoJ AoUflJ

P.

The Qaf-namah by Gholam Sarwar

Ghazals,

'dfiy

it

consists of

the verses of which end in qaf, hence the name.

that the
alif,

Another peculiarity
of the
first

first letter

of every verse
b.

Ghazal

is

of the second Ghazal

&c,
Bg.

there

is

one Ghazal for every letter of the alphabet.

No. 73.]

ADHAM, ADYB.

313

Lithographed, Lucnow,

MasyMy
is

press,

1261 and Moctafa press

1264, 14 pp. on the margin

the Chiragh namah.

(72)

^i

dy^

(P.)
died or
99, 117,

The Dywan of Myrza Ibrahym Adham, he was put to death in prison in 1060, (vide pp.
109, 149, supra, see also Kholdc. alctfkdr).

Qacydahs in praise of the Imams khammahs, 18 pp. of 15 bayts.

Contents
:

Mo-

Mathnawy

called

Companion of the pilgrims

Jfe?;

^JLJI being an imitation of the Makhzane Asrar, and a (t

Sacjiynamah, 41 pp. 15 bayts.

Ghazals, 32 pp. 13 bayts and about 100 Ruba'ys.

Bg.

Mdty MaAall
of 13 bayts.

a fair copy 12mo.

As. Soc. No. 672, 8vo. 120 pp

(73)

yl* v_.^!

jjU
b.

(P.)

The Qacydahs of Shihab aldyn Adyb Cabir. Some say he was a

was brought up
at

Majd aldyn

Isma'yl

native of Tirmidz, and

Bokhara, but the better establish-

ed opinion seems to be, that he was born at Bokhara and

brought up in Khorasan.

He

studied at

Herat and

acquired a considerable knowledge of Arabic

grammar

314 and most

sciences.

PERSIAN POETRY.
His
first

[CHAP.

II.

patron was the Sayyid

Abu

Ja'far 'alyy b.

Hbsayn Qodamah Musawy, who

resided at

Nayshapiir, and was so

called

him

his

much respected that Sul/an brother. Adyb Cabir resided long

Sanjar
in his

house at Nayshapiir, and was introduced by him to the

Sultan Sanjar and the nobles of his court.
the confidence of the Sultan and

He

gained

when Atsyz

raised in

Khwarizm the standard of revolt against Sanjar, he sent Adyb as a spy to the court of Atsyz that he might continually keep him informed of the intentions of his
enemy.
It so

happened that Atsyz dispatched an assassin

who was
advance.

to

murder Sanjar on Friday.

plot

Adyb

sent the

intelligence of the plot

and portrait of the assassin in

frustrated, but

The

was thus

Adyb

paid

with his

life for his fidelity to

his former patron.

Atsyz

ordered that his hands and feet be tied, and that he be

thrown into the Oxus.

This happened in 546.

Adyb
Jabaly,

is

one of the greatest of the early Persian poets,

his merits are

acknowledged by such high authorities as

Anwary and Uakym Siizany. Rashyd aldyn Wa/wa/ and Adyb were contemporaries and very nearly
equal as poets.

There existed therefore a great jealousy

have higher
talents,

between them, and they wrote satyres against each other.

Rashyd aldyn seems

is

to

but

Adyb

more of a scholar, and his poems are more polished.

Adyb's

Dywan was very

rare at the time of

Taqyy Kashy
verses,

and the copy which he saw contained only 1000

and was much injured.
(Dawlat-shah, 2,17;

Taqyy

Kashy No.
This
in praise of

10).

Dywan

consists of Qacydahs,

most of which are

aldyn, at the end

Nitzam

al-Khilafat

Majd

are a few Ruba'ys, &c.

Bg.

No. 74.]

a'dzory.

315

Ijj

<Ax>

^l^

L^lUe
lines,

c^-^i

:l

\j

b+yi

Moty

MaAall, 136 pp. of 17

the

MS.

is

of some age, and con-

tains apparently merely selections from the

Dywan.

(74)

cyol

d y.o
Jalal

(P.)

The Dywan of Adzory. The name of this poet was

(or 'alyy

aldyn 7/amzah

iJamzah)

b. 'alyy

Malik Ttisy Bayhaqy.

He

adopted the takhalluc of Adzory because he was born

in the

month

of Adzor, November.

His father was a

man

of importance at Isfarayn, according to others at

Bayhaq-Sabzwar, and in his early years Adzory sang

Qacydahs

in praise of princes,

among them
;

is

one in

praise of Shahrokh,

which

is

celebrated

subsequently he

relinquished the vanities of this world, and became a

Ciify.

His spiritual guide was the poet Ni'mat Allah

(see below).

He

performed twice the pilgrimage and

remained two years at Makkah, and wrote there a work

containing an account of the Ka'bah and the ceremonies
to be performed
*U*aJ).

by the pilgrims, under the

title

of ^**

Subsequently he went to India and was received

with the greatest respect by A//mad-shah Walyy (reigned from A. D. 1422 to 1435) of the dynasty of Kalbarga.

He

gave him a lakh of dirhams (according to Ilahy

10,000 dirhams) but Adzory refused to accept them, and

returned to Persia.

On
it,

a subsequent occasion
of gold

hammad Baysanghor poured a bag

he equally declined

when Moout before him

but Mojahid Hindy, a very learned

man

who was present on the occasion, was less disinterested,

finally

and took a handful of gold mohurs and

the whole.

obtained
at the

Adzory

died at Isfarayn in A.

H. 866,

316

PERSIAN POETRY.
His tomb
is

[CHAP.
at Isfarayn,

II.

age of eighty-two years.

and

was

at the

time of Dawlat-shah so sacred, that convicts

found an asylum there from the hands of justice.

He
works

left

Dywan

of 30,000 verses and several other

;

in prose

and verse the following two are mentioned

by Dawlat-shah, the Imperial Joghra &jA+* ^s

Curiosities
for
Uit*J!

^H^l 4^'^.
).

^
]

and

(This

is

probably a mistake
is

c-^j'V

In the Khizanah 'amirah

the

fol-

lowing account of the works of Adzory.

a

" I have seen

title

Mathnawy
separate

of

Adzory which has the

of oyj

Fruits. a

It consists
title.

of four books, each of which has

first
is

the second UioJI

fourth
taoJ)

The l-*'^
it

called

**Us

v-r^l
;

(?)

the third

^-M

l-^V**

and the
;"

^*~.
from

It is

a mystical and ethical work

I take a verse

(Hammer Shoene Redeh. Pers. p. 300 Dawlat-shah, 6 Taqyy Kashy No. 1 0. Haft Iqhjm fol. 101.) The Lucnow copy of his Dywan contains Qacydahs 50 pp. of 15 lines. They begin
;

j/xSj lJ^US

tX> !cAA.

dSj*

U| J

fa*
:

SiS it

Aj^s^li)
satyres,

Ghazals, 120 pages, of 13 lines, and

some

Ruba'ys, &c.

The Ghazals begin

Moty

Ma7*all,

an indifferent and imperfect copy

As. Soc. No. 701,

it J'

a good copy written in 1032, the Ghazals begin in

/ j+'* ^j
i

(75)

j]r*ij>b*
of mysteries by Adzory, died 866.
is

p ->

Gems

informs us in the preface, that this

in 840, of a

The author an abstract, made

in 830.
It

work which he had compiled

No. 77.]

a'faryn.
;]^~5)

317

consisted of four chapters and had the title

f^ a<
parti-

Keys

to mysteries,

and contained mystical explanations of

traditions, of sayings

some verses of the Qoran, of some

cularly of

of Cufies, and of verses of celebrated poets,

more

Khaqany.

This

is

a most useful book for un-

derstanding Persian poetry.

Dawlat-shah says of

it

KJJ&-J&&J

Bg.

Mdty

MaAall, small
is

folio,

470 pp. 23

lines,

copied in 1037.

At the

beginning

a table of contents.

(76)

&$<&*
of
of
1
1

(P-)

The Dywan

He was

Shah Faqr Allah Afaryn of Lahor. the Jobah, which is a division of the Giijar
54,

caste and died in

/Zakim

(see

page 144 supra) made

d&>, ^^-;

the following chronogram on his death ^g***

^
in

)\

{vide

pp.

118, 154, 150, and A'zad,

Khmdnah
Bg.
'kLOi

'amirah).
tt

It contains
;

only Ghazals.

^(>^^- )^*.^l^ ;^dj)^S

Mdty MaMl, 106
Nun.

J} d ft* jUi
is

Jj

pp. 15 lines, the copy

incomplete and ends

(77)

uA>y>*-*
story of

The

Hyr and Ranjha

being a Mathnawy, by

Afaryn, Azad informs us that he was engaged in composing this poem in 1143

when Azad

passed

through

Lahor.

Topkhanah large 8vo. 212 pp of 24

lines.

318

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CflAP. II.

(78)

<jUi!

^j&>
He

(P.)
gives

Mathnawy
1 1

of Afghan (see p. 197 supra).

74,

us the date,

when he wrote

the following verse

The Mathnawy

contains a description of India, an

account of the war between the Mahrattas and

A^madBg.

shah Abdaly, the praises of Shah 'alam, &c. in 1470

verses.
ci^*w|

^^

-Ac

j3

iSo

L^A)y

^Ij^

i2><3j

UUt*

FaraA-bakhsh, a splendid copy, 8vo.

(79)

y(3|
of A'ftab.

^
This
is

(P.)
the takhalluc of the

The Dywan
1201.

emperor Shah-' alam who reigned from A. H. 11 73 to

It contains

Ghazals 120 pp. 12

lines.

Bg.

Topkhanah, a

fine

copy written during the reign of the author.

Another copy
\j

is

in the

Moty

MaAall, 288 pp. 10 lines.

It begins

b f* L&- >y*J**? &*j9j*l?i '^j'^ It was written in 1206, and contains an excellent portrait of Shah

+*

bl ii)ii^ <+3yo uri^w jl v-JUJ

'alam.

(80)

M\ g]^)
of

fP)
Nayitfy

The Dywan
A'gdh.
at

Mawlawy Mohammad Baqir

Though he

His parents were of Byjapur, and he was born

did not receive

E'lwar in 1158.

much

instruction, he acquired a

knowledge of most sciences and

No.

81.]

a'ga'h, ahly.

319

wrote on various subjects in the Arabic, Persian, and

Hindastany languages.
Contents: Ghazals

He

died on the 14thDzu-l-hajj,

p. 10).
;

1220 or 1221 (Ciibhe Watn,

180 pp. of 11 bayts

Fards and

chronograms 15 pp. among the latter there is one for 1 181 on the death of his Pyr Abii-1-Hasan, and one for

1203 on the death of Fakhry

Ruba'ys in praise of the

Imams 52

pp. of 12 bayts.
l;

Bg.
<*

J*3

!;

J s_sV
J

<>

**
]

*-*$

^J j

^ e^
]
\

zals

Topkhanah, a good copy, 74 pp. 24 lines, it contains merely Grhaprivate collection 12mo. 250 pp. At the end of this copy is
;

a small treatise called J^W' j?&

similes,

,J^\jsrJ

in which verses,

&c. on the

new moon

are collected from various poets,

48
Bg.

pp. 12 lines.
1*jUj

^jj ^jj

tltf ft****]

I?

^Jj ^JX*

(81)

JL.\jL

1*|

gljga

(P.)

The Dy wan of Ahly Khorasany. He was of Tarshyz, and his name was Sharm (?) His father was a very religious man and was familiarly called Balpaky Sadah uU ^jQ>. Ahly came early to Herat and supported himself by writing for tanners and shoemakers. Through the interest of Khwajah 'abd al-Uayy Zargar he was
appointed Natzir of the mint. Being anxious to see the
royal prince

Farydun iJosayn Myrza,

for

whom

he enter-

tained a great admiration, he asked for admittance into

a garden in which he was sitting, but Sultfan-bakht a

black slave refused
it

to him.

He

wrote some verses

door-

which contain an

allusion

to the

name of the
it

keeper on a piece of paper, covered

with

wax and

320
attached
it

PERSIAN POETRY.
to

[CHAP.

II.

an apple which he passed through the water

course into the garden.

The

prince read the verses and

fall

granted him an audience.

of

After the

of the house

Myrza Sulla n /Zosayn (died in 911) he went first to Mashhad where he composed Qacydahs in praise of the Imams, then he came in great poverty to Kashan and
was reduced
to

begging, and

finally

he proceeded to

Tabryz where he supported himself by teaching archery.

He

died at Tabryz in 934,

Khwajah Khalyl Allah Zargar

:

made

the following chronogram on his death

His erotic poems are distinguished by their

fervency.

heart-felt

Taqyy Kashy has

(Bland,

seen a

Dywan

of about

3000

verses of his.
;

A century of Pers. Ghazals

196.)

Samy No. 224

Taqyy Kashy No.

Ahly Khorasany must not be confounded with Ahly Tiirany, a Chaghatay nobleman of a profligate character

who
in

ffosayn Myrza and died (Samy No. 625 Khoshgu II. No. 4). 901 or 902 The Dywan of Ahly Khorasany contains merely
lived at the court of Sullan
;

Ghazals.

B%.

Moty

Maftall, 8vo.

GO pp. 15

lines, a fair

copy.

(82)

\sjj
of

The Dywan
the philosopher

Ahly of

tf&g He was Shyraz.

(P-)
a friend of

Dawwany who had

a high opinion of him,

both on account of the soundness of his

his acquirements.

judgment and

He

wrote a Qacydah in imitation of

No. 82.]

ahly.
it

321
to

Salman's celebrated poem and sent

to

Myr

'alyy

Shyr

Herat who was surrounded by the greatest poets of

all

the age, and they

declared,

he had surpassed Salman, whereas

imitated
it,

among them Jamy that all other poets who had

him.

had

failed to equal
'iraq,

When

his

renown

had spread through

Khorasan and Adzarbayjan, he

two years
in that city

went

to

Tabryz and

after a stay of

he made the pilgrimage to

Makkah and
to his death,

returned

to

Shyraz and lived in retirement

took

which over-

him

at

an advanced age in 942.

Agreeably to his

wish he was interred in the Macalla on the side of Hafitz

and Sa'd Gul.

Ahly Shyra zy has not been surpassed

this

in ingenuity of

versification, his Si/be kalkl is considered inimitable

in

respect.

(Bland,

century of Pers.

Ghazals;

Taqyy Kashy No. 210;

Contents
:

Ilahy).

Qacydahs

in praise of the divinity, of the

Imams, of Myr
of these
praise

'alyy Shyr,

Amyr Najm

aldyn, &c.

Two
Shah

Qacydahs
136 pp. 23

are

particularly celebrated, one in

in praise

of

SuMan Ya'qub and one

lines.

of

Ismayil.

Beginning of the Qacydahs:

&UJ i^jSi 'kxg]

Qi^'ahs,

di) u^JCa. jisj j^ ^\\ fj ^i> chronograms, Mokhammas', &c. Specimen

Kjl^-Sj

SyOSlV

tSXiSj

^"J*;*

Ot-* <J^ c-M*>jjJki JU^U/Alines.

t*

Ghazals about 400 pp. 21

^* c/**5 ) cfe

Beginning
c-rl

^^

&/&?* fc***&1

^jj tixjj* ota^> ti^*

Mot j

MaAall, a good copy, small

folio.

2 T

322

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(83)

kfrjji*

Jkl lJu^J yJ5U^

(P.)

Lawful sorcery by Ahly of Shyraz. The author says in

the preface that one day he heard that two poems of Katiby,

one called ^. *=rH ^.s^ and the other c^^jJ^ were

indicates)
latter

much praised, because the former (as the name may be read in two different metres and the
same
letters

on

account of the occurrence of words which consist of the

but have different meanings.

This induced

Ahly

to

compose a poem which combines these two proIt

perties.

may

be read in the metre

^li ^/^
Moreover
it

^/^
has a

or in the metre ^J^U

^i**

J*1*.

double rhyme.
After a short preface in prose the

poem begins
j>
J<-

V*

u*^y;^

v_Aa. c^*j>

ijd

^jy

&**>

^l

Moty

Ma^all, 23 pp. of 24 bayts, a good copy.

Mr. Bland, has

promised an edition of this poem.

(84)

Lpj\jfi
of

<>|

uU^j

(P.)

Ruba ys

Ahly Shyrazy.

This collection contains

98 or 101 Ruba'ys, one on every card of a pack. He composed them in one night and wrote each Ruba'y on
a separate
scribed in
slip

of paper, and so well are the cards deslips.

them that you could play with the

Beginning (after a short preface in prose)

f^V c/ ^ y^ % ** ^r^
1

(&

* *~*3 ^^ U51-" 5J** ^

A splendid copy

is

in the

Moty

Ma7*all and one in the Topkhanah.

No.

88.]

AHLY.

323

(85)

Ufjhfi LS^I LJuLcS

the Moth, a

*)\jj,j

<

(P-)

The Candle and

It

poem by Ahly Shyrazy.

as stated in

was composed

in 911

and has 1001 verses

these lines

o^i jUi

ugj ji}

^Uj

u**] &\j ffij*

ji^;i

_?*

Bg. e^o!^

-*& iSfjg jJbj

fine copy.

U&gtAc jl

,U eft

-W

Topkhanah, a very

(86)

(JjlpA

^U|

<uti

^;L

(P.)

Saqiy-namah of Ahly Shyrazy consisting of 1 10 Ruba'ys

more or

less.

It begins after a short preface in prose

Moty

MaAall, 84 pp. of 16 bayts, this copy contains besides the

Saqiy-namah other Ruba'ys of the same author and the Puba'ys on

the pack of cards,
it

was written in 1113.

(87)

JM
Mathnawy
is

^yi*
It does not

(P.)

ascribed to Ahly.
It treats

appear

which Ahly

meant.

on morals.

Beginning

Topkhanah, 32 pp. 12

lines,

written in Naskhy.

(88)

| dj$>
Ahmad usually
called

(R)
Zandah

The Dywan
Fyl Jj^
t<>j

of Abii Nacr

a son of Aby-1-Hasan

Namaqy.

He was

2 T 2

324

PERSIAN POETRY.
b.

[CHAP.

II.

descended from Jaryr

'abd Allah Bajaly and having

been born

at

Jam, he

is

usually called A//made Jam. His

early education

was

so

much
after

neglected that he

knew

neither to read nor to write.

At

the age of twenty-two

he turned an

ascetic,

and

he had spent sixteen years

it

in solitude on a mountain where

would appear he

applied himself to study, he again

mixed with the world.

He

was born in 441 and died in 536.

respect a most fertile and successful

He was in every man. He prevailed

on sixty thousand persons to do repentance, he had no

less

than thirty-nine sons and three daughters, of

whom

three

daughters and fourteen sons survived him and

turned holy

men and

great authors, forty of his disciples

became celebrated and

ascetical works,

saints,

and he

left
:

fourteen mystical

among them

are

Lamp

life jjjO*^ ^^j.*** *JU> Saraarqandian Essay Companion of the Penitent u>4*^ u^i Key of Salvation cAs^i &U
;
'

of the Pilgrims through

g1j*

Seas of Truth &***! ; His son Tzahyr aldyn 'ysa

j.JzsJ\
(

is

the author of a book called jyj

on mysticism.
consists chiefly of Ghazals in

The Dywan

which he

praises various persons, and a few

Qacydahs and Ruba'ys.

Beginning VI?; >^

It contains also a

^) jf
it is

*^

V^'

>

d*J*S

&^

Mathnawy

of about

100 bayts in

praise of A/miade

Jam,

probably the composition of

one of his disciples.

Hr^ ) j)) {J*** J*$ j*** Jj

Beginning

}jy (h or
Dywan

5,

(^ C^ ^
4U

Moty
begins

MaAall.

There

is

a copy of a

of A/nnad in the
JNo.

Topkhanah, written in 1080, and one in the As. Soc.

757 which

No. 90.]

ah'mad.

325

It contains mystical Grhazals

which are not alphabetically arranged

begins v-^ J jlJ fjk
in

and a Mathnawy of 93 bayts,

it

Or*

U^*~a
a

The

verses

quoted of

A^made Jam

the Atishkadah

and in
is

Khoshgii's Tadzkirah are not found in this Dywan, but there

which very closely resembles a fragment of the Qacydah quoted by Khoshgu, it begins: -^- j&>& l^'O &*>ejtj$ Small
it,
l

Ghazal in

8vo. about

290 pp. of 14 bayts, lettered

+>\

u!^-

(89)

<^c>^l LfJ**^

3*^1

**>^

tplftl?

(P.)

Complete poetical works of the Khwajah

A^mad Ja'fary

whose takhalluc was A/miady.

Contents
of the
:

preface in prose 4 pp. Qacydahs in praise

pp.

Imams 42

23 bayts.

Beginning

Ghazals about 100 pp. 22 bayts.

Beginning

Ruba'ys, &c. 40 pp.

Topkhanah, the copy
is

defective in the middle.

(90)

^1 C\LJ& &\y*
is

(P.)

The Dywan of Tzafar Khan Myrza A//san Allah Ahsan who died in 1073 or 1083. A'rzu relates on the authority
of Sarkhosh (the passage

wanting in one of

my

copies

of Sarkhosh, but

it is

in

Mr. Hall's copy), that A//san

had an album of the poets with

as

whom
it

he was acquainted

Cayib, Qodsy, Kalym, Salym, Danish,

Myr Caydy,

Salik Yazdy, Salik

Qazwyny, &c.

contained portraits

326

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

of these poets and some of their verses written in their

own
of

hand.

Sarkhosh says that he saw the leaf contain-

ing on one side the portrait and on the other the verses

Kalym

in possession of

Shah 'ayan a devotee,

(see pp.

109, 118, 117, and 149.)

He
1032,

gives us in the preface to this

Dywan

the date,

when he began

his poetical labours in the following

Ruba'y

Contents
pp.
1 1

A preface of
Ruba ys 32

18 pp. 11 lines
pp.

Ghazals 288

bayts.

Beginning of Ghazals

*!

d*

(J^ J*** e/v^ Pjr*

Kashmyr,
Beginning

Mathnawy

in praise of Lahor, the Panjab,

Agra, &c. 60 pp.

Moty
1441
the
is

Ma&all, beautifully written.

a copy of the

In the Asiatic Society No.

in which the initial verse of

Dywan

of

A^san

Lucnow copy is not found, but it contains the verses quoted by Sarkhosh, it may be a second Dywan of the same poet. It has about
250 pp. 1L bayts, and begins glii Sj4* cU- <u~ A* \j
1

Ij

i^

y* u-J

0^* jLs*

*Af

/0 In the same volume is a Mathnawy with the title j\j &l^- it fills 26 pp. of 13 bayts and treats on various subjects. It is preceded

by a short preface in prose, in which the author praises

poem.

his

own

Beginning of the Mathnawy

No. 92.]

a'hy.

327

(91)

yj*\ #)J>*
of A'hy.

(P.)
a chief of the Ulus

The Dywan
which
is

He was

one of the Chighatay hordes, and he had origin-

ally the takhalluc of

Nargisy but changed

it

into

Ahy

when he found
it.

that another poet of his time had adopted

He was on terms of great intimacy with the prince Gharyb Myrza a son of Sul/an Hosayn Myrza and dedicated his

Dywan
;

to him.

He

died in A. H. 927. {Kho-

Idcat alastidr

A'tlskkadah

p. 20).

The Dywan
)j

Ll\y

^y ^

consists of Ghazals

and four Ruba'ys.

Bg.

Jyl jJU
it

)j

*M y

J^ Jfj cJ lar^ ^ ^)

Moty Ma7*all,

a fine copy, 8vo.

contains evidently merely extracts.

(92)

&jbj&j

^
lines.

(P.)

The Dywan of Myr Tahir "alawy (usually pronounced 'olwy) who died in Kashmyr previous to 1 1 36, (see pp.
100, 126.)

Contents: Qacydahs 79 pp. 19

Jjpfe*-

Beginning
fc^/o **^ J ^^

ij^i^i

&

jl

*W

pi

p?jSf*

dhi^

J* j

Ghazals and a few Ruba'ys 482 pp. 17 bayts.

Bg.

Moty MaAall

a very well written copy in 8vo.

another copy in

the same collection contains only Grhazals, 52 pp. of 10 bayts, and

Ruba'ys, 10 pp. 8 verses and in the

(SJ^*

fly

page

is

written
title

&*&

e>LM>

Bashyd Khan may have been the

this

conferred upon

him by 'alamgyr,
There

copy begins

is

also a splendid

copy inscribed Khullyyate 'alawy in the

Moty

MaAall, containing Ghazals 538 pp. of 25 bayts, the margin

It begins
i

being covered with text, and Euba'ys 47 pp. 18 bayts.

328

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

The

verses quoted in

Walih of Myr Mohammad

^Pahir

Kashany

'alawy and of Mo'tamid almoliik 'olwy

.fiashim being not found in
it, it

Khan Myrza Mohammad

cannot be safely ascribed to either

of these two poets.

(93)

i^L

yU
^-^ ^

(P.)
story
***oj

The mystical Mathnawy of 'alawy containing the

of the blacksmith and the cotton-cleaner
in about

jU^
j

1300

verses.

The author mentions

Jalal

Asyr

as his contemporary.
^U*.
v^j-ylc

The book
is

is

lettered

^^

d*^

u-y** the author

thereby identified with

Myr

Tahir 'olwy.
%]

fV ';W^

*=^

die
lines,

yf

t\

'iJ&jj) &}* LlIiT

^
(P.)

Topkhanah, 120 pp. of 11

a good copy.

(94)

^JU

^^ lJ&3
\lluj of
It

c^*> j^jL
who

The Table

of Delicacies being the complete poetical

works of Ni'mat Khan

see pp. 127, 151.

Shyraz,

died in 1121,
is

appears from the preface which

originally Niir aldyn

Mohammad, and that he received the title of Ni'mat Khan in 1104, later he received that of Danishmand Khan,
in prose, that his
'aliy is particularly

name was

strong in the satyre, and indeed the

hyperbolic style of the modern school of Persian poetry

is

suited only to the satyre

and parody.
1

Contents

Preface in prose 30 pp. of

lines.

Bg.

Ghazals 234 pp. of 12 bayts

grams, Mo'ammas, &c. 42 pp.

and

Qitf'ahs,

chrono-

Beginning

No. 96.]

Na'ciu 'alyy.

329

Moty
inscribed

MaAall,

a good copy.
of 'aliy
is

In a MS. in the Fara^-bakhsh

addition
to

Dywan

in

the above poems a

Mathnawy

of 180 pp. of 16 bayts which begins

In the Asiatic Society, No. 583,

is

a copy which in addition to the

Dywan and Mathnawy,

contains the

(J^j

<ir~^ which will be

men-

tioned in the third chapter.

(.95)

J*y#
is

e,y.o
(I

(P.)
believe
1

The Dywan
in p. 201

of Nacir 'alyy Sirhindy

Sahrandy

a mistake)

who

died at Dilly in

108, (see pp.

201, 113, 151, 126.)

b

Beginning

fa

**

s^ & ^^" S^
Mortadhawy

Lithographed,

Lucnow

in the press of JETasan

Eadhawy,

s.

a. (circa

1262) 104 pp. of G-hazals and 8 pp, of Euba'ys with glosses by

Maqtul and

others, also in the

press, 1263.

(96)

jwyj ^yx*
of Nacir 'alyy.
It contains

(P.)

The Mathnawy
verses

about 840

and begins

Moty

MaAall, 48 pp. of 22 bayts

Topkhanah

As. Soc. 56 pp.

of 15 bayts.

2 u

330

PERSIAN POETltY.

[CHAP.

II.

(97)

JU|
of

faj,

(P.)
died in 1044

The Dywan
Contents
:

Aman

Allah

Amdny who

(see pp. 109, 118, 116.)

He

praises Shahjahan.

Introduction in prose.

Beginning

Ghazals 153 pp. of 12 bayts, Tarjy'bands, Ruba'ys and

Qacydahs 40 pp.

Beginning,

Mathnawy 18

pp. 19 lines.

Beginning

Copies are frequent,

M. M.

8vo.

204 pp. of 23 bayts

Topkhanah

12mo. very splendid, containing Ghazals 180 pp. of 8 bayts, Kuba'ys 50 pp. of six bayts, Tarjy'bands, a Mathnawy, &c. 80 pp.

(98)

^1
of

e*a

<

The Dywan
takhalluc was
his

Shah Mohammad

Amyn

aldyn whose

Amyn.

There occurs a chronogram in

for 1127, viz.

Dywan on the building of a house J^* ^J^* j v^) io*j J^<> indicating the
flourished.

time when he

Contents

Ghazals about 80 pp. 22 bayts, Ruba'ys, &c.

9 pp.

Beginning

Topkhanah, a

fair copy, it is stated in

the postcript that the copy

jL.slL*\

was written in 1140

at the request of the author

wa^J

No. 99.]

ANWARY.

331

(99)

kf&\
greatest

^^
Mahnah

(P.)

Complete poetical works of Aw//ad aldyn 'alyy An-

wary the

Qacydah writer of the Persians.

He

was born in a

village close to

in the plains of

Khawaran
chose
first

in the country of

A by ward

and he therefore

Khawary on

his takhalluc.

He

seems to have
it

been proud of his native country, for he used to say that

had produced three great men and that he was the fourth.

These three men are

Abu

Sa'yd (see p. 309 supra)

As'ade Mahnah, a very learned

of

man and

a contemporary

Imam

Ghazzaly, with

whom
'alyy

he used to hold disputa-

tions,

and Khwajah

Ami

rany the Wazyr of Toghril

friend of his, 'omarah,

AAmad Shadan KhawaBeg b. Mikayyl Seljiiqy. A

Anwary,

who

used to revise his verses pre-

vailed

upon him

to change his takhalluc into

under which he has become celebrated.

He was

originally

a pupil of the Mancurryah Madrasah at Tus and very

poor.

The following occurrence

prevailed

upon him

to

exchange the study of divinity for the profession of a

panegyrist.

One day while he was

sitting at the entrance

of the Madrasah he

saw a person passing by mounted

on a splendidly caparisoned horse and accompanied by a

numerous
this

The poor student asked who great man was, and he was told that he was a poet.
suit of slaves.
it

He

wrote that very night a Qai^ydah in praise of Sul/an

the

Sanjar and presented

Sul/an being a

following morning.

The

man
in

of very great taste recognised the

man

of genius

him and took him

into his service.

Sutfan Sanjar died on Friday the

11th Raby' 1.552.

several books on

Anwary was very strong in astrology and compiled it among them, one called *$& or the
2 u 2

332
useful book.

PERSIAN POETRY.
In 581
all
it

[CHAP.

II.

so

happened that there was a

conjunction of

the seven planets in the sign of Libra,

Anwary

predicted a storm

which would eradicate

trees

and destroy almost every building, so frightened were

people at the approach of this
partial

destruction

of

the globe, that they built rooms under ground to live in.

When
there

the fatal day arrived

it

was

perfectly calm

and

was the whole year so

his

little

wind that the people

were unable to winnow their corn.

He

died at Balkh in
saint

586 and

tomb

is

on the

side of that of the

Ahmad

ii/adhrawayh.

Dawlat-shah places his death in

in 656.

556 and the author of the Atishkadah

Aw^ady has
676 by
of

seen 12,000 verses of Anwary.

Taqyy Azad saw

in
it,

a copy of the

Dywan
b.

of

Anwary which was written

Abu Bakr

'othrnan 'alyy, along with

some

them written

in the

same hand, were the Dywans of

al'azyz

Abii-1-Faraj

Runy, Qadhiy Shams aldyn Tabsy, Tzahyr

'abd

Faryaby,

Shaykh

Labnany

and Nacir

Khosraw.
Contents
:

Qacydahs and Qi/'ahs 364 pp. of 25 bayts

Ghazals not alphabetically arranged 72 pp. 22 bayts

and Ruba ys 23 pp. of 16 bayts.

Beginning of Ghazals

Moty

MaAall, a most precious

;

MS.

written in 692

As. Soc. 150,

a fine old copy in folio

Ibidem 517, and ]246 (incomplete).

(100)

^jy\

^^
The commentator

(P.)
Abii-1states

commentary on the Dywan of Anwary by

i/asan, (vide p. 93 supra).

No. 101.]
in a short preface that
difficult

ANYSY.

333

he confined his exegetic labours to

verses, but that he also explained the

meaning

of rare words occurring in easy verses.

Beginning

&\j*\

*U^

*"*y.

&f**

lc a '^ i-O; jl
is
;

c*

A,

^*M

The

first

verse on which he

comments

Mdty MaMl,

8vo.

(about 150 pp. 20 lines)

180 pp. 15 lines in the As. Soc. No. 1047 is a commentary on Anwary which begins
;

with the same verse but has no preface, the remarks on the verse
begin: &{x~*j j.sJ] jd &S cu*j^I^ jj$HLx yi\i $j+a.

Qi^'ahs of

In the Tdpkhanah (56 pp. 17 lines) is a commentary on the Anwary by Abu-1-Hasan IZosayny Farahany, it begins

(101)

^Mtf>
of Anysy.

(P)
is

The Dywan
spelling
is

His name

variously spelt
first

Yul Quly Beg, Yiial Quly Beg and Lawlaqy, the

no doubt correct.
the takhalluc of stance that he

Anysy

It is said that he received u companion" from the circum-

was the intimate

friend

and constant com9

panion of prince Ibrahym

Myrza Jdh

a grandson of

Shah

Isma'yl.

He was

first

librarian of 'alyy

Quly Khan
at

governor of Herat under the Cafawides, he enjoyed

Herat the society of Shikyby of Ispahan,

Myr Moghyc,

Mahwy Hamadany
Allah

and other poets of note.

When

'abd

Khan Uzbak

took Herat after a year's siege, he

in

had a proclamation made

his

Anysy be

spared, and he treated

army that the life of him with great respect

Unfortunately however

and took him to Ma-wara-lnahr.

334
all

PERSIAN POETRY.
were
lost at the capture of the

[CHAP.
town,

II.

his papers

among

them was a rough copy of a Mathnawy

in the metre of

Shyryn Khosraw. At the invitation of the Khankhanan,

he came to India and was appointed paymaster of the
forces,

subsequently he was

still

farther promoted and

received a salary of fifty thousand Rupees and a Jagyr.

Anysy was as much distinguished as a gallant soldier as he was as a poet. All poems of his which are preserved, were composed by him in India. He died at Burhanpur
in

1014 or 1015.

He

left

among

other poems fetj

^^

in the metre of

Khosraw 6 Shyryn.

(Mdthir
56 supra).

Rahymy

and Khoshgu,
Contents
:

see also pp. 118, 45,

Qacydahs, Ghazals, and at the end a short

Mathnawy.

Beginning of the Qacydahs

Beginning of Ghazals

Moty

MaAall, 8vo. 122 pp. of 14 bayts.

(102)

^j(* fgjiU
of
'arif,

(P.)

The Mathnawy
The poem
Bg.
JJf

he

may

be identical with the

poet mentioned in page 156 supra.

is

in praise of the
kjH *&)

Imams, on morals, &c.

J%^1 ji
is

J^c ifi-i^ jc

T^j eyl j

Jua* Jjy

Private collection B, 90 pp. of 17 verses, copied in 1183 apparently

under the eye of the author.

(whether the same
It contains
'arif

There

another

Mathnawy by

'arif

or another I have no
<fec.

means

to ascertain).
are added

apophthegms, logographs,
in praise of the

At the end

some Qacydahs

Imams.

Beginning of the Math-

nawy

No. 103.]

'arshy.

335

(103)

^A^oaIA

(P.)

The Object of love by Myr Mohammad Miimin 'arshy. The date 069, when he composed this poem is contained
1

in the following verse

Arzii gives the following notice of him.

brother of

"

He was

Kashfy and a son of Myr 'abd Allah Mushkyn-qalam Hosayny, who was a celebrated calligraph under Jahangyr. Both brothers were poets, ealli-

Myr

Cali/j

graphs and

men

of learning.

Myr

Cali^

is

the author

of the panegyric on 'alyy called

y^y&j* <-*&**, They and distinguished family. They are altogether a talented
came
originally

from Persia, but since the reign of JahanI

gyr they inhabited Agra,

believe there are

still

descen-

dants of this family extant.

gyrist of

Myr
it is

'arshy

was a pane-

Mohammad

Dara-shikoh the eldest son of Shahvery simple, but

it it

jahan.

have seen his Dywan,

it

aims at high things and,

fine thoughts.

must be allowed,

contains

This 'arshy must be distinguished from

the one mentioned above."

The author informs us that he diligently Mathnawy of Jalal aldyn Rumy and that
imitation of
it.

studied the
this
is

an

Beginning
,jl|
rJ
)j

JU
Moty
tion,

jt^j\

tfj

tfmj)

$ f\k pX/ J^
;

MaAall, 184 pp. of 16 lines a splendid copy

fine copy.

private collec-

262 pp. of 12 bayts, a

336

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(104)

Hjjjv'&i
is

(P.)

Love and Faith, a Mathnawy by Myr 'arshy composed

in 1053, the title

a chronogram.
it

Like the preceding

treats

on mysticism.

Topkhanah, about 500 pp. of 12 bayts.

(105)

^j. g^
of

(P.)

The Dywan
Contents
:

Myr

'arshy.
1

a preface in prose of
C~MwdJU

2 pp.

5 lines.
U^IjLj**

Bg.

ALU? ^yid

&*>\ld

Ghazals 150 pp. 15 bayts.

Beginning

Topkhanah, copied in 1089.

clearly written old
collected,
it

In the As. Soc. No. 1354

which
all

is

a very

volume

in

the works of

Myr

'arshy are

contains a preface in prose as described above, Ghazals

lines,

about 200 pp. of 22

beginning

1*&I j |*L]j iy*> *3|j dji

is

^f

the Ghazal with which the

the third;
u>lafc

y cji^,

Lucnow copy commences Qacydahs about 100 pp. beginning - & Kubays 7 pp. Beginning

in this

copy

j *4*i &y Ja

(106)

^1 c^o
of

(P.)
or Tiis, he

The Dywan

Qasim Arslan of Mashhad

was descended from Arslan Jadzib

a general of Ma/miude

No

108.]

a'rzu'.

337

Soboqtogyn, he came to India and was in great favour

with Akbar, he died 995 (pp. 62 and 47 supra).

Contents: Qacydahs about 150 bayts.

Ghazals about 2000 verses.

Beginning

>

-v

>

'

*-J>

At

the end are Qtfahs, chronograms for 972, 977, 982,

&c. and

Ruba ys,

&c.

As. Soc. No. 685 8vo. 184 pp. 11 bayts, a very carefully written
old copy.

do7)
(see

ibTcJbPjrvUft
Dywan
of

Selections from the

Arzu who

died in

169

page 102).

Arzii has written about 31,000 Persian verses. iVmong

his poetical
is

works

is

Mathnawy

called <jH^ jy*

which
called

an imitation of

Ma^mad

6 Ayaz, a
called

Mathnawy

\j*)j** )\jf**>*

Saqiy-namah
to every

uJ

^, a Dywan
new one

in

which he imitates Fighany, and one in which he imitates

Salym containing
the same

poem

of theirs a
also

of

rhyme and metre, he

imitated

Athar.

These

selections contain about one-tenth of his complete

poetical works

Topkhanah, about 500 pp. of 21 bayts.

(108)

))j\
of A'rzii
(d.
J

clttfJ
1

(P.)
in

A Dywan
Shafy'ayiy

69)

which he imitates
one of

Athar giving
2

a counterpart to every

338
his

PERSIAN POETRY.
poems.

[CHAP.

II.

A'rzu informs us in his Tadzkirah, voce

first

Athar, that these poems formed

a separate

Dywan

as they do in this copy, but subsequently he incorporated

them

in his large

Dywan.
;

It contains
stories,

Ghazals 88 pp. 15 lines

1

Ruba'ys, poetical

Qacydahs, &c. 60 pp.

lines.

Beginning
A *"

b *** {j^^J^j \^$^

^^ J ^
*

b *}**

<J*

c/

^****fj&i

*t*

Moty

Ma/zall,

224 pp. of 17 bayts.

(109)

^\jj

^J
;

(P.)

The Love Adventures of Ways and king Ramyn, a romantic poem by Fakhr aldyn As'ad Jorjany who flourished under the Seljiiq princes, (Mohammad 'awfy 10, 25 folio 1 29. Walih and Abu Talib mention him under
Fakhr
aldyn).

The book was originally in the Pahlawy language, one day when the poet was with the royal army which was marching towards Hamadan 'amyd aldyn Abu-1-Fat^, a
high
officer

of the king requested

him

to translate

it

into

Parsy
epos.

verses,

and

it

was

at his request that

he wrote this
little

The

style is simple

and the language but

mixed with Arabic words, though the author does not

pedantically avoid their use.

Beginning

As. Soc. No. 1166, 12mo. about 500 pp. of 16 bayts

correct,

old, clear

and

but much worm-eaten and several pages wanting, among

these the one which contains the heading of the dedication to the

king

it is

likely that his

name was contained

in the heading.

No. 111.]

a'shna'.

339

(110)

jU lJ^Jy wft> Jfy*

'dshiq.
It

(P.)

Enjoyment and merriment, a Mathnawy by Shaykh

Ndr aldyn Mohammad

was composed

in 1079.

The Mathnawy

contains tales, and seems to be an imi-

tation of that of Jalal aldyn Riimy, at the end are added

thirteen Ghazals and a few Ruba'ys.
It begins

Moty

Ma^all, 134 pp. of 15 bayts, this copy was written by 'inayat

Allah, a son of the author, in 1141.

(Ill)

Lif^lif
Mohammad
title

(P.)

Complete poetical works of Myrza

Tahir

who had the

of 'inayat

Khan and

the takhallug of

A'shna, he was a son of AAsan (see No. 89) and died in

J077(?) (see pp. 109, 118, 116.)

Contents
:

Qacydahs in praise of the prophet, the

bayts.

Imams, Shahjahan and Dara-shikoh, 56 pp. of 28

Beginning
)j** <a.uaj

^ ^^

isj*

J^ $

A
a

few Qit'ahs, Tarjy'bands, a Saqiy-namah containing

of Dilly, a description of a warm-bath,
;

description

stories,

&c. 240 pp.

Ghazals (incomplete)
1073, viz. t^>)

150 pp.
c\j

Fards and Ruba'ys about 100 pp.; among the latter

occurs a chronogram for
ajU..

^1

l-Vm

The Ghazals begin

2x2

340

PERSIAN POETRY.
is

[CHAP.
a copy of a

II.

Topkhanah, an old copy but injured, there

Dywan of

Xshna

in the

same

collection

which begins with a Mathnawy in

also a few

praise of

Kashmyr and

contains

Qacydahs, Ghazals,

Haftbands, &c. 65 pp. 14 lines Bg.

j4 U&ijM*

**>T

/&
contains

In the Mdty MaAall

Qacydahs,
Qitf'ahs,

is

a copy of the

Dywan which

and the Mathnawy

in praise of

Kashmyr about

100 pp. of 19

lines.

Beginning of Qacydahs

Ghazals 122 pp. of 13 bayts

Euba'ys 25 pp. 10 bayts.

Begin-

ning of Ghazals

\$j iyk*

c^ yj ^^ ^j' j f*&

(112)

uijftl

CL.L0T

(P.)

Complete poetical works of Myrza

Mohammad
?)

Sa'yd

Ashrqf

of

Mazanderan
Cani',

(of

Ispahan

a son of Molla

Mohammad

who

is

the author of a commentary on

the Kafiyah.

This witty and amusing poet was by his

mother the grandson of Mo/zammad Taqyy Majlisy.

He

came

to India

and was appointed to instruct Zeb alnisa

country he

Begam,

After he had visited his native

returned to India and found a patron in a son of Baha-

dur Shah who

fell

at

Patna in
to

battle.

Ashraf died at
T

Monghyr on

his

way
still

Makkah

at

an advanced age, his

descendants are
this notice has
his.

in Bengal.

Abu 7 alib,

from

whom

been taken, has seen about 4000 verses of

f

(See also pp. 110, 118

:

Contents

Qacydahs, (one

is

in praise of the poet Cayib)

lines.

180 pp. 17 Bg,

lines, in
(

another copy are 159 pp. 20

^jly.j

Ub

Uj

^kso

|4*

A*}?- \fr**&

Ghazals 110 pp. 17 lines; Rubays 102 pp. Ma/las

22 pp.

Beginning of Ghazals

No. 116.]

ASHRAF.

341

Mathnawy on Fate and Predestination ;d5jtai in imitation of a Mathnawy of Mohammad Qnly Salym which
has the same
title,

Beginning

^>1>;

and some other short Mathnawies.

urjgj
is

^^

Topkhanah, a good copy, there

another copy in the same collec-

tion which contains about 100 pp. 17 lines of Mania's in alphabetical

order, preceded by a

Qacydah which begins

After the Mania's follow several Mathnawies, the

bayts, begins
:

first,

38 pp. 15
i*y
Jfo

^jjxil

o^^c u& ^y
fill

^*> y^ *jm> ^
lines.
it

a*<*^

The other Mathnawies

this

about 100 pp. 166

One copy
begins
:

of

Dywan

in the

FaraA-bakhsh has a short preface,

There
Society,

is also

a copy in the

Moty MaAall and one

in the Asiatic

No. 1155, Qacydahs 198 pp. 14 bayts not alphabetically arranged, Grhazals alphabetically arranged, and Eards and Buba'ys,
112 pp.

(113)

U>jb\

&\y*

(P.)

The Dywan
:

of

Darwysh Ashraf who

p. 71 supra.)

flourished under

Baysongor's son (see

Contents three short Qacydahs on the taw^yd, Ghazals

200

pp. of 10 bayts

and a few Qifahs.

Beginning of

Ghazals

FaraA-bakhsh, a splendid copy

my own

collection a very beautiful

MS.

of

some

age.

342

PERSIAN POETRY.

[Chap.

II.

(114)

cJj| lJua*J jjAJ ^jo**

of Grace being a

(P.)

The Mines
-ftTasan
b.

Mathnawy by Mohammad Shah Mohammad Zaman Ilahabady whose

Ashraf.
treats

takhalluc

is

He

is

probably now, 1852,

alive.

The poem

on morals and religion.

Beginning

Lithographed,
bayts in a line.

Lucnow

or Gawnpore, 1266, 64 pp. 27 lines,

two

015)
rished in

Mya

^
78

(P.)

The Dywan of Mo^ammad-bakhsh A'shiib, who flouOudh during the reign of Acaf aldawlah, A. H.
:

1188 to 1212.
Contents

an introductory Qacydah of
lines,

bayts

Ghazals about 100 pp. 28

Ruba'ys and panegyrics

(died

on Acaf aldawlah and the "late" Shuja' aldawlah

in
1

188) 22 pp. of 26 lines.

Beginning of the Dywan.

Topkhanah, a

fair

copy

in the

same

collection is

an incomplete

copy of selections from Ashub's

Dywan which

begins

(116;

J**] ytyj*

(p.)

Dywan
most of
written

of

Myrza

Jalal

Asyr, of Ispahan, a pupil of

Facy^y Herawy.

He was a great drunkard and composed

They were
mistakes,

his verses in a state of intoxication.

down by an attendant who made many

No. 117.]

asyr.
his

343
little

and hence
meaning.

Dywan
is

has in some places very

This

probably the cause

in high favour
his.

why

it is

so popu-

lar in India.

He was

with Shah 'abbas

and married a relation of

He
;

died in 1040 or 1049-

Arzii says that his complete works contain 20,000 verses,

Ami

2\ilib

has seen 8000 verses

(see pp. 109, 117, 149.)

lines,

Contents: Qacydahs in one copy 112 pp. of 15

in another

56 pp. 36

lines,

the beginning differs.

Math-

nawies and Tarjy'bands 15 pp. 18 lines in another copy

16 pp. 36
bayts.

lines.

Ghazals in the
:

fullest

copy 500 pp. 14

Beginning of Ghazals

Moty Ma^all and Topkhanah,

Ghazals and Ruba'ys.

several copies.

As. Soc. No. 683,

copied in 1112, and No. 737, the latter copy contains merely the

(117)

*o(3

<^tLi

(P.)

The Ghazals

of

Shaykh Shah Mohammad 'atdy Qaall

nungiiy of the Parganah of Sandy.

The Ghazals rhyme

verse of the

in

1,

and the

first

word of each
letter,

same Ghazal commences with the same

for every letter of the alphabet

and they are arranged according two Ghazals

Ghazals.

to this letter, there being

in all

60

Beginning

Lithographed, Lucnow,

Mo^ammady

Press, 1263, 24 pp. with a

few marginal notes.

344

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(us)

yi

^yr

(p.)

The complete poetical works of Akhond Shafy'ayiy Athar of Shyraz, (see pp. 117, 149). He was a pupil of Myrza Hadiy Qalandar the father of 'olwy Khan, he
spent the greater part of his
visited India.
life

at

Ispahan and never

The

date of his death which happened at

Lar

is

recorded in the following verse

{Jti

^m

$fr j) jty tf
his

LS^iSy )j fWjikf*
to
1

^h J~
Abu

Walih estimates
Talib to 8000.

Dy wan

0,000 verses, and

Arzu

praises particularly his panegyries

on the

Nawab

JGTaydar alzaman and his satyre on Najaf

alcodiir of Persia.
It

Quly Khan the Cadr

in 1106.

appears from

the following chronogram that he collected his

Dywan

J^j xUJ^i s^Lcj^

:

j5\ &j>

Jj

fip jti
Imams, of
Bg.

Contents

Qacydahs

chiefly in praise of the

Tahir Wa^yd, and some obscure persons; and a few Qtfahs

and chronograms, 110 pp. 15 bayts in a page.

Ghazals 60 pp. 13 verses in a page.

Beginning

Ruba'ys, Tarjy'bands, and at the end a satyre 20 pp.

Moty
13
lines.

MaAall, two copies 8vo. very splendid.

Topkhanah, 102 pp.

No. 120.]

ATHAR, ATHYR.

345

(119)

irJ*y&*te*
of Artiar.
1

(P,)

Dywan
pages of

lie says in a preface in prose (8

3 lines) that his

name

is

Afhar Khan

b.

Amyr

Nitzam aldyn Radhawy, that his home was Bokhara, and that he came to India under 'alamgyr, where he collected his poems into a Dywan. Contents three Qacydahs rhyming in uf, f and ^, in
:

all

about 144 bayts.

Beginning

Ghazals 55 pp. of 22 bayts

Ruba'ys 8 pp.

Begin-

ning of Ghazals.
^JJyj:
S.U)

^j

J^

Jj^fc

dijlj

J<Af>

Topkhanah, a

fair copy.

(120)

yi $$.
of
is

(p.)

The Dywan
district of

Athyr aldyn Mohammad Akhsykaty,

Athyr.
in

whose takhalluc

Akhsykat

is

a place in the

Farghanah
at in

which he was born.

He made

his studies

Balkh and Herat and spent the greater

the 'iraq and Adzarbayjan at the

part of his

life

court of the Atabuks and stood in high favour with Arslan

Shah

b.

Toghril, Ilduguz and Qizil Arslan.

His success

was the cause of much jealousy, and Mujyr, Baylaqany

who was
he

in the service of

Mohammad Atabuk,
his days

the bro-

ther of Qizil Arslan, wrote satyres against him, to

replied.

which

Towards the end of

2

he took

Najm

346

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

aldyn Kobra as his spiritual guide and retired from the

world.

He went

from Adzarbayjan to Khalkhal and

His poems are considered nearly

died there in 608.

Anwary and Khaqany, yet Taqyy Kashy says, he had much difficulty in finding a copy of his Dywan, his poems being not much read. It contained
equal to those of

about 10,000 verses.

(Taqyy Kashy, No. 27; Dawlatfolio

shah
p.

2,
;

18; Mo/zammad 'awfy,

125; A'tishhadah

424

Khoshgii

I.

No. 120.)

The Dywan contains Qacydahs and a few Qi/'ahs/ Ruba'ys, &c. most of them in praise of Shah Arslan
Toghril whose

name

occurs in the following verse

,Jj&i

JLy) *U

^Jtf

JLJ\

^J)

The

following Tetrastich contains the poet's

name

Bg.

J d jV^J &*

*i

*-H#*

wW

a
r

!A*-

Moty

MaAall, a beautiful copy, 104 pp. of 14 lines.

(121)

jlkc

^J|
T

*>j

^
'attar.
is

(P.)
His name was

The Dywan of Faryd aldyn

Abu Hamid (or Abu 7 alib) Mohammad and he was a son of Abu Bakr Ibrahym, a respectable druggist of
Shadyakh not
Nayshapury.
far

from Nayshapiir, he

therefore called

He was

born in 513, in a village called

First he followed
'att&r,

Kedken, during the reign of Sinjar.

the profession of his father and hence his takhalluc

the druggist.

He

informs us in his Gul Khosraw that

No. 121.]

ATTAR.

347

he gave way to his predilection for poetry notwithstanding the admonition of his friends, and neglected the study
of medicine.

He commenced two
still

of his best mystical

works whilst he was

religious mendicant.

a druggist, but apparently before

left

he had completed them he

his shop

and turned a

>J

Jj

f*j

* {i

j&

)& J*

(*J

*>^

jtfft*

These two verses upset the

silly

story of his sudden

conversion related by Dawlat-shah, and the account of the

we find in Taqyy Kasby. Rokn aldyn Akaf as his spiritual guide, and after some time he made the pilgrimage with him to Makkah.
disgusting love adventure which

He

took

In the course of his

life,

he became personally acquainted

with most Cufies of his age and collected four hundred

volumes of works on mystical theology which he

dili-

gently studied, and he became thereby one of the most

copious and profound Cufy-writers.

He was

put to death

during the carnage of the Tatars of Chengyz Khan, in

627, at the advanced age of 114 lunar years, of which he

spent 29 at Nayshapur and 85 at Shadyakh.

to

According

some authors, he died

After
'attar's

earlier.

death, says Sir G. Ouseley, an eminent

to

Cufy was asked,

whom
;

he ascribed the more profound

knowledge of the Ciify doctrine, Jalal aldyn Ruiny or Faryd aldyn 'attar he answered, M The former like an
eagle flew to the height of perfection in the twinkling of

an eye

the latter reached the same summit, but was

crawling slowly and perseveringly, like an ant."

Dawlat-shah says that out of

forty, there

were at his

time twelve Mathnawies of Faryd aldyn extant, the re2

348

PERSIAN POETRY.
lost.

[CHAP.

II.

maining having been

This catalogue contains a

including his

description of twenty-two of his works

biography of saints and besides, we find mention of the

following
yAJ) -}Skso

mentioned by Ouseley and Stewart, Catait.

logue

p.

60

both these authors have seen

the same.

V&*H ^UJ mentioned by

Pir-namah,

Bir-namah mentioned by Stewart.

I suppose they mean Kunz Mokhfia (?) mentioned by Kent

Hammer
Stewart.

writes

the *^i jMkxj

Mansur-namah and Ausat-namah mentioned by the

same.

aAJ jJoo*,

4u*U jJj,

a^>U

sU*-

and ^al) &\jL\

last

i_^li
is

Jl

mentioned by Khoshgii, the

posed to be in prose.
Contents
:

named work

sup-

Qacydahs 39 pages of 34 bayts

Bg.

Ghazals 228 pages of 32 bayts.

Beginning

Moty

Ma^all, a magnificent copy

lines, a

As. Soc. No. 459 about 459

pp. of 16
lines, this

Ibidem No. 1338 about 330 pp. of 17 copy contains more poems, particularly Ruba'ys, than
good copy
;

any

other,

and the Grhazals are not alphabetically arranged, in the

commencement a few pages are wanting, the same volume contains most other poems of 'a#ar, it was written in 1006.

(122)

j*]yJ\ JjOU.
title is

(P.)

Perhaps the correct

written as above in the manuscript.

0$&*}\j*b* but it is twice The author is Faryd

aldyn 'attar,

who

uses here the takhalluc of Faryd and

No. 124.]

'atta'r.
It

349
Tarjy'six, are

Faryd aldyn.
alphabetically

consists

of Qacydahs and
first

bands, which with the exception of the

arranged,

and

treat

on

the

Taw^yd.

Dawlat-shah

states that several

commentaries have been

written on these poems, and that one of the commentators

was Sayyid

'izz

aldyn Amoly.

Beginning

As. Soc. 1409, 265 pp. 11

lines.

(123)
The

sMru!
headless book, a short

(P.)

poem on theosophy and

'attar.

mystical love,

by Faryd aldyn

Beginning

As. Soc. No. 1338, on the margin 9 pp. of 20 lines

Tdpkhanah,

16 pp. 13 bayts, this copy begins with the following verse which is on the fonrth page of the Society's copy, and as it has nevertheless about

200

verses, the Society's

copy must be incomplete at the end.

(124)

AoU

C^a*

(P.)

The book of Accidents or Misfortune, by the same poet. The title is contained in the following verse
In Hajy Khalyfah No. 4235, this
of lUjI^..

poem has the name

is

copy in the library of Upsala

inscribed

iA* iy (see Tornberg, Cat. Bill. Ups.

p. 100).

In forty chapters the poet brings the Wanderer before,

1,

Gabriel

2,

Michael

3,

Israphael

4, 'izra'yl

5,

The

350
great throne of

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.
;

II.

God

of

God

8,

The
;

tablet

The throne 7, The footstool of fate 9, The pen (with which

6,
;

fate is written)

10, Paradise;
1
1
;

11, Hell;

12,
16,
;

Heaven;

13,

Sun;

14, Plants;
18, Satan;

5,

Wild

beasts
;

Birds; 17,
21, Adam;
;

Quadrupeds;
22,

9,

The Jinn

20,

Man
;

Water
;

23, Earth

24,

Mountains
;

25, Sea
;

26,
;

Minerals
31,

27,

Moon
32, 36,
;

28, Fire

29,

Wind

30,

Noah

Abraham;

Moses; 33, David; 34, Jesus, 35,

37,

Mohammad;

The Senses;
39, Heart
;

Imagination;
;

38,

Understanding

40,

Mind

and

after this

pilgrimage he comes to the knowledge of his ownself

A)**

u^^y^-

The

poet explains his notions on the above

subjects mostly metaphorically by the

means of legends
Beginning

of saints, and parables.

Topkhanah, 350 pp. of 20 verses

copy, written in A.

Mdty Ma^all 154

lines,

pp.

50

verses.

As. Soc. No. 1400 about 260 pp. 25

;

an elegant but incorrect

350 pp. of 20 bayts.

'attar differ

H. 1000 As. Soc. No. 1338, on the margin about The copies of this and most other works of essentially from each other, the Mocybat-namah in No.

1338, contains several stories which in other copies form part of the
Mantfiq
alfciyr.

(125)

cv^ljy.1

(P.)

Mysteries of Extatic Moments, a mystical

the same author.
It begins

poem by

Topkhanah, 8vo. about 200 pp. of 15

lines, at

the end

is

a chrono-

gram containing the date when

this

copy was made

No. 127.]

'atta'r.

351

j<j LS^J^J

c^tV^

*j3 j4J\

*>)

j\b&

^*A

jfok dyr^) jljm\ &jmL]

ffj d)

^Mj \jk&j\$jbya? %ji Jfc

s

^
(P.)

(126)

UtoMljtij*

The Essence of Existence, that is to say, the principle of life or the soul, a poem by Faryd aldyn 'attdr. This Mathnawy resembles a litany; sometimes more
than
fifty verses
:

begin with the same words, as for in-

stance

J^

d&.

^ p^j
it

*>

JU Jk> jj d UU
t3^J jl

^r p^j ^
Jai

fy j

*J

l.Xftk.

aUa.

4-Iib

I;

|d.

jU d &<> 5jj
&y^*y

fStj

I;

l^
^"^

*l^aw

c^i-aa. j,sS

lW >* f*^

l>

This poem,

would appear from a postscript to the

contents the .ffadyqah or

Asiatic Society's copy No. 370, is divided into three daftars

or books, and resembles in
its

the

Mathnawy
it is

of

Mawlawy Rumy.

The author
first

states

that

similar to the

Ushtar-namah and Ilahy-namah,

daftar

but superior to both.

Beginning of the
LZ<"*\ qjl*. J
:

C^vJ

gWj

jjKfcl 1^*1 *Xi.

*A*A.Jyi

&&J

-Liu

Beginning of 2nd daftar

As. Soc. No. 370, this copy contains two daftars, the
of 50 bayts, and the second 232 pp. of 50 bayts, but
at the end;

first
it is

244 pp,

defective

Ibidem Nos. 1373 and 1338, both these MSS. contain

only the commencement.

352

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(127)

A&j&\
book, by Faryd aldyn 'attar.

(P.)

The Ushtar
from the
title,

This poem

does not contain a history of Ushtar, as might be inferred

but

it

treats

on theosophy, and

is

very

much

in the style of

Jawhar

aldzat, for instance towards

the end there are no less than

153 verses which begin

with the words

ls^J'w^ ut).

Beginning
J)yJ
lines,

JUa.

cljo

U|

>U

^^

Ai j>

IjJuI

As. Soc. No. 771, 866 pp. of 12

in 1180.

an

inferior

copy written

(128)

aoUj^

(P.)

epos, recording the

The Khosraw-book or Royal book, it is a romantic Love adventures of Gul and Hormoz by Faryd aldyn 'attar. The title of the work is contained in the following verse

Beginning c~sJ-*

cAr^.3

c*^U d

^ jV ^ ^
jUo

c^

)j

fay

As. Soc. 1338, 426 pp. of 19

lines,

this codex was written in 1006.

(129;

Xri. Jf

(P.)

The Loves of Gul and Khosraw, by Faryd aldyn W/ar.

This
is

an abridged version, or abstract, of the preceding

Mathnawy.

He

mentions in the introduction, several of

his former works, viz. the

Jawahir-namah

(sic),

Mucybat-

No. 131.]

ATTAR.
Asrar-namah,

353
Mokhtar-namah,
Beginning
f*>a*

namah,
Man/iq

Ilahy-namah,
alteyr

and Khosraw-namah.

C~**U ^l^ ; ^Jt ^U. +iS ^ih

o*>U gW )

g& aX4 f\x>

As. Soc No. 1338, 136 pp. 20 bayts.

(130)
Selections from

*&oo*
the

^^

(P.)

iiZadyqah of Sanay, by Faryd

aldyn 'attar.

Beginning and preface, in which he says

that these are selections from selections

jU^-O

ty~

)j

J*~

c^13

$b$

>JfW> )/&>)

^^

^' c^O^*^
Moty

to/*'

^>j>

*J*

^' ^r^l

JJH&

MaAall, 122 pp. of 15 lines.

(131)

JiM^fc^
of Curiosities, a

(P.)

The Exhibition
'attoV.

poem by Faryd aldyn

This

Mathnawy

is

in the style of the ffadyqah.

The

poet gives us the following account of his former pro-

ductions

354
^jyjfij

PERSIAN POETRY.
U

[CHAP.
tfft&

II.

^1^

^Li)

^i^
fj^

^^
*&^

j)

yj
c^o

*tf.

&**

u^.; ;^'

2*

jujji jikc

jK

Jilj

A*-

Jc*jo

Jukb
**

j)

^Ui^

J.S

^UaL,
j) Ij

c^^*^
d^fc J6
]

i^r^
\J*T>

^*^
l

^-^ &/*
b

Jj

w\

j\& j ;!***

J^

^ &* M

\J&i j&

f^ \J& S^ b*"^ y^ J ^y*y v &\^j* \^# b t*H?J

*****

As. Soc. No. 263, near 200 pp. of 44 bayts, with pictures, written
in 1186.

(132)
Speeches of Birds, a

yJi jLlo
Mathnawy by Faryd aldyn
583 or 580.

(p.)
'attar

who composed
sections aJU*,

it

in

It is divided into

30

and contains apologues, in most of which

birds are introduced as speaking.

Bg. yfc. j^jj

<u^ du

a4T
are

)j\j

^i ^u
the

yijij
Ma/^all,

Copies are frequent; there

several in
;

Moty

Topkhanah, and As. Soc. No. 776, 1338

pp.

Private collection, 396

11

lines,

the
in

analysis of it

is

poem has in all about 4000 verses. A very full Hammer's Gesch. d. schoenen Bedek. Pers. p. 142.

No. 135.]

atta'r.

355

(133)

AolSJJb

(P.)

The Book
very

of the Nightingale, an apologue in which the

is

love of the nightingale to the rose

described.

It is

much

in the style of the Mantfiq al/ayr.

ft*e jtf

Bg.

J J*r*&

J J& <> Jh

>

j^y. ft

As. Soc. No. 1338, on the margin, 41 pp. of 20

lines.

(134)

*cl3

eJUj
'attar.

(P.)

The Book

of Union,

by Faryd aldyn

He

says with regard to the

title

wisdom of God in expelling Adam from Paradise and in bringing him by the removal

He

explains the

from his divine presence, to the knowledge of himself and

the love of God.
sists chiefly

Like the other works of 'a#ar

it

con-

of apologues.

BgvW

gt

>

u^

>

^*

c>ju*

J**J

u
f

-?

J;

Topkhanah, 50 pp. 30 bayts, As. Soc. No. 1338, on the margin, 75

pp. of 20 bayts.

(135)

jlia*

^Jl tf

**&

*$

(P.)
It is

The Book
but this
is

of Councils of Faryd aldyn 'attar.

also called, according to

Hammer-Purgstall, &*U

probably a mistake for **U c^-Xo,

Bg.

2 z 2

356

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

covered with text.

Lithographed at Lucnow, Mojtabay press, 1264, 30 pp. the margin It is remarkable that the first verse in Sacy's

edition, Paris 1819,

and

in Hindley's edition,
viz.
I;

eontain a palbably

wrong reading

)b

^L

London 1809, should ^f *sHtf

(136)

xcGtLcL

(P.)

The Book of Transition, by Faryd aldyn 'a#ar. name of the poem occurs in the following verse

The

It is divided into ten chapters J&

lect, praise

and

treats

on

intel-

of knowledge, praise of meekness, gratitude,

blame of stupidity, blame of envy, stinginess

(je>j^ 9

J^,

avarice

causes of pride.

Beginning

As. Soc. No. 1063, 12mo. 63 pp. of 14 lines.

(137)

A^IJ*?
'attar.
first

if)
The

Treasury of Verities, by Faryd aldyn

author explains

the object of the religious duties

purification, prayer, fasts, pilgrimage

and holy warfare,

then he enters on the excellency of the soul, on the history of Mancur, the mission of Christ and of Mahdiy, &c.

Beginning j*N&

j Sj>

Jeh

&Sf]

,Uj

j3

tj J, a&T
I

As. Soc. No. 1338, 38 pp. of 20 bayts, the copy

is

defective at

the end.

No. 139.]

'atta'r.

357

(138)

t^>fj

e^>
life

(P.)
of a gnostic

The Seven

Valleys or Stages in the

every chapter begins with a verse like this

The stages which I have observed mentioned are ji^&c, e^juo, ULJ, *^y, e*H^ *. The first seven verses are the same as in the Mucybat-namah, and the last verse
it

has in

common with

the Asrar-namah

As. Soc. No. 1338, 34 pp. 19

a fragment of a
first

lines.

After this follows in this copy

pp. 19 lines of 'a^ar inscribed oilfc*. The 12 verses are the same as in the <^otj O.AA. Then follows

poem 11

the verse

(139)

*43 ^Jl

(P.)

The Divine Book, by Faryd aldyn 'attar. The poem is divided into 22 chapters *JtiU and
the story of a Khalyfah

contains

who had

six sons, he requested

him with all their wishes and promised to satisfy them. They did so and the first son asked for a pretty woman, and three of his brothers supthem
freely to acquaint

ported him and expressed a similar wish, the two others

wished to be acquainted with the mysteries of sorcery.

; ;

358

PERSIAN POETRY.
father shows

[CHAP.

II.

The

them the vanity of

their wishes in

parables.

Beginning

Topkhanah, a good copy

As. Soc. No. 1400, 260 pp. 25 lines

is

Ibidem No. 1338.

long
is

In the Lucnow copy the "Aamd" which

it

very

omitted and

begins

(ho)
The Book
title

xoi^yi
of Mysteries, by Faryd aldyn 'attar.

(p.)

The

occurs in the following verse

It treats in

20 chapters *J& on the high position of

be practised, and vices to be avoided.

man, on the resurrection and judgment, and on the principal virtues to

The

subject

is

illustrated

by legends and

parables.

Bg.

Moty
bayts
;

Ma^all, 68 pp. of 50 lines

As. Soc. No. 1400, 154 pp. 25

lines

Ibidem No. 1338, on the margin about 200 pp. 20

fair

Ibidem No. 274 a

copy.

(141)

,*&.

d\yji
1
1

(P.)

The Dywan of 'atzym. Sarkhosh (see p. calls him 'atzyma and Walih 'atzymayiy, but

3 supra)

his takhal-

No. 141.]
luc
is

'atzym.

359

uniformly spelled 'atzym in the Dywan, thus in

the very Ghazal from which Sarkhosh takes a verse

The age when he

grams which occur
&c.

flourished

is

fixed

by

several chrono-

in the

Dywan

for 1068, 1069, 1074,

He was

a son of Moll a Qaydy,

who was a nephew

and

of Molla Natzyry.

He came

to India, says Walih,

received a high appointment at

Lahor from Shahjahan.

his

In making this statement Walih confounds him with

Aqa

'atzyma.

'Atzym of Nayshapiir wrote

'alyy

Dywan
MoKhan b.

in his native country and not in India, and he

sung the

praises of

Bayram

Khan

of Khorasan and
title

hammad Ibrahym, to whom he gives the Khan and not the praises of Shahjahan
Contents
:

of

15 bayts.

Qacydahs and Tarjy'bands 95 pp. 14 or Beginning

Beginning

Ghazals 108 pp. and a few Ruba'ys.

A Mathnawy
of
J^SI,

called

^^ jy

it

treats

on the Physica
first

Mo^ammadan

Philosophy, viz.: the

logos

JJUJI

the genesis of plants, animals, man, also on morals,

mystical love, &c. about 200 pp.

Beginning

At

the end

is

a small essay in flowery prose and two

short Mathnawies.
As. Soc. No. 714, a good copy.

360

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(142)

tr^l

The Dywan of Aw^ady. There were two contemporary poets who had this takhalluc, both of whom were Ciifies,
and they are confounded with each other in most Tadzkirahs.

^
is

(R)

The name
Kirmany.

of the elder of them

Aw^ad

aldyn ffamid

He was

a pupil of Rokn aldyn and a friend of

Mohiyy aldyn

al'araby,

who mentions him

in his Fotuhdt.

The
is

disgusting practices which

he introduced among

the Darwyshes, will be described in another chapter.

according to
^'.

all

accounts

the author of the

He -tx^
This

Jl;j

According to Khoshgii, No. 53, his takhalluc was

not
is

AwAad and

Aw^ady and he

died in A. H. 536.

date however

a glaring mistake, for

Mokyy

aldyn his

contemporary died in A. H. 638.

died in A.

It is likely that

he

697.

This

is

the date mentioned in the

Nafdyis al-mdthir.

Aw^ady
it is

the younger was a pupil of the preceding and

in his honor that he

assumed

this takhalluc.

He
a

first

had that of
or,

Ciify.

His name was Rokn aldyn

Ispahany

according to others, Maraghy.

He was

friend and contemporary of Sa'dy, and died, according to

most Tadzkirahs,

in A.

H. 697,

five

years after he had

completed the Jame Jam. According to Jamy Nafahdt alum No. 568 and the Nafdyis al-mdthir and the Habyb alsiyar III. folio, 543, he completed this poem in A. H. 733 and died at Maraghah in 738. They support their statement by two very strong facts. The date of his death they say is engraved on his tomb-stone at Maraghah and the date of the composition of his Jame Jam is recorded
in the following verse of

Aw^ady

himself:

No. 142.]

AWHADY.

361

It is clear that those biograghers

who

place his death

in A.

H. 697 confound him with Aw/*ad aldyn Kirmany.

This blunder seems to have originated with Dawlat-shah.

He

devotes only one article to both poets, and says at the

end that

Aw^ady

died in A. H. 697, under

that he
is

Mafonud
is

Ghazan Khan, and

buried at Ispahan and that

the pious perform pilgrimages to his tomb.

There

no

doubt that he means the tomb of

but later authors have taken
Ispahany.
It is difficult to say

AwAad
to

aldyn Kirmany,

it

apply to

Aw^ady
Aw^ad

whether this

Dywan
I

is

by

aldyn

Kirmany
is

or by

Aw^ady

Ispahany.

have unfor-

tunately neglected to see whether the takhalluc of the

author
is

Aw/ead or Aw^ady,
It begins

think however the latter

the case.

with a Mathnawy entitled -M&"

metre

^'j^i " the

key of

spirits" in the

It fills

66 pp. of 13

lines.

The end

is

wanting.

The

initial line is

Jamy quotes the

aldyn

conclusion of the

Mathnawy

of Aw/*ad
anc*
it

Kirmany which has the

it is

title

r ';;^ r ^^?

appears that
that
this

in the
is

IjySl
poem

_UuL
is

same metre. It is not unlikely a mistake for -J^l Ua*, and that
follow

by Aw^ad aldyn Kirmany.

After this
of which
fill
1

Mathnawy
1

Qacydahs, the beginning

is

wanting and then Ghazals.

3 lines and begin

The Ghazals

52 pp. of

In the Atishkadah

p.

75, in

the biography of

the

362 younger
I

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

found

Aw^ady the following in this Dywan

:

verses are quoted

which

The Qacydah
ascribed to the
is

in

which these verses occur

is

also
It

younger

AwAady by Jamy, No.

MS.
contains

568.

therefore clear that this

poems both of

the elder and younger Aw/jady, the

Mathnawy being by

the former and the Qacydahs and Ghazals by the latter,

who

according to Dawlat-shah has written 10,000 verses

and according to Taqyy Kashy 14,000.

His poems were

much sung by Darwyshes.

Moty Ma&all,
carefully written in 1018, in the middle defective,
all

and containing to

appearance merely selections.

(143)

^ rU
no
less

(P.)

The Mirror of Jamshyd, a mystical poem by the younger Awhady, composed in 733, in imitation of the Hadyqah of Sanay. This Mathnawy was so much valued, that

than 400 copies of

after
it
l

it

were taken at Ispa-

han within one month

Beginning
J)y^<>
Uj!,3

had been composed.

^Us

*J

JU

aUl^i

J5

He
verses,

describes the plan of his

work

in the following

which however are not consecutive.

No. 144.]

'ayshy.

363

*X

J**i

J**>

Ur^ J*

<& j4

j*

))&

ijt+ijA

Moty

Ma&all, 190 pp. 22 lines

FaraA-bakhsh 350 pp. 15

lines.

As. Soc. No. 743, a fine old copy.

(144)

jLLIc^a
Planets, a

(P.)
the story of

The Seven
name

poem containing
number

Bahrain Shah, hy 'ayshy, composed in 1070.

of author, date and

The

title,

of verses 6,204, are

contained in the following lines

j]&] i^a&

aV ^ji

jU

Ja'y

j^j dj*. u/X*| ^S

Jo)

(joyst

O^

L_/Jj

^^c

;V

^^ j

JjJj.

:I

c^

As. Soc. No. 433, more than 200 pp. of 26 bayts, the commencement
is

wanting.

A 2

364

PERSIAN POETRY.
^l#i cJaa^J
m

[CHAP.

II.

(145)

<u\j

LJ|

(P.)

history of the prophets

who

preceded

Mohammad,
b. 'abd

in Persian verses,

by Abu Is^aq Ibrahym

Allah

al-Balih

a-'UH

'ayany.

Hasany Shabistary whose takhalluc was The date when he wrote is not known, but he
Beginning

probably flourished previous to the eighth century of the

Hijrah.

%rj>

^W

^ ^w)

^jjij

v^ly fK

J'y

^^

As. Soc. No. 231, 4to. about 900 pp. of 38 bayts beautifully
written, old and correct.

(146)

*\j

^S*
'alyy
all

(P-)

The Dywan
It contains

of

Myr Gholam
\j*y*-

Azad
**

(see p.

142.)

only Ghazals and in

\)

about 4000 verses.

J\

Beginning

^&*

sjh^^}*

& *^

*?

)\y
t

^r" J>

J&"

FaraA-baksh, large 8vo. about 225 pp. 15 lines

(147)

^G;l^>
verses,

(P.)

The History of Mokhtar, in Persian by Azad in 1131. It begins:

composed

Fara^-baksh, 400 pp. 34 lines, a fine copy, there are also two copies
in the

Moty

MaAall.

No

150.]

'azyz.

365

(148)

j*cj

'ti&jSJj

fijlf

c^Uk&o^ &[*$

(P.)

Persian Qacydahs, detached verses and chronograms by

Azad.
UjJ XJJJ SJ&a. Dji)

Beginning

^* V^Jja.

*UU C^JUa.

^5")

TopkMnah,
all

GOO pp. This copy is important for being to appearance the rough copy of the author. There are places left
8vo. about

blank, lines struck out, &c.

40, 41, 43,

The chronographs

are for A.

H. 1139,

45 and 46.

(149)

jiy
of 'abd al'azyz
is

jjfcp
'azyz of the Deccan.

(P.)

Dywan
tical

Khan

In

one place his name

'azyz Allah.

He

is

probably iden-

with the 'azyz of the Deccan, mentioned by Shorish

(see p. 210, supra).

Contents

Qacydahs, Ghazals and a few Ruba'ys not

alphabetically arranged, 36 pp.

Beginning

A prose

composition, called

w-fc;

J^

only 6 pp. a

Mathnawy 7

pp. Ghazals in the Dakhny dialect and a

Persian Qacydah.
As. Soc. No. 862 about 70 pp. 17 lines, written in 1167.

(150)

^c^\j &\}iy> \gyt*

(P.)

The Mathnawy
luc was 'azyz, and

of 'azyz Allah Zahidy, whose takhal-

who wrote

this

poem

in 810.

In an

introduction in prose, of 7 pp. 12 lines, he gives the fol-

lowing account of his own labour

366

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

Beginning /i) ;!y Jj

**U

jlil ,-ly

Jj

^^
(P.)

FaraA-baksh, 95 pp. of 11 bayts.

(i5i)

^ji

cy.j

The Dywan
A%raqy.
3Iaqdlah
9

of Abu-l-Ma//asin Abii
to

Bakr Zayn aldyn

He was according
quoted in

Nitzamy 'orudhy (Chahdr the Kholdfah of Taqyy Kashy) a

native of Herat and a son of Isma'yl Warraq,

who was
the seat

of

Marw.

He

introduced himself into the society and

I.

confidence of the Seljiiqy prince Toghan-shah

of whose government was Nayshapiir by the composition

of a most obscene book entitled Alfyyah Shalfyyah h^)

Ixkil

which he

illustrated

with pictures.

From

the de-

scription

which Hajy Khalyfah Nos. 1153 and 1615,

edit.

and Jamy, Bahdristan

give of
it, it

Schlechta-Wssehrd

p.

88

appears to have been a version of the Kok-

shashter, to be mentioned hereafter.

Azraqy

is

also the

author of the book Sindbad pUiL* and of several other

works, which he dedicated to his patron.
says that the copy of his

Taqyy Kashy
he saw, did not

Dywan which
r

contain more than two thousand verses.

He
2
;

died at

Herat in A. H. 527.

(Mohammad awfy

10,

Khold-

No. 152.]

badiie cha'ch.

367
This
verses.
**-

fah No. 9; Dawlatshah 2, 1; Hammer p. 129.) Dy wan contains merely Qacydahs, in all about 1 800

Beginning ^3 &j&> ^J
Mdty MaAall
a good copy in

^j
folio,

UUfUjA

iSJSi

c-^^^

44 pp. of 17

lines

private col-

lection 14 pp. of 17 bayts.

This copy does not contain the Qacyit

dah with which the other copy commences, but

quoted by Dawlat-shah.

contains the Buba'y

Beginning

(152)

ri^w^]**
of

p -)

The Dywan
aldyn)

Badr aldyn (Khoshgii writes Fakhr

is

Mohammad Chachy who

is

usually called Badre

Chach, that

to say the full

aldyn of Chach.

Chach

is

moon of Chach, or the Badr the ancient name of the

Attracted by the

Tashkand, the birth-place of the poet.

liberality of Sultan

Mohammad

Shah, a son of Toghluq,

life at

he came to India and spent the greater part of his

his court, his

and composed many

Dywan s

in his praise.

In

Dywan

occurs the date 745 in the following verse

Khoshgii
Jajarmy,

identifies

him erroneously with Badr aldyn

who
:

died in 686.

Contents

Qacydahs in praise of God, in praise of his

patron, and in praise of Dilly, &c. at the end are a few

Qi^ahs.

Beginning

c^*l

jtf*

*$

)j

^UaL* ^1

iUa.

368

PERSIAN POETRY.
Mo^ammady

[CHAP.

II.

Lithographed at Lucnow,

press, 12G1, 108 pp. edited

by Lala Badry Nath and liadiy 'alyy with hashiyah and at the

end a vocabulary of

difficult

words and phrases.

:

MS.

copies are

not rare, there are several at

Lucnow

also Asiat. Soc.

No. 703.

(153)

J^U^L*

*J;

4>*s'

lSj^J uyb**
Badzil.

d***

(P.)

The
Rafy'

Lion's Attack, being a

Mathnawy, by Mo//arnmad
is

Khan whose

takhalluc

He was

a dethat
per-

scendant of Ja'far Sarond Mashhady.

Walih says

he was born at Mashhad, but Arzii,

who knew him

sonally, informs us, that his father or grandfather

came

from Mashhad to India, and that Badzil was a native of

Dilly.

He was commandant

of the fort of Gwalyar, and

and when he lost his appointment on the death of 'alaingyr

he lived in retirement at Dilly, where he died in
1

123, the

chronogram on
this

his death is

jl3

\j&**l ^s^j** ^ Besides

is

poem, he

left

Dywan

(see pp. 110, 140).

This epos which consists of 40,000 verses and

not

much
of the

shorter than the

Shah-namah

is

rhymed version
the author
in it for

Madrij
it

alnobuwat, and contains the biography

;

of the prophet and of his son-in-law 'alyy

completed
fifty years.

in 1119, after he

had been engaged

Beginning

tjfc**/*ijj \jfc& jj^Oj

^r^-

dj**

\JF&fk*i
vols, folio

dJjldui* j.Uj

Lithographed at Lucnow, A. H. 1268, 2

of 50 bayts,

238 and 329 pp.

MS.

copies are frequent.

(154)

1^;^
Baha aldyn

(P.)

Bread and Sweetmeat, a Mathnawy, by the great Shy'ah

divine
'amily whose takhalluc was Bahayiy.

No. 156.]

baha'y.

369

He was

a native of 'amil but spent the greater part of

his life at Ispahan.

He

died in

030, and his corpse was

carried to
his death

Mashhad
is

for interment.

^J^. & W? ^and many Arabic works, which

he
left

The chronogram on Besides this Mathnawy

enumerated here-

will be

after,

a
is

Dywan and

a Kashkul or Adversaria, of

which there
library.

a very beautiful copy in the Fara/2-bakhsh

Abu

Talib also ascribes to him a

called y^t jj*>.

For

farther information
I

Mathnawy regarding him

and

his other works,

refer to

the chapter on Shy'ah

theology.

This poem

is

considered as an introduction to the

Mathnawy

of Jalal aldyn

Rumy.

It begins after a

few

lines of preface in prose

As. Soc. No. 869, 22 pp. of 15 bayts, copies are frequent.

(155)

Jly

tJ^-JjWVl jL|

(A. P.)

Inimitable Riddles by the same Bahay.

The author
Specimen
:

does not give the solution of the riddles.

hS]jyti] Ljjpah

*JUJ

i_?US

^1 ^e

Jj^l

Beginning

J^l

gyfcl Jj&xi s^LaJ) j

j*Wl j*j Ul

Private collection, B. 15 pp. of 12 lines.

(156)

c^^

gig*

(P.)
that

he was

The Dywan of Bahjat, we learn from his poems at Lucnow in 1212 (see p. 21 1 supra).
3 B

370
This
a very
peans.

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

Dywan

contains chiefly Ghazals, at the end

in praise of the <S>j* Jal

is

silly

Qacydah

Euro-

Beginning

As. Soc. No. 699, a good copy, about 600 pp. 14 bayts.

(157)

J,Uj

aoIS

cJUj
The

(P.)
title

The Book of Union by Shaykh Bahlol. and name of the author occur in these lines

The author

imitates Faryd aldyn 'a#ar in

making

litany of his poem, for example he goes on

in this strain

through a number of verses,

WJ
Bg.

m ^d d b^* J*
]j\*o

^at-a*
yih'r

%)j
1 **

JjXxijXm &)& I^U

Uar (^c^jSi &)&

^j yd
M

J
>4i

dd ^*
0) j

)j\*

3;3

\^ d J*

U*o i^c ij y&

).U

^^

JkU &**J*i

^sh-i

cA^r*"

lyiM

^yAW*

As. Soc. No. 1240, 100 pp. 15 lines, well written in 1066.

(158)

JjU>
of Bahlol.

,&*

(P.)

The Dywan
cally arranged.

It contains

Ghazals alphabeti-

Beginning

As. Soc. No. 759, small 8vo. a modern inferior copy imperfect at
the end.

No. 161.]

BALYGH.

371

(159)

L
1
1

U&j yl& JWd

The
which
is

(P.)
title is

Clear Evidence by Balygh or Balyghy.

chronogram for

86.

The

object of the book,

partly in prose
extracts

and
from

partly in verse, and

consists

chiefly of

Indian poets, seems to be, to show that natives of India

who have
notices

written Persian verses are not so contemptible

as the Yranians

make them.
By-dil, &c.

To

prove this he gives

Jalal Asyr,

and extracts of

Myr Khosraw, Myrza

At the end

Nacir

'alyy,

Myrza

are stories, &c.

Mdty

Ma^all, 8vo. 49 pp. 15 lines.

(160)

gk

lJua*J CLyO^ ^y&

of Power, being a
title

(P.)

The Changeableness zals by Balygh. The

for 1180.

Dywan

of Gha-

seems to be a chronogram

Contents

After a short Preface follow Ghazals about

200

pp. of 14 bayts,

which begin

Topkhanah, 8vo. a

fair

copy.

(161)

L $X>
This
for
:

(P.)
title is

Eloquent Words or poetry of Balygh.

chronogram
Contents

1 1

78.

After a preface in prose of 4 pp. Fards and

lines.

Ruba'ys alphabetically arranged 150 pp. of 15

Beginning

]/^*j

& ^jifij*^ ^s^

copy.

Topkhanah, 8vo. a

fair

3 B 2

372

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(162)

l?^ <&
of Bannayiy.

(P.)

The Dywan
his takhalluc
is

His father was a respect-

able architect at Herat, the birth-place of the poet,

and

derived from banna, builder.

skilled in

He

was a very clever and witty man and

almost every art and science, he was a profound Cufy, an

exquisite
calligraph

and a distinguished composer of

it

music.

On

account of his erudition,

was

said that he

was

the Molla of poets and the poet for Mollas.

roused the jealousy of

His conceit

Myr

'alyy

Shyr

a spiteful expres-

sion of his being reported to him, his indignation

was so

great that

Bannayiy was obliged

to leave his native

country.

He went

into the 'iraq and

was kindly

received
t

by Sullan Ya'qiib
liate the

to

whom

he dedicated his

j^ j J^

After some time he returned to Herat and tried to concifavour of the

Myr by
it

writing a Qacydah in his

praise.

He

presented

but received no reward, and he

therefore substituted the

name

of Sultan

A^mad Myrza
would not give
'alyy

for that of 'alyy Shyr, saying that he

away
was

his daughters

without dowry.

Myr

Shyr

so enraged at this, that

he obtained a death-warrant

against him.
at the

He

fled to

Ma-wara-lnahr and was received

court of SiuVan 'alyy

b.

Myrza
;

b.

Sultan

A^mad
him a
His

Myrza

SuUan Abu Sa'yd

still

and he wrote

for

Qacydah called u^ol^l *=?" in the dialect of Marw.

fortunes were
in the ascendant

when Mo/zammad

Khan Shaybany
conferred the

took possession of Ma-wara-lnahr.

of

He
to

title

King

of Poets

upon him, and when

he marched into Khorasan he gave him opportunities

revenge himself on the poets of his native country,

had persecuted him.

He

returned from Herat to

who Ma-

No. 163.]
wara-lnahr and was

ba'qir 'alyy.
killed

373
massacre of Shah

in

the

Ismayl

in 918.

In some Ghazals in which he imitates

/Zafitz he uses the takhalluc of

Hd\y.

Taqyy Kashy

has seen about 6000 verses of Ghazals and Qacydahs of

his.

(Samy, No. 213; Taqyy Kashy, No. 169.)

This copy of the

Dywan

contains only Ghazals.

Bg.

Moty Ma^all, 65
Atishkadah
p.

pp. 15 lines.

This copy seems to contain but a

very small portion of the Dywan, some of the verses quoted in the

201 are found in

it.

(163)

Uyb eJ^J ^UJ| jy>j

'alyy

(P.)

Hints of the Pure, a mystical poem, by Baqir 'alyy

Khan, a son of Gholam

Khan Madany, he
From

says that

he was induced to write this poem by the study of the

Mathnawy
it

of

Mawlawy

Riimy.

the introduction,

would appear that he wrote under

Mohammad Shah
JU|

(reigned from 1132 to 1161).

tUj

^
t*$

jj^k

lift

*+s" ^T

U0*J

*U

Juej j&

At
for
1 1

the end he gives three chronograms apparently

39, one of

them runs

^W
The

lj"^

f^j

^*

^^ fW
1

^
J

<J J

} r*^

other equally gives

135

+4=
^ y&>

139.

^I^-^a. ^sjh C^*m)

^p JU Beginning ^U J^j-i A rf-J^ A)*

^lysr?

ejj&i

Jjj)

As. Soc. 612, 8vo. 232 pp. 17 bayts.

374

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(164)

sj*j
'alyy.
1

s[>

C^
title,

Jjr\

^
:

(P.)

The Rose Garden

by Baqir
1

of Mysteries, a mystical

Mathnawy,

165
iJj

20 =
si)

The

name

of author, and date,

145, are contained in the last lines

J*aijj

Jjjj^ j^j

Lj>d **.

^Lc

j&

dUf ^j

As. Soc. 562, 154 pp. 14 lines.

(165)

^ryb

d l^j

(P.)

The Dywan of Baqir Kashy, a younger brother of Molla Maqcud Khordah-farush, he was a good poet, and
exquisite calligraph
;

in the former art,

he was a pupil of

Mo^tasham and

in the latter of

Myr Mo'izz aldyn Mo-

Shah 'abbas imprisoned him on the suspicion of some fault, but after he had suffered one year's incarceration, his innocence was proved and
of Kashan.

hammad

the

Shah heaped favours upon him.

Subsequently he

visited

Karbala and remained two years there in the

society of learned
finally

men, then he proceeded

to

Kashan and
the

he went

to India

and entered the service of Ibrahym

now twenty years, says the author of Mdthir Rahymy, that he holds an appointment in
Padshah.
It is

the

library of the

Khankhanan.

It

appears from the Atish-

kadah
home.

p. 324, that he subsequently again returned to his

In his poems occur the names of Akbar, Ibrahym

'adil-shah

and Tzohury.

No. 167.]
Contents:
arranged.

ba'qir.

375

Ghazals 142 pp. 15 bayts, alphabetically-

Beginning

Rubd'ys 32 pp. 6 Ruba'ys on a page, Tarjy'bands 53 pages and a Mathnawy called Maykhanah (the wine-shop)

22 pp 17

lines.

It

begins

Another mystical Mathnawy, divided into

ing on

^y and treatplurality,

God and His

attributes, unity

and

transfiguration of the prophet, solitude, poverty, fear,

hope, &c. 50 pages.

Beginning

Qacydahs chiefly in praise of the Imams 50 pp. 16 lines. Moty Ma^all, not very legible; As. Soc. No. 1283, 12mo. a splendid old copy, Ghazals and Buba'ys 230 pp. of 14 or 15 bayts, the

Maykhanah 23

pp. of 16 bayts, Tarkybbands, &c. 54 pp.,

Dywan

of

Qacydahs and some minor poems 95 pp.

Beginning of Qacydahs

(166)

jft ctfgt)

(P.)
died in

The Dywan of Mohammad Bay ram Khan, who

968, the chronogram on his death
(see pp.
is

*& Jas^ ai *x$&

56 9
:

72.)

Contents

Qacydahs in praise of the prophet and the

Beginning

Imams 22

pp. 12 lines.

Persian Ghazals, 22 pp. of 10 lines.

\j

They begin

JIjIcI

Aijio &tfj

\)

JV

jl

uS^

^>

JIT*

376

PERSIAN POETRY.
Qitf'ahs

[CHAP.
36 pp.

II.

Chagatay Ghazals, followed by

Mdty
MaAall, a fair copy.

(167)

^*j) L-i^A^
story of

aOj

e^

or

u^Uoj

(P.)

The
verses,

Rat Syn and Padam, a poem of 3,014

by Bazmy of Karj.

He

resided for

some time

at

Shyraz and came during the reign of Jahangyr

to Gujrat,

and composed

this

poem

in the year 1028, as appears

from the following verses

C^ JalLo JUa*
Bg. v^;

^JXo*

y\

sj>>3>

} L*.fc

ikjb

JU*j,j

^ ^-***y

iA*Ujj

lyiu.
lines,

y ^&i y

,U

^|
;

M<5ty Ma/jall, 8vo. 224 pp. of 12

a beautifully written copy

As. Soc. No. 294, 8vo., the last verses which contain the date are

wanting in this copy, but the name of the author occurs in

fiM.)

it.

^J

sj}j

J3

^bj*

c^l ^J

*iU| JLjj

^y.

(168)

^
of Chandra

dy^
Bhan Brahman
of Shahjahan, and

(P.)
of Patyalah

The Dywan
or Lahor.

He was Myr Munshiy

he
:

was

employed by him as ambassador to Hindu kings. Besides

this

Dywan

left letter-forms called

^^/^
Bg.

Contents

Short Ghazals and 38 Ruba'ys.

Tdpkhanah, 106 pp. 13

538, copied in 1171.

lines

Mdty

MaAall, this copy contains 97

;

pp. of 17 lines of Ghazals and 16 pp. of Tarjy'bands

As. Soc. No.

No. 171.]

burha'n.

377

(169)

yty
of Burhan,

jigj
is

(P.)

The Dywan
Contents
:

who

probably identical with

the poet of this takhalluc mentioned in page 154.

Qacydahs

in praise of the

Imams 53

pp. of

17

lines.

Beginning

Ghazals 70 pp. 16
Vtk

1.

and
J>
*
]

six Ruba'ys.

Beginning

^4

;?

eH

*^ d^^;
jJu|
\3

y^Lo jHJU-b
Topkhanah, 8vo. a
fair

.A^

^a.

SS

copy.

(170)

jl^LJ^e^oU-^ijlJ

(P.)

The History

of Happiness being an account of the

progress of the dynasty which rules over

Oudh from
whose name

Shuja' aldawlah to Sa'adat 'alyy

the
title is

Khan

(to

an

allusion), in verses

by Imam-bakhsh By-d&r
in 1227.

of

Ambalah (Umballa), composed

Bg. *ty
'

^u j jd

^\Sj

c^^sr?

tx^yT

^v^ \a&>

Motj

Ma^all, 164 pp. of 9 lines, a splendid copy, written in 1227.

(171)

j!d*J

lJu^J

CLx>U*>

jSdf
{

(P.)

The Rose Garden

descriptions of

of Happiness, being a

Mathnawy
name of a

containing the praises of

Nawab

Sa'adat 'alyy Khan, and

is

the Dilkusha

(this

the

3 c

378
palace built for the

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

Nawab by

Sir

Gore Ouseley) of FaraA-

baksh and other palaces and gardens of the

the same By-dar.

Nawab by
Beginning

y \jfrjb&p\
Moty

jjfr?

d)

j&* &f* \J&\ *^ ty&h

MaAall, 92 pp. of 9 lines, an autograph, written in 1227.

(172)

jlo^L^aJuJ *objjXd
of Usage, being a

(P.)
in praise of

The Book

Mathnawy

Ghaziy aldyn iJaydar and Nacyr aldyn i/aydar, by the Beginning same poetaster.

Moty MaAall 500

pp. of 8 lines, an autograph, written in 1232.

(173)

j\o^

(J^uJ

*oli

jljlf

(P.)
in praise

The Book
IjjoS

of the Rose Garden, a

Mathnawy

of the same, by the same.

lyJt)

Beginning

&j.

\>j
lines,

J&>

sJjJ^s-?

*.i1

JX>

FaraA-bakhsh, 75 pp. of 7

elegant writing.

(174)

j^

\j

jj*

y^

(P.)

The Dywan

of Ghazals of 'abd al-Qadir By-dil.

He

derived his origin from the Chaghatay tribe called Birlas

and Olus, but he was born at 'atzymabad (Patna), and

No. 177.]

by-dil.

379

died at Dilly on the 4th of Cafar 1133.

Though he

was not a learned man he had a profound and extensive

knowledge of Cufy
mysticism shows
literature,

and his predilection for

(See pp. 119

itself

even

in his satyres.

and 213, see also Arzu

This

Majma\ and Azad

Kh'mdnah.)

Dywan

contains merely Ghazals.

Beginning

Moty

MaAall, 2,310 pp. of 14 lines, a very fine copy.

(175)

J<*j \jy

iU^Aj $$*
Myrza

(P.)

Collection of Tetrastichs of

By-dil, they are

alphabetically arranged.

Beginning of

*b.

Private collection, about 500 pp. 8 Kuba'ys in a page, written in

1133, in the

commencement a few pages

are wanting.

(176)

(Perhaps c^a.
allegorical story

*Jlk)

cj*A *JU>

(P.)

An

by Myrza

By-dil, if I understand
it

the following chronogram correctly,

was composed

in

1(1)5+ 1012214

= 1125.
tyy) ^,jj>
is

V^oi j

^U g&

^z*j&

AiCijd

V5

Ufa jJl^y
is

In this allegory, mind

the king, the body

the king;

dom, idiosyncrasis the

bride, health a son (prince)

the

3 c 2

380
liver is

PERSIAN POETRY.
the castle
;

[CHAP.
;

II.

solicitude

ments or humours are

Bg.

army the temperathe commanders of the army, &c.

the

O^l

AiU. ctLo &j>

^AJ

CU*^

to\ZX

Jj

*&) Xxj

Tdpkhanah, about 300 pp. of 15

lines.

(177)

J6jj Li*i LiaUx

c^6f

(P.
By-dil,

The Walk of Truth, a Mathnawy by Myrza

containing chiefly descriptions, as a description of a
tain, of a cloud,

moun-

of the rainbow, of the

dawn

of morn-

ing, &c. also religious

and philosophical

reflections.

Beginning J'^J
Moty

*Jti

j^

i^*yi

^>

MaAall, 26 pp. of 45 lines, incomplete.

(178)

Jc^L-ljJUJ^I

i***

(P.)

The Great Ocean, a mystical Mathnawy, by Myrza By-dil. The title is a chronogram for 1078, when the poem was completed. It begins after a short preface in
prose and a few lines in a different metre.
fS ^

eJuS ^

Uj ^j

dy.

jo5

&*}*jd

*$

^1 ^j*

As. Soc. No. 992, 71 pp. 35 bayts.

(279)

J* #)&
of Cadafy.
All

(P.)
this author

Dywan we learn
tion of

what we know of
:

from the postcript

" Here ends the composiis

Cadafy whose sobriquet

Mohammad

Shah.

No. 181.]

ca'diq.

381

This copy was written by

Mohammad

Ghayur, the broIn

ther of the author, during the reign of 'alamgyr."

the beginning
is t.fb'jWjl)

it is

stated that the true title of the

it is

book

but that

usually called

Dywane

Cadafy.

It contains only Ghazals.

Beginning

Moty

Ma^all, 446 pp. of 11 lines.

(180)

JjjU

lJ^T (^d**. QjUf

(P-)

The Four Gardens of iJaydar, by Cadiq 'alyy Qddiq. The book is dedicated to, and named after, Ghaziy aldyn ffaydar, who died in 1242, and contains rather selections
from ancient authors than original poetry.
into four chapters
It is divided

*U

1,

Sarapa or description of the

;

beloved

2, Selections
;

from ancient poets

3, Artificial

poems f&^>

4,

Chronograms of old

poets, anecdotes, witty

sayings, &c.

Beginning

Fara^-baksh, about 200 pp. of 9 lines, a splendid copy.

(181)

i^U<k xzAJS

(P.)

Complete poetical works of 'abd al-Baqiy Cahbay, who

flourished in
1

063, as appears from the following chrono-

gram found
i-bjjl

in his

Dywan

(see also pp. 125,

and 157)
&*

u$l

^ij

^ ^V

* fj
lines.

J;

^M^e Jh

Contents: Ghazals 400 pp. 10

They begin

382

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

Tarjy'bands, Qacydahs in praise of 'alamgyr, Zeb alnisa,

&c. 150 pp.

MaAall, an old carefully written copy.

Mdty

(182)

JLJ;jU

(P.)

Blandishment and Devotion, a Mathnawy.

the end, the words

Towards

Mohammad
it

Cali^ are written in red

is

ink on the margin,

the author.
tained in the
Allah.

is

possible that this

the

name of
is

The date of poem and it

the composition 930,

is

con-

dedicated to

Khan

'obayd
'ishq,

Niyaz or Devotion, a native of the town of

and Naz or Blandishment are personified in

cal story.

this allegori-

Beginning

As. Soc. 1240, 110 pp. 15 bayts, a fine copy written in 1069.

(183)

*<&*
of
Caliyfc.

(?)

Dywan
author, he

have not been able to identify the

It

may

be the same as the preceding.

con-

tains merely Ghazals,

and begins

As. Soc. 1408, 33 pp. 17

tions.

lines, it

appears to contain merely selec-

(184)

Jf
Carfy.

ggft)

(P.)

The Dywan of
of this

It is probable that the

;

author

Dywan

is

Calah aldyn Carfy

the identity howof

ever

is

not fully established.

He was

Sawah and a

No. 185.]

caydy.

383

contemporary of Maqgady, 'ahdy and Tzaryfy Sawajy.

When

he began to devote himself to poetry, he went to

Kashan, where in those days Mofaasham was the great

master in this
art,

and stayed there ten years and made

the acquaintance of several poets of note, as

Bafiq,

WaAshy

of

Ghayraty of Shyraz, and i/atim, Fahmy, Shuja

and Radhy'ayiy natives of Kashan and of

Myr Uaydar Mo'ammayiy Kashy. The last named poet as well as Mo^tasham revised his verses. As soon as he had attained
celebrity,

he went to India where he died.

Soc. No. 45,
folio

(Mdtkire

Rahymy, MS. As.

and 60 supra).

596

see also pp. 31

Contents: Ghazals, 396 pp. of 13 bayts;

pp. i0 bayts.
<-*>*'

Rubays 22
Beginning

a/

^-^ ) ^yv*

d*o)

^U

Jj^ US ^'y*

uj-l

Mdty

Ma&all, 12mo., a splendid copy.

(185)

LS**'Jjl*
of

(P.)
of

The Dywan
India,

Myr Caydy
to celebrity,

Teheran, he came
to

under Shah Solayman

and went in 1064

where he

died.

Abu

T&lib says that his

Dywan

has 4000 verses, and that in one instance he received a

present of

5000 Rupees from Jahan-aray Begam, the

daughter of Jahangyr, and in another, one lakh for his

poems.
(A'tishk. p.
:

287 and pp. 99, 125, 112 supra).

Contents

Ghazals and

Ruba ys about 100

pp. 12 lines.

Topkhanah, a bad copy

copy
;

Mdty

MaAall, 134 pp. 15 bayts, a good

;

As. Soc. 1406, 99 pp. of 13 bayts

Ibidem No. 1272, written

in 1094, this copy contains besides the Ghazals also Qacydahs,

some

384

PERSIAN POETRY.
most of them

[CHAP.
in praise of

II.

in praise of persons in Persia, but

Shah-

jahan, and a few Qitf'ahs and two short Mathnawies, 55 pp. 12 bayts.
&is &*<i^ There are two other copies in the Society's Library, one No. 1181
is

Beginning wl~-

^^

^^

defective at the

commencement, and the other No. 1408 contains

merely selections.

(186)

^^^ftjttf'*"^
Dywan
of

(P.)

Selecta majora from the

'alyy Cdyib.

Myrza Mohammad
'abbas caused

His

father, a

merchant by profession, was

one of the Tabryzians

to settle at

tj^ whom Shah

like the

Ispahan in a quarter of the town called after

him 'abbasabad, they were

goldsmiths.

Kashmyries

at Dilly,

a clever and industrious race, and

many

of

them were
by the

Cayib was

first

instructed in poetry

-Hakym Roknayiy Kashy, and subsequently his verses were revised by the i^akym Shifayiy Ispahany. According to Shyr Khan Lody, p. 140, he came first as a
merchant to India, his poetical
Tzafar
talents introduced

him

at

the Court of Shah-jahan, and he remained at Dilly until

Khan

(see p.

325 supra) took charge of the GoAttracted by the liberality of

vernment of Kashmyr.
this

nobleman and the beauty of the climate, he accom-

panied him to that country.

Azad

says that
to

when

young man, Cayib made the pilgrimage

reign of Jahangyr he again
left his

Makkah and

returned to Persia, subsequently towards the end of the

native country with

a view of going to India.

When

he had reached Kabul

Tzafar Khan, who at that time acted as governor on the

part of his father, Abii-l-i2asan Torbaty, induced

him

to

take up his residence with him.

On

the death of Jahan-

No. 186.]

ca'yib.

385

gyr his successor Shahjahan bestowed the Government

of Kabul on Lashkar Khan,
to the presence of his

when Tzafar Khan hastened

sovereign accompanied by

new

Cayib, and found him making conquests in the Deccan,

A. H. 1039.
father

Here Cayib remained some time

till

his

came from Ispahan with the hope of prevailing

to return to his native country.
this

upon him
ance of
praise of

In further-

object

Cayib composed a
his

Qacydah

in

Khwajah Abu-1-Hasan and

which
to

son Tzafar

Khan,

in

he solicits their permission to depart.

But the emperor having returned

shortly after appointing Tzafar

Agra

in 1041

and

Khan governor

of Kashafter a

myr, Cayib accompanied him to that country, and

short stay there, returned to
II.

Persia,

where Shah 'abbas

bestowed the

title
is

of king of poets upon him.

He

died in 1081 and

Sa'dy, says

buried at Ispahan.
Talib,

Abu

may be

considered as the originit

ator of the Ghazals,

his

Baba Fighany gave

new

life,

and

manner was

in vogue, until

Cayib wrote Ghazals in

(Ouseley, Notes Pers.

an entirely new

style,

and he may therefore be considered

as the founder of the

new

school.

Poets, p. 227, see also pp. 90, 125, 112, 151 supra.)

Contents

Qacydahs, 16 pp. of 48 bayts.

Bg.

Ghazals, 536 pp. of 46 lines

Qk'ahs, Ma/la's, Ruba'ys,

&c. 119 pp.

Beginning of Ghazals:
a good copy, written in 1081, the titles*' **>3U
;

Moty MaMl,

i3

in the postscript

there

is

a copy of a fragment of the complete

it

Dywan
it is

in the

Moty

MaAall, 776 pp. of 19 bayts,

d,

contains merely
fill

the Ghazals rhyming in

which in the preceding copy

160 pages,

probably the second out of three or four volumes,

it

begins

386

PERSIAN POETRY.
the

[CHAP.
is

II.

A splendid copy of
As. Soc. No. 54, small
for

Dywan

of the Ghazals of Qayib,

it

in the

folio

about 700 pp. of 38 bayts,

like the Selecta:

was written
*^l

Shah

'abbas,

and begins

is&

*^l /-^ *x

There has been lithographed at Lncnow, Mocfofay Press, 1264,

12mo. 168 pp. of 12 bayts, a book of selections from the Dywan of Qayib under the title of <^JLo ^^j* v *^. We are informed in a
1

short preface which

is

in prose, that

Darwysh
?f^

'amilayiy

Balkhy paid

visit

to Qayib at Ispahan, and having obtained his Dywan, he

made
The

selections
call

from

it

which he called JUs^l

some authors however

them &=*! ^^j, the

is

latter I suspected is the correct title.

printed Intikhab

founded upon them and contains Ghazals and

:

Euba'ys and begins

There
entitled
is

a splendid

J& pjj&>j* Sj ^^a* O^j** MS. in the Moty Ma&all, 444 pp.
[?*.
J;
;

of 19 lines

j&

ifiitf containing verses of Qayib,

as,

most of which are

descriptions of various objects

a mirror, arrow, bow, peacock, &c.

It begins

In the Topkhanah, (250 pp. 40 bayts) a copy of the same work has
the
title of

J^^'slr*

It is totally different from the lithograph-

ed selections from the Dywan of Qayib.

In the Asiatic Society, No. 666,

inscribed

352 pp. 14 bayts

is

MS.

v*^ J *^'
1

*!/*

It

is

a serapa or description of the

beauty of the

human

figure,

and consists of verses taken from the

Dywan

of Qayib, they are arranged under 21 chapters, containing

the description of the eyebrows, eye, nose, &c. and the verses in

each chapter are alphabetically arranged.

This no doubt
it

is

the

genuine Mirat aljamal, and like the preceding work

has nothing in

common with

the Intikhab printed at Lucnow.

Beginning

(187)

iJjf'*-*&*4. \jb>
Cup-bearer, a
p. 243, of

(P-) of

The

poem by Molla Mohammad Cufy

Amol, or according to the Atishkadah,

Ispahan.

No. 189.]

chand.
this

387
(see pp.

He composed
supra).

poern in

1000

33 and 88
Beginning

Moty

Ma/iall,

28 pp. of 11 bayts.

(188)

'&*if

(P.)

The Nosegay of Love, a Mathnawy containing the story of Kamrup, by Tekchand Chand a son of Balram. At the
end was the date of the composition, but
it

has been torn

away.

From

the introduction

it

appears that the poet

flourished under 'alamgyr,

and that he was a native of

Biiryah in Sahrand.

Bg.

^d/t^d/^)

*&

l(ji |)S

dyf# JUL*

j^ ^^j ^U*,

Topkhanah, 190 pp. of 16 bayts.

(189)

^dyy
when
fifty

(P.)

The Dywan of Nitzam aldyn Ma^mud b. al-ffasan Hosayny of Shyraz, who had the takhalluc of Da iy. He
informs us in the preface that in 865,
age, he collected the

years of

poems which he had made during

the preceding forty years into a

Dywan.

Taqyy Kashy,
*l*Lu

No. 166, says that he was of the school

Allah, and he praises his

of Ni'mat

Mathnawy

called *uU*.

Ilahy

says he

was a

disciple of

Ni'mat Allah, and as

him.

this saint

died in 827 he

may have known

Walih, Nos. 4

and

16, distinguishes

between Shah Da'iy and Da'iy

sufficient

Shyrazy but apparently without

author divides his

grounds.

The

Dywan
3

into three parts

388
Beginning of

PERSIAN POETRY.
1

[CHAP.

II,

st

part

*U)
:

*u ^U*

^y \y ^\
J^b
aJU
)

Beginning of 2nd part

ls^-I ^j
l;U

dj\j* d\jj>)
*i

Beginning of 3rd part

Moty
Mafoill,

&*s* ^xi

j^I

346 pp. of 17 bayts, a beautiful copy.

(190)

ojo j* cljUI;

(P.)

Tetrastiches of the great Ctify poet

betical order.

Myr Dard in

alpha-

He was

a son of 'andalyb and a disciple

of Shah Gulshan and died in 1199 (see p. 218 supra.)

Tdpkhanah, 80 pp. of 10 bayts, written in 1202 by

aldyn iZbsayny, whose takhalluc was Mahir, and
in pp. 252 and 223 supra.

Myr Fakhr
mentioned

who

is

(191)

oX*OjO &\yo
of

(P.)
in
1 1

The Dywan
(see pp.

Dardmand, who died

76 or 11 79,

219, 194, 155, 150). It contains merely Ghazals.

Topkhanah, 18 pp. of 12 bayts, this copy contains probably merely

extracts.

(192)

Jj6 O\yo
of

(P.)

The Dywan
Ytisof 'alyy

Darky
and
p.

of

Qomm,

he was a contem-

porary of Shah 'abbas and died in the Deccan (Walih

Khan

92 supra).
Beginning

Contents: Ghazals, 400 pp. 15 bayts; Ruba'ys, 10 pp.

12 bayts.

No. 194.]

DZARRAH.

389

Topkhanah, a very beautiful copy.

(193)

ijj

gjp
the

(P.)
gives us
fol-

The Dywan
the date,
1

of

88,

Myrza Bhuchchu Dmrrah, he when he completed this book in

JjJXs^
+xa.j

lowing
*xcx

Ruba y.

M
1;

:]

J-* ^iLi

\^>j

c^jJU

K2?]tjjLl 4*c

It contains

Ghazals, some Tarjy'bands, &c.

Bg.

(not legible)
first

ijM

)j

*>

^V

***- **

l^^

Moty

MaAall, the

half wanting, 132 pp. 13 bayts.

(194)
Qacydahs

^
is

LJti-J

^Ui

in praise of the principal

^
it

(P.)

Shaykhs of the

Qadiry order of Darwyshes, by Mo/iyy aldyn Dzawqy, a

son of Abu-1-jETasan of Pillawr near Cawnpore.

The author says

Qacydah

in a short preface

which

is

in prose,

that he wasted six days

in praise of a

on

this

composition.

Every

Shaykh

or saint beginning

with Mohammad, and every verse in

ends with the

name

of the respective saint.

Beginning

As. Soc. No. 838 about 100 pp. of 15 bayts, written in 1189.

(195)

^0 ^o V^'l cM d*fj*
selections

(P.)

The Sugar Pot of Imagination, being the Dywan of Dzawqy of Belgram.

from

Beginning

390

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

Lithographed Lucnow,

Mo^afy

Press, 1262, 8vo.

\*)]^>.

20 pp. on the

margin

is

a Persian cookery book, called ***i

(196)

*?*?,&
of

The Dywan
was
on a

Myrza Fapyhy Anoary

of Herat.

He
was

in the service of

Mortadha Quly Sharalu and a conthis poet

temporary of Jfakym Shifayiy, and when

visit

to //bsayn

Khan Shamlu, governor

of Herat,

they wrote satyres against each other.

several times to

He

intended

come
to

to India, but

was prevented by his

1

countrymen who were proud of

sent his

his fame, but in

004, he

Dywan
Jalal

Agra

Among
p.

his pupils are

Natzim
in

Herawy,

Asyr and Darwysh Walih, he died

1046 (Arzii; A'tishhadah

91,127, 113). Contents Ghazals
:

204; and supra pp. 151,

09 pp. of 1 3 bayts

Ruba ys

1 1

pp.

Beginning of Ghazals
C^xzz" ^jUi^J \jl$

)j

C~J

j.j)A kS-J.^ &$

Qacydahs about 100 pp. and again Ruba'ys 20 pp. Beginning of Qacydahs

Topkhanah, two copies, one without the Qacydahs

1126, the Qacydahs begin in this copy

As. Soc. No.

<y)M v^j*

k;

v*\j

^iA

(J*

the text of this copy seems to differ widely from the

at the

Lucnow copies,
(jLsrH

end

is

a short Mathnawy.

Beginning

s#>jlj a^. aJj|

(197)

'J^^JvLS'ibj
of

ail*

3^*^41

(P.)

The Loves
(see p.

Shah and Mah, a Mathnawy by Fadhly

92 supra).

The

title is

a chronogram for 1051,

No. 198.]
the year

FADHLY.
it

391

when

was composed.

The number

of verses

12,260,

is

stated

somewhat

figuratively at the

end of the

poem

0^? tUl:

0J

c^~aj

tX-tf

^j

0^1 ^.^ &Ua

jj>

As^I

Bg. *wU*Ojlkft.
Topkhanah, a
fair

LS^il j^l
copy.

f^^^ <j^

^'

(198)

j?Z Jyji
of

(P.)

The Dywan
he
has
the

used the takhalluc of

J?akym Faghfur Lahijy. He also Qasmy and Myr. In Abu Z&lib name of iifakym Mohammad .Hbsayn

Faghfur Yazdy.
he

He was

of a Sayyid family of Lahy-

jan in Gylan, and possessed almost every accomplishment:

knew Arabic

well,

composed beautiful melodies, wrote

an elegant hand, was a clever chess-player and excelled

as a physician, in this art he

was a pupil of his uncle

seems also to have posis

Taj aldyn jffosayn who was a pupil of the celebrated

Qadr alshary'at Gylany.

sessed

He

some

skill

in arithmetic, and

the author of a

useful treatise on counting with the fingers ^Lc) <J^^jd.

After he had visited, partly on account of political disturbances, Mazanderan, Adzarbayjan and Armenia, he

came

to Ispahan

which was then a great

seat of learning,

and made the acquaintance of

i7akym

Shifayiy and other

men

of note.

Being a

man

of independent fortune, he
his subsistence

was not under the necessity of gaining

by

writing panegyrics on great men, yet he was received with

392

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

great distinction by 'alyy Quly

Khan Sh&mlu, who

held

In 1012, he a high office at the court of Shah 'abbas. went to India, on the road he made several poems in praise of the Khankhanan, for which he received the

most

liberal presents,

and he was introduced by him to

in

Shah Parwyz, a son of Jahangyr, who took him

into his service.

1025

He
folio

died at Ilahabad in 1028 or 1030.

(Mdhthire Rah.

627 and supra pp. 151, 91.) The Dywan contains Qacydahs, most of them in

praise

of

Shah Parwyz, and Ghazals.

and end,

As the copy

is

defective
it

in the beginning
for 1024.

I take

a chronogram from

Moty

Ma/jall about 150 pp. of 23 lines, the margin covered with

text, beautifully written.

(199)

Jli Jyji

(P.)

The Dywan of Abii-1-nitzam Jalal aldyn Mohammad Falaky Shirwany. He was born in a place called Shamajy ^^U-i and he, as well as Anwary, was a pupil of
Abii-l-'ola of

Ganjah, some authors say that Anwary was

a pupil

of Falaky.

His patron was Manushihr Shirof Shirwan.

left

wanshah, the ruler

He was

skilled

in

mathematics and astrology and

subject.
It is

a book on the latter

the predilection for this science, which

induced him to choose the takhalluc of Falaky (the

of the spheres

man

of heaven) though according to Ulugh

Beg it was an unhappy choice. He died in 577. Taqyy Kashy has seen about 7000 verses of his, and Ami Talib
3000.

Beginning of the Qacydahs

No. 201.]

fa'ny.

393

Moty

Ma/iall,

two
in

copies,

one 12mo. 72 pp. of 14 or 15 bayts,

is

written at

Agra

an elegant hand in 1015, prefixed

a short bio-

graphy of the author.

(200)

J\i
of Molla

yfafi

(P.)
of Kashmyr, he
in

The Dywan
was

MoMn

Fdniy

in poetry a pupil of Molla Qarfy

Kashmyry, and

Cufism a disciple of the Shaykh Mo^ibb Allah Il&habady.

For some time he held the

office

of the Cadarat

of Ilahabad and was

much

respected, but

when SuMan

Murad-bakhsh conquered Balkh, a copy of the Dywan of

Mo^sin was found

in the library of

Nadzr Mohammad

Khan, the fugitive sovereign of that kingdom, which

contained panegyrics on

him

Shahjahan was so much

enraged at his duplicity, that he removed him from his

post, but he allowed

his

native

instructing

him a pension. Faniy returned to country Kashmyr, and spent his time in young men. He was enamoured of a public

woman
Tzafar

of the

name

of Najy,

with

whom

unfortunately
to

Khan

fell

also in love,

and their rivalry led

in 1081

enmity between them.

Faniy died
verses.

and

left

a
p.

Dywan
254
;

of 6000

or

7000

(Mirat alkhiydl,

Arzu, and supra pp. 113, 117, 116.)

This copy of the

Dywan

contains merely Ghazals.

**F*"

Beginning
Moty

\j

)jo

^\ Jlty*

oM

^'^^

MaAall, 48 pp.

(201)

^JU jlOAJ 6*x **\} *>Ul m

(P.)

b.

The Qacydahs of Khwajah Mohammad Mo'yn aldyn Mo/jammad b. Ma// mud Dihdar Fdniy. He came to
3 E

394

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

India and stood in high favour with 'abd al-RaAym the

Khankhanan.
on

He

died in 1016 and

left

several
,

works

Cufism as Zk

jl
{

^{sAj **U

W" *UU

The Dywan
Tarjy'bands.
jyJij cJ>

contains besides Qacydahs, which are in

praise of God, and the prophet, and the

Imams,
^*

also a few

Beginning
*$

^d >yjj

y.Jt

^F

&y^ J
lines,

^ fo^f} ^-H^
J
-

Moty
in 1030.

MaAall, 8vo. 388 pp. of 17

a beautiful copy, written

(202)

SU*

lS*~*)

Jo c^aa

(P.)

The seven
dedicated
it

Sweet-hearts, a
to

Mathnawy by Faniy who

seven stories related

Akbar.

It contains

in seven nights.

Beginning

Topkhanah, about 100 pp. 32

lines.

(203)

y*
of

^
In
1 1

(P.)

The Dywan
to

Myr Shams
still

aldyn Faqyr, he had also

79, he

the takhallug of Maftun.

went from Dilly

Lucnow, and he was

alive in

1180 when Yiisof

'alyy

Khan

wrote.
1 1

Abu
80,

Tk\\h says in one place that he

was drowned in
he farther

and in other places he says, in 1181,

he
left

states that

about 15,000 verses.

(See

pp. 158 and 223 supra.) Contents Qacydahs, in praise of the prophet, the
:

Imams,

&c. also logogriphs

and chronograms, 44 pp.

Beginning *^Iwl iJt&j$ \j?*

&**? r* u^'

No. 205.]

faqyk.
the title

395

Mathnawy which has

lu^* y^i
1

and

contains the story of

Ram

Chand, the son of the Betel

56, the title
is

Vender, 82 pp.

1 1

lines

composed in

chronogram.

Bg.

J>^

jjJSJ)

tui v%)r**j\ **

*&

*!*-*

^a Ui^U^.

Ghazals

104 pp.; Ruba'ys

12 pp.

Beginning of

Ghazals

Motj

Ma^all, the autograph written in 1157

Tdpkhanah, a

copy-

bearing the seal and signature of the author, the seal bears the
date 1160; As. Soc. No. 1223, 128 pp. 13 bayts, a bad copy,
contains merely the Grhazals and Buba'ys.
it

(204)

y&

UayU?

eJ

lkL"

ty isj&*
who
is

(P.)

The Loves

of the Poet Walih,

the author of the

Tadzkirah, see pp. 132 supra, and of Khadyjah Begam,

the daughter of

Hasan

'alyy

Khan, by Faqyr who comin the following

posed this poem in 1160,

verses

as stated

^^
^ikL,
.

J>)

^dy& ytUi

L _5^

U^^j

J>&

ftp

It contains

3,230 bayts and begins

)&jtf

(J-***
;

site*

*^>&a &"**

^L? <-^
lines.

Fara/i-bakhsh copied in 1161

As. Soc. No. 464, 332 pp. 11

(205)

y^\ J+&
*^J^

(P.)
in praise of
olj-s*^
.

The Noon-Sun,
the Imams,
it is

Mathnawy by Faqyr,

therefore also called tyo.**

3 E 2

396

PERSIAN POETRY.
composed
it

[CHAP.
and
it

II.

He

in

1249

76 = 1173

contains

more than 8000

verses as stated in these words

Beginning^*!

*>}<*

tdt

I jpaj

jj^f5^ Jy vs^U*

Fara^-bakhsh, 280 pp. 31

lines.

(206)

AJ$\ iiJ
of Youth, a short

(P.)

The Present

Mathnawy composed

by Faqyr in 1143 as stated in the conclusion

TopkhaDah, In a note which I have taken of a volume of the Moty

Ma^all containing
the author
is

this

written

^^Ua

and the preceding Mathnawy, the name of ^oJi ^yt^j^c ^^-^r** 3U

(207)

^64*
It begins

L!

oJy

(P.)
a Math-

The Birth and nawy by Faqyr.

Miracles of
:

Imam Mahdiy,

Topkhanah, 300 pp. 17

lines.

(208)

*j l^LIT
9

(P.)

Complete poetical works of Abu-1-Hasan

called Ni'maty, because his father

Fard who
saint

is

was the

Shah

Ni'mat Allah, and he

a

is

also called

Mojyby, because Mojyb

man of great

learning and sanctity was his grandfather.

No. 210.]

FARYD.

397

Fard followed the profession of his ancestors

saint

that of a

and died
:

in 1265.

two Dywans of Ghazals 338 pp. and 465 pp. Rubays, Qacydahs and Mathgenerally of 20 bayts Beginning nawies, &c. from p. 466 to 586.
Contents
;

Printed, Calcutta, 1268, 4to. in two volumes.

(209)

> yy^
Story composed by Farigh in
1

(P.)

A Poetical
we know

000.

All
learn

regarding the author and his poem,

:

we

from the following verses

jkae**

&^* Jjju Jbxt

&j&

jrfUfa &L&

JU ^js

*S

It is dedicated to

Shah 'abbas and begins

Moty

Ma&all, 8vo. 90 pp. defective at the end.

(210)

JH j tfjp
of Faryd aldyn
is

(P.)
(the squinting)

The Dywan
whose takhalluc

A^wal

Faryd.

He was
first
I.

a native of Isfarayn

in Khorasan, but he

came

to celebrity at Ispahan,

Adzor

p.

247 and Khoshgu

No. 180 are therefore of

opinion that he was a native of Ispahan.

clever poet

He was

and very good musician.

As soon as his

merits
talents

were acknowledged he went to Shyraz, and his

were an introduction
for

him

to the court of the

Atabuks,

398
at

PERSIAN POETRY.
his
life.

[CHAP.

II.

which he spent the greater part of

He wa9
Wazyr
of

a contemporary and rival of

patron Khwajah Nitzam aldyn

Imamy and by Abu Bakr,

left

order of his

the

of 'adhod aldyn Sa'd, several poetical contests took place

between them.

He

died at Ispahan and

Dywan,

which Taqyy Kashy has seen 5000 verses.

shah 3
;

(Dawlat-

Khol. alaslidr, No. 44.)

This copy of his

Qi/'ahs,

Dywan

contains Qacydahs and a few

most of his poems are in praise of 'adhod aldyn

b.

Abu Bakr

Aby

Nacr, one

is

on Spring and some on

moral subjects.

Beginning

Moty

Ma7*all,

38 pp. 44 bayts

a splendid copy.

(211)

^f &P

(P)

The Dywan of Myrza Mo//ammad Moqym Fawjy. He at Shyraz and his takhalluc, which means campaigner, is derived from his early profession. He came to India and was attached to the service of Shah Shuja',
was born
a son
of Shahjahan

and resided in Bengal.*

After

a long residence in India he made the pilgrimage to

Makkah, and returned

and supra

to his fatherland but died a short

time after his arrival (Arzii; Shyr

p. 96.)

Khan Lody,

p.

259

We
1

find
:

in his

Dywan

the follow-

ing chronogram for

059

* Sarkhiish of whose Tadzkirah, I consulted two copies, one belonging to

me and
the

one to Mr. Hall, says simply

113 supra).

v^ ^
1

l/C '

*J

^^V

LSb*"

j'

t^j9
one of

tojijr9 (see p.

I fear

this notice is incomplete, for in

Lucnow

copies of Sarkhush,

it is

stated that

Fawjy came under Shah-

jahan to India.

No. 212.]
Contents
:

FAYDH.
Qacydahs and Tarjy'bands,
1

399
10 pp. 19 bayts.

Ghazals, 210 pp. 14 lines.

Beginning

Ruba'ys, Ma/la's, Chronograms, 40 pp. Moty MaAall, a good copy.

(212)

ju dy.d

(P.)

The Dywan
and
theologist,

of the distinguished mystical philosopher

Molla MoAsin Kashany, whose takhalluc

as a poet
called

was Faydh, and he was therefore commonly

Akhiinde Faydh.

He was

nephew

of

Mawlana

Dhiya aldyn Nuray Kashy, and

in tradition a pupil of

Bahay

(see p.

369 supra), and of Sayyid Majid Bokharay

and he was by marriage connected with the philosopher

Cadra Shyrazy. MoAsin, says
harmony.

A dzor, succeeded to
Shah

bring

reason and positive religion, and dialectics and Cufism

into

He

flourished under

'abbas II.

who

treated

him with

great respect, and he has written a great

number

of works

many

of which will he described in

their respective places.

A dzor

mentions ^-*l

v^
*-**fl

and

^jLe lAjS which are two commentaries on the Qoran,

^juU/o

and

l!j

v^

on Hadyth and Law, and

%**

on

ethics.

He
his

died at
is

Kashan under

or after

Shah Solaysee

man, and
p.

tomb

a place of pilgrimage (A'tiskkddah,

for a further notice

330; Walih, No. 122,

Contents:

the

chapter on Cufism).

preface in prose 21 pp. 18 lines, containtitle

ing a vocabulary of Ciify terms, which has the

jlyU'I.

of

He

says that mystical poetry

is

of five kinds
it

either true love

^^^

^&c

is

poetically described or

400

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

consists of dithyrambs, in
desire to

which the poet describes his

meet the beloved, or he describes the beauty of

the divinity which he beholds in the mirror of the perfection of the

human figure,

or he writes moral sentences,

or he paints the love of the initiated (literally of the

perfect saint).

On

the

first

four subjects

Faydh wrote a

book called " the desire of love"

fifth

jr^
title

J^
of

and on the

he wrote one which has the

^r^JI
its

jj*t.

Subesequently he divided the Shawke 'ishq into

four

constituent parts and gave to each part a separate name,

viz;
^ysf]

1,

Desire of
;

Love

<>oJl

j^x

2,

Desire of Truth

jj^i

3,

Desire of Beauty

J^^l

J^

4,

Desire of

Perfection JUd! j^i.

He gives
&c.

to expressions like the curl,

the

mole,
is

the

cheek,

the

metaphorical meaning
It

which

explained in the Gulshane Raz.

first

appears this

copy contains only the

find
sists

part, viz. the jj-^oJI jj^A for I

no such division

in it as

mentioned above.

It con-

of Qacydahs, alphabetically arranged, 24 pages of

18 bayts.

They begin
1

^UJ

g*> uflj-

^^^

^JUJ jew

uflij

^ dU ^

Ghazals,

86 pages and some Ruba'ys

Mdty

MaAall, an elegantly written copy.

(213)

j^\

(R)

The Garden

of Grace or of Faydh, a

Mathnawy by
is

Faydh al-i?asan of Saharanpore, whose takhalluc

Faydh, composed in 1263.

Beginning

Lithographed, Lucnow, Mortadby press,

covered with text.

s.

A.

36 pp. the margin

No. 215.] (214)

FAYDHY.

401
(P.)
(see pp.

^
m
:

e.UT

Complete poetical works of Faydhy

127, and

62 supra).
he
left in all

According to Taqyy Aw^ady apud Arzu,

about 20,000 verses.

Contents

preface in prose 6 pp.

1

Qacydahs, Tarjy'-

bands and Marthiyahs

U5JI

94 pp. of

7 bayts.
ar>)
**

Bg.

jr

Jtimm.JkiSl

jy

v_y

1^1

;n

ly,

sJj

u -

Ghazals in alphabetical order about 400 pp. Beginning U Jj J^^o ^s^ *ilw>

wX

:!

An

Arabic poem without dots, Mo'ammas, chrono-

grams, Mania's, Ruba'ys, &c. about 200 pp.

As. Soc. No. 911, an elegant copy
;

Moty Ma^all without

the

Qacydahs 406 pp. of 13 bayts, written, in 1004; Ibidem another copy containing the Qacydahs and preface in prose, 584 pp. of 21
bayts.

(215)

)\)*\

fj*

(P.)

The Centre of Circles, a Mathnawy by Faydhy. This poem is also called u*i' ?VHf

In the

Lucnow copy

is

a postcript to this poem, which

contains very interesting details regarding the literary

labours and plans of the author, and I therefore insert

here.

it

*-^

UV^ ^ ^lr^

*"<>

**&

c$r*'

(^c5~ tN"

^yDjJtJ

\j^xjj)yb A*w j\^) jSj* J\jJ\

^ys" y]y

^-U

^j*

3 F

402.

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP. IE

a^Ui *%Jij>

c*^

{J^j

<-

*^ j^LjdLi

^^-^ ^lyAUj

Beginning

*i^ f*Ue

\j>*Aj
;

$y i~
Moty

*^' f*=t^ u/*^/'

f^
4

Topkhanah, 180 pp. of 15 bayts bayts As. Soc, 32 pp. of 60 bayts.

;

MaAall, 122 pp. of 21

(216)

^oJS
uftf > *-&j*

(P.)

Nal Daman, a Mathnawy by Faydhy.

Beginning /$j#

Lithographed at Lucnow, Mortadhy press, 1263, 144 pp. in three columns, one column covering the inner hashiyah, on the outer
hashiyah
is

a short gloss.

Lithographed, Calcutta, 1831, 8vo.

(217)

jSU .Jy*

(P.)

The Dywan
Rubays.

of Fayiz (see pp. 127 and 158 supra).

Contents: Ghazals 94 pp. of 15

bayts and a few

Beginning

Moty

Ma^all, a fair copy.

(218)
"

acLujU

(P.)

priest of the Parsi

The George-nam ah of Mulla Feruz bin Kawus, chief Kadmis of Bombay, edited by his

No. 220.]

figha'ny.

403
litho-

nephew Mulld Rustam bin Kaykobad, Bombay,

pp. and

graphed by R. Prera, 1837, 3 volumes 8vo. 400 pp. 702

833 pp. of 21 bayts of

its

text.

The book

contains a

history of India from

discovery by the Portuguese to

the conquest of

Punah by
it

the English in
first

1817, the

author says that he completed the

volume in 1814,

and there

is

a portrait in

representing
:

him

at the

age

of seventy-three years.

First verse

(219)

i^oi
of

Jtf
is

(P.)

The Dywan

Fidwy who

flourished in the middle of

the eleventh century of the Hijrah, as

shown by

several

chronograms contained among his poems

1

for 1051, 1057,

059, &c.

Contents: Ghazals, 160 pp. of 26

lines,

Qacydahs, a

Mathnawy, Ruba'ys, &c. 33 pp. 26

lines.
;

Beginning
v_/L>

UJ)ls^lj3 cyt^a^. sJ\ ,*a\c *JU*

Topkhanah, a good copy.

(220)

JUi d \yo M
of

(P.)

The Dywan
of letters, and

Baba Fighany

of

Shyraz.

His father

being an artizan, he was not brought up for the profession

it

was

his extraordinary talent for poetry

which caused him

to

abandon his original vocation.

Arzu

says, as the poets of

left

Khorasan did not appreciate

his

his compositions, he

home and went

to Sul/an

3 F 2

404
Ya'qtib.

PERSIAN POETRY.
This would imply that he
first

[CHAP.

II.

tried his luck

at the court of Sultan

JYosayn Myrza and Myr 'alyy

Shyr

for

under " the poets of Khorasan" no doubt the

poets which surrounded that court are meant.

Samy
Tabryz

and Taqyy Kashy

relate

that he proceeded to

and was soon acknowledged by the

literati of that part

of the country, as the best poet of the age.

tion

His reputaconferred

recommended him
title

to Sultan Ya'qiib

who

the

of

Baba

or

Babaye Sho'ara upon him and

After the death

appointed him his principal court poet.

AbyAs he was a confirmed drunkard, the governor of that place allowed him two pounds of meat and two pints of wine a day. Finally he came so far in his vice
ward.
that he allowed himself to be employed as a porter by

of his patron he went to Khorasan and settled at

the people of the wineshop.

Towards the end of

his life

he went to Mashhad, and when Shah Isma yl took that

town he made a

celebrated

Qacydah on Imam Miisa and

died in 925.
is

in praise of the shah.

He

He
of

is

one of the best Ghazal writers, and

therefore

called the little Hafitz,

6000

verses of his. (Bland,

Taqyy Kashy has seen a Dywan A Cent of Pers. Ghazals

pp. 16 bayts.

Samy, No. 215). Contents: Qacydahs 9

Beginning

Ghazals in alphabetical order, 268 pp. 16 bayts.

b
us?!***

Bg.

e/^ *k Jy t^y^

\i

ufty */ J^6 y (k **^ j* url

;

Moty
ing.

MaAall, an old clear copy, at the end some pages are wantlines

Another copy 402 pp. 15

;

copies without the Qacydahs

;

are very frequent

in

As. Soc. 1397, 222 pp. 14 bayts

two copies are

my

collection.

No. 222.]

FIRDAWSY.

405
(P.)

(221)

Ksfi

^Ubj

The Ruba ys of Sayyid Mohammad Fikry of Herat who was originally a weaver, and is therefore called Jamah-baf. He came in 969 to India and gained, through his great He talents for making epigrams, the favour of Akbar. died in India in 973. The chronogram on his death ^jkj j&* dy^j'a^. (see pp. 52, 62, 44 supra, the is mistake of Taqyy Kashy in supposing that he was still
alive in

985

is

to be accounted

for

tance).

by the great disSpecimen

M6ty MaAall 74

pp. the

commencement

is

wanting.

(222)

aoUaU

(P.)

The Shah-namah or book of kings by Firdawsy. Firdawsy means the Paradisian, and is the takhalluc of Abii1-Qasim ifasan (or Mancur) b. Is^aq. Some authors
say that he chose this takhalluc because his father was

gardener in a garden called Firdaws.

He

was born near

to find redress

Tus

in A.

H. 328.

He came

to

Ghaznah

against the oppression which his family suffered at the

hands of the governor of Tus. Sultan Mafonud the conqueror of India

who

resided at

Ghaznah had formed the

plan of having the poetical records of the history of Persia

put into a new garb, and he entrusted various poets of

his court with episodes to put

them

into verse.

Firdawsy

in his place

had

at

Tus,

at the suggestion of his teacher

Asady, been engaged in the same task.

his arrival at

Not long

after

Ghaznah, Ma^miid having seen

his per-

406

PERSIAN POETRY.
all

[CHAP.

II.

formance, gave him the preference over

his court poets,

and entrusted him with the completion of the work.

first

At

he was liberally rewarded by the king, but subse-

quently owing to the intrigues of the minister

Maymandy

he was obliged to leave the court of Ma/2mud and wrote

satyres against him.

He

died at

Tus

in 411.

Mohammad

'awfy says that 20,000 verses of the Shah-

namah are by Daqyqy, and the other 60,000 by Firdawsy. Taqyy Kashy further informs us that the last 4000 verses are by Asady who completed the book at the
request
to this

of Firdawsy during his last illness.

According

account the Shah-namah

copies
It

would have 80,000

verses, but the

now

extant, contain from

46

to

56,000 verses.
account
that
in

appears

from

Mohammad
years
ago,

'awfy's

his time,

670

complete

copies of the

Shah-namah were

rare, the text usually

"The Selection c^UliJ from the Shahnamah" made by Khwajah Mas'ud. This statement gives us a clue for explaining why the MSS. now extant differ so much in the number of verses we may suppose
read

being

that

some

copyists of

the

selections

referred

to

the

original,

and enlarged them by making farther extracts

from

it.

The name of Daqyqy was, according to the Atishkadah, Mancur b. Kkmad, he was a native of Bokhara and flourished under the

Samanide dynasty, and

in A.

it

is

said that

he put the story of Gustasp into verse by order of

b.

Nuh
died

Mancur who was deposed

H. 387.

Asady Tusy was the teacher of Firdawsy.

portion of the

He

during the reign of Mas'ud the son of Ma//mud, his

Arabs into

Shah-namah begins with the inroad of the He is also the author of a poem Persia.

No. 224.]
called

FIRYBY*

407

Gershasp-namah **U <^~l*/ and of some Qacydahs

and of dialogues containing disputations.

I

have given a

full

notice of

made the

Selections from the

Khwajah Mas' (id who Shah-namah in the Journal

of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. 22 p. 442.

He

died in 525 and left three thick Dywans, one in the

Persian, one in the Arabic and one in the Hindustany

language of that day.

poet

He

is

the

earliest

Musalman
have any

who

wrote in Hindustany of

whom we

account.

Beginning

dj j

^^

txijA*. *U>.

Fine MS. copies are frequent. The first complete edition has been made by Major Macan with very great trouble and expense, Calcutta,
1829, 4 vols. 8vo.
;

lithographed at Bombay, 1266, with pictures

edited with a French translation and a very learned introduction, &c.

by Mohl,
complete.
at Dilly
;

Paris, 1838-43, this edition is very splendid

but not yet

An

abridged translation into Urdoo has been lithographed

prose, see

on the abstract of the Shah-namah in Persian

the chapter on history.

(223)

^>^?J

(P)

Yusof and Zalykha, a romantic epose by the author of the Shah-namah. Beginning

Topkhanah, about 400 pp. 19 lines j As. Soc. No. 605. Mr. Morley has promised an edition of this interesting but rare work.

(224)

&.&

(P.)

the

The Dywan of Firyby. According to the postscript name of Firyby was Shahpur and he was of Teheran.

408

PERSIAN POETRY.
verses quoted of poets
in the

[CHAP.

II.

The
and
wan.

of this takhalluc in Walih

in this

Nafdyis almdthir are not found

Ghazals 54 pp. 22
lines,

Dy-

Contents

Ruba ys,

Bg.
Moty

[jfTjUtifl

^ydj\

tj\>

&

]j*

JHj?*

&c. 9 pp. ** *[^ ty

MaAall, a bad copy apparently containing merely selections,

written in 1165.

(225)

ibjkl
of

g^i
who
died in

(P.)
1 1

The Dy wan
137 supra).
Contents
pp.
1
:

Myr

Mo'izz Fitrat

06

and not in 1101

as stated

above

(see pp. 109, 128, 151,

Qacydah

in praise of 'alyy

Ghazals 200

8 bayts.

Beginning of Ghazals

Topkhanah, defective at the end

As. Soc. No. 1397, in this copy

and in one copy of the Topkhanah, the Ghazals begin

There

is

another copy in the As. Soc. No. 873, containing Ghazals

and Buba'ys, alphabetically arranged 88 pp. 1 6 bayts. ***** ** L?J*i *? b Ob

Bg.

f~*

i'*

*&

(226)

c^i
of

tfa*
Furpal.
died under

(P.)

The Dywan

MoAammad Beg
see also p.

He was

in

the service of Shah

'abbas II. and

Shah

Solayman (Walih;
merely Ghazals.

127 supra).

It contains

Beginning

Topkhanah, 170 pp 15 bayts, probably merely extracts.

No. 228.] (227)

gha'lib.

409
(P.)

Uvkft*
from
its

***H

The History

of the Qo/obshahian dynasty of Golconda,

commencement to Mohammad Quly, composed by Hosayn 'alyy Shah Fursy ^*y in

in 18,600 verses,

1016.

Beginning ^Ux^lj^AL^iU- ^j^^J^h jJ^s^ ^Ic^**^ Mdty MaAall, 480 pp. of 40 lines written in 1019 at Lahdr As.
;

Soc.

No. 50,

it

was

like the other

copy written at Lahdr and has the

35, folio

same number of pages.

bayts defective. In the
^AUoJail uj jiy
it is

In the As. Soc. No.

272 pp. of 38

commencement
in

divided into four

;

poem which has the title of cantos aJl&*> and appears to be

is

an abstract of the Nasab-namah

luc of Fursy, but in the postcript

page 5

line

6 occurs the takhal-

it is

ascribed to Hira Lai Khoshdil,

his takhalluc also appears in

the

Munshiy of IZaydar Quly Khan, and poem

J*i
j*>

Of**-

**

tS)!^

j&^ *

c^f

k'<>^

(228)

jbJl yjJ \o*S\

for the

jJc^^w^JU ^\y*
Sa'd Ghdlib.

(P.)

Gardens
the

Eyes of the Crowds of Lovers, being

Dywan

of

Mohammad

He

informs us

in the preface that

he devoted himself from childhood to

that he was

poetry and read

sixty years of age

into this
its

many poetical works, and when he collected his

productions

Dywan,

at the

end he gives us the date, 1101, of

completion

Contents

preface in prose.

Beginning
Ghazals

^^V

<^*]y> jJ

vjh*\ fJL^i^

m-L
short

170 pp. of 17 bayts; Tarjy'bands,

Mathnawies, Ruba'ys, &c. 96 pp. Beginning of Ghazals, \j fL&* Mdty Ma^all, a very fine copy.
3

^ J ^y,

J> cJ^rfVsr'

410
(229)

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

^M ^tfH p *jU*
of

(P.)

The Qacydahs

Myr Fakhr

aldyn

Mohammad Ho-

sayny Ghdlib, he says at the end that he completed this

collection in the 6th year of

Mohammad Shah
*&

1 1

36.

Beginning ^J&jj* Mdty MaAall, 226 pp. of

&& ^
'JiJL

^J*-y" J^^

&4

) ^j*

8 bayts, apparently an autograph.

(230)

uJtt
of

The Dywan
is

(P.) &}* Myrza Asad Allah Khan Ghdlib, who

<U|
\jy>

6-1

now, 1853, alive at Dilly

is

(see p. 228).

am

told that

he

engaged at the request of the king of Dilly in com-

piling a history of the

Moghol Emperors of India from

^&yi
*->>

Tymur

to this day.
l^**,1 %axs?> a&oUjj
\j

Beginning

Lithographed at Dilly, 1261, 8vo. 506 pp.

(231)

c^^
of
It

The Mathnawy
pp. 127, 113).

(P.) upfe Mohammad Akram Ghanymat (see

title

has the

of <JH^ <-&;*>

it

was com-

posed under Awrangzeb, and contains the story of Shahid

and 'azyz.
Beginning
jJsU. yiy. J$<*. *Ial

J&k*> i-fp
s.

J^U

Axt

Lithographed, Lucnow, Mortadhawy press

pp. of 46 bayts with glosses by

A.

(about 1263), 35

the Topkhanah are two copies

of Ghazals, 150 pp. 11 lines.

MoAammad Q&lih and others. In of the Dywan of Ghanymat, it consists

Beginning

(232)

^i

yl^i

(P.)

The Dywan of Mawlana Mohammad Jahir Ghanyy of Kashmyr, who died in 1079. He was a pupil of Molla

No. 233.]

ghazza'ly.
is
;

411

Mo/;sin Faniy and his takhalluc

a chronogram for the

year in which he chose

it,

viz.

060 Walih has seen about

1

2000 verses of
Contents
:

his (see

supra pp.

13, 107, 151, 127).

a preface in prose by

Myrza Mohammad

Mahir who

collected the

poems

Beginning 4^; &\j*\ j&&jm f \z> d \Js\ Ghazals 1 26 pp. appendix 1 1 pp. containing miscel]

laneous poems

among them chronograms on

d.

the death

of

Kalym

d.

1061, of Ilahy d. 1052, of the

Amyr

al-

omara Islam Khan

Beginning
1;^

1074.
tu'i j)

+&S ^^jo ^a.

tS

^V^

Lithographed, Lucnow, Moctafa press, 1261, 144 pp. with copious marginal notes and a short biography of the author.

(233)

ig*4&* ^Jlji L-%JUJ

c^U jl?|

(P.)

Remnants of youth, this is the title of a Dywan of Ghazzaly of Mashhad, which he dedicated to Akbar. He came early in life from Khorasan to Ardestan in the
'iraq

and

after a long

stay in that city he proceeded to

Kashan.

His poetical talents were of the highest order

and

his

fame spread

all

over Persia, but as he was a

it

great free-thinker

he found

advisable

to expatriate

himself from his native country, and to take refuge in

India where he found a most favorable reception at the

court of

Akbar
it

(see p. 61

throw much

light
is

supra). His poems might upon the philosophy of the time of

therefore

Akbar and
besides this

very desirable that they

be collected and preserved.

Taqyy Kashy has seen

Dywan

another

Dywan

of Ghazals entitled

JU^)

2ui)

and one of Qacydahs named ^'i^js- and he

has
left

believes

that he

a third*

Dywan

of Ghazals

3 G 2

412
which he has not

PERSIAN POETRY.
seen.

[CHAP.

II.

Besides

he composed three

Mathnawies

in imitation of the

Makhzane Asrar which

are entitled >^

^^

|>!**'

**"

\j^

vxj*>

and a Math-

nawy

entitled J^^*" j <>^-c in imitation of

j

Khosraw wa

Shyryn, and one entitled j^}

o^s'* in imitation of Layla

wa Majnun,

he also imitated Katiby and wrote a poem

of 500 verses, which can be read in two metres, has a

double rhyme and abounds in puns

^jo^.
Beginning.

Contents

a preface partly in prose and partly in verse,

lines.

Qacydahs, Tarjy'bands, 76 pp. 15

Ghazals alphabetically arranged 388 pp. 14 bayts. Beginning y \J>\;j J^^ y&j* S^ d^j url

Saqiy-namab, Ruba'ys, Qi/'ahs, &c. 66 pp.

As. Soc. No. 319, a bad copy, written in 1184.

(234)

^-/uy.o
of Giramy.
I

The Dywan
in the

have not been able

to find

Dywan
:

the quotations which occur in Tadzkirahs

this takhalluc.

from poets of
Contents

Ghazals about 800 pp. of 9 bayts.

j ^jyi, ^

Beginning ^kAaA* ^U^U ^yi

e>^
Dywan
is

few Qacydahs,

Ruba ys, Tarjy'bands, &c. 76 pp.

There
is

As. Soc. No. 590, a good copy.

of Girainy in the

a fragment of a

Moty

Ma/iall,

52 pp. 13 bayts, in which mention

to Persia, but I do not

made of Nadir-shah's return from India

whether
this

know

fragment and the above

Dywan

are by the same poet.

(235)

dL>U
of Ghiyath

#y&
and
is

(P.)

The Dywan

Halway, he was of Shyraz

lost his eyesight

but settled at Ispahan, he

there-

No. 238.]
fore called

gula'by.

413

Ghiyathe Kiir, the blind Ghiyath, by Walih.

fall

He

died by a

from the roof of a house under Shah

p. 388).

Cafyy

(see p. 91
:

supra; A'tishkadah
1

Qacydahs 26 pp. of 2 bayts. Beginning ,jM$d d&^ J^r* ) ^H ****' WM^j^i

Contents

*>**

Ghazals

80 pp.

1 1

lines.

They begin
date.

Moty

Ma/mll, au old

MS. without

(236)

ejUw

^i*

* iU

(J^uJ ^J^UJl
Gholam
'alyy

MMW

(P.)

Flashes of the Pure, by

Khan Gholam,

who

it

appears from the preface flourished under 'alamgyr

Awrangzeb, and was a contemporary of Sayyid RaAmat

Allah Kdfiij.
Contents
:

a preface partly in prose and partly in verse

64 pp. a mystical Mathnawy divided into 110 chapters a**J upwards of 1000 pages of 12 bayts. Beginning of

Mathnawy. f&t ^Cj^Ss {&*

As
Soc.

j^J)

j**j\
{

*W ^t

No. 319, a good copy.

(237)

jtifu&J

J?yf <_^=T'ahir

(P.)

The Fascinating
laby,

Sweetheart, a love story in the form

of poetical epistles, by

Khwajah Mohammad
in India in

Gn-

who composed
is
:

it

1133.

The

chrono-

gram
prose

5)^aJI

fjShj.

It

begins after a short preface in

j\

\JjVyl ilS

^dj

d-*i

<^Jb cy\ isKti j

^^

j\

^rj

As. Soc. No. 1206, 500 pp. 11 bayts, an autograph written in 1133.

(238)

JfoU e^LlT

(P.)

Complete poetical works of

Hakym

Hadziq.

He

be-

longed to a family of distinguished physicians which was

414
originally of

PERSIAN POETRY.
Lahyjan
in Gylan.

[CHAP. IL

His grandfather

Hakym
and

'abd al-Razzaq enjoyed a great reputation in Persia

was in high favour with

and with Shah
T

Khan A//mad

the ruler of Gylan

three sons, Abu-1-

7 ahmasp.

He had

Fat^ in whose praise

panegyrics, Niir aldyn

'orfy

and others have written

Qarary and Najyb
After the

Mohammad

aldyn

Humam, who

is

the father of iJadziq.

death of their father, the three brothers went to Ardebyl to prosecute their studies.

And
at

subsequently they

proceeded from
to India.

Ardebyl, in

the disguise of merchants,

They were introduced

court and Abii-1-

Fat^ gained the entire confidence of Akbar and was one

of the most influential

men

about him, but, says Badaw-

ny, he was a great free-thinker.

He

died in 997.

Humam

was

less

distinguishsd than his brother and died in 1004.

Jfadziq was born at Fat//pur Sykry as he informs us

himself.

^hijy'j

j>

tfty

sjh

j;^'c~J

^ 4yf**J$
for

Though he was
tion of his father

not a very good physician the reputa-

and uncle was

an introduction

him and under the patronage

attained to rank and wealth.

of the

Khankhanan he Nacrabady says that he

was extremely
as a poet to

egotistical

and considered himself equal

An wary.

(Mdtkire

Rahymy

fol.

619).

Contents: Ghazals, Qaeydahs, Qi^ahs not alphabetically

arranged and Mathnawies.

Beginning wanting.

Mdty
At

MaAall, au autograph, written in 1033, 476 pp. of 11 lines.

is

the end

the following postcript

j^S*

f^oj/*

&

^>

j\<- )>j

No. 241.]

ha'fitz.
iiiU ^ftyja
of

415
(P.)
llqfiz of

(239)

The Dywan
Shyraz.
sians,

Shams aldyn Mohammad

Sir Gore Ouseley
full

He

is

the greatest Ghazal writer of the Per-

and died in 791.

p.

Not. of Pers.

Poets

23 has given a very

and elegant biography

of this poet, which renders any farther account superfluous.

The Dywan
t

has been arranged by

Mohammad

Gulandam.
Beginning
much read
is

J/> ^

L,fc^l

^IW)

t^l

5)

Beautiful copies of this

Dywan
It
it

are very frequent, yet

it

is

not
this

in upper India.
;

was printed in Calcutta 1791,

the best edit, but rare

has been reprinted, Calcutta 4to. but

without improvement. Lithographed Calcutta, 1826, Cawnpore, 1831,

8vo.
;

Bombay, 1828, small

an independent

4to. carelessly done, the text is indepen;

dent of that of the

again
is

Calcutta editions

ibidem,

1267,

8vo.

this

text, very elegant

but not very correct;

Teheran, Tabryz, Constantinople 1257, Bulak 1256.

(240)

&U ^jA e^Us*

of Uafitz converted into
'alyy.

(P.)

The Ghazals
Contents

Mokhammas'
al-

by a poet of the takhalluc of

:

a short preface in prose.

Mokhammas'
j^

phabetically arranged.

Beninning

\y^

Topkhanah 350 pp.

\S#- ^ l^**^ \j^a.Zs. 5 Mokham. in a page.

%j

^U*

(241)

jU-^l L^^i^ 1^*5

Afdhal (Sarkhush

^ jb-Vl lJ^J
?)

(P.)

Removal of the

Veils from the difficulties of Books,

by
of

Mohammad

of Ilahabad.

He informs
India are

us in the preface, that in this work the

Persian poets which are generally read

difficulties

in

416

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

explained with the exception of the

Mathnawy
it

of Jalal

aldyn Riimy and the /Zadyqah, and that

sixteen treatises
All*;.

consists of

He

probably devoted to every

is

poet a separate treatise, this however

not clearly stated*

This

is

the seventh treatise and contains a commentary

on

jHafitz,

and we gather from

it

that the preceding

number contains a commentary on the Sikandar-namah. The Commentator flourished under Shahjahan. |<x. Xo +AJi.x* ^b Beginning ^i-j ^ J^*^ i i-iijl
*.$

Topkhanah, 180 pp. 17

lines

Moty

MaAall, 136 pp. 23 lines.

(242)

feU

'rfjjo

commentary on the
to

c ^i Dywan of

(P.)
JEZafitz,

erroneously

ascribed
flourished

a book in

Mawlana Hilaly. The anonymous author under Awrangzeb and refers in one instance to the Emperors library. He explaines difficult
meaning
51

verses and tries to force a mystical

into them.
.JW-iJI
1j)

Bg. k-y j

tLoj ^a)

)&

uJ^
:

^xxx3

ui^.

^1
fills

bSI

Major Anderson's
8vo. of 13 lines.
preface, 8vo.
j*ilj

collection, 8vo.

about 50 pp. 24 lines copied in

it

1123 in a crammed hand

I had

it

copied and
is

about 800 pp.

In the Moty MaAall

lines,

a commentary without a
:

256 pp. of 21

which begins
Ijj o**f

&&

o^

3/1

*?\

^f

J/x

iS oj fell LJi j i&j

J^
|

I have a commentary
J\ yff

by an anonymous author, without introduction which begins

loo

o^ cj^jO

^,:i

*^o,

<J^' cslH ^-Lj

*^ &t^ ^j*

^'

(243)

fcU d^lt c^Ll

c>r

(P.)

Commentary on some of the verses of JEZafitz, by Mohammad Ibrahym b. Mohammad Sa'yd. He says in the
preface that though only few verses are explained in this

book,

it

may

be considered as a commentary on the

No. 245.]
whole

ha'latv.

417

Dywan

because in explaining one verse he endea-

voured to throw light on

many

others.
a^j^j)
j\

Beginning e^^o;^^ ^J! <^U*i Al^Ut a^

First verse explained U^aj
ju*|

*jU^

^^ j^"

^y^

Moty MaMl, 110

pp. 23

lines.

(244)

J&*
of Qasim

gjg*
iiZalaty
;

(P.)

The Dywan
brought up
part of his
at

Bg

though born and

Zeheran, he seems to have spent the greater

at

Qazwyn. The time when he flourished is fixed by a number of chronograms for 954, 963, 985, &c. which occur in his Dywan, thus the date of the accession of Shah Isma'yl? 983, is commemorated in the
life

following verse
**ac

^K*&*i A$,>^la. /J^.;^ L^*J

t

l.A

.I^u^^a^c^lal*-^^^

Contents: Ghazals 135 pp. of 15 bayts.

Beginning.

Mo'ammas, Ruba'ys, Qif ahs and chronograms, about

1

00

pp., at the

end are some Qacydahs, &c.

Moty

MaAall, a splendid copy, dated 1011.

(245)

J^y&i'
(see p.

R)

The Dywan
Cayib
It

of Sayyid 'abd Allah Hdly, a pupil of

138 supra).

contains merely Ghazals.

\j

Beginning

^^ -T^^

*lyi &j*

&&J&
In the As. Soc.

As. Soc. No. 704, 176 pp. of 13 bayts, a

fair copy.

No. 910, abont 400 pp. of 15 bayts,

takhalluc

Ya/*ya

b.

Mathnawy by a poet of the of -Haly, a disciple of Khwajah Qotfb adyn Mohammad It is entitled Jte and contains 'obayd Allah.
is

M^

the story of Bihruz and Bahrain.

Beginning wanting,

last verse

418
(246)

PERSIAN POETRY.
0**^ LJukJi
of Innocence, a
**15

[CHAP.

II.

c^^a

(P.)

The Book
of Satin and

poem
is

celebrating the loves

in 101 6, during

Myna, composed by Uamyd

the reign of Jahangyr.

He

probably identical with

Molla jETamyd

who
f~

has written the history of the comreign (see p. 109).

mencement of Shahjahan's

%
Moty

^r^i) }

f$

[]o

y>

^-r^ *W

>

oV

^^
(P.)

MaAall, 56 pp. of 16 bayts, a splendid copy, dated 1097.

(247)

ujl**

^^
Amyr Najm
He
aldyn
JF/asan

The Dywan
name
ple of

of Khwajah, or

Hasan
his

Sinjary, a son of 'ala aldyn of Dilly.

as well as his takhalluc.
life

was

spent the greater

part of his

in his native city, Dilly,

and was a

disci-

Nitzam aldyn Awliya and an intimate

and Dhiya Barany.

friend of

Amyr Khosraw
says of

The

latter

author

him

that he had never seen so quiet, abstemious

and holy a man as JETasan.

ing to the Mirat alkhiydl,

He
p.

died at

Deogyr accord-

67, in

the date with which his memoirs of

707 but this is Nitzam aldyn which

after

have the
720.

title

$)M

jLi

begin, they end with the year

Taqyy Kashy
besides a

says he died twenty years

Amyr
left

Khosraw, and Talib says he died in 738.

He
enti-

Dywan

of about

10,000 verses, and the

memoirs just mentioned,

tled

also another prose

work

W;W

jx* and,

according to Jamy, Nqfahdt, several

ascribes to

him also a commentary on some Qacydahs of Khaqany ('abd al-Uaqq

Mathnawies.

Taqyy Kashy

Dihlawy, Biogr. of Indian Saints; Bland,

Pers. Ghaz.

Cent,

of

Khoshgu; Habyb

alsiyar III. folio 613).

No. 249.]

HASAN.

419
Beginning

Contents: Qacydahs 35 pp. of 14 bayts.

Ghazals 4 1

pp. 13 bayts

Ruba ys 23

pp. 9 bayts.

Mdty MaAall
which
offers

Topkhanah

As. Soc. No. 663, a splendid copy,

;

important variants

Ibidem 412.

This copy begins

(248)

,JUU

^^ ^jJ

(P.)

The Dywan of Hosayn Shamlu, who had

of Uasan.
II,

the takhalluc

He was

governor of Herat under Shah 'abbas

and under Shah Solayman, who died in 1109, (A'tishp. 23).

:

hadah

Contents

a preface in prose, 3 pp.

Ruba'ys alpha-

betically arranged about

50 pp. of 10 bayts and a few

Ghazals.

Beginning of poetry

Topkhanah, apparently incomplete.

(249)

&j& j&
of

***>

(P.)

Mathnawy

Mohammad

iJasan of Dilly,

who

flourished in 1013, as appears

from a chronogram which

he made on the death of a friend. oUytjdc o^2a- J^ ii>y> mja. u^la* j)j.b

:)

^y Jp*uj&Cj djHJ &y>

Qacydahs and

The Mathnawy
Qitf'ahs

is

interspersed with

and contains the praises of the prophet, of his

chaste wives and of great saints.

Bg. f**r ]j jji. c^a.; tai* djl Mdty MaAall, 280 pp. of 14 lines.

(&*y$ vf*jft iM\

*-o

420
(250)

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

fU
of Hashirn.

^^
We
learn from his

(P-)

The Dywan
that

Dywan

he was a Naqshbandy Ciify,

in the

and flourished at
disciple of

Burhanpur

Deccan in 1030, he was a

A^mad
that he

Fariiqy,

who

died in 1034, arid on whose death

It appears

he made upwards of seventy chronograms.

was
:

still

alive in 1056.

Contents

a Qacydah, a Shash-band, some Ruba'ys, a

Tarjy'-band called

Beginning

J^~|, f^y* l/****j sJfji jr Saqiy-namah divided into seven cantos J> 16
]

^V df^ 45 pp. of

16 bayts.

pp.

several

short

Mathnawies 74 pp.; Ghazals 144 pp.;

pp.
J\yc *UI +*>

Rubays, chronograms, 112

Beginning of Ghazals
the author.
:

&y \^a
%

aIa^o

As. Soc. No. 402, a splendid copy, written in 1066, probably for
I copy his spiritual geneology to

Naqshband

as

it

bears on the history of^Jiinsm.

jU^r^A*vil

*->}**{

k*

CJ^*iO^

1$*

^'j^'j***

*^'*A*

&^ys^y\ j-x

(251)
948

^U sVf^J^'j^f
(see pp. 87, 55).

( p -^

A mystical Mathnawy, by Hashimy Kirmany, who died

in

The

title

of the book,
it,

name

of

the author, place where he composed

viz. Tatah,

and

date of composition 940, are stated in the Khatimah.

After a very long introduction containing principally

the praises of

Mohammad and some

saints, as

Ni'mat

No

252.]

ha'tify.

421
first

Allah Walyy,

Mohammad

Lahijy, &c. follow

three

chapters called *-^ and then twenty chapters inscribed

*Ja*y.
fi<&

Beginning
{%
lp|;1

***u

f^-J^

\if**-fl

aUIjm.0

As. Soc. No. 560, near 200 pp. 13 bayts, beautifully written in
1095.,

(252)

JSIm 'jjfr
of

^U
sister,

(P.)
'abd Allah

The Loves
spent his
city
life

Lay la and Majnun, a poem by

Hdtify of Jam.

He was

the son of Jamy's

and

in great ease in a garden near his native

lifetime,

His fame was very great even during his

and in 927 when Shah Isma'yl in his return from the

conquest of Khorasan passed through Jam, he paid him
a visit and prevailed upon
career in an epos.

him

to describe his victorious

The
it.

poet consented, but died in the

same year before

the

it

was completed, he only composed one

thousand verses of

Having a

particular talent for

Mathnawy,
of
;

it

was

his ambition to imitate the five

four.

poems

Nitzamy, he wrote however only

Ouseley
p. 143).

(Sam

No. 211

The poem

begins with a verse of

Jamy

Moty
Mawlana
also

MaAall, a splendid copy, 60 pp. 31 bayts, transcribed by

'abd Allah in 908, from the autograph
;
;

private collection

141 pp. 15 bayts

printed, Calcutta, 1788.

it is

Layla Majnun has

been published at Tabryz, but

not stated whose.

422

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(253)
The
exploits of

U*JU ^jj*j

(P.)
in

Tymur, a romantic epos by Hatify

which he imitates the Sikandar-namah of Nitzamy.

At

the end he gives an account of his former productions.

Beginning ty
Moty
graph
;

^ &b
jl

sS

^Li

^-;j&

sS

^Ua* Jj$

MaAall, 156 pp. of 31 bayts, copied in 908 from the auto-

FaraA-baksh 225 pp. 17 lines

As. Soc. Nos. 357, 762.

(254)

jjJL, j>_^
of Shyryn and Khosraw, by Hatify.

(P.)

The Loves

He

informs us in the introduction that after the completion

of Layla Majnun, his uncle
this

Jamy

advised

him

to

compose
Bg.

poem.

Moty

MaAall, 66 pp. 31 bayts, copied from the autograph in 908.

(255)

yfSbJb+u^S*
Aspects, a

(P.)
Hatify, in which

The Seven

Mathnawy by
jS*

he imitates the Haft Paykar of Nitzamy.

Beginning w^/1 '***;&* y

u*4* ***** **ifi i$

As. Soc. No. 599, 252 pp. 14 bayts, a good copy.

(256)

{&*>

&J>*
235 supra).

(P-)

The Dywan
Contents:

of JZatim (see p.

Ghazals

Fards 6 pp.

90 pp. 13 bayts; Ruba'ys and Beginning

No. 258.]
M6ty

HAYDAR.
wo

423
learn from the

Ma^all, an autograph written in 1179, as

postcript *>j ^UiAj <xaxj j j|^j &L ^jajj.^2, ^AjlftA pjiA. j*&9 *x3(& &Xi\S {&* It appears that he

fijW^i

jij*?

made subse-

quently additions, or some one else used the blank leaves as an

album, for after this postcript

1194,
it is,

we

find

chronograms for 1190 and

however, not clear whether they are written in the same

hand or not.

In the same copy

is

the

Urdu Dywan

of the same

poet to be mentioned hereafter.

(257)

nj&j^
he
is

u^ja

(P.)

The Dywan
ally a baker

of JHaydar of Herat.
called

As he was
him

origin-

.Hay dare Kaluj or Haydare

in the present

Kalychah,

Sam No. 232

speaks of

tense (see p. 74 supra see also Atishk. p. 202).

Contents: Ghazals, 84 pp. 14 bayts.

Bg.

Moty

MaAall, this copy probably contains merely selections.

T258)

jx* dy*
of JZaydar.
It consists of

(P.)

Dywan
of

Qacydahs

in praise

Nacyr aldyn Uaydar who reigned from 1242

to

1252.

Beginning

EaraA-bakhsh, about 100 pp. of 9 bayts.

In the Topkhanah

is

Dywan

of Grhazals and Euba'ys of iZaydar, but I have not ascerIt has

tained which iZaydar.

120 pp. of 12 bayts.

Bg.

in the

Another Dywan of Ghazals of a poet of the takhalluc of iZaydar same collection (about 100 pp. 11 bayts) begins

424
(259)

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP. IL

(P.) 'tggL tyi* The Dywan of Hayraty. He was originally of Marw but he declared himself that he was of Tun. Walih says that he was of Ma-wara-lnahr. He came early to

Ray and

spent several years in that

city.

Subsequently
;

after a visit to

Baghdad he went
he found

to
it

Adzarbayjan

being

much given
to

to drinking

necessary to proceed
less

Mazanderan, where that vice was

five

punished, and
the

he spent

years in the house of

Aqa Rostam,

governor of that province.

In

reward for a Qacydah

which he composed
obtained the
title

in

praise of

Shah

Tahmasp, he

of king of poets and was called to court,

residence there he was requested to
title

and

after a short

compose a Mathnawy under the

indulge more

^tuJi Zx&. In order

to enjoy greater rest for his literary labours,

also to
ness,

and perhaps

freely in his habitual vice,

drunken-

he went to Kashan, which he considered as his home,

and he was murdered there in 961.

above mentioned epos

He

left besides

the

another Mathnawy
is

to

which he

gave the
Bostan.

title

of

;j)J$

and which

an imitation of the

All his verses

;

amount

to about 40,000.

(Taqyy

Kashy No. 234

and
p.

A'tishkadah

p.

95

Khi%dnati amir ah
Bg.
mym.

75 supra).
lines.

Contents: Ghazals, about 400 pp. 15

Moty

Ma//all, a

bad imperfect copy, ending with the

letter

(260)

CL.Lir

(P.)

Complete poetical works of Uazyn, who died in 1180 He collected his works in 155 ; (see page 135 supra).
1

up

to that time his

poems formed four Dywan s.

No. 261.]
Contents
:

HAZYN.
a preface in prose 3 pp.

425
Beginning

^s*" $jl

j.x$

#yjj*

Axt;

fMM
Beginning
Beginning

Forty-six Qacydahs 100 pp. of 20 bayts.

Sixty-two

Qitf'ahs,
ffcu

28 pp.

^-;u-' jjj

&? y

v>^

<^ JU

A^

(a/*****

JLLl -

1,451 Ghazals, 700 pp. 18 bayts;

484 Ruba'ys, and

Beginning

792 verses of Fards, &c.

!>'
!

;r*

J*& &J*

&k

****>> u?-;*

Jj^a- a Mathnawy, containing

18 bayts.

chiefly stories,

30 pp.

Beginning

after a short preface in prose:

Mathnawy

in imitation of the
,

Hadyqah,

it

has the

title LuuJ) *ju ;

62 pp.
*Jl

Beginning

*UI5I

)*<**;

^'r^Wi^ ^
Beginning
pp.

cybj^ a Mathnawy, 24

pp.

,jUs^ ^a. a Mathnawy, 14

jUaiSI ^>Ja/<
l2^M)\ar C*Jt^a.

Beginning

a Mathnawy, 6 pp.
**/*)$

Beginning

^j*y^

c^*J Is* o^^-a-s^,.^) ^jj

^1

&*\j

lSx&js a

Mathnawy, 15

pp.

Beginning

^jjSlUJ) S^SjJ a

Mathnawy, 22

pp.

Beginning

Moty

MaAall, a splendid copy.

Most

of his works are in the

As. Soc. JNos. 411 and 1034.

(261)

<^p*
of Hijry.

^yo
of

(P.)

The Dywan

He was

Kunban

^V

Dut

lived in Bengal,

and in several of his poems he expresses

3
I

426

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

a lively desire to see his

tains several

home

again.
1

The Dywan
174, 1180, &c.

con-

chronograms
a

for 1171,

Contents

Qacydah

in praise of 'alyy.

This
first

is

most wonderful composition.

Sayyid

If

you read the

letter

of every Micra', you have a Qifah in praise of

Mohammad Ridha Khan

Qacydah

MotzafFar-jang.

Nawab Some

letters in the

are written in red, if

you read

them by themselves you have a Ghazal, and

in the

certain letters
letters in the

Ghazal form a Rubay, and certain

Ruba'y form a Micra'.

Beginning

Qa^ydahs, Tarjy'-bands; Ghazals, &c. 226 pp. 10 bayts Ruba'ys 20 pp. Beginning of Ghazals.
bf*.
^J b f/j *Jiy

^^ Mj

Moty

MaAall, a splendid copy, written in 1194; As. Soc, No. 354,

a fine copy, written in 1192.

(262)

J^ J#
of

(P.)

The Dywan

Badr aldyn

Hilaly.

of Chaghatay, but

was born

at Astrabad.

He was by origin He received

It is

a good education and was skilled in science.

on

account of this combination of poetical talents with eru^

dition that he
is

called the Little

Jamy.

He went

early

in life to Herat,

which was then under the patronage of

and made the

Myr
gisy,

'alyy Shyr, the great seat of learning,

acquaintance of

with

many celebrated poets, among them Narw hom however he had several controversies.
T

When
great
;

he had attained to celebrity he visited

'iraq

and

Adzarbayjan, and was every where well received by the

he remained for some time with prince Abu-lnacr
the author of the Tadzkirah mentioned in

Sam Myrza,

No. 264.]
page 12 supra.

HILARY.
Love
for his native soil brought

427

him

back to Herat, which town had in the meanwhile been

taken by 'abd Allah
in his praise,

Khan Uzbek.

He made a Qacydah
was
two

which was well received, but his enemies

persuaded the

Khan

that he was a heretic, and he

put to death on this charge in 939.

The author

of the

Atishkadah

p.

34, ascribes

to Hilaly, besides the

Mathnawies
No.

to be

mentioned below, a Layla 6 Majniin

II.

(Sam No. 210; Taqyy Kashy No. 207; Khoshgii

60).

Beginning

Lithographed, Lucnow, Mortadhawy press, 1263, 35 pp. three

columns in a page.
khanah,

This copy does not contain the Qacydahs

Tdp-

MS. 176

pp. 12 bayts.

(263)

^U| <-^
Mathnawy by
t*>j$
jjtUl

(P)
Hilaly divided

Qualities of Lovers, a
into ten chapters *JVL.
f\Ju{J

Beginning

JUa.

cf^&

^-r^ }

ciV*3
;

UJjItXi.

Topkhanah, 80 pp. 13 bayts, written in A. H. 913

991, a good copy, written in 970.

As. Soc. No.

1240, 84 pp. 15 bayts, a good copy, written in 1066.

Ibidem No.

(264)

|o *^
the Beggar, a mystical

(P-)

The King and

Mathnawy, by
Beginning

Hilaly in 1344 verses.

As. Soc. No. 1498, 12mo. 112 pp. 12 bayts.

428

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(265)

v^.jjvLjJS ^y*
of Nac^ire

(P.)
It

The Dywan

Khosraw

Hqjjat.

appears

from more than one passage of his poems that he was of

Khorasan (and not of Ispahan) and flourished under the Fa/imite Khalyfah Ma'add b. 'alyy Mostancir, who succeeded in 427 and died in 487.
^<aii*yc
(

jA

.Lc|

ji*lj

Jff&

j\

jlj

)y

He was

apparently a

man

of very brilliant talents and

all

an original mind, and acquainted with

tivated in his days.

the sciences cul'alyy,

Being himself descended from

he mixed himself up in the religious and

putes which then divided the

political dis-

Mo^ammadan

world, and

was one of the great champions of the Shy'ahs. His turn for philosophical speculations moreover made him,
even among his own party, suspected of free-thinking,

nay of being an adept of the black

believed in metempsychosis.

art.

It is said that

he

He was

in consequence ex-

posed to
that

many

persecutions.

His biographers inform us

he was a school-fellow of the philosopher Faryaby.

When

he had obtained a name he went to Egypt and was

appointed Wazyr by the Khalyfah Mostancir, subsequently

he was compelled to take

flight

from Egypt to Baghdad,

and obtained a high

office,

but after a short time he was

obliged to yield to persecution and he fled to Khorasan,

and

finally

he retired to Badakhshan and led the

life

of an

ascetic taking a cave as his habitation.

is

He died in 481, and

Some authors
is

buried in the cave in which he lived.

.

say that he died in 431

Among

his

poems

Qa^ydah
are

in

praise of 'imad aldyn Abu-1-Ma'aliy ruler of Badakhshan.

It is said that

he

left

many

works,

among them

some

No. 266.]

hojjat.

429

on the occult sciences, Taqyy Kashy has inserted a short

memoir of

his

which has the

title I*UJI j!;

in a Persian translation into his

it

^J LoIjjJI Sli^ Tadzkirah. He composed

-

towards the end of his

:

life.

Dawlat-shah mentions

two works of i/ojjat

the <_^tWl
is

and the a^U ^fU&j; which

Baharistan mentions a

y$ which is in prose Mathnawy. Jamy in his

<uU^i* or Journal of Hojjat in

which he gives an account of his travels to various

countries (probably also to India) and of his disputations

with learned men. His

Dywan

has, according to

DawlatIt

shah, 30,000 verses, and according to

consists of Qac^ydahs

Taqyy
treat

20,000.

most of which

on philosophy
Bg.

and morals.

Another copy commences

Mdty

MaAall, a splendid copy, written in 1037

private collection,
*>*>b

a good copy 284 pp. 23 lines.

copy of the
it

ls^jj

is

in

the library of Leyden,

see Dozy's Catalogus,

was composed in

343 (443

?),

it

is

divided into several Maqalahs and treats on phi-

losophical subjects.

(266)

^Ul^;
who
is

(P.)

The Gardens

of the Good, being a Tarkyb-band, with

Qacydahs on the margin by MotzafFar Hosayn, who had

the takhallu9 of jfiTosayn, and
called

Shahyd,
fell

martyr, by the copyist, this means that he either

battle or

in

was unjustly put

J**>

to death.
,**oo

Beginning
Ashub

^U* ^

JU. aIaH
'alyy b.

^L*^

Topkhanah, 28 pp. copied by

b.

Mohammad

Mo^ammad-baksh

Mohammad

Grhiyath Badakhshy.

430
(267)

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

^J^. v^yT

(P.)
collected in 1145.

Complete poetical works of ffosayny,

He may

be identical with Hosayn-dost ilosayny (see pp.

a short preface.

134 supra).
Contents
:

Beginning

^^ ^ ^ ^^^
Jj
f}.

J\yid

*^i*

Mathnawies, Qacydahs, chronograms, &c. 250 pp. Ghazals 200 pp. of 13 lines. Beginning of Ghazals
)j

4fl |t[^5 {*?+>

\j

fl/l

f>i

**

ii

d0;

^J

J^

Mdty

MaAall, a very elegant copy in 16mo.

(268)

^l~^ UM-5 ^yUJlJl;

Abu-1-Hosayn Yiosayny of a

(P.)

Provision for Travellers by

b. 'alim b.

Amyr Kabyr aldyn //osayn

village in Ghor.

He
he

possessed considerable learning, and was a great Cufy,

disciple of

Baha aldyn Zakariya of Multan, where when he had attained to perfection in it, he went to Herat and found many disHe travelled much and was a friend of Aw^ady ciples.
and a
first

devoted himself to Ciifism

and Fakhr aldyn

'iraqy, the

author of the e^UJ.

Jamy

Nafa^at, No. 568, says, he died on the 16th Shawwal

718

this is

wrong, for

it

appears that he composed this

poem

in 729.

Dawlatshah says he died

other copy in 729.

in

719 and according

besides the

to an-

He

left

Zdd and Kan%

-jy
will be des-

alrormh a
tjp)l
*>*}>

Dywan and

several prose

works as the

cribed in

and r b;^ an ^ f*^^' k[r which the chapter on Ciifism.

No. 270.]

HOSAYNY.
almosafiryn

431

The Zad
tion of the

may

be considered as an imitaIt is

Hadyqah

of Sanay.

divided into eight

life,

chapters

*Aa<

containing the rules of ascetic

inter-

spersed with apologues and legends of saints u *

Beginning tul^i b jjjo

*Ail

jjJu? aS *.*& Jl
lines,

\\

j>j+ \^s\
;

As. Soc. No. 1477, 12mo. 103 pp. 14

much

injured

Top-

khanah, 45 pp. of 34 bayts, this copy begins:

jy ^j)

Jjl

^1

(269)

j J\yS

(P.)

Treasury of Mysteries, a poem by

After the praise of

Myr Hosayny.
and of Shihab

God and

his prophet,

aldyn Sohrawardy, of Shihab aldyn Zakariya, of Shaykh

Cadr aldyn Mohammad Zakariya and of the

Amyr Kabyr

Nur
cal

Allah Modhaji'ah, the poet proceeds to give a mysti-

explanation of the religious duties of the Islam, of

mystical love, abstinence, &c.

Bg.
\j^~) jt-id \S)j*
\)

l^J^Cj ^Jy
750 bayts.

IjiW,

J.xL

**&

ft

As. Soc. No. 1048, 12mo. 86 pp. 12 bayts.

Tdpkhanah, about

(270)

^U)|

jlk*

(P.)

A
into

collection of descriptive

poems and verses from

It is

various poets, by

Hosayn Hosayny Tabsy.

flowers, night,
fire,

divided

47 chapters ^Ai and contains descriptions of and bonwine, sword,

mots on the human form,

pigeons, shape, shadow, mirror, bow, arrow,

warm

bath,

new moon,
Moty

'yd,

autumn, &c.

Beginning
Ma/iall,

^U^U Jj
164 pp. 14

*S

l^aU

^U*

^ ^r^

lines.

432

PEllSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(271)

U J\y>*

(P.)

The Dywan of Sayyid Imtiyaz Khan Humd, a son of Mo'tamid Khan and a brother of Sayyid A^mad Khan Dhamyr. It contains merely Ghazals. Beginning
)J^>

* J^

^^

i-r*^ <**' iita jfr p* Sf***i

Tdpkhanah, about 60 pp. 10 bayts, written by 'alyy Basity.

(272)

g^g* The Dywan of Amyr Humayiin of

life

uy U

(P.)
Isfarayin.

He went

early in

to Tabryz,

and was supported by the Qadhiy

'ysa and SuUan Ya'qub, who called him the second Khosraw ^-Vj^ i/ "^ after the death of his patrons he came to a place in the neighbourhood of Kashan, where he had a powerful friend and he died there in 902 (Sam No. 23; Taqyy Kashy No. 153; A'tishh p. 94).
4

Contents

Ghazals.

Beginning

Tdpkhanah, 80 pp. 15 bayts

As. Soc. No. 238, 25 pp. 13 bayts, a

splendid copy but containing mere extracts.

(273)

(Uc-

^\

Mf**a>

4*15

jjlL

(P.)

The Book of the East, a Mathnawy by Mohammad Ibn Hosam of Khwaf in Qohistan. He was a very pious

man and possessed

so great that
ciple of

considerable learning, and

was able

to

write Arabic as well as Persian poetry.

His piety was

some consider him a

saint.

He was

a dis-

Cadr aldyn
of his

spent

much

Mohammad Rawwasy 'okashy and time in solitude. He died in 875

No. 274.]

IBX YAMYN.

433

and

left

Dywan

of Qacydahs containing about

4000
7,

verses,

and a

collection of

Ghazals (Dawlat-shah,

Taqyy Kashy No. This epic poem

'alyy, of

119).

contains an account of the wars of

the wars of
says,

Bahman and Shah Tahmasp,

it is

&c.

Taqyy Kashy
it

though

not founded on history,

has considerable poetical merit.

Beginning
y/.K-*
;

s^. 4U0 *luo ..>

Moty
plete),

il

f&"

^UiXfj &*U

^xxmks^

Ma^all, 540 pp. 31 bayts, a splendid copy

:

As. Soc, No.

1316, 828 pp. 19 bayts, a splendid copy

Ibidem

JSos.

1311 (incom-

and 1325,

this

copy begins

*j*

c>^

*jjl*.

flo.

(274)

^
poetical
is

^1 e^Uf

(P.)

The complete

works of the

Ma/miud b. Amyr Yamyn aldyn

Faryumad, which
is

Amyr Fakhr aldyn Mohammad Mostawfiy of

Yamyn,
i.

three days journey from Sabzwar, he

his takhalluc, Ibn
e.

generally

known by
aldyn.

the

son of

Yamyn

He was
and
it

of a wealthy Tatar family

and exceedingly

liberal

charitable, he
is

was therefore

generally respected, and

said that repeatedly the

governorship of some province of Khorasan was offered

to him, but he refused to accept
it.

He died in

his native

town

in 745,

and

left

panegyrics on the Sarabdar (or

Sarabdal)

princes and

some Ghazals, but

by him
in

it

is

parti-

cularly his Qi^'ahs which are celebrated,

many

of his
Qi/'ah

poems however were

or Moqa#a'ah
verses of the
If
it

lost

743

in war.

is

defined to

be a poem consisting

of several
Mafla'.

same metre and rhyme, but without a

it is

Qacydah or a Ghazal. It may be added that most Qacydahs are panegyrics and
has a Ma/la'
either a

most Ghazals are

erotic

poems, whereas Qi^'ahs contain

434

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

more frequently moral reflexions, yet many are panegyrics. (Ilahy Taqyy Kashy No. 76 Dawlat-shah 5, 7).
;
;

Contents

A preface
all
l

by one of

his friends,
aJU

it

is

dated

753, 20pp. Bg. A4JL7* ^iUJI tijoh jXii ^JJ)

j^I

Qacydahs,

of which are panegyrics, about 200 pp.

Beginning

o ifc JW ^/^^ )& **id s)

Qifahs about 250 pp. 15 bayts.

Rubays and

Bg.

Tdpkhanah, a splendid old copy

three copies of the

in the

same collection there are

fullest

Dywan

of Ibn

Yamyn, the
l&! )&&

copy has about

300 pp. of 14 bayts, containing

Beginning
k*>
]

G-hazals, Tarjy'bands, &c.

<3^ e/
\j

****

^jl^^^l

In other shorter
begin
:

copies, the first 13

Ghazals are omitted, they

U y p*> l* j

J^i^ JU^
^^j
e^[3'

I;

X> u'^*^? * *tt ^1*3

]So. 1134, written in 1055.

Selections from

Ibn Yamyn, As. Soc.

Beginning

y^ ^-ja^'
Ibn

The
into

Qitf'ahs of

Tamyn

have been very elegantly translated

German, Ibn Jemin's Bruchstiicke aus dem Persischen von

Baron O. M. von Schlechta-Wssehrd, Vienna, 1852.

(275)

c^^ tf]#>
of

(P.)
'icmat Allah

The Dywan

Khwajah Fakhr aldyn

Ifmat of Bokhara.

He was

descended from 'alyy, and

his ancestors were settled at

Bokhara.

His

father

Khwajah Mas'ud was one

of the most distinguished

men

of that city and a good poet,

'icmat received a good

education and was well informed even in history and

mathematics.

He

stood in high favor with the prince

Nacyr aldyn Sultan Khalyl, a son of Myran-shah, and he used in his honor in some of his Qacydahs the takhalIU9 of Nacjry.

He

died at an advanced age in 829.

It

No. 277.]
is

iksyr.

435
Khoshgii

said that he imitated chiefly

Myr Khosraw.
6,

says

that

his

Dywan

comprises about 20,000 verses

(Taqyy Kashy No.

alsiyar).

106;

Dawlat-shah,

5;

Uabyb

Contents

Qac/ydahs and Qi/'ahs in praise of Suttan

Khalyl, Sultan Ibrahym,

15 bayts. U ly

^*>j

Ulugh Beg, &c. about 400 pp. sSi) ^JU) ^JUJ Ulj p ^jt>j

Ghazals about 200 pp. ; Mo'ammas, Ruba'ys, &c. 13 pp. Beginning aiillail J&* : ;j %Jjl &6j us-l

Mdty
in 1030.

MaAall, small 4to. beautifully written by

Myrak Bokhary

(276)

y?\ ojU?
of

(P.)

The Qacydahs He was in the

his

Myrza 'atzymay Iksyr

of Ispahan.

service of 'umdat almulk Ac^af-jah

and
In

Cafdar-jang, and died under

Nawab
is for

Siraj aldawlah.

Dywan
and
p.

are chronograms for 1140, 43, 47, 48, 51, 53,

I

the latest
bd,

which

observed
*

1157.

{Anys alahib-

162 supra).
:

Contents

a short preface in prose, Qacydahs, and at

the end a few Qi/ahs, &c.

Beginning of preface

CLg >4* Yj^j** i/***& iffy"*

:

Beginning of Qacydahs ;l**Jj ^j^ *y<<3 djfjj Moty MaAall 326 pp. of 17 lines, a splendid copy.

j/*.

(277)

^Jl
of

$&
and of

(P.)

The Dywan
friend of

Myr

Ilahy, a son of i/ojjat aldyn of

Sa'dabad near Hamadan, he was a contemporary and

Taqyy AwAady
3

(see p. 95)

Mohammad

K 2

436
J&n Qodsy.

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

The Dywan

contains a chronogram

for

1052 and according to a chronogram on his death by

Ghanyy he
in

died the same year, but Talib places his death

Siraj in

1060 and

1064.

The author

of the

Hame(see p.

shah Bahar confounds him with the

Hakym Masy^

alzaman Ilahy, who came to India under Akbar

66 supra).
Contents
:

Qacydahs and Ghazals

are mixed, and they

are not throughout alphabetically arranged, about pp. of 15 bayts.

500

Last verses rhyming in

alif.

Mathnawy

in praise of Shahjahan,

26 pp. and some

Ruba'ys^ Beginning
Private collection,

-** {#jV~ *^M f**^ (^t^' f the commencement and end are wanting, and

^^

the last pages

much

injured.

(278)

Wl

vbtfi

(P.)

The Dywan

of Ilham.

He

is

probably identical with

the poet Malul, to be mentioned lower down.

Contents: Ghazals, 160 pp. 13

lines.

Beginning

^jdj\

yjj* ^^1^)
\)

l^-^a

Qacydahs, 48 pp. 14 bayts. Beginning fc&Ui) ^#j

^V^J

\j*

&*

FaraA-bakhsh, a very carefully written copy, 8vo.

(279)

<h*>

oU c^UT
is

(P.)

Complete poetical works of the Khwajah 'imad aldyn

Faqyh, whose takhallu^
'imad.

He was

a native of

Kirman, and when he had completed

his studies at

Shyraz

No. 279.]
he proceeded after a

'IMAD FAQYH.
visit to his

437
to

home

Yazd, with a

view of being initiated

by

'izz

aldyn Ma/zmud

Ka-

shany, the translator of the 'awarif alma'arif into the

mysteries of Ciifism.

During the reign of

Mohammad

Motzaffar
a

who died in 741 and Shah Shuja, he founded Khanqah in Kirman, and the fame of his sanctity was
him
that he might cure
his

so great, that instead of paying a fee to a physician, the

inhabitants brought the sick to

them by
disciples

his breath

and prayers.

Among

numerous

was a

cat,

who used
%jc

to say prayers with him.

To

this circumstance refers the verse of Hafitz.

^1 Most authors place his death in 773, but Taqyy Kashy and Sir G. Ouseley p. 195 have 793. The former of
ay* jUi t>Ac kij, tS
-tio ^j-tjti*

y^K

1st

^Ls^i

i^}x$

these

two authors has seen a Dywan of about 8000

1.

verses.

Contents:

h)^) U-a*. The Torch

is

of Guidance, a

mystical Mathnawy, 160 pp. 18 bayts,

it is

divided into

ten chapters uA* and each of them

sections J-a*

subdivided into ten

-|-

composed in A. H. 716

34

= 750.
I
I

Bg. l^^I ^Isr* g** J^j^fH v^^-y* (Jj o l^^- *& 2. Ghazals, near 200 pp. and a few Ruba'ys.
i

*t-H

Beginning
3.

& J$ y ^kc j] m&j* j]/iHu~*y Companion of the Righteous,

)j*

a Math-

nawy, 66 pp. in two cantos

*JU*, the first is mystical,

and

the second contains visions of the poet in which the prophet, Khidhr, &c. appeared to him, and episodes from his

own
*fc

life

he composed

this

poem

in 766.

JJ

^ (& ^J^^ W
'

'B&-J*jM'j*Ji
4.

^^ $

J"
1

if^J lis*** ) J^flAAA

jX*
ijH

ft)

M)r$-

>*

ijif) *+**

cjUia^ Occasional poems, 65 pp., most of them are

panegyrics on Sul/an Shah Shuja',

Wazyr Shams

aldyn,

438

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP. IE

Rokn aldyn 'amyd

x

almulk, Qadhiy 'alyy Yazdy, Queen

Radhyyat aldyn, Fa#i Allah Yazdy, &c.

Beginning *a & v^3 ^ J^' y^:< o*<** ^1 5. a*U \j^xs^ A poem on mystical love, 53 pp. divided into ten cantos aJU*, composed in 731.
]

'

Bg. <^~)j\ JteV

6.

J)* )jt&>j J*3

L**jjl

(3-V

**

^'^^/^

^b ^^U> *U u^xs" The Book of Love, 48 pp. in eight chapters 4^ composed in 722, the name is a chronogram.
It begins after a short preface in prose.

7.

*^U

A Mathnawy

divided into ten Epistles

5 L>jl A/eUj.Sx' A&I

<tl>

addressed to the king, &c. 40 pp.

VJ^aj)

Beginning
Ajo
;

A*U^)I lS>U& l_*.

As. Soc. No. 337, a good copy, but some pages wanting
MaAall, written in 997, incomplete.

Mdty

(280)

^1 <jU Li*U> C+d?

(P.)

The Nosegay, a Mathnawy composed in 1075, by imad aldyn Mohammad, who as he informs us, was a native of
India (see p. 116 supra).

Beginning

Topkhanah, 18 pp. 34 bayts.

(281)
Strange Stories, a

oUjUVl >j
Mathnawy
a chronogram for 1037.
:

(P.)

of 1,634 verses by 'imad.

The

title is

Contents

a preface in prose,

Mathnawy divided
f

into
I

eight chapters

^V

<j*^c

&**

t ^jJM** c^a**

<^y

No. 283.]

'ima'dy.

439

Mdty

MaAall, copied in 1075.

(282)

igcU 0J4
if

p -)

Dywan

of 'imad aldyn 'imady, the panegyrist of 'imad

aldyn Daylamy, who,

he

is

identical

with the 'imad

aldawlah mentioned in the Shyraz-namah, died in 333.

It is said that

'imady was born at Ghaznah, and therefore

resided at Shahryar not

he
far

is

called

Ghaznawy, and he

from Ray, and he has therefore also the patronymic

Some authors however maintain that 'imady Ghaznawy and 'imady Shahryary were two disof Shahryary.
tinct poets, the former of

whom

flourished at the time

If the

of

MaAmud, and

the latter under the Seljiiqians.

distinction be founded, this

Dywan must

be ascribed to

'imady Ghaznawy, because the verses quoted by 'awfy of

that poet are found in
it.

This question has been

dis-

cussed at some length by the author of the Haft Iqlym,

Khoshgu and Taqyy Kashy

dahs or panegyrics.

the latter places the death of

'imady Shahryary in 573. This

Dywan

consists of

Qacy-

Moty

Ma^all, 108 pp. 14

lines,

another copy has 40 pp. of 44 bayts.

(283)

^*U1 yyji
of

(P.)

The Dywan

Abu

'abd Allah
b.

Mohammad

'abd Allah)

Mo/zammad (or Abii Abii Bakr 'othman Imdmy.

440

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

He was
Kirman

of Herat, but spent the greater part of his life in and Ispahan. He possessed much learning, and

was a contemporary of Sa'dy, whom in the opinion of some critics, he surpassed in the Qacydah. He died in

686 or 674.

The poems
Dywan.
1

not alphabetically arranged, in this It contains Qacydahs, Ghazals, and at the end
are

5 pp. of Ruba'ys.
Ul *\* ^yxi d

Bo-.

Jd

As. Soc. "No. 413, 4to. about 200 pp. of 12 verses, a splendid copy.

(284)

aj*

(P.)

The Dywan
b.

of the Cufy poet

Fakhr aldyn Ibrahym

In his early years he

Shahryar 'irdqy of Hamadan.

learned the whole Qoran by heart, and

teen years of age he

when he was sevenbecame a pupil of the celebrated Ciify

Shihab aldyn Sohrawardy.

He repented

so

much

a hasty

answer, which he had given to his spiritual guide, that he

turned a wandering qalandar and went to India.

At
his

Multan he met Baha aldyn Zakariya who gave him

daughter in marriage, and who on his death-bed declared

him

as his successor

and as the

spiritual guide of his

flock.

In India he composed some very beautiful elegies exAfter twenty-

pressive of his love for his native country.

five years' residence in India,

being obliged to give

way

to

the jealousy of some of the followers of

Baha

aldyn, he

performed the pilgrimage to

Makkah and went

?)

thence to

Aleppo and

Rum

(Iconium

where he met Cadr aldyn

book he composed
inspirations).

Mohammad Qunyawy, and

'araby with him.
a

he studied the Focuc of Ibn

this

Whilst he read

work

called

Lam (it

oW (sparks or

He

: ;

No. 286.]

'irfa'n.

441
poets, to the

was given, even more than other Persian

disgusting crimes of which they boast in their compositions.

He
:

died in 686 or 688

Dawlat-shah places his

death in 709.

Contents

Qacydahs and Ghazals not

alphabetically-

arranged, 230 pp. 14 bayts, and a few Ruba'ys andFards.

Beginning er^V ^iy*-j>)

to be

cJ^V

&^

*>H

As. Soc. No. 1132, a fine old copy, also No. 820, this copy seems

much

fuller,

Beginning ^.j

^ ^j*

but

it is

badly written.

^ifi

*"" y ,i *~*0^

3'j

In the Topkhanah is a MS. 80 pp. of 18 bayts, bearing the title of A* U y^p by "'iraqy who is known by the name of Fakhr aldyn."
{

It contains a

Mathnawy and some

i*-! -**fj

Grhazals.

Bg. ^jb e>'^ &&\ j&

*J*

&^JJ

^'^ ufa *?J*

(P.) J3j* <_LjuJ *objf The Exploits of 'alyy Mardan Shah, the Amyr al-omara of Shahjahan, by Mohammad Ridha b. Mohammad Jan

(285)

'irfdn of Khorasan.

After a short preface in prose, the

l^ls^I Jk.
^1

poem begins
^Ija. Ax>

\i)

ly/oli

dub aS

Topkhanah, 350 pp. of 30 bayts. In the Moty Ma^all is a copy (possibly an autograph) of the Dywan of 'irfan, it is however, not
certain whether he
is

identical with the author of the above

Math-

nawy,

it

is

more

likely that

he

is

identical with 'abd Allah 'irfan

see p. 113 supra.

The Dywan contains Qacydahs 42

;

pp. of 17 lines

Ghazals 156 pp. 13 lines

Buba'ys 14 pp.

Beninning of Qacydahs

(P.) Jlfo &\f* The Dywan of Shaykh Mohammad Wajyh 'ishqy, a son of Gholam ii/osayn Mojrim of Patna. He was for 3 L

(286)

4 12

PEESIAX POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

ten years Ta/jsyldar under the English government at

Kharwar, subsequently he came

in 1224, but his eye-sight

to

Dacca he was
:

still

alive

was much impaired {Nastare

ishq and supra

p.

83.)

Contents

Ghazals, Ruba'ys and a short Mathnawy.

Collection of

Mawlawy Mo/*amraad "Wajyh, 80 pp.

of 13 bayts, this

book contains merely extracts from the Kullyyat of this poet.

(287)

J&* yij*
of 'ishqy.
It

(P.)

The Dywan

contains 216 pp. 9 bayts

and 27 Ruba'ys.

Beginning

As. Soc. No. 705, at the end, under the head &+^*> "conclusion" are
five verses,

from which, we learn that the

Dywan was
;

completed in

the 24th year of

Mohammad Shah

(A. H. 1154)

this

may be the

year in which the author collected his poems, but in the last of
these verses
therefore
is
it

we are told that Shaykh Burhan may also be the date of the copy.
it is

is

the copyist, and

In the Topkhanah

Dywan
it

of Shah Abu-1-Barakat 'ishqy, containing Ghazals, 50

pp. 14 bayts, the initial verse of

not found in the

j*

Dywan

of the

As. Soc.

runs: lfM*;j^f o'

****

&&

J*>

<_$'

^J

(288)

ci^*
of

^y*

(P.)

The Dywan
lected his
in
1 1

Myrza 'alyy Ridha 'ishrat, who colpoems into a Dywan, under Mohammad Shah

60, and died shortly after.

Contents: Ghazals 266 pp. of 12 lines; Qacydahs in

praise of

Shuja aldawlah 37 pp.

Beginning Beginning

Saqiy-namah.

No. 289.]

jabaly.

443

M6ty

Ma/iall and Tdpkhanah, the latter copy does not contain

the S&qiy-namah.

(289)

JuL

j-l^l o**

oSUi

(P.)

The Qa9ydahs
al-Jami' ?)

of 'abd al-Wasi' b. 'abd al-Hamiy ('abd

Jabaly Sul^any.
;

He was

born in the moun-

tains of Ghurjastan

hence his takhallu^, which means

mountaineer
Sayyids.

and he was descended from a family of

According to the general opinion his early

education was

much

neglected.

Some

of his biographers
to such

however contend that he could not have attained

excellency in poetry if this had been the case, and they

are of opinion that he has received a good education.

From

his native

mountains he came to Herat, where he

proceeded to

applied himself to study and thence he

Ghaznah.
This

He

found a patron in Bahrain Shah, who

succeeded to the throne of Ghaznah in 512 and died 543.

is

the same prince to

for

whom

Sanayiy dedicated his

aldyn Nacyr Allah,
translated the
Persian.

#adyqah and
lylah

whom Hamyd

a pupil of Abii-l-MaAamid

Ghaznawy
into

Kain

SuMan

wa Damnah from Arabic Sinjar took Ghaznyn Jabaly composed poems

and was fourteen years in his
service.

When
He

his praise

Taqyy Kashy has seen 6000 verses died in 555 or 543. of Jabaly, Walih says that he left about 8000 verses of
which he had seen 1000.
understand, and
10, 3; Dawlat-shah

His poetry

is

difficult

to

therefore considered very beautiful

2,

fawfy

2; Taqyy Kashy No. 17; Shyr

Khan Lody
p. 108).

p.

37

Ouseley, Biogr. Not. of Pers. poets

3 L 2

444

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP. IL

His Qacydahs are not alphabetically arranged, and

begin

As. Soc. No. 73, about 360 pp. of 15 bayts, copied in 1243.

(290)

J**> igj#A

(P.)

A Mathnawy by Ja'far, who was a soldier by profession,

he composed
it

in

Beginning J td/ Ui*; tyf.

065 and dedicated it to Shahjahan. !ok J *j/ \tih\ I***- *U>

\j

As. Soc. No. 929, 64 pp. of 13 bayts.

(291)

^^^ViWt

(P )

The Story of the four Darwyshes by Myr Abu-1-Hasan Khan Jdjiy, {Khdfiy P) Beginning
Topkhanah, 120 pp. of 10 bayts, a beautiful copy written in 1192, It has the following postscript &&> ^i
:

probably for the author.

M aw ^U
r

*l

u^U>

<}

ai*

*JliJ|

(292)

^jly

^ ^J^

ojU*

(P.)

Qacydahs of Jagat Narayan, in praise of Acaf aldawlah,

who

died in 1212.

Beginning
IdUh.

Id*.

j.M,i)

LSI*

CXJU vJJU

**

j>

Jj y ^U.
,

j^la*

Moty

Ma7*all,

150 pp. 15 bayts.

No. 295.]

jala'ly.

445
(P.)

(293)

J^U
He

,$

The Dywan
Jaldly.

of Sayyide 'alam

Mohammad

Jalal, or

informs us in a Qitf'ah that he

was a native

of A/imadabad and that his father and spiritual guide

was Myr Sayyid Jalal b. Hasan, a descendant and follower of Shahe 'alam JZabyb, his entire spiritual genealogy is recorded in a Qacydah he was a disciple of his
:

father,

who was a disciple

'alam,

of Sayyid

Khan

'abd al Ghafur,

Sayyid A/*mad, Sayyid

Mohammad

Raju,
settled

Mohammad
in Gujrat,

Shahe

Sayyid Burhan who

Nacir aldyn Mo/*ammady, Jalal aldyn A^mad,

Makhdum

AArar, Sayyid Kabyr aldyn Ahmad, 'alyy and Jalal

settled in India,

Mohammad and

Ja'far,

who Sayyid Ma^mud,

A^mad,

Sayyid 'abd Allah, 'alyy, Ja'far, Naqyy, Taqyy,

Imam
pp.
;

Ridha.

Contents: Qacydahs 7 pp. of 14 bayts; Ghazals 94

Ruba ys 23

pp.

Beginning of Ghazals

As. Soc. No. 531, a fine copy.

f 294)

J-iJl 6ac

Ul^ & *+=* <*

al-Jalyl in praise of

P -)

A Mathnawy by 'abd
Shah

Mohammad

succeeded

in

1131

in

which he describes the

fireworks and other festivities of the emperor.

Topkhanah, 25 pp. 25 bayts.

(295)

^Jl jU* cl^

of Jamal aldyn

(P.)
of Ispahan, a

The Dywan

Mohammad

son of 'abd al-Razzaq and the father of the poet

Kamal

446
aldyn.

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

He

flourished under the Cayid dynasty

and most
died at
3, 3).

of his Qacydahs are encomiums on them.

He

Ispahan in 588 (Taqyy Kashy No. 29

It consists of

Dawlat-shah,

Qacydahs alphabetically arranged.

\A
\j

Bg. ^-c, ci?^i ^ ^JtSjM* j^x* Mdty MaAall, 66 pp. 44 bayts.

^J>

\j^xx^

A*. *;^!j>

(296)

fc^-jJl

** JJH CrL^
Jamdly
of Dilly.

fe&

P -)

Explanation of the verities of the history of the prophet by Fadhl Allah

of the

He was

a pupil

Shaykh Sama Allah who, according

died in 901 , at an advanced age.

to 'abd al-

Haqq,

Jamaly was a great

traveller,

he made the acquaintance of

in 898) at

Herat and wrote an account

Jamy (who died of his own travels

is

&*\jjk~.

He was
is

deeply versed in Ciifism and

little

consi-

dered as a saint. His tomb, a very elegant

building of

white marble,

a short distance S. E. of the Ko/ob minar,

eleven miles from Dilly.

The Jamaly mentioned

in p.

48 supra

either

is

not identical with the author of this

incorrect, as will

book or the date of his demise must be

appear by comparing the above dates.

The author

of

the A'thdr alcanddyd, p. 165, places the death of the

author of this work in 922, and says that

^* jj/*^

is

chronogram

for
is

it

but this gives 925.

The book

divided into several parts, and each part

title.

has a separate

The
last
t&t&j.

first

is

entitled

and the seventh and

JbfcWJ eJu*,
{j

part

yxJ>jJ)

^^UJI p, ; The date of the composi'

^^ ^^V rJ*
-1^1
J

aA>

tion of the first part, 868,

is

contained in the follow-

ing line

No. 297.]

ja'my.
mystical view of the

447
life

The work contains a Mohammad. The author

in prose,

of

usually gives one or two

tradi-

tions with a Persian translation,

and some explanations

illustrations

and then follow his

which are

chiefly legends in verses.

The

first

part begins

The Shar^
As. Soc.

alwacilyn begins

first part,

copy, at the end are Kuba'ys, &c. about 60 pp.

No. 632 about 400 pp. of 15 bayts, a splendid SharA al-wacilyn,

As. Soc. No. 1285, written in the same hand, but in a different shape,

about 400 pp. of 15

lines, it

ends with the words

^^1

cjliJlf3

p*i*>

^sik^J]

JyM

$S&&
title

After this follows a short Mathof

nawy, 27 pp. which has the

to the work.

vr^

J&

an<l

probably belongs

Beginning

*-Uif

gfjjjj*

*** t^.

(297)

^U c^Uf
He was born at Jam
life I

(P.)

Complete minor poems of Niir aldyn 'abd al-Ra/fcman

Jdmy.

in 81 7,

and died in 898. For

a full account of his

refer to Rosenzweig's

Biogra-

phische Notizen iiber

Vienna, 1840.
his works,

Mewlana Abdurrahman Dschami, Taqyy Kashy gives the following list of

many

of which will be described in their places.

The

readings between parentheses are taken from Ilahy.

^Sy-yo

ej^^v L-^^"*
^Jfcd^o ^.xas
j

* c^<Jo*

cU^-

**MJ*j*

* ^J^i

^[r^-

JlXxo

^i^

aILm, * c^j^-^l Alf)jo *t*-|^- l-*-*^*

448

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

^-OU la&fjj u-i^ (^/"^ ^^1 ^tf vj!^ ^ j;i ^o * uy*&i

Allay

^ ^ ^u ^^
Ux/o^
*-o'j

^sr^

g)j

j\^\

Zas? j*Jtf
^

^jy

# AAil* *aX~j *

(^.,.e

"fcJL^

A^laJ^o ^JUwj

Ilahy adds to this

^^ai/e Sj^j
jjuai

list

o^^) ^s*
%

**&~j *

fUJU

^ -Aj

^l&

jW| iula.
St.

>c tSLmj.

see i/ajy Khal.

No. 4,614, and Dorn's

Petersb.
p.

On the J>W) hi*. Cat. des. MSS.

372,
it

de la Bib I. Imp. de

contains

logogriphs extracted from the j^kJ) JI^ of Sharaf aldyn

'alyy

Yazdy who

died in 850.
loco
cit.

Von Rosenzweig and Dorn,

give us very valu-

able details regarding the above works, and the former

author mentions in addition kjU>) (see flajy Khalyfah,

No. 567,)

is>Udfl
:

^JJ^and

e*!/> ytt.

Contents
three
1

the minor poems of

Jamy

are divided into

title

Dywans, each of which has a separate

i-Xxti
I

Ls^ii " Beginningof

;

Youth

;" it

contains Qacy-

dahs 90 pp. of 19 bayts

Ghazals 276 pp.; and about

170 Ruba'ys and a few Tarjy'bands.

Beginning &&&*
2.
ji*. )ik,
f

^jJ*

W~l J^l

*&J\

<j*^ *^

f"i

"The

Centre of the Necklace/'

This

Dy wan
it

contains 1 0,000 bayts, and the author collected

in 884,

when he was going on

)ji*\

for seventy.

Beginning
3.
fills

4r&[/I y*-

^^
it

^ijt

* #J\ LoJU. "Conclusion of Life." y

This

Dywan

134 pp. of 19 lines; at the end are a few Ruba'ys,

the fair copy of
%)J>

Jamy made

in 896.

Beginning

&*)

j\

J^^j

{<&*-

fi^ *4J

No. 298.]
Two

ja'my.
Dywans

449
are in the

or three very beautiful copies of these

:

Moty MaAall every Dy wan has a

short preface in prose.

(298)

^cU

dSjjl

o*a

(P.)

The

Constellation of the

two Bears.

of seven Mathnawies of Jamy, each

separate

This is the name Mathnawy has a

name

also the title

1

and the last five of them together have of ^<*V ^u*^, they are
:

t^ft^l &Ld* Catena aurea,

it is

in the

same mea-

sure as the fiadyqah of Sanay, the Haft Paykar of

Nitzamy, and the Jame Jam of Aw^ady,

{

viz.

afkte

first

J^i e/ book

l^*.
fills

This poem

is

divided into three books.

The

106 pp. of 38 bayts, making upwards of

4000

lines,

but the chapter-heads, which are long and

numerous, must be deducted.

vJJuu Ji Jjj Beginning ftyWj The second book has 28 pp. 38 bayts.
Bg.
(jr^

jM

j^IaU
l-t!

*j

[y

?^ j\j* $' (3^ c

**\**i j>

\%
*>

j***j

Third book, 80 pp. of 38

Bg. J<^1 o*4iO^Uy>^IS Aa-a
2.

lines.

J^t
in

i~o &

jvJ

^-6-a*

J^jl

J^^.

The Adventures
it

of Salaman

and

Absal 34 pp. 38 bayts,

is

the same measure as the

Manriq attayr of 'a#ar, and the

Mathnawy
J<&.

of Jalal aldyn

Rumy,

viz.

&MJ

e/**^ J>^'->!j

Bg. ^U^lr Ju}/> C^Akl

^Ullc

ij\j

cj*)Uj

^1

Edited by F. Falconer, London, 1850. MS. copies are not frequent.

3.
Jj>y\

**\ Present to the Free, 36 pp. of 50 bayts,

It is in the

measure of the Makhzan alasrar of Nitzamy,

]

viz. c^H^U ^Z*-^ iJ***** It is divided into and it was composed in 886.

2 cantos *JU^

3M

450
Beginning
**J*

PERSIAN POETRY.
&\y+y* <-f^ c^^st

[CHAP.

II.

**J\ ^-^J)

Mp**
Soc.

Published by F. Falconer, London, 1848;

1412, a fine copy written in 981. 4.
)\j)\

MS. As.

No.

hs* The Rosary of the Righteous, 63 pp. of

It is in the

50 bayts.
Khosraw,
cantos

measure of the Noh Sipehr of

Myr

viz. ^^Ui u/*?f

kJ^
is

an(^

*s

divided into three

tile.

In some copies
^jiyUJi

a short preface.

Beginning
*)<&>)

^u^j)
4to. Edited

^yi
;

^-^yi ^i

*<>

Printed at Calcutta, 1811, 4to.

Lithographed at Calcutta 1818,

by F. Falconer, London, 1849.

*'^yl

5.

^Jj)

The Loves
It is
viz.
:

of Yiisof and Zalykha,

86 pp. 50 bayts.

in

the
{

measure of Nitzamy's
> /C -

Khosraw Shyryn,
Bg. ^Ui, d^lf

Jy**

>*Jb 3) j)

J^ J^ ^ ^UX
c
{

dj^)

W* ^1

Printed at Vienna, with a

German

translation by

Von Rosenzweig,

1824; Calcutta, 1809, 1244, 1265; Lithographed Calcutta, 1818,

4to.
;

Lithographed Lucnow, edited by Qudrat

with useful notes, 1262.
I have a

AAmad

A^mad and Qabul MS. copy which was

it is

written by

Myr

'imad (on

whom

see p.

89 supra) in 1007,

one
It is

of the most correct and beautiful Persian

MSS.

in existence.

a school-book in India and therefore

MS.

copies are innumerable.

A commentary
al-~Wasi'

on Yusof

ii

Zalykha has been written by 'abd

lines.

of Hansy.

Topkhanah 220 pp. 13

Beginning

Mo/jammad

Sajid Qadiry a son of

Faydh Mohammad of Jhan-

janah wrote in 1157, glosses on the margin of this poem, and

they were subsequently at his request copied out by
Shah,
of
it

MoAammad

who added

under the

title

after his death a preface p

and made a separate work

text and has
4to.

of

v^

> which comprises the

been printed

at Calcutta in

1240 and 1264,

&*

241 pp.
c$

Beginning A^s^ (J^jo^y

^j^- <j^ wo j^

6. u>y^* y^y The Story of the two Bedouin Lovers Lay la and Majniin this story has first been handled by
;

Arabic poets.

It is in the

metre of the To/jfat

al'ira-

No. 299.]
qayn, viz, ^Jy *> he completed the
verses.

ja'my.

451
us that

^^

J^*^*.

The poet informs

and that
it

poem

in 889,

has 3860

Beginning

Beginning

(or ^Icub^*-

^jJJjj**

^ y t_A^ ^1
German
of Alexander

Translated into French by Chezy, Paris, 1808, and into

by Hartmann, Leipz., 1808.

7.

^jAsU

<uli

(See Zenker's Bill. Orient.)

The Wisdom Book

55 pp. 50 bayts.
Bostan, viz.

It is in the

measure of the Firaq-namah

of Salman, and of the Sikandar-namah,

:

Shah-namah and

J^** ^Jj**

^yd

^Jy*.

Bg.

i~*\j*

tfM>> J^*
is

J^
all

c^~y

^V

J)

JU*

^1
it

beautiful copy of these seven

also a

poems is in the Moty MaAall,

was

written in 955, there

collection

copy of the Khamsah in the same

which was written in 921. In complete

In the As. Soc. Nos. 381 and

copies, each

208, are two very fine copies of

the seven poems, the former was

written by Jamal aldyn.

preface in prose.
55, says that the

poem has a

short

Zenker in his

JBibliotJieca Orient. Leipz.

1846, p.

c$*^ oUtf
it

or "oauvres completes de
4to. volume.

Djami" have
quotes the

been printed at Calcutta, 1811, in one

postscript,
is

He

from which

appears that the book which he alludes to

the Eoq'ate

Jamy

to be mentioned hereafter.

(299)

-J^jJI

tfi
Cities,

(P.)

Conquest of the two Holy

nah, a

Makkah and Mady-

poem

in

which these two holy places and the

ceremonies of the pilgrimage are described by Jamy.

His name occurs in the following verse

JUU ^)
Bg. Moty

^ ^;y
r

cJ; U
yjij

Jii

J> *~^

jy

J1U

^
)j

^J)
,j~5
**Jb

iz^sij
^s)
;

W^I O;^

MaAall, 98 pp. of 15 bayts, beautifully written in 983

As.
I

Soc. Nos. 463, 659, 788, 985.

Some

copies begin

^Slf

&> i2^i*<

452

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(300)

c^UjjCj2,
in prose
*#) j-*^

(P.)

Theosophistic Tetrastiches with a commentary thereon

and a short preface

preface

by Jamy.
Specimen

Beginning of

(JH^ J^Wlj ^a

Moty

MaAall, 62 pp. 17 lines, a fine copy, at the end are added

;

some sayings of Jamy's Pyr, Sa'd aldyn Kashghary

828, 44 pp. 9 lines.

As. Soc. No.

(301)

$tmjj+3
poem by Lallah
Jentperkass, Calcutta,

(P.)

Dastoor-i-ishk, or the Loves of Sussee and Panoon, a

Persian
8vo.
I

1812,

have never had an opportunity of seeing this

book.

(302)

L*y*
The names

*-*#*>

OT

*MJ

(P.)

Desirable Amusement, by Jonuny, dedicated to

zb.

Awrang-

of the poet and of the emperor occur

in this verse.

In the conclusion he informs us that he composed the

poem
verses.

in

1100, and that

it

contains upwards of 6016

It consists of anecdotes
v_?^

which are headed ***&

<S^<* \J*"ji
J-*-^

Beginning

^^

^i[; M ^s"

As. Soc. No. 346, 392 pp. 17 bayts, copied in 1123,

No. 304.]

kalym.

453

(303)

U^ ^Alf

(P.)

Complete poetical works of Myrza Darab Beg Juyd.

He was by origin a Persian but was He died in 1118, the chronogram on

jy'sj*

born in Kashmyr.
his death is
{J

sMJ

Arzii says that most poets of

rished in the

Kashmyr who floucommencement of the 12th century were

Qac^ydahs in praise
bayts.
Utf

pupils of Jiiya, as for instance Molla Sa/i'y.

Contents
of

a short preface in prose the Imams, &c.

aUI
1

God and

80 pp.

Beginning

Wn \J>

^* \J

M Vm

1 1

j^. jul?^

Ghazals about 500 pp. 10 bayts.

\j

Bg.
Jp#IJ

Jiti *)jJ j\ 3j* <Sy ^t)

pp. 8 bayts
;

Ruba ys 38
praise of

and short Mathnawies, one in

Kashmyr.

Beginning Moty MaAall,

c3joI

*tX>iUi
;

tlj

fi*-J)

c/^'

*^'

*^

copied in 1128

Topkhanah.

(304)

{&&}&*
of

(P.)
of

The Dywan
jahan.

Abu

TTalib

Kalym

Hamadan, the

principal court poet

>)jxJ\

dXU

and panegyrist of Shah-

He
:

died in 1061, (see pp. 90, 128, 113, 151,

116 supra).
Contents

Qacydahs in praise of God, Shah-jahan, &c.

236

pp. 17 bayts.

Beginning ^jj^o^**

^Uo

%)j

j&

&$

)j

\j~$yt> Jj^t

Ghazals, 329 pp.; Ruba'ys 17 pp.

Beginning
As. Soc. Nos.

M6ty

Ma^all, several copies, one written in 1093

;

600 and 1079, containing merely the Ghazals ibidem 1442, containing his Qacydahs as well as the Ghazals.

454

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(305)

^lf xcl5 *UuaU

Imperial Book, by

(P.)
epic

The

Kalym, being an

poem on
AJo

the exploits of Shah-jahan.

Bg. *5^ ) & Mdty MaAall, 710 pp.

J^

^Slc

^Ac .&

jf*.

J^

-1

*jJjdk>

of 21 bayts.

(306)

,JUa4| J**|

jUr^^

(P.)

The Dywan of Kamal aldyn Isma'yl of Ispahan, a son of Jamal (see p. 445 supra) whom he surpassed. He was like his father a panegyrist of the Ca id family and
owing
to the novelty of

ideas

he

is

called

Khallaq

alma'aniy.

He

also occupied himself with Cufism,

and

Shihab aldyn 'omar Sohrawardy was his

spiritual guide.

He

was tortured to death by the Moghols who expected

hidden property in his house on the 2d Jumada
left
I.

to find

635 (some say 638) and

verses.

Dywan

of about 16,000

Contents
aldyn

Panegyrics in praise of his patrons, Dhiya

AAmad Abu

Bakr, Shihab aldyn, Fakhr

b.

Nitzam

aldyn, &c. and a few Ruba'ys.

Beginning A&ldJ1 J^i

jVEoty MaAall,

\j

l^iUj
;

J1U.

^1
748 pp. 16

260 pp. 17

lines

my own

collection

bayts, an old

and correct copy.

(307)

ts**r*
of

cM i$&
He
is

p -)

The Dywan
his

Kamal aldyn Khojandy.

exercises,

devoted
therefore

whole

life

to ascetic

and

considered a saint.

When

a young

man he made

the

pilgrimage to Makkah, and on his return he remained at

No. 308.]
Tabryz.

ka'mil.

455

When that

city

was taken by Yuqtamish Khan

he was carried away as a prisoner into the desert of

Qipchaq, but after four years he effected his escape and
returned to Tabryz, Sultan iifosayn a son of
ceived

him with

great respect and built a

Oways Khanqah

re-

for

him.

He
:

died during the reign of Sultan

Myran-shah
A. H.

who was a great admirer and patron of

803 some say he died
was a contemporary of
each other.
in 792
jFZafitz,

his, in

and others

in 808.

Kamal

and they possessed each

other's esteem, but were not personally acquainted with

In reference to the elder Kamal he has the

following ruba y.

The author of the Kholacah has seen about 10,000 verses of Kamal Khojandy (Ouseley, Pers. poets, p. 192
;

Bland,

Contents

Cent of Ghazals). A Qacydah, then Ghazals, most of which

:

consist like those of

Salman of eight 404

verses, they are not

;

alphabetically arranged,

pp. of 11 bayts

Ruba'ys,

Qifahs, &c. 25 pp. 19 bayts.

L-r j>J) FaraA-baksh, a splendid copy; also several copies in the Moty

Beginning of Qacydahs JUS Bg. of Ghazals fy* <aJ ^-J

;

Jjtj diS

*.S

aj

d T js*

\21s)

^^
4i

,J

^ uusWj

MaAall

As. Soc. Nos. 448, 573.

(308)
of which

J^U^fli
rhyme
Ghazal

W
first

(P.)

The Lamp Book by Kamil.

all

It

consists of Ghazals
letter

in chiragh,

and the

of

every verse of the

first

is alif,

of the second b &c.

Lithographed at Lucnow, on the margin of the Qaf-namah, see p.

312 supra.

456
(309)

PERSIAN POETRY.
pS^uJiAJuJ jjyd^. a^.

[CHAP.

II.

(P.)
in verses

The History of 'alyy and his son JBTosayn, Karam, who composed it in 1135 (see p. 128
Bg.
5b ^

by

supra).

J^. l^uoJUa.

*U.

IjJJ jJJ^ ^.L*** tS ^f\jj

;

FaraA-bakhsh, about 300 pp. of 50 bayts

pp. 18 bayts.

As. Soc. No. 680, 788

(310)

(i/^^J
of

(P-)

The Ruba'ys

Karym.

After the Ruba'ys follow

Qacydahs with a short introduction in prose, from which

we learn that the name of the poet was Myr Mohammad Katzim that he was a son of Fikr, and that he flourished
under Qofobshah of the Deccan.
Contents
:

short

preface
:

Ruba'ys alphabetically

arranged 440 pp. of 14 bayts

'/i

Qacydahs 28 pp.
t

Bg.

AJU^^

Aj

^--^i

s AjULom-o JLa-Luj fj*CL* **

Moty

MaAall, a good copy.

(311)

^ktSUuS-J }) 'uyv*

(P.)

Collection of Mysteries,

by Mohammad Cali^ Kashfy,

composed in 1030.
Beginning
of this edition
\j*

J^ JU*>

<s^->

\*h~
s.

J**Uj o**;s
A.

^
)

Lithographed Lucnow, MasyAay press,

is
:

21 pp. on the margin

title

a Mathnawy by Akbar which has the

sj^^-yo)
is

^u^

j^\

and begins

Jtf jj

2_ *&

^
lam
not certain
o'

In the Moty MaAall

a copy of the Qacydahs of Kashfy, 175

pp. 12 lines, they are chiefly in praise of the Imams,

whether the Mathnawy and Qacydahs are by the same poet.

Begianiag UU> o&~j

j>j* c)'

&j f

fcjf*

No. 313.]

ka'shy.

457
(P.)

(312)

^1^
JFZasan

3L

oJU vsJfc*

poem

in praise of 'alyy, in seven stanzas,

by Molla

Kamal aldyn

(Walih writes Mo/isin) Kashy.

He was
Kashy.

born and brought up at

Amol but

his family

was

of Kashan, and he therefore adopted the takhalluc of

He was
and

man

of considerable learning and very

religious,

all his

poems

verses

are

Taqyy Kashy has seen 6000

and the Imams.

in praise of 'alyy

He

died

young

about the year 720 (Dawlat-shah 5, 10;

63).

Taqyy

Kashy No.

Beginning

lij)\

Fara^-baksh, 80 pp. with a commentary which has the title of ^^/o an(j begins <**^ J^xh&'Oj ^Ua/o <xr jo^S J there is

ife

only one line of text on each page.

title

Another commentary has the

'alyy b.

of C5*-*

J^'j

the author

is

Mohammad

Mokmmad

Cadiq Hosayny Nayshapiiry, and it is dedicated to the Nawab Shuja' aldawlah MoAammad Khan Asad-jang (hence the title), it contains
besides an explanation of the poem, the traditions to which allusion
is

made

or supposed to be

made

in

it,

and

fills

The

date of the

MS.

is

1149.

560 pp. of 19 lines. Beginning

Under Ghaziy aldyn iZaydar

d.

1242, a commentary on this

poem

was written (182 pp. 7 lines) of which there is a copy in the private It begins MfcwflteH*- J^f^'j ij^b c5 lxJl *iJ ^^' collection A. The poem has been lithographed, Lucnow, Sul^any press, s. a. 21
pp. with copious glosses.

(313)

^y^
of

po

The Dywan
Kdtiby.

Shams aldyn Mohammad

b.

'abd Allah

He was

born in a place not far from Tarshyz,

but he proceeded early in life to

himself, under the tuition of

Nayshapur, and applied

Symy, to calligraphy

hence

458
his takhallu^.

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP. IL

When

he had attained to celebrity he pro-

ceeded to Herat and became a court poet of Baysanghor, but

as a

Qacydah rhyming

in

^j^y which he made "

to order"

in imitation of one of

Kamal

Ismayil did not meet with

to

approbation, he

went to Astrabad and eventually

Shirwan.

He was

favourably received by Amyr-zadah

for the

Ibrahym, who bestowed 1000 Dirhams upon him

first

poem which he made

in his praise.

It

rhymes in

After having visited Adzarbayjan, Tabaristan and

other provinces to earn his livelihood by composing panegyrics on great

men, he turned a religious mendicant

as

and took Cayin aldyn

gently
studied

his

spiritual guide.

He

dili-

the

Cufy

literature

and wrote several

mystical poems.

He

died at Astrabad in 838 or 839.

left

According to Khoshgii he

30,000 verses, but other

authors mention only half of that number, Sir G. Ouseley's

copy contains the following works, ;^'

^^

the Rose

Garden of the Pure,

Metres
(see

^z ^
2

^^
p.

Combination of two

on

this

Mathnawy
*j

322 supra)

^^ ^*.
>
lcJ

Thirty Epistles. **U

Decalogue.

Other authors add

the names of the following works \jjr*" )j^> \(j^ c

^A

Contents: Qaeydahs, 112 pp. 14 bayts, in praise of

God and

the Imams, Cayin aldyn,

Amyr Tymur, Myrza

Shahrokh, Sultan Baysanghor, Padshah Sayf aldyn and

Manuchihr
aldyn.
i^.u*/
j

b.

Sul/an Ibrahym,

Amyr Mohammad Mo'yn

Beginning
**? * j T

}+>&* \jty*i? h v

uiA*

**sM*"j+&* ^>-

^Suf

Ghazals, 192 pp. 13 bayts.

Beginning

Qtfahs and Ruba'ys, among them

is

the

following

chronogram

No. 314.]

ka'tzim.

459

After the minor poems follow again Qac^ydahs, 60 pp.

they are not in praise of princes but of other persons,

and

this

may have been

first

the reason for separating

them

from the

batch.

Mathnawy

of 58 pp. 15 lines.

Beginning

*>c&

A& ; e^<y:^

x^ ^^y
)

*.U|

^b

Another Mathnawy with a preface in prose, 56 pp. A ^^*5 3j-> ^J= ^ A* y cy;^) *^ ^1 Bg- ^.^ ^

Several smaller Mathnawies, Serapas, &c.

Moty
old

MaAall, good copy, in

all

750 pages.

My

notes do not con-

tain the titles of the

two larger Mathnawies.

I have a beautiful

MS.

containing the Grhazals and Taj ny sat of Katiby, 184 pp.

13 bayts, written in 888 by

Mohammad

i/erawy.

(314)

ViJ^*\i'*A**j
of

(P.)
in

The Book
the
life

Joy of Fafymah, an epic poem

which

of the daughter of

MoAarnmad
the

is

described by

the physician

Katzim,

who had

title

of jF/adziq

almulk, and was a son of the Mojtahid (Shy'ah divine)

J^aydar 'alyy Tostery Najafy.

The
&yi

date of the compo-

sition, 1150, is contained in the last verse.

jryj

^ pip ^i

*.>

&j*)

/*

**

;;!>*

The author informs us in the preface that when he was a young man he compiled a history of the prophets and the Imams and gave it the title jx3^\ /*&l* One
{i

day some one mentioned to him the iJamlahe i^aydary

of Badzil (see p. 368 supra) and the ^-J^o
\j^\y>

by

Mo/^ibb 'alyy Khan, this induced him to imitate the

example of these two

3

poets,

and

to write a sacred epos

460
for

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

which he chose Faimah as his subject, and in four months he composed seven thousand verses, he placed at
the head of his
'alyy

poem about 1400

verses

which Mo/dbb

had written in praise of Fa/imah, and which formed

a separate poem.

Bg. of preface

^U^K ^

^Lj

aaJsIj

JjkL

aS

^^Judo. ^j>j&*i\

Beginning of the poem {&&

Moty
MaAall, 394 pp. of 19 lines.

^jc

jjjIoa. ^Ui

(315)

J* tyjTU&J

^yO %

(P.)

The Story of Kamnip, a poem by Chawdhry Kawramal, Who died on the 16th May, 1848. Bg. i-f^r^ c-t^j ^ a+a. ja ^U^ ^Ijj 2&j &*\.a. ^}
Lithographed, Dilly, 1265, 136 pp. of 29 bayts, edited by Kaly

Eay, Deputy Collector, a son of the author.

(316)

yJLs. ^y.o
Irntiyaz

(P.)

The Dywan of Myrza Sayyid JZosayn Khdlip, who was killed in India, in 1122
111, 121, 150 supra).

Khan

(see pp. 141,

Contents:

After a short preface in prose,

copies, Ghazals,

which

is

wanting in some

Ruba'ys, 16 pp. of 10 bayts. ^ j;'3 J- (see p. 345 supra). f%ic *W (*? J-*; A Mathnawy, 8 pp. 15 lines, and Qacydahs, 82 pp.

308 pp. of 13 bayts; Beginning

c^

15 bayts.

Beginning

Moty

MaAall, a splendid copy

my own

collection, a

good copy.

No. 318.]
There
tains a
is

kha'qa'ny.
Dywan
of Khalic in the

461
Moty
Ma/jall which con-

another

chronogram

for 1081,

and which he seems to have written

:

before he

came

to India.

Chronogram

It contains Grhazals

has the

title

J^

and some Mathnawies, the longest of which ^UuJf. The Dywan has in all 212 pp. of 11 bayts.
:

Beginning of G-hazals

^ u ^j
1

J*

[ *j >

y o^S'

s p'

ci"'.

(317)

JyAZ
of

tfcgi

(P.)
died

The Dywan
Bg.
*-T^ t

Ray Ca/nb Ram Khdmosh, who

^ Jtfj

previous to 1229 (see p. 167 supra).

Ja

c-a^

u-T);i)

<%*

*.Xi)j!

^J^ ^1
Ghazals,
this

As. Soc. No. 553. Collection of Mawl.

Mohammad Wajyh,
Beginning of

405 pp. Euba'ys, &c. 65 pp.

copy

(318)

jJULl
or

*$U

Jig*

(P.)

Dywan

collection of

Qacydahs of Afdhal aldyn

Ibrahym Khaqany
'alyy

(according to the commentator, his

name was 'othman and not Ibrahym).

and a native of Shirwan.
corrected

He was

a son of
first

His verses were

by Nitzam aldyn Abu-Folk, who gave him

his

daughter in marriage, and introduced him at the court of

Manuchihr the sovereign of Shirwan, whose

Khaqan.
takhalluc iJaqayqy into Khaqany.

title

was

In honor of this prince, he changed his former

He
;

rose to high dig;

nity and obtained the

title

of

Amyr, noble

but he

ill-

requited the kindness of his benefactor

he and Abu-1'ola

became jealous, and wrote biting satyres against each other. When Khaqany was tired of the life of a courtier he

462

PERSIAN POETRY.
and when
it

[CHAP.

II.

solicited permission to retire,

fled to

was refused he

Baylaqan, but was arrested by the agents of the

to

Khaqan, brought back

Shirwan and

cast into prison.

After some months, he was released and went on a pilgrim-

age to Makkah, on the road he composed his most

brated poem
in

cele-

the

ToMat
and
is

al'iraqayn.

He

died at Tabryz

582 or

in 595,

buried at Surkhab, and at his

side rest the poets

Tzahyr Faryaby and Shahfur Ashhary

p.

Nayshapury, (Ouseley, Pers. poets,

157;

Hammer
;

Schbne Redek. Pers.

p.

125: Jamy Nafah. No. 569;

;

Mohammad

'awfy,
;

fol.

124

Taqyy Kashy, No. 23 Dawp.

lat-shah 2, 14

Mirdt alkhhjdl,

38

A tishkadah,

p.

53

Khizdnah 'amirah).
His

Dywan

consists of Qacydahs,

and Qi ahs, some

are mystical, but most of

them

are panegyrics on the

Kha-

qan, the Atabuk Nucrat aldyn Qizilarslan, Sul/an Ghiyath

aldyn

Mohammad

b.

Mas'iid

b.

Malik-shah, king Sayf

al-

dyn Daray of Darband, &c.

Rubays.
Beginning \J\& Moty MaAall, five or
lines
;

at

the end are about 120

J^t)
six

J^

%/* J H fr

wSM ^

^
as

J*2

good

copies, the fullest has

706 pp. of 17
well as

As. Soc. No. 75, this copy contains

(xhazals

Qacydahs; As. Soc. Nos. 386, 578, good copies; Ibidem, No. 75,
containing also Ghazals, E/uba'ys, &c. the poems are alphabetically
arranged, which
is

not the case in other copies.

Beginning

[^

tj>

J^

*&T

Cii*fcrti

\j~)j*

(319)

^Wi;6iWcjr

R)

commentary on the Qacydahs of Khaqany, in which only difficult verses are explained, by Mohammad b. Dawud b. Mohammad b. Ma/zmud Shadyabady.

No. 322.]

kha'qa'ny.

463

Moty

Ma7iall,

592 pp. 17
;

lines,

written in 1002

As. Soc. No.

1282, 996 pp. 9 lines

Ibidem, No. 1348.

(320)

$\ C
Qulzum.

J
Mohammad,
is

(P.)
the author

Increase of Delight, by Qabul

of the Haft

This book

divided into ten

chapters

*j>)y>

each of which contains a commentary on

It is

a Qacydah of Khaqany.
of a similar nature

the

first

of seven volumes

which the author has composed, or

title

intended to compose, and to which he gave the

of

Farah-bakhsh, 550 pp. 17

lines.

(32i)
Present to the two
countries, a

^yi
'iraqs, or

a*^

(P.)

a description of these two

of about

Mathnawy by Khaqany

3000

verses.

Beginning

^-^

^/*

fy

F**^ *U\ +~j

Some

copies have a preface

which begins

Copies are frequent.

There are several in the Tdpkhanah and

Moty MaAall, and I have no less than three, the best was written in 1090, 194 pp. 16 bayts; As. Soc. No. 467, Bg. &&+* v&jtiai

^U

(322)

^yi\ J c /
the To/jfat al'iraqayn

(R)
by Shaykh
Beginning

A commentary od
'abd alsalam.

464

PERSIAN POETRY.
first

[CHAP.
:

II.

The

verse

commented upon

is

(323)

gAU.
of Khashiy.

$y*
It consists of

(P.)

The Dywan

Ghazals, at

the end are a few Qacydahs in praise of the

Imams and
it fixes

several chronograms, I copy one of the latter as

the date, 1092, of the poet.

ifA^j] \jz.xc

i^u.

j^s^ j^i*

jj

^s^u ju

$,u. &j>

Moty

MaAall, about 300 pp. 15 bayts, beginning and end wanting.

(324)

^U^c^Uly
of 'omar

(P.)

The Ruba'ys

Khayyam

of Nayshapur.

He

was originally a tent-maker and hence

his takhalluc.

Among

his school fellows were jfiTasan

filled

Cabbagh, and a

youth who subsequently

the post of

Wazyr

to

Malik-shah under the

title

of

Nitzam almulk Tusy.

office

After he had risen to his high

to

he invited 'omar

come to court, and when he declined, he allowed him annually the handsome income of 2,022 mithqals from the Nayshapur treasury. Baron Hammer-Purgstall
Gesch.
d.

Schonen Redeh. Pers.

this poet says, that

p.

80 in

his valuable

remarks on

he was a free-thinker and

died in 517 (Khoshgii

a great opponent of Cufism.

I.

He

No

38; A'tishkadah,

p. 185).

After a short introduction in prose by a later author

the

Rubay8

begin

~T6pkhanah, 34 pp. of 24 bayts; As. Soc. No. 1548.

No. 326.]

khiya'ly.

465
(P-)

(325)

^jtef

JU u>^

The Dywan of Khiyaly of Bokhara. He was a pupil of Khwajah 'i^mat Allah, and though he spent the greater part of his life in his native country, he was two years at Herat in the service of Ulugh Beg, during whose reign, 850 853, he died. Taqyy Kashy has seen about 2000

verses of his

most of

his

poems are mystical.

1

Contents

Qac;ydahs in praise of God,

fta
)<}

pp.
e^-ojx

Bg.
pfa

\y Ac jj

6 dj

^x*

^IjI ^j_

c^XU
rfj^

^1

Ghazals, 110 pp. 13 bayts.

Beginning I U o^ly Moty MaAall, an old copy.

^ ^^
1

f#j*\ <d_ |#$-

( P -) JJr^P* tsfoP The Dywan of Yamyn aldyn Abii-l-iiZasan, who is known by the name of Myr Khosraw. He is the greatest

(326)

among the Musalmans of India. His father Sayf aldyn Ma/tmud was one of the chiefs of the tribe of
poet

Lachyn, which

lives

in the

Hazarah near Balkh.

settled at

He

came

to India,

and became one of the nobles (military

leaders) of the empire.

He

Patyalah (Miimi-

nabad), where

nine years of age

Khosraw was born in 651. He was only when he lost his father, who fell in a
His brother
'izz

fight against the idolators.

aldyn 'alyy-

shah succeeded to the post of his father, and the young

Myr Khosraw was

'imad almulk,

educated by his maternal grandfather

a

who was

man

of great importance, and

attained the age of one hundred and thirteen years.

When
Hasan

he was grown up he entered with his friend

the service of prince

Mohammad

Sul/an Khan, a

3 o

466

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

son of Ghiyath aldyn Balban,

who was then governor

of

Mul/an, he was the keeper of the Qoran ;Ijas-^* and

Uasan keeper

of the inkstand jlo^j.

After the death

of his patron he carne to Dilly, and entered the service of

Amyr 'alyy, and

subsequently he was admitted to the court

of the emperor Jalal aldyn Khiljy.

He

rose to great im-

portance particularly under Ghiyath aldyn Toghlaq-shah

whom whom

he accompanied in his march to Bengal, and to

he dedicated his Toghlaq namah. Whilst the king
at

was staying

Lokhnawty, the news of the demise of

Nitzam aldyn reached the royal camp. Khosraw had been introduced to this saint by his father when only eight
years of age, and he became one of his most distinguished
disciples

and warmest admirers, on hearing

of

his death

he hastened back to Dilly, dressed in deep mourning, gave

up the up
months
that of

royal service, gave all

he had to the poor and took

saint.

his abode at the

after

tomb of the

He
is

died six

him

in the night,

from Thursday to Friday,

the 29th of Dzu-lqa'dah, 725.

His tomb

close to

Nitzam

aldyn, in one of the most beautiful and

interesting

spots

near Dilly.

Dawlat shah places his

death in 715, as his authority has misled

many
I

learned

men

as

Hammer, Garcin de Tassy, Dozy,

is

&c.

give here

the chronogram on his death which

5

engraved over his

tomb J&*j! Jt another chronogram is J^l mMThe Ciifies celebrate his wedding (death) on the 18th Raby' II. this date is commemorated in the following
verse of the

A dab

al/alibyn

Nj^iftfc ^xj
It is said

jfj

l^*<**

j jltJi-

'tfj**

d-jUj

by Adzory apud Dawlat-shah, that Sa'dy,

for

whom Khosraw entertained the highest respect, came in his

No

326.]

khosraw.

467

old age tolndia

and thus an opportunity was afforded Khoshis personal acquaintance.

raw of making

He left between
them
754
;

four and five hundred thousand verses, in some of

he has the takhalluc of SuMany (Firishtah

II. p.

Safynat alawliyd No. 117; Ouseley, Pers. Poets,

p. 146).

Khoshgii gives the following details regarding his works

Contents

the

minor poems are divided into four

title

Dy wans, each
prose,
1.

of which has a separate

and preface in

and contains Qacydahs, Ghazals, Ruba'ys, &c.

j^d\ ia^ 144

which in

pp. of

27

lines.

Beginning of prefirst

face, of

this

copy only the

page

is

left,

2.

y *^\ h*i) ~j*

&>

290 pp. of 27
ia

lines.

He

says in

the preface j*j>

t*&~*l

is$ j>$ j*#9$\

'i^

a^U-;^ j$

SS \J^"^A

&yO&*

dy> Xfcl^ v-^^ ^Ifl A*

***>

a1*J.a* cl>Uj)

>i

dyi* y&A y&A

OA-e

^.U^. J y

^a!)

ifi&j# &tt$

3 O 2

468

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

^Jtygjd j*& d-*3* j^-\ )&

I)

)&*

*"{* *&

dJ&

tcfej \-3j'&-">

)S*

Beginning of preface oVs ^) *aa

vxjk*, Si aU) Ju^tib

Beginning of poetry ^JUJJuj^ aU J&j* JU j^a. JUXJI ^i I have unfortunately lost my notes regard3.
ing this part of the Kullyyat.
that
It is in

the preface to

it

Myr Khosraw written a Dywan in

4.
aj,aj Axiii

states

that

Khwajah Mas' ad has

the language of India.

176 pp.

Beginning of the preface:

Beginning of poetry ^1 Moty Maall, a very fine copy.

&> u*b'j *ifi cs^*d

"kjjb

(327)

jj~^j**\ '**+
five

(P.)
It is asserted

The
the

Mathnawies of Amyr Khosraw.

in the life of

by Khoshgii,
first

Khwaju, that Khosraw was

poet

who

imitated the
f&i*

Khamsah
It

of Nitzamy.

Contents:
allegorical

I. )\y&\

The Rising
is

of the Lights, an
in

and mystical poem.

was composed

698

and consists of 3,310 verses and

cantos JU*.

divided into twenty

Beginning
2.

****<^l

^^

f/*^*^

aUL-u^

*jjJj

o>.Lj c~*J

^fdi

A^lai*.

^iri^

The Loves

of Shyryn and

Khosraw,

a romantic epos.

It

was composed in 698, and consists

of 4,124 verses

No. 327.]

KHOSRAW.

469

Bg.
3.

v^'aJo

)i

*i#lj

(-*^_'

rgXStXj

^iwifc

Jj

Ijjjld^i.

clr*?*

u5^ The Loves

in 698,

of

Lay la and Majniin.

It

was composed

and

consists of 2,360 verses.

Begins
4.

;)3^

^i}*-

*<J^ y>j)

J^

^j)

&>H)^

J^

**1J

up!

^jiS.~

ajoJI

Regulations of Alexander, 124 pp. of

38 bayts.

Beginning

5.

i&f&tj

l^*^a

The Eight
It

Paradises, or one week's

in 701,

adventures of Bahram.
consists of 3,350 bayts.

was composed

and

The

poet gives the plan of the

Khamsah
" J

in these verses.

pV^^oJI )j***j

ijij^*"

**tr*"

i*^

^*^ ^

*^J v-5"*^
'

ftt

^UJ

g*

yV j;^
r

^ pU 0*V
Cr5yt k^\aL.sc laIC'

\j

^^
:

c^naia^l^^^AJ'^l^***^ w-

>-** ;.J

>**-'

Bg.

J^^

*^ y^ tVJ^J ^/^j

i^a. Ailj.^ ^ai^UuS

^j

) ;

470

PERSIAN POETRY.
;

[CHAP.

II.

Moty Ma/tall, several good copies As. Soc. Nos. 379, 1385 Layla Majnun has been printed, Calcutta, 1811, lithogr. Cal. 1818.

32 ^)

J\j J*>J Jmyjk

of Khidhr
it

'**$

(P.)

The Story
4,200 verses.

Khan and Dawal Rany,

in 715,

poem

by Myr Khosraw, he composed

and

it

consists of

The

plot of the

poem

is

taken from the

history of India.
(*!

<Ai*^|

(J-*

:1

A/U

j)

c^*-i tU^- C^-' Ju-jj

JJJlj

&

i^r^^Kj^^jayju^U*^^
Bg.
Jij^i ^
!

^ ^j

^| <ui

SU jiy*

i3

vj^y^ b V*3

**

&/** ^1 -Uo
;

X./cU^.*

Moty

Ma/iall,

the same collection

310 pp. of 15 lines, an old copy another copy of is most beautifully written and illustrated with
it

pictures and belonged once to the library of Shahjahan,

is

dated
see

1010; As. Soc. No.

p.

990, lettered

&-&>j&\ &***, Khoshgu,

467 supra,

calls this

poem &j^

f 329)

jjmL

yj>\

lJ^^ Jl**^\
It
is

u>y

(P-)

The Conjunction
Jupiter)

of the two lucky Planets (Venus and

by

Amyr
much

Khosraw.

a historical poem,

the heroes are Nacir aldyn and Mo'izz aldyn, but the
facts are so

clad in allegories, that the only histois,

rical value of the

book

that

it

offers us
it

a specimen of

the singular taste of the age in which

was composed.

Beginning

gljg* tJijtdi* <&?*? *i fi^>j&+

Lithographed at Lucnow, TZasany press, 1261, 8vo. 194 pp. of 21

bayts, with glosses edited by

Mawl. Qudrat Allah.

first

In the As. Soc.

No. 541,
omitted,

is
it

a beautiful old copy, in which the

two bayts are

begins

c*-^

(4j**

*y*^

*+*>

No. 331.]

khwa'ju'.

47 l

(330)

rf&Ji

uy cr
The

^tf
preface
is is

<

p->

Light of the Eyes, being a commentary on the Qiran

alsa'dayn

by Niir al-Z/aqq, a son of the celebrated 'abd

written by

al-flaqq Dihlawy Bokhary.

some one

else.

The

date of the book

1084

70 1014.
^

Bg. of Introduct.

JjM o^^j^^jjji
1^

izsj^** y. j\}*> J\Jystj

Bg. of

Comm. r^U^U ^
lines,

^aUtjilj^ Jiu
injured.

b^ i^k&J
collec-

Tdpkhanah, 156 pp. 17

tion
is

much

In the same

another commentary on the Qiran alsa'dayn by 'abd al-Kasul

is

Qasiin of Grarah, which

about forty miles east of Lucnow,

it

has

146 pp. of 11

lines

and begins
a short commentary

In the As. Soc. No. 598, 82 pp. of 19

which begins ^jox-Ji ply

lines, is

^s***

^[^ ^I^L

(j^x>

fj/j&.

(331)

Jhfj*^

^^
689.
b. 'alyy

( P -)

Complete (minor) works of Khwaju Kirmany.

born on the 20th of
Dzii-17/ajj,

He was He

His name was

Murshidy.

Abu

Ta/a

Kamal aldyn Ma^mud

was of a distinguished family, and spent much of his

time in travelling.

In one of his journeys he made the

'ala

acquaintance of the distinguished Cufy

aldawlah

Samnany, the author of the -tl*. and

on mysticism
(see p. 81

several other

works

supra) and became his

six years in

disciple.

He

remained with him

Cufyabad

at

Samnan,

and devoted himself diligently to the study of mysticism.

After that he returned to Kirrnan and being unable to
find a livelihood,

he proceeded

first

to Ispahan

and then

to Shyraz

where he found a

liberal supporter in

Abu

472

PERSIAN POETRY.
town.

[CHAP.

II.

Is/zaq the ruler of that

In 744 he collected his

till

poems, but continued his literary activity

745, he says

He

died at Shyraz in 745, or according to A'zad in 753,

and according to Khoshgu (who probably copied incorrectly the blunder of Dawlat-shah,
in 742) in 762.

who

places his death

Taqyy Kashy

says that

all his

poetical
;

works which he

had seen, contained 20,000 verses

Dawlat-shah says, his

Dywan
thinks

alone comprises 20,000 verses, whereas

it

Khoshgu
left

contains half of that number.

He
4,

five

Mathnawies in imitation of the Khamsah of Nitzamy.

(Habyb ahiyar

III. p.

580; Dawlat-shah

19;

Taqyy
K.
d.

Kashy
Morgl.

73, see also

II.

Erdrnann in the Ztschft fur

d.

205).
:

Contents

Qacydahs

in

praise of the

Imams, Sayf
Ghazals not
:

aldyn Bakharzv,
Mas'iid

Amyn aldyn

Kazoruny, SuMan Motzaffar

;

Shah, &c. 42 pp. of 56 bayts

alphabetically arranged,

60 pp.

Beginning of Qacydahs

^^^-^^ i^sy^Jt *r* <ftfMdty

MaAall, a splendid old copy, there
is

******
is

J*;

the date 945 at the

end, which

probably the year

when

it

was written.

(332)

J^y*.)j*> i^yXo
1.

(P.)

Mathnawies of Khwajii Kirmany.

yySI 'Lb^ The

Garden of Light, 34 pp. of 58 bayts, it is divided into twenty cantos and is in the metre of the Makhzan

V^

alasrar.

Beginning

J^U

iu*e

&S1\

j^

fo%\

^s

i<b } J)

\j^^j

No. 332.]
2.

khwa'ju'.

473
and Humdyun,

ej^Ufc ;

Ua The Loves of

Huma

142 pp. of 44 bayts.

Beginning
44 pp. of 44 bayts,

3.
it is

a^WLS The book of

Perfection,

an ethical poem, composed Beginning yt XI *J! > ^*o

in 744.

^vWj **U y^ The Precious Book of Jewels, a Mathnawy of 1,032 verses, mostly in praise of great men.
4.

The

date 745

when

this

poem was completed,

is

twice

stated at the end

Beginning ^JA^rr* ^ *^J cfl^

5.

^1;ImU ^fcs^b ^Uj

y^*fl ^fe*-**

y^' f&*"

Keys of the Hearts

This

and Torches of Mysteries, 140 pp. of 54 bayts.

Mathnawy is The following

divided into twenty-eight chapters cjVare

some of the headings

^ c^*i ^

J^y

* Uyftj Jus**!

*
is

c^^yo;
preceded by a short preface in Arabic

The poem

prose which begins

^xJl uAJl
6.

gD*#

^U

aU .kr1 Jy) ^JJl

The Rose and New Year's-Day, a poetical

story,

86

pp. of

56 bayts. <ffcl tf^jy A^^ljIJo:

;

Beginning

^^ Ws^
4.

U'cUJ y^->
it

^
contains

Moty Ma^all

As. Soc. 288, a fine copy written in 991,

2,

only three poems, Nos.

3 and

3 P

474

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(333)

iS^iSi
of Kihtary.

P -)

The Dywan
Contents:
Ruba'ys.

Ghazals,

188

pp.

15

bayts,

and

four

Beginning
This copy has the following postcript
iS**"*
&

As. Soc. Xo. 1418.

f U3

JjV"
Aj

^ J '^3* nfcj&JQ
j}j-fi

'*J

f^
J

ftJ^i^aJ

LSjh* &iy.i
<*&
4ax<
jj,j

ji^floo

lSj^* &<*

J5^^ JY*

l****

o*~sj

Here ends the Dywan of Kihtary which was composed m^U^l/^. by Shaykh Asad Allah, writer of Wazyr Khan, the police officer of
"

the district of Sahrand

the person

it

was copied on the 29th of ^afar, 1109." If

who wrote this sentence understood the meaning of the word i-aa*^ Shaykh Asad Allah is the name of the poet, but Arabic
words are used so loosely in India that
it

is

likely that it is the

name

of the copyist.

(334)

Jpfrff*
of Rajah

(P.)

The Dywan

Apurv Kishen Dev Kunwar.

at Calcutta.

He

lives

now, 1853, in Sobha Bazar

:

Contents

three Qa9ydahs in praise of

Amjad

'alyy

Shah, king of
&c.
1

Oudh

Ghazals 160 pp. 12 bayts; Fards,

:

5 pp.

Beginning of Ghazals

Para7i-bakhsh, written in 1845, at the end

thor, it

is

the seal of the au-

has the date, 1250.

(335)

&^\tf~*
a Khatry.

(P.)

Usages of Love, being the story of Bismil, by

shiy
of

Mun-

Lachmy Narayan,

His ancestors were

Kanjawah near Lahor, and

his grandfather settled

No. 336.]

la'yiq.
Dilly.

475
a pupil of

under 'alamgyr at
resided
first at

He was

Arzu and

Awrangabad and subsequently at Bareily, and flourished under A^mad Shah and Acaf aldawlah who died in 1212. I have been told that Lachmy Narayan
died at Dilly about twenty-five years ago.

Beginning

^ j&

(3^*

^^

***'

Litliographed at Lucnow, Moctafay press, 1259, 22 pp.

(336)

c^a^^-o

(P.)

The Story of Kamrup, in Persian verses by Himmat Khan Layiq, a son of Islam Khan. Mohammad Yusof says that he was the father of Islam Khan and the son of the
Khanejahan Ldyiq.
the poet's

According to another statement

name was Mohammad 'ashiq and his takhalluc Himmat. The former account is borne out by several verses in the Dywan.
Towards the end he says
r

Vl *&; &$ jV }
e^*jb ^'y.j
***>

^J
h )j*

fh**

(*

e/-

* * U| J * B?
^jfiolki.

C^*a dyi& ^U**

Yet

it is

probable that the

Mathnawy

is

the produc-

tion of

Mohammad 'ashiq, and takhalluc of Himmat also that

was
in the service of
p. 1
1

that he had besides the

of Layiq, for this poet

(see Yiisof

Himmat Khan
3 supra) to

Khan's
is

Tadzkirah and
cated.

whom

the

poem

dedi-

The

date 1096 and

name

of the composition are

men-

tioned in the following verses

^iwoU \j^s6 ^>**>

jy^d

&j**

^J^^>

*dfy>* tfa*f\*#jljc

3 P 2

476
Beginning J>
172 pp. 24 bayts
;

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

^V
Moty

*j^

f/*k
;

l**jh**
:

Tdpkhanah, 302 pp. 15 bayts

otlier copies are smaller

Topkhanah

MaAall, 294 pp. 11 bayts.

(337)

($ JU
of
life

d ^o

(P.)

The Dywan

Shyraz, a son of

Wajyh aldyn 'abd Allah Lisdny of Myr Mohammad Mushk-fariish. He

at

spent the greater part of his

Tabryz, but for some

time he resided at Baghdad and after that city had been

taken by Shah Isma'yl, he proceeded to

Hamadan where
Shadman,
to

he was supported by

Najm

aldyn

II.

After his death he

had to endure great hardship in the

at length

fortress of

however he went
after

to

Herat and subsequently

Kashan, and
in 991 j but

an absence of fourteen years he came

back to Tabryz where he died. Khoshgu places his death

it

probably took place several years

earlier.

He

left

about 40,000 bayts.

This copy contains only Ghazals.

Beginning

Wy*jL

W^ J^k lyjUi^

d& SrO^

J
-

*^

ftft'ft^ ^j*>j

\j^3y Z,

uf\jii

^
(P.)

As. Soc. No. 1231, 80 pp. of 12 bayts, an old copy.

(338)

The Dywan

of

Mohammad Shyryn Maghrihy.

disciple of

^^
the flock

He

was a native of Nayyn and a

Sysy who belonged
'abd al-Ra^man
to

Shaykh Isma yl of Shiykh Nur aldyn

Isfarayiny.

the takhalluc of Maghriby, the

The reason why he chose man of the west, is that

disciple of

on a journey to the Maghrib (Northern Africa) he received

the garb of a

Darwysh from a

Mokyy

aldyn

No. 339.]
'araby.

MAGHRIB Y.
a friend of

477
like

He was

Kama! Khojandy, and

him a profound Cufy.

Ouseley Pers. Poets,
glosses *j^U.

It is said that jealousy for royal

favour dissolved the friendship of these two holy

p. 106).

men

(see

He

is

the author of Arabic

on the FotuMt and of the Uit^ X^.

buried in Surkhab.

He

died at Tabryz, where he had spent the greater part of

his
life,

in 809, and

is

Having been
is

given to the most disgusting vices during his lifetime, he

is

considered as

a saint, and his tomb

a place of
alsiyar III.

pilgrimage. (Jamy,
fol.

Nafah. No. 574

II.

Habyb

695

Khoshgii
:

No. 277; Taqyy Kashy, No. 100).

1

Contents

an introduction in prose, 6 pp.

1

9 lines

Arabic poems,

2 pp.

6 bayts

Ghazals, 94 pp.

7 bayts

Tarjy'bands and Ruba ys 29 pp.

Beginning of Ghazals.

Moty
722
;

Ma^all, a carefully written old copy

collection, a

As. Soc. Nos. 1436,

my

good copy,

it

contains merely the Ghazals and

Gresch. d.

Kuba'ys.
p.

Baron Hammer- Purgstall,

schonen Eedek. Pers.

78, translates three poems of Maghriby, in them occurs the follow-

ing verse in which the metre would suffer, were

we

to read Mo'izzy.

cu*oj^fj uLhja. ks>j** sfity j* *b& ls^jj^* c>4r^ r* In the Topkhanah, 16 pp. 18 bayts, is a Mathnawy of Maghriby

which he dedicated to Shahrokh

it

begins

jUa.j t^ljJ^Lj

oOl^

jl*&!

&lji& &Jj& tj*>%

o*-

(339)

Lfij&& *j+= L-a~uJ

j]j

sjf
{l}

(P.)

is

the honorific

The Rose Garden name

of Mysteries, by

Najm
is

aldyn

(this

of the poet according to the preface

called Sa'd

of the commentary, but in the postcript he

aldyn, and in one copy Sa'd b.

Ma/miud)

Ma^mud Jabisha

tary or Shabishtary Tabryzy.

He

died in his native

town

in

720 and

left

among other prose works

a*U

sJK^j

478
which
treats

PERSIAN POETRY.
on
love,

[CHAP.
to

II.

and which he dedicated

Shaykh
he enter-

Ibrahym a
No. 223).
in

relation of Isma'yl Sysy for

whom
It is

tained an admiration bordering on madness (Khoshgu II.

He

wrote this poem in 717.

an answer

976 verses to seventeen metaphysical questions which were .proposed by Amyr Sayyid Hosayny (see p. 430
supra) and contains a very useful outline of the speculations of the Cufies.

Beginning e^i^*)

&j& j^iU*
;

sJ Jij

Topkhanah, 80 pp. 24 bayts

printed with a

German

translation

by Baron von Hammer- Purgstall, Pest, 1838.

(340)

% ^e^j^J **
it

(P-)

A
b.

commentary on the preceding work by Mohammad Yahyh b. 'alyy Jylany Lahijy Ndr-bakhshy Asyry
in

who compiled
Leyd.
II. p.

877

(see p.

70 supra; Dozy, Catal.

117, says that this

commentary was compiled

Jaci/I

in 879).

Beginning
Moty
lines,

j*-j*

J^

^*dJUJ) a^ojJ J^Uxi)

;

LfA^lj

Ma^all, 868 pp. 17 lines

;

As. Soc. No. 1281, 600 pp. of 15

a very bad copy

private collection very correct.

is

In the Moty

Ma/*all (9 pp. 18 lines),

.

J|

a copy of a commentary on the verse

It begins tjl&Hj

^j*, cUrU jl

^jyjb.

<j^~! UT &U+sJ\

**j

(341)

JJt =* J\y*
of

(P.)
Allah,

The Dywan
e.

Majd aldyn Hibat

is

who had

the

takhalluc of Majd, and

i.

usually called

Majde Hamkar?

the weaver.

He was

of Shyraz in Fars and has

therefore the patronymic of Farsy

and he derived his

No. 342.]
descent from

majdzu'b.
;

479

Anushyrwan his wit and refined manners introduced him at court, and he was in high favor with the Atabuk Sa'd b. Abu Bakr b. Zangy. After the death of his patron he went to Yazd and thence he proceeded to Ispahan, where he found a

warm

reception from

Baha aldyn

the son of

Khwajah Shams

aldyn, and

when

he came the second time to power under Abaqa

appointed him governor of Shyraz.

Khan he

He

died in that city,

upwards of ninety years of age, in 686, the same year

died also

Imamy Herawy and Badr aldyn Jajarmy. Taqyy

his.

Kashy, No. 47, has seen about 6,000 verses of

aldyn, &c.

Contents: Qacydahs in praise of'adhod aldyn, Tzahyr

375 pp.

5 bayts

some Qif ahs and Ruba'ys,

116 pp.

Beginning ^iUjl*
Mdty

J^^

v-Cu

**&

'j&

\jt^*\s?

MaAall, a splendid old copy.

(342)

V^V
of

Jpt

(P.)
of Tabryz.

The Dywan

Myrza Mohammad Majdzub

He was

a great scholar and profound Cufy.

According

to a chronogram, he collected this

Dywan

in 1063.

Tahir Nacrabady speaks of him in the present tense,

and

it

would therefore appear that he was

his for 1006.

still

alive in

1083, on the other hand he quotes the following chrono-

gram of

Besides this

Dywan

and the Mathnawy c^WMytU he

composed two other Mathnawies, one in the measure of

480

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

the Shah-namah and one in the measure of the

Math-

nawy
18 pp.

of Jala! aldyn

Rumy.

Contents: Ghazals, 248 pp. 14 bayts; Ruba'ys, &c.

Beginning fc^
As. Soc. No. 1366.

ji

vydJb \J&*
;

tfl?)

L_r

eW)

^sxc ^J\
;

Mdfcy MaAall, a good copy

Topkhanah, about 200 pp. of 18 bayts

This copy contains also a few Qacydahs.

(343)

J& Jty*
alnisa
is

(P.)

The Dywan of Zeb

Begam, a daughter of 'alam-

gyr; her takhalluc was Makhfiy and she died in 1114.

The chronogram on her death

Contents
:

^^^

ur^^b*

Qacydahs, 28 pp.
^jfcilLJ^

Beginning

i
U

cbj

t*1

Jf^ J-^

^ J^
copies
;

Ghazals, 480 pp. 12 bayts; Wasokht, Tarjy'bands, &c.

46

pp.

Beginning

^Uuo Jl pL. \j^L^.jjAj ^}

;

Eara^-bakhsh, a splendid copy

Soc.

Mdty MaMl,

five

As.

No. 297.

(344)

i^j]^^L-i^ &T^JsJJ

P -)

Layla and Majnan a Mathnawy of 2,160 verses by

Maktaby who was a schoolmaster of Shyraz and composed it in 895 (see Samy, No. 359, A'tishkadah, p. 392 and Dozy Catal Bill Lugd. Bat II. p. 121.)
&ji
StmS

>^"> lj>^

tep

&j^.

v ^ ^J
1

ic*

dr^

Beginning

^Ljl 4.* Agl ; <>!*. J;'

^Wy

^>I;J ufl

As. Soc. No. 796, about 200 pp. of 15 bayts.

No. 346.]

malik.

481

(345)

^-U'j*>
of
p.

(P.)

The Dywdn
gram on

Mohammad Fakhir Makyn, who was

162).

born in 1173 and died in 1221 (see

his death

Chrono-

by Mo/zammad Mo^sin,

Contents: Qacydahs, 38 pp. 17 bayts; Ghazals, 308

pp.
1 1

bayts

Mokhammas, 7 pp. Beginning

of Ghazals

Moty

Ma^all, two copies, one was written during the author's

;

life-

time and contains his autograph

in one copy the Ghazals begin

(346)

^S eJJU
of Malik

c^l^iT

(P.)

Works

Qommy.

He was

born and brought

up at Qomm, and was in great favor with the Qizilbashes and other great men of Persia. Yet for some unexplained reason, he
left

his native country

and came to

A^madnagar
ception

in India where he

met the Khan Khanan.

This great patron of poets gave him the most kind re-

and supported him.

After some time Malik

determined to go to Makkah.

At Byjapur he

fell

in

with Tzohiiry, who married his daughter and introduced

him to Ibrahym
to

'adilshah.

He composed a poem
it ***f^l

of 9000

verses for his patron and called

;J).

According

Azad the name of the book is \jj?. The kingmade him a present for it of 90,000 Laries. At present, 1024, says the author of the Mathire Rah, from whom
the above details are derived, he lives in retirement and
indigence.

He

died in the Deccan in 1025, the chronois

gram on his death made by Kalym

3

ty j^" J^tj*

jl

482
Contents
:

PERSIAN POETRY.
a preface in prose of 9 pp.
:

[CHAP.
;

II.

Qacydahs and

some Tarjy'bands, 180 pp. 22 bayts Ghazals, 150 pp.; about 400 Ruba'ys. Beginning of the Qacydahs

j\^j$]

^xU a Mathnawy

divided into

7 chapters j&, 9

pp. 23 bayts.

Beginning
style of the

Another mystical Mathnawy in the

qah, 84 pp. 23 bayts, incomplete.

Hady-

-^ ***J& f*J** ^dr^ Moty Ma^all. In the same collection, and in the As. Soc. No. 840, there is a Dywan of Malik Qommy, which contains some of the

Beginning Jo\&

^^

fj& f*

Qacydahs, the Ghazals and minor poems, bnt not the Mathnawies

(347)

J>
of
:

Jy*

(P.)

Shah Malul of Moradabad, who had also the takhalluc of Ilham (see pp. 239, 254, 436 supra.) Bg. Contents Ghazals, 438 pp. 14 bayts.

The Dywan

<xjU^
is

ci*

Mathnawy composed

in

191? the

name

a chronogram, 34 pp. 15 bayts and a Tarjy'band.

Tdpkhanah, a

fair

copy.

(348)

jj^ ^yo
of Manciir, he
is

(P.)

The Dywan

probably identical with

the poet of this takhalluc mentioned by Zahir, see p. 103

Contents: Ghazals, 432 pp. 15 bayts.

No. 350.]

manu'chihry.
to

483

Beginning

^jyj>y.

j^

a1*j3

^* ^Uj

Qacydahs, 144 pp. some are in praise of Shah 'abbas

II.

who

died in 1078 and of 'abbas Quly Beg.

jt&

Beginning AleLldil^j^j Mdty MaAall, a good copy.

o>w

**

<*L+->

c^l

(349)

aiTo^

|3jj4jio

^d

(P.)

The Dywan
Shac^t-gallah.

of Maniichihry,

who had

the sobriquet of

His name

was

Hakym

A^mad

b.

Ya'qiib b.

A^mad
is

Maniichihry.

Najm aldyn He informs

us in his poems that he

a native of Damaghan, and

states.

not of Balkh as Dawlat-shah erroneously

He was
court of

a pupil of Abu-lfaraj Sinjary, and lived at the

Ma/miud

of Ghaznah, and of his two sons Mas'ud and

Mohammad.
of a Tarkhan.

The

latter prince raised

him

to the

rank

He

acquired

much
i.

wealth, and hence

his sobriquet of Shact-gallah,

e.

sixty flocks of sheep.

Towards the end of

lik b.

his life he devoted himself to ascetic

exercises under the guidance of Abu-lma'aliy 'abd alma-

Mohammad Jowayny. He The Dywan consists almost

lived.

died in 483.
exclusively

of

short

Qacydahs
he

in praise of the three princes at

whose court
Beginning

Moty

Ma^all, small 8vo. 188 pages of 14 lines, possibly a mere

extract copied in 1010.

(350)

^\;*>J* /*"*
of

^*

oy>>

(P.)

Many. According to the copyist he was of Mazandaran and according to Samy of Mashhad.
3

The Dywan

484

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

His father was a porcelain manufacturer, and he followed

in his youth the
talents introduced

same

profession, but subsequently his

him to Mo/zammad Mo/zsin Myrza, a son of SuMan Hosayn Myrza, and he was killed in his service by the Uzbeks in 913.
Contents
:

after

four Ghazals
:

in praise of God, the

Dywan
Mdty

begins as follows

MaAall, 82 pp. 17 bayts.

(351)

Jy&o lJu^J

xoLil*^

<ul3

^y
Maqbiil

(P.)

The Niln-namah and Qaf-namah by

whose takhallu9
end in
Ghazal
is

A^mad

Maqbul.

I believe the poet is alive

and resides at Lucnow.

n,

All the verses of the

letter of

Nun-namah
first

and the

first

every verse of the

is alif,

of the second b, &c.

c*r& e^*j=
first

Beginning
and the
Bg.

^^^

^/^^
alif,

*<^ cW
q

In the Qaf-namah, the

first

letter of every verse is

Ghazal rhymes in

U-^^l

^^

the second in b, &c.

(jjAi.

U^^jU^l^U
:

Lithographed, Lucnow, 1263, 16 pp.

the Qaf-namah

is

written

on the margin.

(352)

\s>f \$\&
of

(P.)
(see p. 63).

The Dywan

Khwajah Hosayn Marwy

Contents: Qacydahs, 31 pp. of 12 bayts in praise of

Akbar; Ghazals, 100

them,
is

pp. and a few Ruba'ys

among

a chronogram for 953, on the composition of a

work

of

Humayun which

has the

title

of

sj^J^ c5^j&

No. 353.]

Ma'stj'd.
fact the title itself is a
:

485
chronogram.

and of which in
As. Soc. No. 842.

Beginning of Ghazals

is>U& *g>j^

*^/ c *^*s^ uf'

(353)

iy~* Jtyp
Sa'd b.

(P.)

The Dywan of Khwajah Mas'ud b. who died in 525, according to a Biyadh

No. 931, his death happened in 420

Salman
(see p.

of the As. Soc.

(for

520?)

407 supra).
his

He
name

usually writes

"Bandah"

instead of

name

or takhalluc, but in one instance he gives

us his whole

have not succeeded in finding the verses quoted by

this

Dawlat-shah in

Dywan, bat

the

Ruba y which

accordis

ing to Khoshgii, he sent from his prison to the Sultan

in
it, it

runs

Khoshgd has
he
calls

in addition to this another Mas'iid,

whom

Mas'iid

at the court of

Razy and of whom he Sul/an Mas ud.

says that he was

Contents
in praise at the

Qacydahs about 500 pp. of 21 bayts mostly of Sultfan Mas'ud, Ibrahym and Bahrain Shah,
:

end are a few Ghazals and Ruba'ys and Mok-

hammas.
Bg.
l**

^ |^f
;

;<*

yfl

ty iJju

lr***

^ ^vJ

U^

As. Soc. No. 1245

486
(354)

PERSIAN POETRY.
c*JL>

[CHAP.

II.

dute*

ujijte

(P.)
uses both Mas'ud
in the concluding

The Dywan of Mas'iid Bakk. He and Mas'ud Bakk as his takhalluc, and

verse of the last Ghazal, he gives us his full name.

From

Ilahy (see p. 84 supra)

it

would appear that he

was of Ma-wara-lnahr but 'abd al-Haqq Dihlawy Akhbar

alakhydr, p. 375 gives us a different statement.

He was
;

according to this author a relation of

Dilly and had originally the

SuUan Fyruz of

name
b.

of Shyr

Khan

dis-

gusted with the vanities of this world, he became a disciple of

Shaykh Rokn aldyn

Shihab aldyn

Imam
He
I

(Khoshgu. alters Shihab aldyn into Baha aldyn) one of

the most profound Cufies of the school of Chishty.

wrote several works on Mysticism, one

is

entitled

and

is

on the plan of the .Jla** SUa&U

title

****?

ul**?

and another one has the

in the

of u#/fl

* j/.

After his

death he was buried in the tomb of his spiritual guide

miles

Ladu Saray near Nitzam aldyn's mausoleum, five south of Dilly. The date of his demise is not

known, but he probably flourished towards the end of the eighth century. Walih says that he was a disciple of
Chiragh Dilly.
Contents
:

^y/^^b)
Moty

Bg. Qacydahs, 25 pp. 1 5 bayts. ju i**jjy*~ ^JhL)j &aj J^ vtWi^ji r

>

Ghazals, 150 pp. 13 bayts and 70 Rubays.

Bg.

Ma7*all, a

good copy written in 1012

As. Soc. 1371, this

copy has a short preface in prose, in which the author states that he
wrote this book for his brother Nacyr aldyn.
This copy begins

No. 356.]

MATYN.
**<*$

487

(355)

j/jfmA lmJl*k*\

fttkjX*

(P.)

The Story

of Manuchihr, a
in

Mathnawy by Hatim
to Shahjahan.

Masyh composed

1070 and dedicated

Topkhanah, about 600 pp. of 15 bayts, a good copy.

(356)

rfjg

(P.)

The Dywan of Shaykh 'abd al-Ridha b. 'abd Allah Matyn. He was a native of Ispahan, but of Arabic He came under Bahadur Shah to India (Arzii origin. says that he came in the commencement of the reign of Mo/zammad Shah, succeeded in 1132, to Dilly) and subsequently he went to Lucnow where he assumed the

garb of a Darwysh, and received a pension from Burhan

almulk Sa'adat Khan.

Having

lost

his pension

owing

to the change of rulers, he proceeded to

Bengal and died

about

1 1

75,

and

left

Dywan

of about

5000
3

verses (see

Arzu and

Talib).
:

Contents

a preface in prose, 68 pp.

}

lines.

Beginning ^iVl? ^A**!] p^^ j J^ J^> +k>\J) ^a Qacydahs in praise of the Imams and chronograms,
&c. 35 pp.
;

logogriphs with solution, 24 pp. Beginning

of Qacydahs

story in verse 30 pp.

Bg.

jIj

1^

J=aJ l>

aaI^juj

Ghazals 200 pp. of 12 bayts and 150 Ruba'ys.

Beginning U J^yidjO o^S ^r*Moty Ma^all, probably an autograph.

&^

488

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(357)

rf*

$&

(P.)

The Dywan

of Janjanan Matzhar.

statement of Shorish (see p.

Arzu confirms the 256 supra) that the name

it

of this poet was originally Janejan, but that he was sub-

sequently called Janjanan, and he says that he heard

from his own

lips.

Contents: preface in prose which contains an autobiography ; Ghazals, 80 pp. of 1 3 bayts. JBg.
L

O^j

c_;iUttO

&)&

&S

Ai^l

\->

L* O^S"' c-jLs^U^

C-TjjtJ

dj>

?>\

Mdty Ma^all; As.

graphy:
ijl*-

Soc.

No. 1165.

I insert here his autobioolils^la^fjJw

cj^

\)j*

J~ij\^**. u^^

*yJ

<y*"a'

**f

jt J^*

c5**

cj^wo

ca-*j

u^ji;^ c)^*'^

I;

5>^

t^Jls*.

cJU o~J jo j cu~*j

J-?^ J* *?>* J *^'

3 5p^

cl?^

us^*

^H
O ^*
1

-r^3 **** c/*i)

o<i>/0

J>^

Air'*

us^H

iri^'O C1>J^-a.^oI *Jj Cj!

<J1bIJ

JftXXxJ

0Jj ^if JL* CU-.J jl

k&

^j\yb j^AAjl

j>y Aif U cx*| J^L&JO dji, ajj

^L

ij*j

^j^jfc Jf|j j|

%^J cf^ti Aj
^Ji ^laA.i-*
j>jU

r,

j.

j*lj

tyAg^J

^1

Aj

ZjZx* &j\yO i

6$dtd ^Ijj
Julil

lj

>^JJj4*4

^I^J^aj cujIj^j J&j

<i.^JLi(iJ AS"

c^ljjl

^Jil)

^li

A,>

^Lfi&i i>A^) oLail jl

^^^

oLI^-* j-0

jLI^I

Aj

vl*.wf

(ji.-iJj^

^5^^

^r^*

^^ J LT^y

(J*^

0^

^1 ^xas^j ^a.

^jla.

I^Um ^iljA.y ^^*aj ^I^LI^j ,jLaJ

X5 ^J^l d ^ ^^i.dj tyL

jl

tiJlil

^
1

^Ifijl

^f jIa-O

a5"

3jG

o'^[>

j\

J^ ft^d

^-^is

0*! ^*^

uhxJ
-

^^J ^Lr* -r^ ^) *^ j c^^csji)^ J^**

^

*****

t;0' lA^J j

No. 360.]

MATZHAR.

489

(358)

jfi*
Story

^yt*
by Matzhar

(P.)
(he
p.
is

The

of Chander Badan,

probably identical with the poet mentioned in

supra) dedicated to Awrangzeb.

129

Beginning

Topkhanah, 130 pp. 15 bayts.

(359)

'*H$J&

p -)

Information for Aspirants by Abii 'abd Allah Mohammad Fadhil b. Sayyid A^mad b. Sayyid iifosayn Hosayny Tirmidzy Akbarabady who is usually called Matzhar alhaqq. He flourished under Shahjahan and composed
this

book as the

title indicates

which

is

a chronogram, in

1060 and died

in 1101.

This book contains chronograms in verse on the principal dates in

Mo/2ammadan

history, particularly

on the

death of great
poets, &c. Bg.

men
jj^tffj

of the prophet,
f

of the Khalifs, of
%

gM i*}*" lijMjk *k*A> yJtfy j h-t^*" {1 Lithographed at Luenow, Moctfayiy press, 1265, 12mo. 130 pp.

(360)

ifg
generally

ufa
poem
the

uyS*
of Jalal aldyn

(P-)

The who is

celebrated mystical

Mohammad

name of Mawlawy Rum or Rumy in India, and by the name of Jalal aldyn Rumy in Europe. Ciify authors call him usually Mawlawy Ma'nawy. It is said that he used Mawlawy, Mawlana, Khamush and Shams as his takhalluc. He was born at

known by

Balkh on the 6th of Raby'

I.

604, or 592.
family,

His father and of great

Baha aldyn was a man of good 3 R

490

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

learning and piety, and he had a very numerous circle of

disciples.

It is said that the ruler of

Balkh, jealous of

his influence with the public did everything to

annoy him.

At

length

Baha aldyn thought

it

best to leave Balkh, he

proceeded with his family on a pilgrimage to Makkah,

and remained on his return at Iconium the capital of

that branch of the Seljuq dynasty which ruled over

Riim

and hence our poet

is

called

Rumy.

were great patrons of learning,

The Seljuq princes and both Baha aldyn and

and celebrity

his promising son rose soon to importance

at Iconium.

After the death of his father which hap-

pened in 631, Jalal aldyn succeeded him as the spiritual

guide of his flock which soon increased by the accession
of four hundred
Jalal

new disciples. Among the friends of aldyn were men like Calah aldyn Zarkub, and

Cheleby //osam aldyn,

selves

who have immortalized themBut

by

their attainments in mystical philosophy.

the friend to

whom

he was most attached, and to

whom

almost all his

Ghazals are addressed, was Shams TaJalal aldyn, according

II.

bryz, a most disgusting cynic.

to

Jamy, died

at sunset

on the 5th Jumada

672 or 671,

at the age of sixty-nine years.

death

is

A chronogram on his wSj* *Ul^i (Ouseley Pers. poets, p. 112).

is

This poem

called emphatically " the

;

Mathnawy"

or

Mathnawy ma'nawy it is divided into six cantos j4*?. The second canto was composed two years after the
first

in 662.

Beginning

Good

j Scopies are frequent but they differ from each other. Litho]

^s

graphed at Bombay, 1263, 4 to.

;

Ibidem, 1266, 8vo. in the

Naskhy
-f-

character Ibidem, 1267 in Naskhta'lyq 117

113

+ 136 + 115

120

+ 136

pp. of

42 bayts,
;

this is considered the

most correct of the

three editions

Turkish translation with commentary, Boulak, 1251,

No. 362.]
3
vols, see

mawla'na' ru'my.

491

Hammer- Purgstall's

notice of this edition in the Sitzungs-

bericht d.

W.

Akad. 1851.
(this

Valuable

MS.

copies are in the As. Soc.

Kos. 40, 138

copy contains also the glossary) and 604.

(361)

UUl\ c_J
Mathnawy
b. 'alyy

(P.)

Extracts from the Selections of the

of Jalal

aldynRiimy, by Jfosayn
(see
p. 71 supra).

Wa itz Bayhaqy Kashify

at the request
b.

The author made,

b.

of

Baha aldyn Mohammad

selections
title

Mohammad ^i
ufjjWI

al-1/osayn

Balkhy Rumy,

from the Mathnawy and gave

l_>U:^)
l-jUJ.

them the

of ^jiXJI

Subse-

quently at the request of some of his Cdfy friends, he

made an

abstract of these selections

three chapters

and arranged

it

into

which respectively contain the verses

asceticism cj)^ JWjlyl ^lk*. Bg.
;

on revealed religion i**f j\^o\ *U.

ij^hJoJjJi and theosophy

Some copies begin dy+-jfl ^r^l> o^-*** ^s^ u-aA3bj ^ixaj j*j
Moty
There
is

Ma^all, 426 pp. 19 bayts, a very fine copy

a copy of the <_5>wJl

is

in

my

posses-

sion and there are

two copies in the As. Soc. Nos. 421, 989. wUJin the Tdpkhanah about 100 pp.

45 bayts, the text begins

^ ^ y yi.

The preface begins

(362)

C^U f> y
Rumy made
Xx/C

(P-)

Stream from the Ocean of the Mathnawy, or selections

from Mawlawy
1081.

by

'alyy

Akbar Khqfiy

iu

The

title is

a chronogram.

Beginning ^s/ J&i&P" M^J Moty MaAall, 146 pp. 15 bayts, written 3 R 2

in 1137.

492

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(363)

J^V ^
1

Extracts from the Mathnawy, systematically arranged

into sixty-three chapters

by Abu Hakr Shashy.

Begin-

ning of the short preface in prose ^*a. ^*ft*fl v;

As. Soc. No. 1164, 112 pp. of 15 bayts, written in 1065.

^ J*

acJ

'

(364)

e>r^>>

(P.)

The concealed Pearl, being selections from the Mathnawy systematically arranged with explanations by a disciple of

Sayyid 'abd

al

Fatta^ .ffosayny 'askary, or rather

by himself.

Every chapter
Beginning S^**
Moty

is

headed by the words ^y^* j& and

a few observations in prose.

y*> L-f

#iSJu*JI )d)^d jJI Uljjt

;

^jJ)

<UJcUs^J

Ma/zall, 8vo.

about 300 pp.

As. Soc. No. 1270.

(365)

^SWl c Uw
Hosayny

(P.)

commentary on the Mathnawy of Mawlawy Jalal

'askary, col-

aldyn, by Sayyid 'abd al-Fatta/s

lected

by

his pupil

Hidayat Allah in 1049.

^AiJl^IijJI e^X&^l ^s?\ e^,J I^uXa. JjIj^ r<^
aJJo ^j^\

Bg. of 2d.
Bg. of 3d.

d. ajUi*

!;

^ff4 Bg. of 4th daftar

daft.

t} *i\

;J

I^

a*^)

gljj! jfliaJI

Bg. of 5th daftar **#

As. Soc. No. 581, in
all

^ c

y.^ 3 *" *

u ***>*
*J

*J
JUdJI

Bg. of 6th daftar fi*Hjsi^i

JS

Ul

^U3
lines.

5***

about 1500 pp. of 19

No. 367.]

mawla'na' ru'my.
JFt\f\)))j\jmH\j>\y>.

493
(P.)

(366)

A commentary on the Mathnawy by iTosayn b. -Hasan

who died according The author informs
friends he wrote a
to Jfajy Khal.

No. 11,370, in 840.

us that he had from childhood a

predilection for this poem,

and that

at the request of his

cfa*} j)& which it seems contains discourses on the Mathnawy, and, on their

work

Jfd^W! j^j <'

continued solicitations, he at length proceeded to write this

commentary, of which he commenced the second book in

834. It
is

preceded by a preliminary discourse divided into

first

ten chapters AA&*, the

of which contains biographies

of celebrated Cufies beginning with 'alyy, and the second

an explanation of some of their technical terms, in

chapter he follows Qoshayry.
of the

this

This

is

rather an analysis

Mathnawy than a commentary.

*,

The

text is

introduced by the word JL* or

As. Soc. No. 57,
in 1081,
it

Beginning
written with great care

fol.

400 pp. of 26
first
is

lines,

contains only the

three daftars.

The account which

Hajy Khalyfah

gives of this book,

confused and erroneous.

(367)

u^!

cilrfl

> j< isj***

jM

lJ^T

(P.)
a

Explanation of the

theosophistic mysteries, being

commentary on the Mathnawy by 'abd al-flamyd b. Mo'yn aldyn Mohammad b. Mohammad Hashim Hosayny

Qany
his

Rifa'y of Tabryz, with introductory remarks on

Jalal aldyn

Rumy's system

of theosophy, illustrated by

own

verses.

Beginning oU* u>&4.] o)3 <^*# ^\jj ^ As& &** Mdty MaAall, 658 pp. of 21 lines. This volume contains merely
the
first part.

494

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(368)

^do

<ul*

(P.)

A commentary
^sla J^
J^^l

on the Mathnawy, by Nitzam aldyn

Beginning

Dd'iy (see p. 387 supra).

;'

*&

cr^^ tyb"}*
&x\zsJ]

\-?y***

J**l j*j

^^ir^

1
**

u/^

^^ ^i**^l
/

sJy.9 Jjyii

t\Aj

^lJ cJUaib djb

Jij

First verse explained ^J> jU ^UI^Aj w-^^j

j>JI

.pjl y>j
;

Moty

MaAall, 222 pp. 22 lines, written in a clear hand

is

As. Soc

No. 830, there

also a

copy in

my

collection.

(369)

uytfJl Jitt*

rf

i^jJUjl LJulk)

(P.)
b.

commentary on the Mathnawy, by 'abd al-Lafyf

'abd Allah 'abbasy dedicated to Shahjahan.

translates

The author

and explains Arabic sentences, traditions and and

illustrates difficult Persian verses.
j \*sV^*

Qoran

verses,

Beginning **?>/
Bg. of 2d
d. Jj\

*U^c ^UjI

^uw

jS,

Bg. of

3d.

daftar^l^l c^W^j'j

H 4 U^-I^M ^11 i^^>jd ^-^ ^<^ S^\

* * *
.

lewM
*V

Bg. of 4 th daftar i^r^ j i/N^**" 4X*^ Bg. of 5th daftar c^*~) ^-^ <&s ^ t
Bg. of 6th daftar

^AS ^

^jJI^c xjj^,
.

i^uU

^-^

jy ^i*
;

^.U
Topkhanah
is

As. Soc. No. 846, 240 pp. of 19 lines

in the

commentary on the Mathnawy by 'abd

of iSj^"^ *!/ I do not
]

al-Layf,

which has the

title

know whether

it is

identical with the *-aJUaJ

fifth parts,

LfjixJl. In that collection are also the fourth and

(about

300 pp. of 28
composed

lines) of a

commentary by Myrza Faqr Allah

&&*>

(A!Jlryn,)

in 1130.
yli*l

Beginning **>&( ;y

j& igi*H f^-*- ci^l *^ LS*

No. 372.]

mawla'na' ru'my.
jgyij cl>\J&o

495
(P.)

(370)

commentary on the

Mathnawy, by Mohammad

Ridha, compiled in 1084, after the author had retired

from the service of his sovereign.

duced by the word

The

text is intro-

^.
j.lj*\ )\)\y
*1

Beginning c^l ^Uil^j ^\a.

^a+s* j&

*J

Bg. of 2d daftar^ wUVj d^-^Afcj ^Jfity Bg. of 3d daftar *$ /& o^l;) ur^ ^5**g
Bg. of 4th daftar

^4*
fl)y

^ *&&\

c^l
J^*

,*> >

^iUJ

*U\

JU US
'

Bg

of 5th daftar c^***o _j*

ti
\j

*i AsrM

cf

^ ^
^-^S >&

Bg. of 6th daftar

J^o

l^o'o^
lines,

As. Soc. No. 549 about 600 pp. of 13

Ibidem, No. 623, the
first

written in 1167;

daftar only.

(371)

J]r^ei5^
of Mysteries, being a

(P.)

The Treasures
the Mathnawy, by
in 1140.

commentary on

Walyy Mohammad
is

of Agra, compiled

The
L

text

introduced by tiy.

Beginning
the
first

&*
is

dy-j

e^-^ j* ^Uu^^U**

As. Soc. Nos. 383 and 606, 882 pp. of 19 lines containing only
book, No. 389
I;

the second volume, 352 pp. of 20 lines.

\j

Beginning

J^

&(** o,*^iy

t^b ^lai. pi

^ o+^
400 pp.

Another volume, No. 389, contains the sixth

of 20 lines.

part, about

The author completed

this part in 1151.

(372)

L^J^I

*U\j}> L-flA^oJ
\j?J?**

j*

(P.)

commentary on the Mathnawy, by Shah Myr MoAllah A^rary,

hammad Nur

who

according to a note in

496

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

the fly-page resided at Arcot *^'Mj\

The
^UJI
'

text

is

intro-

duced by the words

**

*U)

Beginning

^
d.

^-^
-

*Jy.
*JU

J>^

tJ*&l i**Uyi ^JUS)

cks

!
|

Bg. of 2d daftar

ls^*I

j^t

"*-

^*& ^r m**^ kaJ

<L

>

Uj

Bg. of 3d Ct^JUs jjr c^Uj^o

^J-lbyo

iS^

oi*
^5***

^J|

Uui

^)

Bg. of 4th daftar

]^

lj Ai

UFjJ^l

>

f )

Bg. of 5th daftar t->^

Bg. of 6th

J^I^&yutJU-Jj J^* ^=r^ J?^

lines.

Au^^*
'

^^

_y

c^y;^ ^uoi*

As. Soc. No. 484, 384 pp. of 21

(373)

Lsy**;]?hisj**jfl

p -)

Mysteries of the Mathnawy, or Spiritual Lights, being

a commentary on the above poem by Mo'yn aldyn 'abd

'

Allah

called

Khalyfah Khwyshaky ^jC&jyL Chisty of

Qocur
lived

in the

Punjab who,

it

appears from the preface

some years in the Deccan.

of his other writings
:

He

gives us the follow-gjJt

ing

list

Af^** Jl&S sjjjJ*

^{A^c

^Ixj jd sS c~>^yi v:^**)

e^Ks

^ *x~

rS*3 (ji^flj^*

L***uolI*A.dJkJ&

Beginning *& * U Mot j MaAall, 408 pp.

vj'tXi.Ui.

^U) b^

^/-^
first daftar.

of 24 lines, containing only the

(374)

j*yA\ o**

lJu~J t5?y^ cj*

first

(P

commentary on the
b.

Daftar of the Mathnawy,

'alyy

by 'abd al'azyz

Shaykh

Mohammad

b.

Molla

Khodadad of Mathra.
Topkhanah, 110 pp. of 15
lines.

Beginning

No. 376.]

mayly.
jjyj

497
(P.)

(375)

u^Lif
This
is

Complete works of Shams Tabryz.

the

name

by which
ing his

in India the collection of

is

minor poems of Jalal

aldyn Riimy

generally known, because instead of insert-

own

takhalluc in the concluding verses of each

Ghazal, the poet uses the

name

of this eccentric saint.

Shams Tabryz died according to Jamy, Nafahat, in 645, some authors place his death more correctly in 660.
Contents
:

Ghazals, 1200 pp. of 34 bayts

Tarjy'bands,

46 pp. and about 4000 Ruba'ys. ^Ulol^-Jl e; ar^ u^ty ^M <j^

]

^)>M

Moty
The
IjIaj

^^

Beginning

J^l

Ma^all, a splendid copy with occasional marginal notes.

copies usually

tain selections from the Kullyat,

^.j Aj(^. other copies

met with of the Dywan of Shams Tabryz, con*>T some of them begin ^ *J^^

begin

Jj^ff i*J

&y {s^

&\J&+= } \.

Bosen-

zweig has published selections from the

lation,

Dywan

with a

German trans-

Vienna, 1838, 4to.

(376)

J#> $gi
of

(P.) of Herat (see

The Dywan
Contents

Myrza Quly Mayly

supra pp. 54, 64, 43).

:

Qacydahs, 60 pp. 24 bayts.

<a^Ij tXLjy*> vxjUa.

Beginning a&U.

J^*.

Ghazals, 54 pp. 25 verses.

Topkhanah and
912
;

Beginning
Moty
MaAall, As. Soc. No.

several copies in the

my

collection about

300 pp. of 15 or 16 bayts, the Ghazals

begin in this copy I*

&b

o>i^ ^'Isi i~j

&.

498
(377)

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

C^A* ^jjJO
of

(P.)
(see pp.

The Dywan
and 171 supra).
Contents
:

Qamar aldyn Minnat

258

Ghazals about 250 pp. Mokhammas',

1

Qitfa'hs

and Ruba'ys,

5 pp.

Beginning

The Loves

of

Hyr and Ranjha,

Mathnawy

in

20

verses dedicated to Mr. Jones.

Beginning

Collection of

Mawl. MoAainmad Wajyh, written in 1214.

(378)

tf^tfjjid
of Miskyn.
it
;

(P-)

The Dywan

It

consists of prayers

and

invocations of saints, and

would therefore appear that

he may be identical with
in the Rasha/jat (see

the author was a Darwysh

the Cufy of that

name mentioned

chapter on Cufism).

Contents: Ghazals about 1200 pp. of 14 bayts, and a

few pages of miscellaneous poems,

prose composition.

at the

end

is

a short

Beginning V'

V.

rt&y*

ijr^i

VI ^ rt&j* **** y$-

As. Soc. No. 387, a good copy.

(379)

The Dywan
(see p.

of

(P.) #]> Shaykh Gholam Mo^yy aldyn Mobtala

$+

187 supra).
:

Contents

Ghazals,

10 pp. 12 bayts

Fards, Ruba'ys,

Satyres, &c. 32 pp.

Beginning

Moty MaAaE,
posed in 1187
;

this

copy contains also the

l^^

J**>

which he com-

my

private collection.

No. 382.]

mofyd.

499
(P.)
flourished after
alive in
1

f380)

v^Uo d\y 4
m

The Dywan
Cayib
Contents
bayts
;
:

of

Myrza Moca^ib, he
;

whom he imitates,
Mokhammas'
6

and was probably

158.
1

Qacydahs, 11 pp.

Ghazals, 200 pp. of

7
:

&c. 16 pp.

Beginning of Ghazals

^
I
i

ti/ ;

Moty

fJ** f; Ma^all, a splendid copy written in 1158, and as would

r^

,<Ai

lt

f}j&

Wl c/V

J^V

appear from the postscript during the author's lifetime

a a Aju* fcyfcA.Lo.x) \jjso ^jjy/o

o^ fW

^*aj1^j ^J(~.j v_ftxLAj .

In another copy

the Ghazals begin

bayts.

* Ml' jl

d*J

&

cA~j VJ k about 300 pp. of 14

(38i)

a^y.*
of Molla

->

The Dywan

151, 107, 129 supra).

Mofyd of Balkh (see pp. 114, From a chronogram in Walih it

appears that he died in 1091

6 = 1085.

Contents*:

Ruba ys,
for 1062.

Ghazals 164 pp. of 15 bayts; about 50 among them are some chronograms, one is

Beginning

*H *KjU **UJ C-Jjl *iy &f*> cfl U> *JUj c^laiw 5/^^J ^j-"^ Moty MaAall, written in 1149 As. Soc. No. 1177, imperfect.
;

(382)

His SaqiyThe Dywan of namah has been mentioned p. 386 supra under Cufy, it appears however from his Dywan, of which I have but a few days ago obtained the sight of a copy, that his takhallu9 is Mohammad and not Cufy.
Contents: Qacydahs, 18 pp. of 14 bayts.
3
s

0\f* Molla Mo/iammad Cufy.

**=

(P-)

500
Beginning
j)j*>

PERSIAN POETRY.
f&j" j$))j ^j]
;

[CHAP.
[

II.

^*>

j^i

j^\ ^*") ^j)

Ghazals, 44 pp.

Ruba'ys,

6 pp. and then the Saqiy-

namah.
Collection of Mawl.

Beginning
MoAamrnad Wajyh,
a fine copy.

(383)

The Dywan
Contents
:

^
of Mo/rtashim
**ij?,;jf>b

yiyjs

(P.)
(see

Kashy

page 23 supra).

Ghazals and on the margin a marthyyah

and Qa^ydahs in praise of the Imams.

^ilyx \J$fi Jy* c

Bg.

Wji*J~

Moty
margin.

Ma7iall,

106 pp. of 20

lines in the text,

y* (^ j*J f) and 14 lines in the

This

MS.

contains apparently merely selections from the

fine old

three Dywans of MoAtashim. As. Soc. 13G1, a

copy contain-

ing merely Ghazals, 186 pp. of 14 bayts.

(384)

+S&*

fy>

iJuX^) aJ^U JUy

(P.)

A Dywan

of 64 Ghazals

by Mohtas/dm, which has the

name Jalalyyah became the letters of " Jalal" contain the number 64. The Ghazals are mostly expressions of
friendship called forth by events in the poet's intercourse

with his friends.

At the request of
in

his friend /Zisaby,

(see p.

who commenced
prose, in

980 to compile a Tadzkirah

23

supra) he put at the head of every Ghazal a few lines in

which the occasion

is

mentioned on which it was

written together with sesthetical remarks.

The author

compiled the

Dywan

in 997.

The
&***> yi

preface begins

jjwjo!

j&k*
:

The
Moty

first

Ghazal begins

$*j&&j*?iyi

}?*>J \J)J

MaAall, correct copy written in 1040.

No. 387.]

mo'izzy.

501 (P.)

(385)

^*
M

&pjs
Shaykh

The Dywan

of

Mo^yy.
is

According to the copyist the

'abd al-Qadir Gylany,

author of these poems

whose takhalluc was Mohyy and who was born in 471 and died in 561 (see chapter on Ciifism). I much doubt
the correctness of this statement.

Contents

Ghazals, 46 pp. of 30 bayts, another copy

45 pp. 38

bayts.

Beginning
As. Soc. No. 1123, about 200 pp. of
ascribed to 'abd al-Qadir in which he has

Topkhanah, two copies.

10 bayts,

is

another

Dywan

the takhalluc of Qadiry.

Beginning

L*j>

^js*. c*~ji b>j *JLe tjki

o^J
(P.)

(386)

The Dywan

of

Mohyy who,
in the

^^
as
it

appears from a chro-

nogram contained

Dywan,

flourished in 1001.

Contents

Ghazals, 198 pp. of 12 bayts

Ruba

ys and

Qi^ahs, 9 pp.

Moty

Ma^all, a fine copy in 12mo.

(387)
Complete works of

ig
;

CL.UT

(P.)
of

Abu Bakr Mohammad Mo'izzy

Samarqand

according to

Dawlat-shah he derived his

origin from Nasa, and according to

shapiir, this

Khoshgu from NayNasa.

flou-

however

is

probably a

clerical error for

His father 'abd al-Malik Burhdny was a poet and

rished under Alparslan, but did not

come

to celebrity.

After his death Mo'izzy,

himself
first

who

it

would appear made

known

as a poet

under the successors of

502

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

MaAmud

of Ghaznah, chose the military profession, and

he rose under Sultan Jalal aldyn Malikshah to a com-

mand which gave him

a position at court.

the king with his courtiers

One evening was looking out for the new

fast

moon, the appearance of which was to terminate the

of

Ramadhan. The king observed it first, and Mo'izzy made on the spot so elegant a Ruba'y that he conferred the title of king of poets upon him. In this capacity
he had to pay the stipends and rewards of merit to four

hundred poets who adorned the court of

this

monarch.
(Ico-

Subsequently he was sent on an embassy to

Rum

nium) and he brought back forty camels' loads of precious

goods to Ispahan.
lates

His end was

tragical, " it is said," re-

MoAammad 'awfy,

* that one day Sinjar, the successor

of Malik-shah, was practising archery in his camp, and a

missing arrow pierced the body of Mo'izzy,

sitting in his tent."

who was
Sanay

This happened in 480 according

to a note in

an old album (As. Soc. No. 931).

wrote an elegy on his death.

thinks that he lived to the

Taqyy Kashy however time of the KhwarezmThis author has

shahians, and places his death in 542.

seen more than 15,000 verses of his.

Contents
1-Fat^

Qac^ydahs most of them in praise of Abii-

Mohammad

Malikshah, Sinjar, the Atabuk Nitzam

b.

almulk Abii 'alyy -Hasan b. 'alyy

Ishkq, and his son

&c. about

Fakhr almulk Mohammad Qiwan aldyn,

Ruba'ys.
dj\*

120

Beginning
yl* *$j*

*~^* ^j*" **V or^j

*}* \Jhy*)

j^

^^ &$ ^

**

Moty

MaAall, 650 pp. 19 bayts, a splendid copy.

very beau-

tiful copy of Mo'izzy is in the As. Soc. No. 1368, Qacydahs about Beginning 100 pp. of 15 bayts and Kuba'ys, 30 pp.

No. 389.]

mojyr.

503
(P.)

(388)

j=* e,!^
of Abu-1-Makarim

The Dywan
laqan, a

Mojyr aldyn of Bay-

town of Aran

in A'dzarbayjan.

He was
praise.

a pupil

of Khaqany,

he lived for

some time

in his house at

Shirwan and wrote several poems in his

poet of the A'tabuks.

Sub-

sequently he proceeded to Tabryz and became a court

At

the instigation of his enemies

court,

who wished

to

remove him from the

he was sent
learned

to Ispahan to collect the revenue.

The

men

of that city did

first

homage

to his talents but subse-

quently they induced Jamal aldyn 'abd al-Razzaq and

Sharaf aldyn Shufurdah to compose satyres against him,

to

which he wrote smart

replies.

He
;

died in 594 or
2,
1

according to Walih in 568 (Dawlat-shah,

Taqyy

Kashy, No. 28; A'tishkadah,

Contents
:

p.

41

Khoshgu, No. 123).

Qacydahs

chiefly in praise of the Sultan

Atabuk

Qizil Arslan, at the end are

some

Qitf'ahs, elegies

on the death of great persons, Ruba'ys, &c.

Beginning h"]/^ <jte^

Mdty
Maftall,

</*/*

k**j

*r^

j*""*

158 pp. of 20 bayts, a splendid copy.

(389)

bjI^j

(P.)
verses quoted in

The Dywan

of Molhain.

The
it

Tadzthe

kirahs of Cali^

Beg Molham

(see p.
is

114 supra) are not

is

found in the Dywan, yet

author of
the
it.

probable that he

From

the following chronogram which, as

commencement

is

wanting,

I insert as

a specimen,

it

appears that he flourished in 1118.

Contents: Ghazals, 116 pp. 12 bayts and 20 Rubays. Mdty MaAall, imperfect.

504

PERSIAN POETRY.
jU*o

[CHAP.

II.

(390)

lJ*uJ y^yio

(P.)

Mathnawy by Momtaz

in praise of 'abd al Qadir

<-r^j

Gylany.

It is divided into eleven chapters

and has
Bg.

about 7000 verses.

In the postcript occurs the author's

name

;ll~

u^*" y*L &

6

(sic)

uA-Vvt"

Topkhanah, a bad copy.

(391)

jb**

L^J ^y^
262 supra)

(P.)

The Tempestuous
Allah

Sea, a

Mathnawy by Mawlawy I//san

in various metres, con-

Momtaz

(see p.

taining legends of the prophets.

Beginning **U^-I \j^*Jj y t^ij **u ^*^ ct^v^ Lithographed at Lucnow, MoAammady press, 1262, 152 pp. on
the margin
is

^f

j^**

Letter-forms by the same author.

'alyy a son of Thabit 'alyy

This

edition has been

made by Baqir

Khan.

(392)

oU**
of Moshtaq.

d]&
It contains

(p )
merely Gha-

The Dywan
zals.

Beginning
100 pp. 23 bayts, margin covered with

Moty

Ma/tall,

text.

(393)

<^yo $]<*
of Zindah

(P.)

The Dywan

Ram Mubed of

Kashmyr. He

was a pupil of Myrza 'abd al-Ghanyy Beg Qabul and Chronogram on his death died in 1172.

No. 394.]

Mu'jID.

505

Contents: a preface written by

Tyka Ram Tzqfar

Beginning

containing a short biographical notice of the author;

Qacrdahs, 15 pp. of 15 bayts.

Chronograms 21 pp. (one on the accession of Shah

'alam)
;

Mathnawy 34
;

pp.

it

begins

Mokhammas', 40 pp.
Ruba'ys.

Ghazals, 200 pp. and about 200

:

Beginning of Ghazals

FaraA-bakksh

Mofcy Hawaii, 042 pp. of 11 lines.

(394)

**
of Mtijid.
i*u

^ji*
is
\\j* s*j)j

(P.)
the following Written

The Dywan
postcript

At the end
in
1 1

!|VA

iuL\ ^jJI^s*

by
so

Myrza Fakhr aldyn A/jmad

full

78 "

The copy

is

of erasures and corrections that I

it is

am
is

led to think

that

an autograph, and that Mujid

;

the takhalluc;
this

of

Fakhr aldyn A^mad

in

I find

however no poet of

name mentioned
Contents
:

any Tadzkirah,

Qacydahs in praise of the Imams, and the

of Mo/^tashim

Marthyyah

which was

originally a Haft-

band rendered in Mokhammas', 33 pp.

Bg.

Ghazals, 144 pp. 14 bayts and about 220 Ruba'ys, at

the end
is

a Mathnawy.

Beginning l%
Topkhanah.

^J
3 T

*f*

J^J y

*+c

^1

506

PERSIAN TOETIIY.
)=**

[CHAP.

II.

(395)
Complete works of

euUf

(P.)

He was
ance,

an Afghan.

Mohammad Nitzam Khan Mujfa. When 'abd al-Lafyf Khan Tanhd was
of

treasurer of the

Cuban

Kabul he made

his acquaint-

and had his verses corrected by him, subsequently

he came to Dilly and supported himself by teaching

Persian literature, being particularly skilled in unravelling
the sense of obscure passages of poets.
in 1162.

He

died at Dilly

(Arzii; see also supra pp. 159, 129).

Contents:

Qa^ydahs, chronograms (one

for

1152),

Ruba'ys and short Mathnawies, 198 pp. of 19 bayts. Bg. )jsf yi j) c^cU tJuxl j L,j ^ tyi y <m^\h j j ^)
Ghazals, 900 pp. 17 bayts; Mokhammas', Ruba'ys
pp.

50

Beginning of Ghazals

Moty

Ma/tall, copied

by Sordry a pupil of the author

is

another

copy equally written by Sortiry in 1205,

in

my

possession.

(396)

^r o*S*

(P-)
(see p. 42).

The Dywan of Myr Mohammad Mumin

bayts.

Contents: a Ruba'y and three Ghazals, 360 pp. of 13

Beginning

Marthyyahs, Ruba'ys and Qacydahs in praise of the

Imams, Shah

'abbas,

Shah Mohammad Quly and Mo\Xdji

J]

7^ammad Qofobshah about 1 00 pp. i^t >) Beginning j-y

Jfs-J

ury
Mdty

c*-) &k*\ c**i

jj\ *

^aUj

Ma^all, two beautiful copies, one written in 1120.

No. 399.]

munshiy.
UL-jlo tfjti

507
(P.)
built

(397)

The Dywan of Fadhil Khan 3funfif. In 1 1 16 he a new house as we learn from this tetrastich
^li.

J*Rj

**ili*

jJj)

^\j

u^feij^ ^Jl<a/c tXib

ci^
Bg.

Contents: Qacydahs, 40 pp. of 14 bayts. l^JIi ^> ^x*^> j^J^J i^- **** JUlj **$/$ l^a ^r*>
:)

13.

Ghazals, 120 pp. and some Rubays.

!r*

iJ^ji ^^
;

cr-^

5^5

1^*

\Jj*

& uV* ^-^

;

^
(P.)

Bg

Topkhanah
923.
iu 1193.

Moty

MaAall, three imperfect copies

As. Soc. No.

I have a beautiful copy of the Ghazals and Buba'ys written

(398)

The Dywan

of -Hajy Munis.

^r ^He
U^lys^

informs us at the

end, that he collected his poems in India in 1135.

Contents: Ghazals, 116 pp. of 10 bayts.

Beginning

ItXAlj^xS)

liS]

,j-~y<> ^s\

Mathnawy,
Moty

11 pp.

Beginning
Topkhanah, 110 pp. 12 bayts.

MaAall, a very clear copy

(399)

J&, ^j*
of Jeswant

(P.)

The Dywan

Ray Munshiy.
in
1
1

He

is

pro-

bably identical with the author of Sassy and Panu.

He

made a

fair

copy of his
J

Dywan

24.

Contents: Ghazals,
position.

50 pp. and a short prose comBeginning

)Jty

d^J *^J

<-H~

^J

*****

(fyjf*ji

As. Soc. No. 1413, an autograph.

3 T 2

508
(400)

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

y^

^4
called Anderjyt,

(P.)

Sassy and Pami, a story in verse composed in 1140

by Munshiy, who was familiarly

and

is

probably identical with the preceding poet.

gives us the following account of himself.

The

author

^l^| ; J^>

^Ujjt>

j^I^

Idu^

^U.

j^all

a>^
VtaS

^-^

fiytf

Bg.

jjfcsrf

IjJyc^viJLk,-)

^^ ^^ {Le jy ^j ^J)

Topkhanab, 170 pp. of 13 bayts.

(401)

*y
of
(see

^
^ J^
*^* u~**

(P.)

The Dywan
Khankhanan

Murshid Khan of Yazdajard. Mdthire Rah).

He was

a contemporary of Jahangyr and an encomiast of the

Contents: Ghazals, 72pp. of 16 bayts;

about 70

Ruba ys
]

on the margin Qacydahs, some in praise of

Beginning

Jahangyr, 59 pp. of 26 bayts.

3 ^ j y !/tt.v t) d J?{ji

^v^

*gfa

Mdty

Ma/jall, a fine old copy.

(402)

^JH J&u
of Mushfiqy
(see p.

^0
Dywan,
in 983.

(P.)

The Dywan
in

who was

born at Bokhara
a chronogram

945

64 supra).

We learn from

that he collected this, his second

No. 404.]

MYit.

509

Contents: Ghazals, 176 pp. of 13 bayts; Qifahs, &c.

15 pp.

Beginning

As. Soc. No. 631, a fine old copy.

pp. of 15 bayts,)
is

In the Topkhanah, (about 100

Dywan

of Qacydahs of Mushfiqy.

They are

not alphabetically arranged, and contain the praises of the

Imams

and mystical

reflexions.

Beginning

&&j$

eJlfcia

jfk* (J* iSJJj

(403)

y gi
of Myr.
It contains

(P.)
a chronogram for

The Dywan
1204.
p.

He

is

probably identical with

Myr Taqyy
bayts;

(see

175 supra).
Contents: Ghazals, 210 pp. of
10

Ruba'ys

and Fards, 40 pp.

Moty
Ma^all.

There

is

another

Dywan

of

Myr

in the same

collection,

which was copied in 1179.

It contains Ghazals

280 pp.

of 13 bayts.
b fA'-H
1

^J

L^U^I

*l^A

Beginning
b

(}*&&(& LT^ ^'j^LT^iS^

;

Qacydahs in praise of Shah 'inayat Allah

Mokhammas', Euba'ys

and

poetical stories

which
it;

Myr

it

is.

80 pp. I have not been able to ascertain by In the same collection is a Mathnawy lettered

&s~ of 36 pp. 11 bayts by Myr, whom I have equally been unable ^a^j jl *&tj*>urvJ to identify. Beginning ^^ToO^Ia. L_ai[j ^1 AT

(404)

J\yji

(P.)

The Dywan of Mohammad Nayr Khan Ndpr, a pupil of Myrza Qatyl (see p. 172 supra).

510
Contents
:

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

Ghazals and a few Ruba'ys and chrono-

grams
Mdty

for 1214, 1222, &c.

Beginning

MaAall, 104 pp. of 14 bayts.

(405)

^
m

Jj*
of Gylan.

(P.)

The Dywan
Tabryz
tioned

of

Baba Nacyby

He came
to

to

as a Sugar-baker, and

showed his poems

Baba

Fighany, who was much pleased with them and men-

him

to

Suttan Ya'qub.
at court, a

In a poetical assembly

which took place

Ghazal of

Myr Khosraw was

it.

given as the text, and the poets were expected to imitate

Nacyby

did

it

to the entire satisfaction

of the king, and

was appointed a court

aldyn appointed him

poet.

Subsequently

Amyr Najm

Wakyl on

a salary of thirty-six

Tumans, but he soon lost his patron and after his death he proceeded to Kashan where he lived for some time,
then he returned to Tabryz where he married, and he

remained there to his death, which happened in 944.

left

He

from 4000 to 5000 verses.

Contents: only Ghazals, 121 pp. of 15 bayts.

Beginning
Moty

J^j

\jftty"

*Z jM i&l&a^l

MaAall, two copies, one very beautiful.

(406)

^*~a3 enbyuu
b.

(P.;

Mathnawies of Myrza Mohammad Khan

to

Musa

Khan Nacyby of Kirmanshah. He came from Persia Lucnow during the reign of Nacyr aldyn JJaydar, and died under Amjad 'alyy.

No. 407.]
1.

NACYBY.

511
pp. 14

^y^s'*

^J^ Layla Majnun, 180

9

bayts com-

posed in 1227.

Beginning Uly
2
-

\)* fc3*)1 ji

^o; /j ^.Uj

**U

^1

ii^j^f

the Sea of Union, containing the story of

bayts, another

Chanda and king Khorshyd, 220 pp. 16

copy 80 pp. 22 bayts, composed in 1237.

u^^"j Solomon and the queen of Sheba, 1 35 pp. 12 bayts, dedicated to Nacyr aldyn Haydar. Bg. \+* J1(Zj\ &})] \j^s? ) Jilji. K&y, y$ * ^yk )^l
3.

^i*^

4. ijtfj ->',

Water and

Fire,

28 pp. 22 bayts.
on

Bg.

5.

yhxt*" uo)j**, Petition to kings treating

justice,

21 pp. 22 bayts.

Beginning ^U^ fofl

6.

*J

\J^Xi

*i

btk J^uMtf

*^'

^H

*W,

The Tulip

of the Garden, a

poem

in praise

of Ghaziy aldyn Uaydar, 250 pp. 14 bayts.

Beginning
7.

^W c^~>l
in

&jSs k>3i$

*i

J^")

j$

^Itx^. *Uj
state

A poem

which the constituent parts of a

are compared with those of the

human
&Xi)

body.
*.] *UI

Beginning

a*^> ^1 ^a<*>

<^X

jJtb

*U jj

IjJj)

Fara^-bakhsh and Topkhanah, in separate volumes.

(407)

^i

djjUj
of

^UJ

(P.)

The Dywan and Qacydahs

Napyby.
Contents
14 bayts
;
:

Myrza Mohammad Khan

1

80 pp. Ghazals about 600 pp. 13 bayts and about 60

short Mathnawies and Tarjy'bands,

Ruba'ys.

Beginning of Ghazals

512

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP. IL

Qacydahs in praise of Ghaziy aldyn Haydar, every

miora
1

of the

first

Qacydah

is

a chronogram for 1229,

506 pp. 14 bayts. Beginning <sj^ f. uf^ Fara/i-bakhsh and Moty MaAall,
volume.

^ W>

^)f$-

J^j

the Qacydahs are in a separate

(408)

J>\cA
of

j^ d \^

(P.)

The Dywan

Nacyr aldyn Napyr of

Ham ad an,

son of Ma//mud.

In 1015 he came to Shyraz where he

met Taqyy Aw^ady. This date is recorded in the chronogram J^>T jl^tA-i ijl^Jb*1 (Walih and supra p. 54).
'*

Contents
praise of

a short preface in prose, Qacydahs mostly in

'abbas,

Shah

and Ghazals not alphabetically

Beginning

arranged, about 1000 bayts.

Mdty

Ma/^all, a beautiful

copy written in 1044.

(409)

A
al'al

(P.) ^V'j*? (JigLS &\y*) M Mathnawy on Wrestling, and a Dywan by Myr 'abd

Jp&

JWIjjx the editor

spells erroneously

J^I y)) Nqjdt

of Ispahan (see pp. 98, 137, 114, 129, 133 supra).

Contents: Gulkushty, 291 verses.

Beginning ty *!ys^ &$ *"U J\j*> Jf-^ \~J> j& Ghazals about 225 pp. 10 bayts.
.

Beginning J^il^s*" ^xh l-J;

^y^^-j^
In
;

Fara^-baksh, a splendid copy written in 1156.

also part of the

this

copy

is

Dywan

of Ghazals of Danish 50 pp.

the Ghazals

are not alphabetically arranged.

Beginning

No. 411.]

NA.7YB ALDYN.

513

The Gulkushty has been lithographed at Lucnow, Mo^ammady 96 pp. with an elaborate commentary by the Maharajah Eatan Singh, father of Dawlat Singh Shukry, he compiled this compress, 1258,

mentary
occasion.

in

1257 and Dawlat Kay Shawq wrote a chronogram on the

This commentary
is

apparently taken from

A'rzti.

41 )

tfM
of

*#*}

vW J**
I
is it is

(P.)

The Dywan

Najyb aldyn of Fars.

whether this author

have not
identical

satisfactorily ascertained

with Najyb aldyn Churbadqany but

very probable.

The poet came

to celebrity towards the

end of the Seljuq

dynasty and resided during the reign of the Khwarezmshahians mostly at Baghdad, he died towards the end of
this dynasty,

which ceased

to reign in 628.

According

to

my

copy of Taqyy Kashy his death took place in 665.

probably a
clerical error for

This

is

625 or 635.
less.

Taqyy

has seen about 2000 verses of his or

Contents: Qacydahs and Tarjy'bands about 100 pp.

16 bayts.

Beginning

Topkhanah, a splendid copy, written in 1003.

(411)

itfti fjstji

lJijJuJ

4-^1 J \sy&*

(P-)

The Heart-alarming Poem, by Burhan

dedicated to Shahjahan.

aldyn Ndqid,

Beginning

Topkhanah, about 100 pp. of 26 bayts.

514

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(412)

y J> $16
of

(P.)
of

The Dywan

Shaykh

'alyy

Naqyy
(see

Kamarah

or

Kamarah-abad, who died in 1031

page 91 supra).
;

Contents: Ghazals, 118 pp. of 14 bayts

Qacydahs,
;

80 pp. most of them on Padshah jETatim Beg

chronograms, one for 1016.

some

Beginning
1061
As. Soc. No. 912.

Moty

Ma/iall, a fine copy, written in

(413)

^S)

.Jy*

(P.)

his

The Dywan of Nargisy. His name was according to own statement, apud Samiy, No. 233, Abu-1-Makarim
his native

Nizar aldyn Qudrat Allah, but in

familiarly called

town he was
he was of
'iraq,

Myrak.
an
error,

It is asserted that

Herat.

This

is

he was of Abhar in the

life

but spent the greater part of his

filled

at Herat,
officer,

where he
Mo//tasib.

for

some time the

office

of police

Towards the end of

his career he

went

to

Qandahar, and

died there towards the end of the year 938, at the age of
sixty.

Taqyy Kashy has

:

seen about

2000

verses of his.

Contents

Ghazals and a few Ruba'ys.

^j~i

Beginning \"jly3&jl Jii;& \j^*J62*

correct.

Private collection, 148 pp. of 12 bayts, written in 969, clear and

(414)

JLs jfeS
of

l cjlfifib;

(P.)
is

Ruba ys
tical

Shah Natzar
]^ <J^wl

'alyy.
p.

He

probably iden-

with the poet mentioned in

93 supra.

Bg.

Beginning

k**yjaj J^'r

Topkhanah, 28 pp. of 16 bayts.

No. 417.]
(415)

na'tzim.

515
(

LfJ^V^e^
of

The Dywan
151, 129).

Natzim

of Herat

(see

pp. 98, 113,

Contents
cydahs.
)j all)

Ghazals, 374 pp.

bayts and two Qa-

^j

jlj

^< tS Cii) J ^:
fair

)j

tf]

Jj

Jfjit J*.

Beginning *& J&ij gk

Topkhanah, a

copy.

(416)

M
1

kJ^Ji

fifiJjj

UUjj

(P.)

Yusof and Zalykha, a Mathnawy by Natzim of Herat,

composed in
Bg.
Moty
the

058.

c-T^ij

*$jjl^ >jk
:

^
;

u^UUi

a.ix*

<yt%* vJ^t* V.'^^

>l

MaAall, 362 pp. of 13 bayts

As. Soc. 878, Bg.

;

cjl^ <^l.

There are two copies in

my

collection

in a copy in the

Topkhanah
initial

poem

is

ascribed to Facy hj.

The second micra' of the

verse contains

an allusion to the manner in which parrots are

is

taught speaking, a looking-glass

placed before the cage and a

parrot believe that
it is

man

speaks behind the glass, to

make the

parrot which speaks.

(417)
zyry of Nayshapiir.

(0
When

u^LlT

(P.)

Complete poetical works of

Mohammad Hosayn Nat-

he had come to celebrity in

Khorasan he went to Kashan, where he had several

poetical contests with

Fahmy, fiatim, Maqc^ud Khordah,

Shuja' and Ridhayiy.

When

he

felt

himself sufficiently

strong he endeavoured

to turn

his poetical talents to

account, and came to India where he found a patron in

the Khankhanan.

In 1012 he

made the pilgrimage

visit

to

Makkah,
and then

after his return

settled

he paid a

to his patron

at

A/jmadabad, having accumulated

516
sufficient

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

wealth to be able to live in affluence, and he

died in that city in 1022 or 1023.

(Mdthire Rahymy, Ouseley Pers. Poets, p. 252, Walih, and supra pp. 114, 65, 130).
Contents
:

Qacydahs

in

praise of the

divinity, the

prophet, Jahangyr and the Khankhanan, &c. 252 pp. of

14 bayts.

Beginning

*IiJ.~

i> jU\ j\
;

^U-

\jLdt* ufl

Ghazals about 350 pp. of 14 lines

of 10 bayts.

Ruba'ys, 26 pp.

Bg. Us*

1
!

J^U

i^
'j

^stS

uu*
;

)j)

Moty

MaAall, a splendid copy, written in 1202

As. Soc. Nos.

424, 601, 1061, one copy begins

^3 oU dj** ^ &x~j vy^.

is

In the Topkhanah

is

Dywan

containing merely the Qacydahs, 144

a

pp. 16 bayts, and in the FaraA-bakhsh library

Dywan

of the
lines.

Ghazals and Euba'ys copied in 1032 about 130 pp. of 15

have a very good copy of the Ghazals with useful notes, 447 pp. of

10 bayts.

(418)

^cy

ul?i^jl^JJ> v>S**
of

The Mathnawy and Dywan

Mohammad Ridha
As

Naw'yj of Khabushan near Mashhad in Khorasan.

soon as he had obtained a name he came to India, and

first

entered the service of

Khan Mashhady, an

Nawab Dhiya Myrza Yiisof Amyr of Akbar, subsequently he

to Burhanpiir,

accompanied prince Daniel

and

after the

death of his patron he settled there, and composed several

poems

in praise of the

Khankhanan, who had introduced

him to prince Daniel and

liberal presents

who continued

to

make him
at

He

died according to

Walih

Bur-

hanpiir in 1019 (see supra pp. 115, 65, 130 and Ouseley
Pers. Poets p. 161 also Mdthire Rah.
fol.

588).

No. 419.]

Nl'MAT ALLAH.

517

Contents: Ghazals and a few Rubays, 100 pp. 13

bayts.

Beginning

Mathnawy

(the

Saqiy-namah

?)

19 pp. 15 bayts.

Beginning

^Ux>^j>.-

y
a

oU?

^^s^ ^j

^J

sy

j)i^ j jy*i, history of

Hindu woman
Bg.
so

of the time of

Akbar, who ascended the funeral

husband, 40 pp. 12
lines.
copy.

pile with her deceased

Qpte

\j

*<*J^
f\ is

^)
con-

Moty

Ma//all, a

good

In the Topkhanah

MS.

taining some Qacydahs of Naw'y, most of

them are

in praise of

Akbar, 28 pp. 21 bayts. Beginning

ej)

yjr&;4

Ja^U ^o

(419)

J>

U|

e>*

^
Walyy,
i.

(P.)
e.

The Dywan
of his
life at

of Sayyid Ni'mat Allah

the

saint, a son of 'alyy.

He was of Kirman, but spent part Samarqand. He not only was himself a holy
forty times the chilla

man having performed

days

fast or

abstinence from animal food and from pleasures for forty

but he
carried

is

the founder of a prolific family of saints,

for several

who

on their trade with great success

centuries, they intermarried

with the royal family of

(see

Persia and amassed immense fortunes

p.

Haft Iqlym,
it

44 MS. As. Soc.)

He

stood in high favour with

perfect-

Shahrokh.

He

once boasted that he considered

ly proper to eat delicacies, because as he was a saint, he

was sure that Providence would guard him against the enjoyment of unlawful things. The king made an experi-

ment and ordered

prepare
it

his
it

cook to seize a lamb from a widow,

to

and send

Ni'mat Allah.

He

enjoyed

it

much, and
that
it

after the repast the

king told him triumphantly

force

had been taken away by

from a widow.

She

518

PERSIAN POETRY.
Shahrokh
at

[CHAP.
the
request

II.

being sent for by

saint, declared that

of

the

her son was absent from

home and

caused her great anxiety, and having heard that a

man

of great sanctity had arrived from Kirman (meaning

Ni'rnat Allah) she

vowed

to offer

him

this lamb,

but in

the

mean while

it

was forcibly taken away from her.

She demanded

justice from the king, in order that she

might be able to carry out her intention.

Ni'mat Allah died in 827 and
subjects
left

works on

several

more

particularly on Ctifism.

He must
1

be dis-

tinguished from Ni'mat Allah of Narnawl in India,

who

was equally a

saint

and a

poet,

and died in
&c. 86 pp.
'{"**/$

077.
;

Contents: Maya's and Ghazals, 650

pp. 16 bayts

Qacydahs, Tarjy' bands, Ruba

Bg. y?
*Ul *+*i Ljy?*'* tQ-jfr
collection,

ys,

i *M

^&

\J*y*~

My private

two

copies,

one was written in 1011 and the

other in 1014, in the

prose treatise on

Moty MaAall is a copy in which there is added a dfism and religion. Bg. *U| iJ*j iyjJl ^l ^

(420)

liS

r
of

(P.)
died in 1039 (see

The Dywan
p.

Myrza Nitzam who

92 supra).
Contents: Ghazals, 40 pp. 21 bayts; Ruba'ys, 10 pp. Bg. I; J^~) JUL ^t\j ^S Jji} I JJJ {SSj<: tfy

Jk**^
(P.)

Moty

Ma/zall.

(421)

(t5i>$U

The Qacydahs
take
it

of Nitzam.

Though

have not ascer-

tained the identity

for

by comparing the quotations, we may granted that the author of these Qacydahs is

Nitzam of Astrabad, who was an extremely pious man

No. 422.]

nitza'my.
this

519

and died in 921, leaving besides

Dy wan

Mathnawy
others

which has the

Contents
:

title

^UxUj

\j~&)
first

Qacydahs, the

(Samy No. 214). rhyming in L, the

;

alphabetically

arranged, and Tarjy'bands

most of the
Beginning

poems are

in praise of the

Imams.

Azad bought

Tdpkhanah, about 200 pp. 14 bayts, probably the same copy which at the time he was engaged in compiling his Khiza'ainirah.

nah

(422)

^.Ufi
five

'^ if* g
five

(P.)

The

Treasures or the

romantic poems of NitMotfarrizy.

zamy

of Ganjah, a brother of

Qiwamy

He

possessed considerable learning and a strong sound sense,

his poetical talents were of the highest order,

and had

they not been perverted by the bad taste of the times in

which he

lived,

and of the nation

to

which he belonged,
lived.

he would be one of the greatest poets that ever

We

know little pious man and a

As much
is

of his

life,

except that he was a very

disciple of

Akhy Farrokh
life

Zanjany, and

that he retired towards the end of his

from the world.

related of every Persian poet and Cufy.

He

himself boasts that he did not court princes, but his

panegyrics gave

him

the

lie.

He was

sixty-three years

and a half of age in 599, when

he completed the second

part of the Sikandar-namah, and died in 606 or 602.

Dorn thinks that the poem was completed by some one else.
Contents:
1.

after his death

Jj*W

ujfif* tne

Treasury of Mysteries,

divided into 20 cantos ^'U^ and composed in 582, 48 pp.

25 bayts.
Beginning

+^

+*& yo *$&

\j^>st>

ffca^il

^^

*AJ'

f*l

520
2.

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

&ljiAj&J*f the Loves of Khosraw and Shyryn,

131 pp.

Beginning

3.

ia?**"

-?

^^j

the Loves of Layla and Majnun, a

first

Bedouin romance, which was

(see

sung by Arabic poets

in 592.
I

Kitdb alaghdniy)

93 pp. composed

read

the last verse which contains the date as follows, though

this reading is confirmed

by no copy.
*

^x*Aju izjjS&j u^^ijJu

&*m

^m A{** Aai{j *

Beginning /j
4.

*S

^J f*Uy pU^ j^S" *&*** f U

called jj>

y-u l^aa, the Seven Forms, also

A^j Lai

the story of Bahramgiir, composed in 593.

% yj)
5.

*"

** > : J L-rir* ;4&, the Sikandar-namah, or

uri
]

w ^y
it

*w

^JjX- ^Uj^

A ^
2
?-

The

poet divided

into three parts, describing the career

of Alexander as a king, as a philosopher, and as a prophet.

The

first

part

is

best

known,

it is

either simply called

the Sikandar-namah or the Sikandar-namahe Barry, but the proper

title is

^JJX*

aUaJUI)

or according to

some

c^djto

ixiifj&i

It

was composed in 597, and according

Jamy, Nafahat No. 570, in 592. 140 pp. Beginning ^^Af iM& $i dV^ *&*&

The second and

has the
India,
title

third parts form but one poem, which

of t^aiC*

^U^^

but

is

usually called in

Sikandar-namahe Ba^ry.

It

was composed

in

599, and has about 3000 verses.

Beginning

&i&{ tyl ^j***

^j*

No. 424.]

nitza'my.
rare,

521
(Moty
Ma/jali

Complete MS. copies of the Khamsah are

two

fine copies

As. Soc. No. 90

it

College of Fort Willian, a fine

copy) but copies of

still

without the Khirad-namah are very frequent,

more frequent are copies of the first part of the Sikandarnamah. The Khamsah without the Khirad-namah has been lithographed at Bombay, small

folio

1265, full of the grossest mistakes

the

first

half of the first part of the Sikandar-namah has been printed

;

at Calcutta, 1810, reprinted (lith.) 1818

the whole has been edited

first

at Calcutta in 1810, 1835, 1263, 1852; the

half of the Khirad-

namah was
is in

edited by Dr. A. Sprenger, Calcutta, 1852, the second half

the press; the

:

1844

Makhzan alasrar has been edited by Bland, London, Khosraw Shyryn lithographed s. a. et 1. (Bombay ?) 275 pp.

A good
Soc.

MS. copy
257.

of this

poem and of Layla Majniin

is

is

in the As.

JSTo.

In the same collection No. 345

a good copy of

the Makhzan alasrar, and No. 1490 of the first part of the Sikandarnamah with glosses. It appears from Professor Fleischer's note in

the Zeitsch.

d. d.

morgl. Gesellsch. VII. 412, that according to most

is

MSS. Sharaf-namah
427
infra.

the

title of

the

first
is

and Iqbal-namah of the

borne out by Nos. 425,

second part of the Sikandar-namah, this

(423)
Extracts from the

<wL **%L
Khamsah

(P.)

of Nitzamy, arranged in

37 chapters, containing passages on the unity of God, love, contentment, good omens, justice, &c.
Beginning tsJ^O ^s^\jj
a*-:

WJ

^*W!

u^j

*U tUs*!

As. Soc. No. 761, 78 pp. of 13 bayts, written in 1087, the other in 1080.

my collection, two copies, oue

(424)

Makhzan alasrar by Mohammad Qiwan b. Rustam b. Ahmad b. Mahmiid ii)y*j** (?) Balkhy who was familiarly called Bakrayiy <^y^. He was a contemporary of Moghyc aldyn of Hansy and has
b.

A commentary on the

r
\

H\

dj^ c y^

(P.)

also written notes to both parts of the

Sikandar-namah.

3 x

522

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAlP. II.

The author says that he

explains 1310 verses, and fixes the

correct reading of doubtful passages,

lected several correct copies of the

and that he had

col-

poem

for this purpose.

At when
Bg.

the end of this

work

is

a chronogram for the time

m

the book was composed, viz. 1091.

JS*Ji ^i

&**

^j \jJS ^
t

ij\> j#j\
}j

**& j*i] j&j

jiAA.
<J

)\

\j& &s>\j

^o.Ui^^r U*u

College of Fort William, about 200 pp. of 16 lines.

(425)

flfcS

y^i\

^L-i^J
disciple of

^yfi JL* **yt

(P.)

A
(a

commentary on the Sharaf-namah by Mo^yy aldyn

of)

son

Nitzam, a

Shah Jahangyr who died

first

in 948.
literature

The author
(this 'ayn

says that he

studied Persian

and metric under 'ayn alqodhat Hamadany at

olqodhat must be different from the
after his

Hamadan

one mentioned by

Jamy Nafahat No. 455), and

death under Shaykh

Mohammad
it

Lad, and subsequently

under Shaykh Mo/mddith, who

the works of Nitzamy.

seems used to lecture on

occurred to him that
it

In 956

it

would be useful

if

he was to

collect his notes

on the Sharafit,

namah and work them up

was encouraged
hence the
title

into a

commentary on

he

in his labour

by a son of

'alyy Shyr,

and

of the work.

Beginning

Topkhanah, three copies, about 250 pp. 16 lines Major Anderson's

;

collection

and

my

collection.
is

This commentary does not contain

also the

the text.

In the Topkhanah

commentary on

this

poem by

Nur MoAammad about 200

pp. 17 lines.

Beginning j (f^jj^J &j**j.

J^i^j u*k~j

jfo'j jj&$ Jl xs

And
Bg.

a commentary by Pyr 'alyy of Kastilpur, 400 pp. 21 lines.

L^yi ^Jj^ A)

*(Af **i

(^^JU/| wj &JU &+sJ\

And

the commentary of an anonymous author, 60 pp. 17 lines.

Beginning <^UJ ^i** kftJ^jjUu

^UlS

(JSJU*

^jjUi.

^(aj

No. 428.]

nitza'my.
^jj\

523

(426)

lJuX^j &*& )0&

(P.)

A commentary on difficult verses of the (first part of the)

Sikandarnamah by
Siraj aldyn

He

says that there were

Arzu, who died in 1169. many commentaries extant, but

that none

was

satisfactory.

This commentary does not

embody the

text,

and

it

commences
Moty

Private collection, incomplete

Ma7*all,

662 pp. of 19
8vo.

lines.

This commentary forms the basis of the glosses to the lithographed

Lucnow edition of the Sikandar-namah,1263 and 1266,

bayts, also of the notes of
edition, 1812, 4to.

311 pp. 23

Badr 'alyy and

Myr JSosayn in the Calcutta

fuller

and of the somewhat

commentary of the
lithographed at
folio,

Calcutta edition

of 1253, reprinted 1260

= 1844,

Bombay with

three other works on the margin, 1261

all

the

commentaries are

essentially identical.

(427)

<>* ^Lo

lJuA*J <uUiw& jJi

(P.)

A
(first

commentary on

difficult

verses of the Sharaf-namah

part of Sikandar-namah)

compiled in

1196 by

Molla

Mohammad

Sa'd Allah of Patna.

this century,

He
I

died in the

commencement of
&xi\$

and has written Persian

commentaries on most school books as

|

y^\

^ -J*^*

<uil

jj-kU!

u*^j

jf^ij) Jy^o and glossaries

on the Gulistan and Bostan.

Beginning
Collection of

o^>

^J^ij^ HH ^^ > i^r^^i Lffy" Mawlawy Mohammad TVajyh, 154 pp. of 17 lines
*&

without the text.

(428)

^Mi
of

vjji*

(P.)

The Dywan

Nitzamy of Ghanjah. Dawlat-shah

informs us that the whole

Dywan contained

about 20,000

3x2

524
verses.

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

Taqyy Kashy has not been

it.

able to procure a

copy of

Contents: Qacydahs, 23 pp. 14 bayts

pp.

Ghazals, 52
*&jb

;Ruba

ys,

8 pp. Beginning &y^&)t

^ ^Sjj^^Ji

My

private collection, a good copy.

(429)

i^gj
of

^
talents,
it

(P.)

The Dywan
gaieties

iZakym Nizary of Qohistan.

and a man of

He was

skilled in medicine,

but given to

and pleasure, particularly to wine.

it is

He travelled

much and
lidynillah

supposed he was a disciple of Moctafa-

Nizar and that he chose his takhalluc in his

because he was a

honour, others say that he chose

thin

man,; \y meaning thin

in Persian.

At

all

events
it

he

is

suspected of having been a free-thinker, though

is allowed that his

poems contain deep Ciify sentiments.

On

his travels he

met Sa'dy and other distinguished

his
life

men.

Towards the end of

he

retired

from the
left

world and lived on agriculture, he died in 720 and

besides a

Dywan, two Mathnawies, one

title

is

very witty and

amusing, and has the

has the
title

of a*^
it

j^A

and the other

verses

(?) y^l jy>j 9

has about 12,000

and begins

^^"1

ato
:

Contents

^JUJ 0*j \jfi) l^V a Mathnawy on Morals, 24 pp. 20 bayts.

dj^i j/U>
sS

Qacydahs and Ghazals not alphabetically arranged,

454 pp.
Mdty
Ma^all, a good copy.

Beginning

No. 432.]

Nu'ltY.

525
(P.)
died in

(430)

cyJ
of Dilawar
It contains
l*

ejl^c)

The Dywan
1 1

Khan Nuprat, who

39.

merely Ghazals.

Beginning

^^

^i^*^ v*jj u^ *&*J

***>>

As. Soc. No. 1432, 182 pp. 11 bayts.

(431)

4jjy3

(P)

A mystical biography of Mohammad in verse, composed

by Nury in 887, and dedicated Ya'qiib Bahadur Khan.
to Sultan Abu-lmotzaffar

Beginning

As. Soc. No. 508, about 900 pp. of 38 bayts.

(432)

Ljyy
of

^o
He and

(P.)

The Dywan

Qadhiy Nilr aldyn Nury of Ispahan.

Qadhiy Nur.
his brother

He

is

familiarly called

Mo'izz were pupils of Afdhal Tarkah of Ispahan.

says that he died in the year
1

Walih

000, but other authors state

that he attained a high age and lived to the reign of

Jahangyr.
Contents
:

Qacydahs in praise of Shah Isma'yl* Wazyr

&c.

MoAammad,

40 pp. Beginning Jt*j p^. yo ^xL^i *j J*3 Ghazals and Ruba'ys, &c. 48 pp.
and
Qi^'ahs,

A
i'

Beginning
Collection of

';^^

viHJl f*

f***

!***

f* e/^"

Mawlawy Mohammad

"Wajyh, written in 101G.

526

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(433)

u?<>2>5

i$$*
^ic

(P.)

The Dywan
I

of

Nuwydy, he
*h* aIjUS -US)

says in the postscript

<jdJ

do

***

cr^y *k^
:

cVas^I,

" this copy

has been written by

Nuwydy,
**$

the author, in 1055."

1 1

Contents

Ghazals, about 300 pp.

\j

bayts.
*==?

Beginning

uf U-^

i-i^; dj** j

^j)j

Moty
rections.

Ma/*all, the

margin frequently covered with text and cor-

(434)

^vj
Nuwydy and
:

1gii
tf

(P.)

The Dywan of Nuwydy.

preceding
is

He

is

not identical with the

apparently a modern poetaster.

Contents

Ghazals, in every Ghazal the use of some

letter of the alphabet is avoided,

and they are arranged

Beginning
A*t

according to this

letter.

jjX* aJj^ oa.? Jj.A^L- AjaS j4x*y J*^j eJjd

Lithographed, Lucnow, Mo7*ammady press,
s.

&S^&

t>^>

a.

16 pp. with a
press,

few glosses

reprinted in the iZasany press,

s.

a.

and Moctafy

1260, 12mo.

At the end

of this hook are a few but very silly

:

enigmas of which I give a specimen

it

" I have seen a wonderful horse,

is
still

has six legs, and two hoofs, and what

more astonishing the

tail is

on

his back,

a balance."
<2i*j3

(435)

|j$M
collected his
>>>}3

(P.)

The Dywan
and died in
1 1

of i?ajy

Nu%hat who
Ji y

poems
syj

in 1112, +>& cUs* \j^&y &j> Jj

37.

JU

y-ijk

Chronogram on

his death

No. 436.]

'obayd za'ka'ny.

527

Contents: Qacydahs in praise of A'tzam Shah, &c.

Qifahs and chronograms, 60 pp. 15

fjjjdj&i asj&A
SjU

bayts.

Bg.
)

Ghazals, 37 pp.

C^*i tS Ruba ys, and

J

d U^ v ijj* <Alijl ^1 a* ^jx ja^

Fards, 13 pp.

Beginning
Moty MaAall,
of the copyist.

)j

J&j:

c^^-^yij

^1^

Hi! ^^Jl
is

the above chronogram on his death

in a postscript

(436)

JQ o^ dj*
s

(P.)

The Dywan
place in the

Khwajah 'obayd of Zakan, which is a neighbourhood of Qazwyn. He was a man

of
to celebrity under

of some learning, but his fame rests on his licentious wit.

He

first

came

Shah Abu Is^aq Anjii

who

ruled at Shyraz previous to the rise of the Motzaffar

family, subsequently he

was

in favour with Sullan

Oways

of Baghdad.

He
it

died in 772.

Contents
it is

a preface

by the pen of one of

jJU* ^i^WI
*U

his friends,

stated in

that 'obayd collected his

Dywan

in 751.

Beginning ^^u^l

^Wj

<^j

^^
Beginning

Qacydahs in praise of the Imams, of Sullan Oways,

&c. and Ghazals not alphabetically arranged, 100 pp. of

22 bayts.

The
of

Lover's book **U*lic, a

*&*&** j

Mathnawy

in the style

Khwajah Salman's

J&i >.., 20 pp. of 33 bayts

composed in 75 1
Jlj i ill
f^fijA

**+*jj j)j

f.)&

J$jl x*^j*
d yi
) )

gW*/S|*

*3

Beginning
Mdty

$$ ,j# iJt , *U gjji

tjyij

j)j)

13

Udi.

Ma^all, a splendid copy written in 1080.

528

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(437)

uy* yfy*
of Abti-1-Qasim

(P.)
b.

The Dywan

Hasan

of Balkh, a pupil of Abu-1-Fat/e

Run 7.
office

A^mad 'onpory He was one of

the four hundred court poets of Suttan Ma/emiid and

his successors,

and rose to the

of king of poets.

Authors who wished to be encouraged by the Sul/an had

to submit their verses to 'oncory

and he decided on their

victories of the

merits, he at the

same time described the

to the

Ghaznawides in Qacydahs, a description of poetry particularly well suited

monotony of eastern music, and

they were sung at the parties of the court.

He

died in
his

431 or 441 and

left

from 20 to 30,000

verses,

among

poems was

lji*

^ JJ.*^

but Taqyy Kashy,

who

with great

pains obtained a copy of the

5000 verses
Contents

Dywan, containing about of Qacydahs, thinks it has been lost. Khoshgu

mentions also
;

Jt*

^S d-Afc&

<^->

>*
ys,

Qacydahs and a few Ruba

&c.

Bg.

As. Soc. No. G15, 179 pp. 1G bayts.

(438)

Jf^
'orfy of

(P-)

Complete poetical works of

in Shawal,

Shyraz who died

999 (see supra 129, 112, 61, 37), when 'orfy was near his end he sent his poems to the Khankhanan
with the request that he might arrange them, this he did.
All his compositions

amounted

to about

14000 verses

(Mdthire Bah.
Contents
:

fol.

539).

a short preface, Qacydahs, 200 pp. 19 bayts.

I;

Beginning

t-^l dj&* *J> Ghazals, 200 pp. 16 lines.

++*>

J^l
Beginning

No. 439.]

'orfy.

529

In another copy which contains the same Ghazals, they begin

to^U*-^

kt

Jollj jJ

Ji

AjLm

{* j&) HiX* +X&

ptbjsc

kks?

A Mathnawy

(Makhzane

asrar) 74 pp.

8 bayts.

Another Mathnawy, 29 pages.

Beginning

At

the end

is

a chronogram for 986, the fourth micra

of which contains the

number

of

poems he composed up

26

to that year, the unit expresses the

;

number
;

of Qacydahs

the tens the

Ghazals270
:

and the hundreds

Beginning

the Qtfahs and Ruba ys the latter.

320 of the former and 380 of

Good
older.

copies are frequent,

Mdty MaAall,
same

8vo. written in 1047, there

are three other copies in the

collection

which are apparently

As. Soc. Nos. 732, an old copy of the

Dywan

1173, a copy

of the

Makhzan

alasrar.

(439)

J^^jfc
'orfy's
b.

(P.)

Qacydahs, by Mohammad Shah Mohammad Darwysh b. Mohammad Raji' aldyn familiarly called Raju 'olwy ^fj^j^j compiled under Awrangzeb in 1111, the chronogram is jjk^jt. Bg.

commentary on

Shafy

^jiotila^o

iS Jf^Jax) cVa.1 j

tU^.y |JdJUJ %tXx^j ^J+Xi3

duo

"VVajyh has a

Topkhanah, small 8vo. about 300 pp. Mawlawy Mohammad commentary on 'orfy about 250 pp. of 17 lines com; ;

piled by Qotfb aldyn in 1101

the chronogram
<Jz>i
[

is

jb

^^j

Beginning

xjuo
(mS

qj

&$

c*yf &=**

x j-^4

530
(440)

PERSIAN POETRY.
cufcdl

[CHAP.

II.

z kk*
'orfy

(p.)

commentary on 30 Qacydahs of

by Myrza Jan,

compiled in 1073.

Beginning ^Jh]^ Moty Maall, 338 pp.

arranged, beginning of

i$>H

^'^^

T*;j cJ^*

*-H^

i^U

17

lines,

the Qacydahs are alphabetically

AiaJool

first

Qacydah

^^ jj^j*

>>.>

*U/o

(44i)

^.djUr^
(forty-six)

(P.)
'orfy,

commentary on
lives

Qacydahs of

by

Afonad (he
al-Ra/jym.

at

Calcutta,)

a son of the late 'abd

Beginning

\j

^AkL^o e^Af>

^-j

^Uj

l^-;^

^j ^U*-

Printed, Calcutta, 1254, folio 278 pp. containing also the text.

These Qacydahs have also been lithographed with a commentary,

Lucnow, .Hasany
edition are
also

press,

s.

a.,

150 pp. most of the notes in

this

by Qudrat A^mad and Maqbril A7*mad. There is a commentary on 'orfy by Molla Sa'd Allah, near 100 pp. of
Beginning wanting.

17

lines.

(442)

y&S
of Qadir.

The Dywan
first

According to a note in the

According

(P.)

page written in a different hand, his name is Khwajah

'abd al-Qadir
to

Naqshbandy ffasany Qadiry.

lived at

Walih

his title

was Wazyr Khan and he was a son of

Wazyr Khan Mashhady, he

died in 1136.
1

Agra and was

in

great favor with 'alamgyr and his two successors, and

Qadir gives us in the

collected his poems.

last verse

the date,

122,

when he

No. 444.]
Contents
:

qapla'n.
Ghazals and a few
Qitf'ahs.

531

Bg.

*Ul

*U

^1^

plf* )

ij>

M JJ

*jf*

ls^I

cT^'j

];**

Mdty

MaAall, 66 pp. of 11 bayts, probably written in 1122.

(443)

j&lg UuX*! fifr+k

p -)

The
Shah

Straight Path

by Nitzam aldyn Qalandar com-

posed in 808 and dedicated to Abu-1-MotzafFar iifosayn

b.

wrote a
this is a

Ma^miid Shah b. Ibrahym Shah. The author Qacydah of 22 bayts, entitled <_*y^ *<*i^, and
commentary on
treats
it, it is

divided into five chapters

J^> and

on Cufism.

Beginning of Qacydah
Fara^bakhah, 32 pp. 18

J&

u.J* j^'j}/*

&

Beginning of commentary *
lines.

Jj ^jUltfa

^i*^^

j*j Ul

(444)

cV
among

,,,]#

(P.)
His father Shyr Beg

The Dywan of Qaplan Beg.

distinguished
to

was of the Qushchy family, the members of which are

the other families of the Ulus tribe

which

it

belongs, for their wit and talents.

Molla
family.

'alyy

Qushchy the philosopher was of the same

and was one of his Tawajies

Shyr Beg came under Akbar from Ma-wara-lnahr to

India,

^^y*

Qaplan was
he served

born in India and was, like his father, a

soldier,

under the Khankhanan in the Deccan with great distinction,

and was in high favour with Jahangyr, but

service.

in

1003

he retired from the

He

is

the author of a Mathcelebrates the loves

it.

nawy which

is

entitled

Jj& *U and

of Zal and Riidabah, the following verses are from

3 y 2

532
0*A**
]

PERSIAN POETRY.
ffi

[CHAP.

Ill

**&" ^jft*

S*

dV;

(*/>) LS*j

Contents
1

Qacydahs

in praise of Jahangyr, 22 pp.

7 bayts.

Beginning

Ghazals, 72 pp. 15

1.;

Ruba'ys, &c. 44 pp.

ilT*^
**^

Beginning

^l^ic

c^iy ^Jo e^**>

Ruba'ys and Minor poems, 44 pp. 12

Fara/ibakhsh, a fine copy.

lines.

As. Soc. No. 890.

(445)
String of Pearls

JM ^
the
this
title

(P.)

by Sayyid Abii-1-Qasim who was

of Qdriy.
1

known by
and wrote

book in

061

He flourished in Persia, The title is a chronogram.

140
verses.

It is a short

poem

in about

Bg.

Lithographed, Lucnow, 12G4, 12mo.

(446)

; yi

r ^j
ll

(P.)

The Dywan of Sayyid Mo'yn aldyn 'alyy Qdsim Anwar, or Qdsimy. He was born in a suburb of Tabryz,
in 757, and devoted himself from his early age to the

Cufy doctrine.
spiritual guide.

First

Cadr aldyn of Ardebyl was his Qasim used to live in a burial ground

and performed four times the pilgrimage to Makkah,

twice on foot, barefooted and almost in a state of nudity.

Subsequently he joined the school of Aw/tad aldyn

No. 447.]

qa'sim.
is

533

Kirmany, which
revels,

given to the wildest and most obscene

and he placed himself under the guidance of adr

aldyn 'alyy Yamany.

His doctrines as a Ciify are not

considered orthodox, yet he had immense success

to his

owing

winning manners, the depth of his genius, and

life.

the great austerity of his

When

he resided at

Herat in Khorasan the crowd of his

disciples

was so

numerous and enthusiastic that Shahrokh the ruler of

that province

was

afraid of disturbances,

and there

is

reason to suppose that the saint

to assassinate him.
city,

was implicated

in a plot

Shahrokh ordered him

to leave the

but he would have defied the royal

command had
proceeded to
to

not Baysanqor paid him a visit and persuaded him by

his friendly advice to leave the city.

He

Balkh and Samarqand, but subsequently returned

Herat
at the request of the

same sovereign who had

expelled him.
left

besides this

He died at Kharjard near Jam, in 837, and Dywan a Mathnawy and several Cufy
(Bland,

treatises in prose.

A
at

Cent,

of Pers. Ghazals.)
end a few
Qitf'ahs,

Contents

Ghazals, and

the

Ruba'ys, &c.

Beginning &\&gj
Moty
Topkhanah there
pp. of 11 bayts.
lj

%dj )dy*

tj^* y*
In the
of

MaAall, several copies, about 600 pp. 14 bayts.

is

Dywan

by another poet of the takhalluc

Qasim whom I have not

Lo AJLi

identified, it contains

Ghazals and has 44

Beginning

(^

j.

^^j

***J

&> jj**

I)

^iHj c/

>^' ^*'**>^c

u^j

(447)

5jd

pi!

Jy*
(see

(P.)
pp. 113, 128

The Dywan
supra).

of

Qasim Dywanah

534
Contents
:

PERSIAN POETRY.
Ghazals and a few epigrams.

[CHAP.

II.

Beginning

U^tf^ xvHj'f& u^**^ &ty

*&*

Topkhanah, about 200 pp. of 15 bayts; As. Soc. No. 613, a good copy.

(448)

pis ULjuJ e^Tl

A*bylS

(P.)

The Book of Victory of Akbar Khan by Qasim of Agra, who completed this poem in 1260, after he had
been engaged upon
it

for three years.

late

This poem contains an account of the

Cabul, and
is

wars of

spoken of as a very creditable production.

Beginning j If tyj* ^y. tAij*

Major Anderson,
4to. about

400

pp.,

34 bayts in a page.

(449)

^dblSjOsf; i^bbtt* ^J-U ***&

five

(P.)

The

epic

poems of Myrza MoAammad Qasim

or

Qasimy Junabady
Contents
:

Gunabady
it is

(see

supra pp. 44, 83, 52).

**U *^,

also called *<*^ J^**~l because

the deeds of Shah Isma'yl and Shah

subject,
it is

Tahmasp form

its

in the metre of the

Shah-namah of Firdawsy,
Beginning

100 pp. of 42 bayts.

2.

viJLr^

2,740 verses,

J*> The Loves of Layla and Majmin in 66 pp. The date of the composition is stated

in these verses

No. 451.]
3.

QATYL.

535

**U ^ytU, The History of Shahrokh, 115 pp.

urjftfi^l ^fixi/j
\J^~\ji

composed in 950, chronogram

Bg. U^^I^J ^Vtdi j {A
4.

JU ^Jh
^asr?

sJaj A^A

^iUtot

^Jl

a^U^K, It contains descriptions of a palace, of a

garden, also the love of the moth to the candle, &c. 86 pp. ^Uaj *!^ y ^^ja^U* ^^yj) *U| *mj Aj Bg. \j

^y^

^^
&$

Shyryn and Khosraw, 80 pp. composed in 950, and dedicated like the other poems to Shah
5.

^r^

.j

e/lr^j

Tahmasp.
l^jLa.

^cxi yjh

Bg-

;W>

Hoty

MaAall, a fine old copy

fiijfi

&&
JS

^ js J
;

IfSbjjj lc^***. juoT k*&c:

I,

Wi ^"J!

As. Soc. No. 64, a splendid copy

written in 982.

(450)

J& cjfc*
of

(P.) died at

The Dywan
1233
(see pp,

Myrza

Qatyl,

who

Lucnow

in

170 and 277 supra).

<*Sl<

It contains

merely

Ghazals.
JJ fijL

^ ^!
i3jt

Beginning
aS

^j

&S
is

Fara^baksh, two copies about 500 pp. 19 bayts, the second copy
smaller, in the College of Port "William is a
<JjJ

volume in

folio,

inscribed

\\j# eUlT
is

it

contains chiefly prose works, but at the comof Ghazal, about

I

mencement

Dywan Beginning 'j^ *Ui^

a

500
**

pp.,

16 bayts.

ij^j^jf*

(451)

yyyrf
of

^0
^UoVl
fj

(P.)

Dywan

Qocury consisting of Ghazals, 100 pp.

Ss L^iUty J^.?"

Beginning ^Lsi

536
(452)

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

J^JB^If
-flTajy

(P.)

Complete poetical works of

Qodsy.

Mohammad Jan
erroneously,

Some authors spell his name Mo/zammad Khan. He was of the holy city
and
for this reason

of

Mashhad

he adopted the takhalluc of Qodsy.

After he had performed the pilgrimage to Makkah, he

came

to India

and was graciously received at the court

of Shahjahan, who, on one occasion, rewarded

his panegyrics

him

for

by

filling

seven times his mouth with

precious jewels, and on another occasion by having

him

weighed up with gold and silver

coins.

The nobles of
Qodsy

the court vied with the emperor in prodigality.

withdrew in 1069 from the world, and died a few years

after.

(Mirdt alkhiyal

128, 116, 151).

gives a detailed

135 and supra pp. 113, 90, Azad places his death in 1056, and
p.

list

of rewards which he received from

the emperor.

Qa9ydahs and Tarjy'bands, 418 pp. 12 Beginning U*. feh ^^^* J& *S ^jJ ^T
Contents
:

bayts.

Ghazals, 112 pp. 10 bayts; Ruba'ys, 44 pp. 8 bayts.

Beginning

]^

Ajy**"

*$

\ejM

t&V* {&.& %&)&

Mathnawy, 77 pp. 12

bayts.

Beginning

Moby
^f
is

Ma7*all

and Topkhanah, copies are frequent.

first, it

In one copy
iSJr

the second Qacydah stands

begins

jj

y tfj;
**

h^
He
is

****

dA|C *Hff j>

*-H^T

(j^
lj

l* *<H> also the order of the Ghazals

changed, they begin

LTiff'&tJ***.
in praise of

v"

C*J?

*V>

also

the author of a
It begin*

Mathnawy
%}'>

Kashmyr, 24 pp. 50 bayts.

f$J

]$& J

ip&j*^*>

^UUob &o$

No. 455.]

qudrat.
^oJ| j^b|
of Qotfob aldyn.
is

537
(P.)

(453)

^j
^J*'* *?-!** v^lr^

The Dywan
relied upon,

If the postscript can be

he

identical
it

with the great saint of Dilly,

who
I
I

died in 623,

runs ^jJI

**

ls^j^ <u~ ^Jfc jUisH for a further account of this

saint, I refer to the chapter

on

Ciifism.
1

Contents
ba'ys.
l^tec

Ghazals,

80 pp. of

4 bay ts and

70 Ru-

Beginning

J5

ci>J^^ izMcc jA ^f|

viJU^

^U) jt

J5

^1

Topkhanah.

(454)

eaJc tf

The Dywan of Qudrat. He is probably identical with Shah Qudrat Allah, who died in 1205 (seep. 278 supra).
It contains

(P.)

merely Ghazals.
|J

Beginning

'tj**

*d

J u^l

ri

)&if

^^

r^

r^ ^)
(P.)

Moty

Ma&all, 54 pp. 11 bayts, written in 1209.

(455)

^i\j ^y.o

The Dywan of FacaAat Khan Rddhiy the son of a Qadhiy of Kashmyr (see p. 1 56 supra and change Radhyy The author says of himself into Radhiy).
)j* JjJO y

v-^V^ gpU

sVyt

*^

*'/*** m)

U^sJ

^.s*" bKAoj;

!r* Jr^L'* 5

^^1; g/*^? upf #r -v^ **** Contents: Ghazals, 500 pp. 24 bayts and 170 Ru-

^~^y (jp** : **&&

bays.

Beginning
in 11J2.

Mathnawy composed

Beginning

Moty

Ma/iall, a splendid copy.

3 z

538

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(456)

^UJJ ^j 1^}
of

(P.)

The Dywan
Contents
:

Radhyy

of Artyman, a contemporary

of Shah 'abbas (see pp. 123 and 313 supra).

chiefly Ghazals, a

few Qacydahs in praise of

the

Sultan 'alyy

Khan and

others, at

end are three

Turkish

verses, containing a
^icxi~ ^ m4**-

chronogram.
I;

BgJ;

fy

&

j^ifia

^yj >

ft

ks^jv

***

As. Soc. No. 10, 50 pp. of 48 to 60 bayts.

(457)

^j $?*
of

(P.)
of Naysha-

The Dywan
piir
;

Radhyy aldyn Mohammad

instead of writing his takhalluc or name, he usually

****

writes

He

spent the greater part of his

visited

life

at

Samarqand, but he
Persia.

Makkah and

several cities of
disciple of

During

his pilgrimage

he became a

Mo'yn i^amawy an uncle of Shaykh Sa'd aldyn

without however giving up worldly pursuits.
that he spent

Hamawy
It is said

some time

at the court of the Seljuq

king

Arslan Shah
to

b.

Toghril Beg, and accompanied the embassy

sent to the Khalyfah, to ask his

Baghdad which he

daughter in marriage.

He

died in 598 (Taqyy Kashy,

No. 26, and Khoshgu).

Contents
of
:

Qacydahs not alphabetically arranged, most

them

are in praise of Abu-I-MotzafFar Jalal aldawlah

spells

Tamghach, whose name he

^UJo and ^UJ and

Beginning

who was
Mdty

ruler of

Samarqand.

MaAall, 45 pp., 44 bayts, bound with other Dywans.

No. 460.]

rafat.

539
(P-)

(458)

^J^S*
of

The Dywan
appear that his

occurs a chronogram in the

Mohammad obayd Allah Rafat. There Dywan from which it would patron, Nawab Sayyid 'alyy Khan Intitproves that he belonged to a

zam

aldawlah Nacyr almulk Nucrat-jang, was born in

title

878, but his

much more

modern

age.

Should the poet be identical with 'abd

1

Allah Rafat mentioned in p.

62 supra P

^Vj Jac
15
lines.

Jjjj ff+^sj-tiy/
:

u^'^/o ^rc^l^x^Jo o^^^l

&> &UI ^fafr*

Contents

compositions in flowery prose, 38 pp. of

Beginning

k^ jj

Qacydahs, 24 pp.

Bg. J*^ ^Ij^xw

\&)*j>jp*P \S***

Ghazals and Ruba'ys, 72 pp.

Beginning [/*% *i '*$) \j$ Bg. )j\J4+.j* A Mathnawy, 30 pp. Collection of Mawlawy Mohammad Wajyh.
{

^^j^"

(459)

D|

h^j lJuX^j

yjs. ciJlU

a^3

(P.)
is

History of the martyr Malik 'omar,

who

buried at

Baraych, by Ra/zmat Allah, a son of Mo/zammad Fadhii

of Bijlawr in

Oudh

he composed

this

poem 750

years

after the death of the saint.

Beginning

J^y

<*-?

{*& y>

J^>j

^^^

^^1 J^;

Topkhanah, 60 pp. 2G bayts.

(460)

tfy Jjpi
of Rajah.
It consists mostly of

(P.)

The Dywan
which

Ghazals

are not alphabetically arranged.

Beginning

Topkhanah, 50 pp. of 17 bayts.

3 z 2

540
(461)

PERSIAN POETRY.
LJuX^S (^JO*^
<*U*>

[CHAP.

II.

J^])

(P.J

The

Lion's Attack, a history of

Mohammad

and of

'alyy in verse,

by Molla Bamiin
I

'alyy Rdjiy

Kirmany.

He

was originally a Gueber, and was converted to the

have been told that he died at
years ago.
a.$

Islam by Sajjany.

Bombay, not many

Beginning

tyfrjQi'H ijl viJu.

fol.

J\

^ ^M)^ dJjUiw Jdt

Lithographed, Bombay, 1244,

434 and 152 pp. of 54 bayts.

(462)

^j t*J*iS d* j J**
He

(P.)

The Sun and

son,

the Moon, or the story of the Sayyid's

at Dilly

and the Jeweller's daughter, which happened

under Jahangyr, by Sa'adatyar Khan Rangyn.

in 1251 (see pp.

died
to
it

280 and 168 suprd) but according

a chronogram at the end of the poem, he composed

in

1119.

I cannot reconcile these two contradictory

statements.
*=- ib -

Chronogram

fain u^ j^sj *# Bg. C^^)jf^^I^'^^^w>

is

M* jb r* ))r rt ^ u
C^w)
Jj.^ j]y)
^iJa/*

yj|J|

Lithographed, Lucnow, Moc&ifay press, 1263, 12mo. 20 pp.

the Topkhanah
a

In

poem

of about 560 bayts by the same author in

it

explanation of the elements of the Islam,

begins

(463)

fS\ ;

jp
Mo/zammad Rdqim,
his son with him,

(P.)
a son

The Dywan
of

of Sa'd aldyn

Khwajah

'inayat of

Mashhad.

His father came on

commerce to India and brought

found a patron in Islam

and he
of

Khan Mashhady an Amyr

No. 464.]
Shahjahan.

RASHYD.
After some time

541
returned to Persia,

Raqim

and was appointed governor of Herat, and subsequently of He was a great patron of poets, the whole of Khorasan.

among

his proteges

were

Moqymay

I^san Mashhady,

'atzymay Nayshapiiry and Shawkat Bokhary.

Contents: Qacydahs in praise of the

Imams and

of

Shah

Solayman, 18 pp. 16 bayts

is

Ghazals, 280 pp. 15

bayts, at the end

a preface in prose 9 pp.

Beginning

of Ghazals

l^U,) gb2*j
Moty
gram
\jj\

^,-UT

^"

V*^ i **!*"

}jfl*3* L^il^Jj uT)

Ma7iall, a splendid copy, written in 1084, there is a chrono-

in it for the
oa.ij

same date composed by the author.

t*j>yi

&^

*^ j^^j

^h ^^

v^j

**y*

^' c*v s^4? r

1

(464)

&
of Rashyd.

^p
This
is

(P.)
the takhalluc of

The Dywan

Rashyd aldyn Mohammad

account of his diminutive
wa, swallow.

b.

'abd al-Jalyl 'omary who, on

size,

had the nickname of Watindicates that he

b.

The patronymic 'omary

was descended from the Khalyfah 'omar

al-Kha#ab.
his

He

flourished under the

b.

Khwarezm-shahian dynasty,

patrons being Atsyz

Mohammad, and

his son Ylarslan

who heaped wealth and honors upon him. He died in Khwarezm in 578 at the advanced age of 97 years, and
left

besides a

Dywan

of about

5,000 verses, a transla-

tion of the hundred moral sentences of 'alyy and a collection with translation of as

many

sentences of

Abu

Bakr,

'omar and 'othman, also a work on poetic, which has the

title

js^\ &)***
:

or j^^l j^Ua. and several other works.

praise

Contents

Qacydahs in

of

Abii-1-Motzaffar
others, they are

Atsyz, Abu-1-Fadhl king of )v

and

542

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

highly ornamented and have mostly a double rhyme, at

the end are some Qifahs and Ruba'ys.

Beginning

Mdty

MaAall, 262 pp. of 18 bayts, written in 1064.

(465)

<>*)

cJlJUaJ ^L-ax)

(P.)

The Torch,
parts

a mystical Mathnawy, divided into three

The name
duction
:

of the author, Rashyd, occurs in the intro;)

&*d;'i) *>Aj
calls

J3;1

The

copyist of the Luc-

him Shaykh Rashyd, and the copyist of the Calcutta MS. thinks he is identical with Rashyd Wa/wa/, who is three hundred years older. The date
852
it is

now MS.

in the conclusion of the

it

poem, and

it

appears from

that

was written

sixty years previous to the death of

Rashyd Kazoruny who was

a great Cufy, and with

whom

we might

else

have identified him.

Beginning

Moty MaMl,

imperfect

As. Soc. No. 534, about 400 pp. of 15

bayts, a fine copy written in A.

H. 1000, on the margin

is

the

Gulistan with a few notes.

(466)

J^ J#a
of
it

(P.)

The Dywan

Shah Ray //an aldyn Rayhdn, a Munshiy

appears

of the College of Fort William (see p. 168 sujyrd).

Contents: a preface in prose, from which

that he collected the

Dywan

in 1810, at the suggestion

:

of Mr.

M. Lumsden.

Contents

Qacydahs

in praise of

No. 469.]

Ra'zy.

543

the Marquis of Wellesley,

&c.,

H. Harington, H. Colebrook,
Beginning
Beginning
W^Lr*

66 pp. 13 bayts.

Ghazals about 400 pp.

K^XiS \j^3fl Collection of
IfjS,

^ij\

f^y ^"^

JuftSr**

kS^

Mawlawy Mohammad Wajyh.

(467)

c?3

J* J*

e)l?id

P -)
the

The Dywan of Myr 'askary mysterious) who died in 1108

and Ouseley Pers. poets,
Contents
:

'aqil

Khan Razy

(i.

e.

(see

supra pp. 123, 111,

bayts.

p. 167).
1 1

Qa9ydahs, 34 pp. of

Beginning

Ghazals, 94 pp. 9 bayts and some Raba'ys, and chro-

nograms; one

for 1073.

Beginning

Mdty

Ma/iall, a

good copy.

(468)

&j\jU^J>fSj*
Razy
in

(P.)

Embroidery, a Mathnawy by
imitates Jalal aldyn Riimy.

which he
Beginning

Mdty

MaAall, 340 pp. of 13 bayts.

(469)

ClyLo^

<W

^Aju rfSj^j

(P.)

The Loves

of Ratan Sen and Padmawat, a

in 1069.

Mathnawy
Beginning

by Razy, composed

Tdpkhanah, 60 pp. of 38 bayts.

544
(470)

PERSIAN POETRY.
A*jj4*
of Manohar, a

[CHAP.

II.

(P.)

The Story

poem taken from the Hindiiy,

and put into Persian verse in 1065 by Razy. Bg. h JJJl* jb Li ^m^ (jJucj
with pictures.

\y&&

%d

j**

Idjjljk^.

Topkhanah, about 2000 verses; As. Soc. No. 446, a

fine

copy

(471)

U^o
of Ridha,

(P.)

The Dywan
learn from a

who

flourished in 1096, as

we

chronogram which occurs in the Dywan.

Contents

poems

in

praise of the prophet

;

and the

Imams, 124 pp.; Ghazals, 220 pp. 9 bayts Ruba'ys, Mothallath', chronograms and Qacydahs in praise of Shah Be'abbas, Nawab Arshad Khan, Aqa Beg, 106 pp.
ginning of Ghazals
:

^lAs^

^i

j*

sj^JdJ^.

p^t Ji ^J

^j

Mdty

Ma^all, two copies, one dated 1180.

(472)

j&j

bj

(P.)

The Loves of Zyba and Nigar, in verse, by Hajy Mohammad Ridha Ridhayiy who composed this poem, appaThe chronogram for this date rently in Sind, in 1053.
is

h^> j*>)

JS.

He
all

says that the Sindian

name

of

Zyba

is

Panhiin g^ij and that of Nigar Sysy

^^^

but being

anxious to avoid

Sindian words, he substituted Persian

:

words in their stead

Bg.

we might

infer

from

this statement

that the story was originally in the Sindian dialect.

*j f* r As. Soc. No. 298, 284 pp. of 17 bayts, a good copy.
us

^U'^*?

j^u J ^ U

^^

Jj

^ ^l

No. 475.]

sa'dy.

545
(P.)

(473)

JUj
it

4$>d

The Dywan
Sa'd aldyn

He may be identical with Rihay Khwafy who died in 980 (see p. 58

of Rihay.

supra) but

have not compared the

merely Ghazals.
AijJ)
}j

verses.

It contains
U^Xl

Beginning

eui^a iX&y L*i*j

Uo

^j*..

-j

Jai

^^

}&>.

^1

Topkhanah, about 300 pp. 22 bayts, defective at the end.

(474)

#U

^0
;

(P.)

The Dywan
99, 123).

of i^ajy Farydiin Sdbiq (see supra pp.

Contents: Qac^ydahs, 142 pp. of 12 bayts

are chronograms for 1092, 1095, &c.

at the

end

Beginning c^**^

&3JH&

<si

j&

aiyo)*^ vji^oi^<o

Ghazals, about 300 pp. and a few Rubays.

\fj\iiSm\j *> I

Bg.

^^ry'o *JU Uj^j ilJ^I

y^
is

a*/**

***0 aH*
is

As. Soc. No. 563, a fine copy, at the end

probably a mistake for 1110.

the date 1010, this

Ibidem No. 1196.

(475)

csxi*M

c^LlT

(P.)

Complete poetical works of Shaykh Mosharraf (Sharaf ?)

aldyn Mocli/j
b. 'abd

Allah Sa'dy of Shyraz, where he

was born in 589.

service

He

chose the takhalluc of Sa'dy in

b.

honor of the Atabuk Sa'd aldyn

Zangy, in whose

he originally was.
is

Jamy

says,

Nafahdt, No.
Ciifies

565, " he
lived for

one of the most distinguished

and

some time near the hermitage of the Shaykh Abii 'abd Allah Khafyf. He was well versed in most
sciences

and

in belles-lettres.

He

spent

much

of his

546

PERSIAN POET11Y.

[CHAP.

II.

time in travelling and visited

times he

many

countries, several

made
in

the pilgrimage on foot, and he went to

idol

Somnat, entered the temple and broke the greatest

which was
with

it.

He made

the acquaintance of many-

great Ctify Shaykhs, such as Shih&b aldyn Sohrawardy,

whom

he sailed once in the same vessel.

It

is

related that he acted for a long time as water-carrier at

Jerusalem and in Syria and gave to people water to

drink."

He

died in 691 and

is

buried at Shyraz.

(For

a more detailed notice I refer to Ouseley's Pers. Poets,

p. 5,

and Ross Trans. Gul.

preface).

The works
'alyy b.

of Sa'dy were collected and arranged by

b.

A^mad

Abu Bakr who was

called

By shin
A.H.

in

A. H. 726, and he improved the arrangement in

734.
first

Contents (C. means Calcutta edition and B. the

Bombay
1.

edition).

jZdt

p. 31.)
2.

The Rose Garden, C. ^Irlt Beginning

The Garden
Bg.
jj
&}\*j.

Vol.
*>

I.

folio 26,

B.

J-^) c \^}^
I.

\jl~L*

J*^.
i (bis).

of Odours, C. Vol.

B.

p.

$J\ J#j>

y*~
r

^
{

folio 94,

^yi aV

*>!*: jfo
1.

3. s^lvtjjj&j

short Essay on Prefaces C.

B.

p. 4,

4. L*A.

Bg. ^Jls*.

imV j*& \jH "j l^U ; **# ^rV*

The
five

Assemblies or Discourses
<* utjJ)
*A1

C. 4. B. p. 7.
5.

Bg.
aJI^,

f#fi

^ i^yi
folio 7,

^1

^ly^w^U
I.

Anecdote of the Minister of FiB. p. 19.

nance C. Vol.
6. (j.c j
7.
8.

with Preface,
<*JU..

J^

Essay on Reason and Love B. 20.

Advice to Kings C.
18, B, p. 21.

%jL)jU\

cud;^.

S ^sp \J^\ l/^.

yUGI *JU
r

Anecdote of Malik Shams aldyn,

the Arabic Orator, C. Preface, folio 9.

9.
.

Anecdote of King Ankiyanu C. 25,

B. p 27,

No. 475.]
10
B. p. 9
11.

sa'dy.
oft-a*.

547
C.
folio

^^
(ter).

Aral)ic

Panegyrics,

205,

Beginning ^Sj^$
aS'^'s.

^^J) ^-^^ c^Aa-

^sV^
(ter).

Persian Panegyrics, C.

B. p. 9
12.

Bg. \yj^- ls^^^ l^^xj^

Elegies, C.
*

^U*^
24

folio

214,

^)r 4*&

fol.

245, B.

p.

(ter).

Beginning

^fij^ /<$

f*j"

*&

aL*X

Jj
of alternate verses
(ter).

13. viA*UJ) ^US.

Poems composed
folio

Arabic and Persian, C.

14. dA*x?^.

250, B. p. 29

Poems with
(ter).

particular burdens, C. folio

257, B. p. 33
15.

cu^^l.

Ornamented poems
(ter).

entitled pure odours,

C.

folio

264, B. p. 39

Beginning Ufy ^
16.
li*.

^^ ^ pCtyy* ) {&*

^'3

&%)

^yh jy
(ter).

Rhetorical odes, C. folio 367, B. p. 127

17. u^Ulaix,

Fragments and Sentences, C.

Beginning s^iU JUaj *sj
the

folio

452,

B.

p.

140.

Uw jJjJ

18.

i9^W^ cy^i^l

Book

of Impurities in verse,

C. folio

467, B. p. 54 (quater).

Beginning o'j
19.
ci?Ulj.a.

^y Jj
it

>

j^

^*?U
prose.

Jests

and obscenities in verse and

a separate book

This book

is

called Jj^l in the Calcutta edition folio 475,

and there

is

added to

(folio

471) called

d^sr^. In the Bombay edition this book is inscribed Beginning J^w! JJi\^ ^bxiJ) ^Jl ey&s*^ ^ilj^i^
20.

oV^;.

Tetrastics, C.

fol.

472, B. p. 42 (quater).

21.
22.

oIj^.
f&x*.
1

Distichs, C. folio 493, B. p. 52 (quater).

Odes

entitled

"Final Odes," C.

folio

415,

B. p.

(quater).

23. +i*> v^J).

Sa'dy's early Ghazals, C. folio 430,

B. p. 13 (quater). Poems addressed to particular indivi24. ci5U^U>.

duals, C. folio 438, B. 21 (quater).

548
Sir G. Ouseley, from

PERSIAN POETRY.
whom
the above
list

[CHAP.

II.

has been taken, does not

mention the Pand-namah.

It is in the Calcutta edition in folio 200,

and begins

l*

J^^y.

(s^^-

U^
is

A beautiful
Moty
cutta,

old copy of the complete works of Sa'dy

life

in the

MaAall, probably written during the

folio

time of

By stun. They
and they have

have been edited in two

volumes by Mr. Harington in Cal;

1791

95,

(this edition is very rare in India)

been lithographed at Bombay, A. H. 1226, small

printed
(lithographed)

folio

413 pp.

re-

Bombay, 1267,
library, is a

4to. they

have also been

printed at Tabryz.

In the FaraA-bakhsh
1500 Eupees,
seen,
it is

copy of the Gulistan, which cost

the most beautifully written book I have ever

:

and has the following postscript

^Uil *&jj."

j\ jSUj-^S,

&&

Juxijl^a.

))jjz

Ai^

^d fjjZ

f*j*

Jjtiij

o^s^j! jK x *. j ij-Jjls*

**

0+x K =.*

Aj^a* <d)\jLj **j>i 8l!\jii.

LxT,

+xaj jXqJ\ ^x~*/tJ ^als-^l

In the

first page is written professedly in the hand of the emperor 1 k*fi ?. a * Shahjahan fjLk^ji Ail^ltf J^tj .py Ax* ^j|*l|
|

^U^

The Gulistan has been repeatedly printed

tinople, Bulak, Tabryz, Teheran,

in Europe, at Constan-

and upwards of a hundred times in

India, the best editions are Calcutta, 1851,

and Lucnow,
five

(lith.)

1264

with excellent glosses.

editions with interlinear

There are four or

lithographed

Lucnow

Urdu
a.

translation

and with marginal notes,

as

Mortadhawy
is

press,

s.

(1264), and in two

Lucnow

editions the

Bostan

printed on the margin.

For Urdu

translations of the

Gulistan see infra.

The Bostan has

to which
is

also frequently

been separately edited

as "

Bostan

added a compendious

Dictionary of such words as are hard of meaning,

expressly for this edition

Commentary together with a now first compiled by Moolvy Tumnuzuddy, (lithographed)

I have not seen a separate vocabulary

Calcutta, 1828," 4to. 228 pp.

in this edition.

Lithographed Lucnow, Mo7*aminady press, 1262,

Bahar, &c, this

with notes by Sayyidy, 'abd al-Eahman Khan,

edition

and

its

numerous

reprints,

such as Moctafay press, 1265,

correctness;

'alawy press, 1263,

surpass most other editions in

Hooghly, 1264, 8vo. clear and tolerably correct.

No. 477.]

sa'dy.
called

549
Karyma has
;

The Pand-namah, commonly

quently printed
:

also

been

fre-

in the Persian

Moonshee

in the Persian Primer

with an Urdu translation in verse by Matzhar 'alyy

cutta, 1242,

Khan Wila,
;

Cal-

1275

(sic for

1270), Chinsurah,

s. a.

(1845) lithographed

Lucnow, 1263
!

(twice), 1264, &c.

Beginning of Wila's translation

in

j^L

^t

tjii^ ^iJl

u+* * {j* The Pand-namah rendered

Bekhtah
s.
(

Mosaddas, Lucnow, lithographed by Mo^ammad-bakhsh,

a. 8vo.
'*

16 pp.

Beginning jfc*b wj* C5

s.

The Ghazals have been printed Calcutta

farther information regarding editions

a. (in or before

1784)

with the Bahare Danish, 4to. 172 and 96 pp. and again 1811.

For

and translations of separate

p.

works of Sa'dy see Zenker, Bill. Orient,

59

et seqq.

(476)

^
b.

J*L> ^fcjf CJ

(A. P.)

An

Arabic commentary on the Gulistan with the text

Sayyid 'alyy who died in 931.
*TtU*?J

by Ya'qiib

Beginning
in 962.

Uu^j ^ilj

UJ^I

U ^U

di <aW)

College of Port William, 424 pp. of 17 lines, a good copy written

(477)

L*J)j

<-***<*>

<j1^uq

(A. P.)
b.

An

Arabic commentary on the Gulistan by Moc/afa

Sha'ban Sorury

who

died in 969 completed at

Amasiyah

in 957, dedicated

to

the

Turkish emperor Solayman

Beginning

(according to i^ajy Khalyfah, No. 10,832, to his son

Sultan Moc/afa).

Private collection Cawnpore, A. 450 pp. 21 lines, this commentary

has been

much used

in the notes to the

Lucnow

edition of 1264,

also for the

commentary No. 483.

550

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(478)

jyic^
on the Gulistan, by

(P.)

A commentary
\JS*JS

Mohammad Akram
H.
11 85.
*'***

'abd al-Razzaq of Multan, compiled in A.

Bg.

jX

j^-j

6;jy.

u^^^jV

whA*'

J^Jt/6

e^

Hk]y Khal. mentions a commentary, which has nearly the same title viz. &&~t
^ii*.
-jly!

Private collection A, upwards of 600 pp. of 39 lines,

it

was composed at Makkah in 1005 by iZbsayn Kufuwy

who
it,

died in 1012.

He left

only a rough copy at his death, his friend

is

Jiffosayn b.

Kuzeljeh Rostam Pasha who

called JETosayny arranged

it

added a preface and a biography of the author, and gave

title.

the

above

(479)

!j|tjf jf C
on the Gulistan by

(P.)

A commentary

Mohammad

'abd

al-Rasul b. Shihab aldyn b. 'abd Allah Qorayshy

flourished in 1073.

who

He

divides his book into five parts

^;
verbs

1,

verses of the Qoran occurring in the Gulistan;

2, traditions
;

and sayings of Shaykhs and Arabic pro;

3,

Arabic verses

4, Persian verses

5, difficult

Persian words.

Beginning

iW

IJ^mJJj*.

M* ^~W

Tdpkhanah, 90 pp. of 20 lines. In the

224 pp. a j^U-Ji published which

parts

-ft*rf

fk MasyMy press, Lucnow, 126 by Jonayd 'abd Allah Musawy has been
fid
\j
1-,

iS

^jJ^ \J"^~

similarly to the preceding

work
;

is

divided into three

f~*.

1,

explanation of Arabic verses

2,

sayings of Shaykhs,

traditions of the prophet

Beginning

tf Uft*|

and verses of the Qoran

4LJ| ^ a^i ^JU a^LJl f

&jU*J

3,

vocabulary.

U *+=)\

(480)

d bJ^Cj A
also the author of the gloss called

(P.)

A
who
the

commentary on the Gulistan by Nur Allah A^rary

is

^> *^*-

t0

j^&nJI

*^. jL.

Beginning

No. 483.]

sa'dy.

551

Moty

Ma/iall, 1(50 pp. of

17

lines.

In the Topkhanah
<*+^>

is

the com-

mentary of Fatta^y about 300 pp. of 16 lines. Beginning o.-aj'^ j& ^4*^. j*x* &*Ja. *r [^>l^

(481)

^jf d

\j>LL

(P.)

commentary on the Gulistan by Khan Arzu.

He

mentions in the preface the commentary of

Allah AArary and Molla Sa'd

Myr Nur

Tynawy.

Beginning

\jl^\

is]fy

^f **** ^^ u)MM> JJ^a.

(P.)

Private collection, 160 pp. 8vo. 19 lines without the text.

(482)

Jljf^jb
Gulistan by Molla
1

A commentary on the

Mohammad

Sa'd (see p. 523 supra) compiled in

197.

Beginning e^*J>~!^;^ JkH^\JH^ -^Jy (JaS**%j*i}J

Mdty Ma^all about 300
of 21 lines
is

pp. In the Fara^-bakhsh about 600 pp.

an imperfect copy of the commentary of Qabiil Mohamit

mad, the author of the Haft Qulzum,

has the

title

A
at

complete copy in two volumes in

folio

was
it.

offered

^+&& -> to me for sale

Lucnow.

I took a notice of

it,

but lost

The present (1853) king of

Dilly, I

am

told has compiled a com-

mentary, in which he forces a mystical meaning on every story of

the Gulistan, which would surprise Sa'dy.
at Dilly, but I have never seen
it.

It has been lithographed

There

is

also

which begins

an anonymous commentary in the Topkhanah K i^~* &&~* >\i ^j** v^** &M~XZji Wfij <_$!

(483)

i^fcj?
on the Gulistan, by the
'alyy.

p -)

A commentary
'alyy,

late

Riyadh

a son of Qanbar
<-^**i

Beginning

^-Uw ^y

j^j^SJ ^ *%* jm* u&*&

552
Printed Calcutta,

PERSIAN POETRY.
s. a.

[CHAP.

II.

4to.

3S8 pp. reprinted (abridged) Calcutta,

There

1267, 4to. 264 pp. this

is

the third or fourth 4to. edition.

have also appeared 8vo. editions of the Gulistan at Calcutta with a

short commentary.

(484)

Jly
b.

Cjt
Tahir
b.

(P.)
b.

commentary on the Bostan, by 'abd al-Rasul

abd Allah
b.

Shihab aldyn

.Hasan Qarayshy,

UW

composed in 1073. (See p. 550 Supra.) A* eyL^axJ)^ W<y>)j K^Lhs* ^) )sh iS

r

Beginning
)j

.Ji^ js^ j^.^

Tdpkhanah, 110 pp. of 17

lines.

(485)

^by

Zjl
Shaykh Qadir

(P.)
'alyy,
'alyy.

A commentary
who
This commentary

on the Bostan, by Sayyid Riyadh

died between 1245 and 1265 and

is

very useful.
^f)jj>

Bg.

*$

Oa*| jUaJ)

*lio

aa-jIo*

^Ij ^\ ^Ui^*- *U>

Printed Calcutta, 1845, reprinted by Ikram

Calcutta, 1265, 4to. 462 pp.

AAmad Dkaygham,
text.

These two editions comprize the

(486)

^t^j c y,

(P.)

commentary on the Bostan, by 'abd al-Wasi' of Hansy.

Beginning
to 1189.

y?*\

s-j>j**

J^^l

^JU/I ^j

*M &+sJ\

College of Fort William, 8vo. 230 pp. 17 lines written previously

A copy of

this

commentary in the Tdpkhanah begins

487 )

tjh*

L-i**J isy**

JiOU

(P.)
(see p.

Ruba'ys of Sa/*aby or Sahdb of Astrabad

42 supra).

; ;

No. 489.]
Contents
:

sahmy.

553

introduction in four sections J^i, 38 pp.

Ruba'ys

all

on theosophy, 260 pp. 13 bayts.

^.U.
!
1

Bg.
U
IxJ)

lai. J, ^i*j *****;

j^.

Ax'Aj

&$

Some

Ghazals, the

Maq^a
in

of the

first

Ghazal

is

Tdpkhanah, incorrect, written

1080
;

ibidem, 160 pp. 10 lines

Moty

MaAall, about 700 pp. 12 bayts

10 bayts, incomplete.

FaraA-bakhsh, about 500 pp. In the Tdpkhanah is a Mathnawy by SaAaby,

love,

120 pp. 13 bayts treating on mystical

'abbas.

and dedicated to Shah

of the author

The following

verse contains the

name

Beginning

j&ji *^

*~i

<s

p*-*

jt^-ji

" jtj*

ur (f*j
1

(488)

^4of

ejjj**

(P-)

The Dywan
Contents
:

Sahmy

of Bokhara, (see p. 59 supra).

Short Mathnawies and Qacydahs in praise

of the nobles of

Ak bar's

court.

Beginning

Ghazals and a few chronograms, one for 973.

Beginning

\<

y^

^f- ^1

**

JiS Jj^ aj^

^^

Moty

Ma/tall,

212 pp. 12 bayts, a splendid copy.

(489)

^u d y_o
of Sa'iy.

(P.)

The Dywan
the

He

gives us the date 1071 of

Dywan

in the first verse.

It

appears from this date that he

is

not identical with

Sa'iy

Kashany whom Samy mentions.

4 B

554
Contents
:

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

Ghazals about 400 pp. miscellaneous poems

bayts, the

42 pp. of 17
text.

margin

is

generally covered with

The beginning
b.

is

wanting,
tojy.
f>\

first

verse

rhyming

in

u^i^

6^,x>

^sjj

As. Soc. No. 440,

much

injured.

(490)

(^^JU^j
of Salik Yazdy,

(P.)

The Dywan
Contents

who

died in 1081 (see pp.

Ill, 124, 97, 150

:

^ra).

Qacydahs in praise of Shah-jahan, Shah

Cafyy, &c. chronograms, one for 1063; Ghazals, 490 pp.

1

5 bayts, about 50

Ruba y3.

Beginning of Ghazals

Moty

Ma/*all, a splendid copy.

(491)

,JL
of Salim.

^1
collected
it

(P.)
in 1082.

The Dywan

He

^v
Salim

*j* *****

W*)

us iU ^

t*

^ t$F &*

We may therefore
(see pp.
1

safely identify

him with Lutf Allah

08, 115 supra), though I have not corn-

pared the quotations.

80 pp. 1 3 bayts Ruba ys, Qacydahs, short Mathnawies and chronograms, one of the
Contents
:

Ghazals,

earliest for

1056.

Beginning

Moty Ma&all,
not the same,

a bad copy.

A fragment of aDywan of Salim, perhaps

it

is in

the Tdpkhanah,

contains Grhazals about 25 pp.

No. 492.]

salma'n.
it

555
in 1124,

15 bayts, and a few Rubiiys*,

Gliazal

was written

and the
is

first

rhyming

in b begins, (the beginning of the

book

wanting,)

(492)

,j,U-

The Dywan

(P.)
of

of Jamal aldyn

Mohammad Salman

Sawah, a son of Khwajah

'ala aldyn who was governor of He early entered the service of Amyr Shaykh Hasan Nuyan and his beautiful and talent-

some town of the

'iraq.

ed wife Dilshad Khatun, and instructed them and their

son Suttan

Oways

in poetry.
life,

He

remained attached to
to see

this family his

whole

and had the mortification

Oways
765

carried to the grave.

He was

snatched away in
in

(see p.

72 suprd) in his best years. Salman died

to

769
this

and according
(Khosgii

799 and left besides Dywan, two Mathnawies a\1<j^j tu-i^ and **U
others in
;

<3^

Ouseley, p. 117).
:

Contents

Qacydahs, most of them in praise of Suttan

bayts, not alphabetically arranged.

Oways, 236 pp. of 26

Beginning oit

JV* ls^*

uf'y1 j&

jXj Jftjij c/r?rj

J^>* ^fUxc yJpJ+*

*$

Ghazals, 220 pages 24 bayts, alphabetically arranged.

Beginning

\j

U J^ 0^ c ^*> ^^ Jmj\ u o'r^ &)$ d!r^ j^ f i>

]

fa \J**
etar**

In one copy, there are

some Ruba'ys

at the end.

Moty

MaAall, two copies, one very splendid.

In the As. Soc. No.

is

188, is a fine copy of the

Dywan
(

of Salman which
)

fuller

than the
aj

Lucnow copies,

it

commences
is
[j

W
1

^.^
the

*ib

o*~a

K JL~*j~j
copies
is

pxi.

The Ghazal which

seventh, they begin
Qitf'ahs,

the

first in
3'

Lucnow

here the
It also

ur>a I* ?

V&

*4 [S> J*

v-**J^

50 pp. of 18 bayts, a Tarjy'band, &c. contains ^~* *&f ^HkHj (jK *% \f$ +kf/j Beginning

4 B 2

556
(493)

PEHS1AN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

JU

^
Imams, Shah
'abbas,

(P.)
died in

The Dywan of Mohammad Quly Salym, who

1057
(see pp. 123, 90, 111 supra).
:

Contents
expedition

Mathnawy

in praise of Shahjahan,

on the

against

Assam, description of Gujrat, &c

^Lax: e^*** **^yi ^/^r'
*^l *-*f

94 pp. 19 bayts. Beginning >^L

&

*>

Qacydahs
74 pp.

in praise of the

&c

Beginning
6 bayts, in another copy 524 pp. Beginning

Ghazals, 378 pp.

1 1

bayts.

Minor poems, 32 pages.

In one copy
;

is

also a
lines.

Math-

nawy on predestination^

Ua*

34 pp. 13

The Qacydahs
Moty

begin in this copy

MaAall, two good copies

As. Soc. Nos. 252, 576, 875.

(494)

^JU
of
;

ojU-

(P.)

The Qacydahs

Hasan Salymy.

He was

originally

a revenue collector

on one occasion he wrote an assign-

ment on the property of a widow. The poor woman came to him and asked him by whose orders he had thus
disposed of part of her
of Sayyid
little all
;

he answered,

By

order

Fakhr aldyn the governor of the province. And will his authority," said the widow, " protect you on the day of judgment ?" These words made so deep an impression upon him that he gave up his office and
"

No. 496.]

sana'y.

557

devoted himself entirely to the service of

the pilgrimage to

God

he made

Makkah where he stayed a long while, and to the tombs of the Imams. He died in 854 and left besides these Qacydahs a *^U o^;. Contents Qacydahs in praise of the Imams one
:

Qacydah has the following heading it was composed on the road to Mashhad on the 27th Rajab, 847, it is an Bg. imitation of a poem of Mawlana Hasan Kashy.
:

*jjJ tyi

daJj

lilj irjj d}>)

fi-^y
;

e/^y

**N

'?**

s,^\JjX

Jy

Moty
15 bayta.

MaAall, 576 pp.

15 bayts

Topkbanah about 400 pp.

(495)

^oU
of Samy.

^
Ruba
ys, &c.
^fy}
*&"*!

(P.)
Qacydahs 72 pp. Beginning
Bg.

The Dywan
15 bayts.

It consists of

Ghazals, 251 pp. 13 bayts and a few

Ij\j

C~~A

^fl;j **> )

f^

u-tJ^

J^^ *t {J^J^ fW

Fara^-bakbsb, a good copy.

(496)

^3U- ui^Ui

<&J*J| d&<>^

(P.)

b.

The Garden of Verity, by JEfakym Abii-1-Majd Majdiid Adam Sandy of Ghaznah. He began his career by

singing the praise of princes, subsequently he became

one of the most profound Ciify poets, being second in

merit only to Jalal aldyn

Rumy.

His spiritual guide

(see

was Yusof Hamadany a pupil of

Ami 'alyy Farmady

Jamy Nafuhat, No.

426).

It is said that

Sul/an Bahrain

558

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

Shah offered him his sister in marriage, but he refused marry her. He completed the lifadyqah according

to

to

my

copies in 535.

In one

Lucnow copy
;

instead of
I

jfo

^~

is

**j

<ju^

and
in

in

another ; U>

^^^>

have not noted any variant

is

the

second micra', probably there

none.

Accord-

ing to

Jamy Nafahat No.

p.
1,

563, Khajy Khalyfah (who

probably followed Jamy) and

65, A. B.
to the
first

Hammer W.
it

Jahrb. Vol.

he completed

in 524,

and according

mentioned authority, and the author of the

Haft Iqlym, he died the same year.

his death in 545,
d.

Taqyy Kashy

places

and Dawlat-shah and

p.

Hammer

Gesch.

Schonen Redek. Pers.

left

102 and Sir G. Ouseley, in 576.

He

besides the fiadyqah six smaller

Mathnawies in

the same measure, their names are, according to Bland,

Siyar

al'obbad,

Taryq altaAqyq,
;

Kar-namah,
to these titles

'ishq-

namah, 'aql-namah
alromiiz,

Khoshgu adds

Kanz

he also

left

about 30,000 verses of Qaeydahs

and minor poems.

The book

is

divided into ten chapters, some copies

have a preface in prose.

Beginning of the poem

Moty
bulary

*-**! *)))ji tf&& MaAall, several copies, 520 pp. of 18 bayts Asiatic Society,
;

^M ^

Nos. 944, 1426, 296, 1390, 595 (with notes), 1167 with a voca;

I have a splendid copy which was written in 874.

The

copies differ

much from each

other, but care has

;

been taken at an

early time to preserve the genuine text

Jamaly Ardastany went on

purpose to Ghaznah to obtain the autograph copy of Sanay and

brought
the
title

it

to his native country.

of

Myrza 'azyz Khan Kokah who had Khane A'tzam possessed a copy, which had been written
this copy, transcribed it

in 617.

'abd al-Latyf b. 'abd Allah 'abbasy (see p. 494 supra) bor-

rowed in 1035
ancient

and compared it with another

MS. marked

the variants and

made notes

to

it

on the

No. 499.]

saqqa'.

559

margin,in 1067 this corrected text was transcribed with great care, and
this transcript is in
is

my

possession. In the Asiatic Society,

No. 956,

MS.

lettered tj&~

^k^

it

contains besides the i/adyqah (with

which as the leaves are transposed, some of the minor Mathnawies

may be mixed up) Qacydahs,

bayts.

Ghazals, Euba'ys, &c. 552 pp. of 23

lJUujj

Beginning

dfjl c;UIUa>

J&j* ^1

6497)

^U* fL

&**>

^
(see pp.

(P.)

commentary on the Hadyqah of 77akym Sanay, by

Niir Allah A^rary

Mohammad
and 550.)

Ghaznawy
J^ww

493

Bg. *?r? o'i &)** tyjH

i-jjl'i

JJI aJU tx+ssf]

Private collection A. about 300 pp. 17 lines.

(498)

^JU UtfJS Ub jU*

of the Hearts, a short

(P.)
in praise

The .Spring

Mathnawy

of Acaf aldawlah, by Saqiy (see p. 285 supra).

Bg. j+~\j v**)

>

*j

>***

o^ '^^ jy

fJ

As. Soc. No. 487, 48 pp. of 13 bayts.

(499)

GU
of

^j
41=962

(P.)
(see pp.

The Dywan
and 78 supra).
almathir

Darwysh Saqqa of Bokhara

59

He

died in 1003

as appears

from the following chronogram recorded in the Nafayis

560

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

Contents

Ghazals and at the end some Qif ahs and

the Qi^ahs
is

Ruba ys, among

Beginning

a chronogram for 955.

1

'y ^a- ijrijj

J? ^v i^*-

^j^-

Moty

MaAall, 222 pp. of 15 bayts.

is

In the Moty MaAall and

a

in

the Asiatic Society Nos. 251 and 365,

Dywan

of Saqqa (I ascer-

tained the identity, by comparing the quotation in

Badawny)

in

which the above verse

is

not contained.

The
-^*'.

latter

copy (No. 305)

contains besides Grhazals and a few Euba'ys, three short Mathnawies,

the last of which has the

title

of **^

c5

Beginning of
A ^'

Dywan

Beginning of Ghazals '^O*

^^y

cJ>>*

J*

(500)

gkL
of Sai\

^y^
is

(P.)

The Dywan

He
1

probably identical with

1

the poet mentioned in pp.

23 and

56, in the latter pas-

sage his takhalluc

is

by a mistake spelled Saty\

cy*^^ S>j y

Contents: Ghazals, 100 pp.; Qacydahs, 45 pp.

Beginning U Jty
Topkhanah.

^^J JX

vff,

(501)

***
of Sa'ycl
at
1

The Dywan
lected

^
of the

(P.)

Khan Korayshy.
A
fair

He

first

col-

his

poems
in

the request of his patron

SuMan

Morad-bakhsh
was made
124)

063.
.

copy with farther additions

in 107J

The author

Hamyshah Bahar

has two poets of the takhalluc of Sa'yd (see pp. 123 and

who

it

appears are identical, the quotations from

both being found in this Dywan.

NO. 502.]

SAYF ALDYN.
:

561

Contents

Three prefaces in

prose, the first

by another

pen and the

lines;

last consisting of dotless

words, 76 pp. of 14 Sultan Morad-

Qacydahs and
,

Qitf'ahs in praise of

bakhsh, Shah-shuja

Ni'mat Allah
(a
saint),

aldyn ii^asan Sinjary

(of Narnawl), Mo'yn Khwajah Mohammad

Ridhay Cubhy
125 pp.

(a poet), &c.

with several chronograms,

Beginning of Qacydahs:

00 pp. Ruba'ys some addressed to Anand Ray, a poet whose takhallu9 was Hindu, 1 5 pp.
Ghazals about
1
;

Mathnawies, minor poems (some by Hindu) and

in prose about 100 pp.
As. Soc. 351, a very good copy.

letters

Beginning

(502)

^jaJl uSj-. c^Lir

poetical

(P.)
(the lame) of

The

works of Sayf aldyn A'raj

**&*)

Isfaranj or Isfarah

in Transoxania.

He

was pa-

tronized

by the Khwarezm-shahians.

Dawlat-shah and

Khoshgii think that his patron was Yl-arslan (reigned according to Abu-lfida from 551 to 568) but the author of the

Kholacah

states that he lived at the court of

Takash the
is

son of Yl-arslan and of his son Mo/zammad

Sinjar II. and reigned from 589 to 617.
is

who

called

This statement
are in praise

confirmed by the
'ala

Dywan, most Qacydahs

of Sul/an

aldyn Sinjar, and some are in praise of

Ma^mud

a younger brother of Takash.

life

Towards the

end of his

he gave himself up to ascetic exercises

in

and took Sayf aldyn Bakharsy who died

as his spiritual guide.

648 or 650
fix

The above

dates

the time

when he

flourished with sufficient accuracy,

and on their

4 C

562
strength

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

we

at once reject the statement of

Walih

that
at the

he died in 573, and that of the Biyadh of the As. Soc.

No. 931, that he died in 569, but Taqyy Kashy must

be equally wrong in stating that he died in 666

age of 85 years, and consequently that he was born in

581,
it is

likely that

666

is

a clerical error.
It contains

His

Dywan

consists of about 10,000 verses.

Qacydahs:

Beginning ^J&iUt+J
Moty
1020.

) J\

y;

^ jy S ^^
]

4^
nearly in the

Ma^all, 418 pp. of 21 bayts, a splendid copy written in

I have a copy in which the above verse

it

middle of the book,

begins

^ojf^-l

j\

is

*J*ji

j^

t*~

(503)

&*=*

6a-*

l^aa^J **b c^Ajy

(P.)

Sayyid

The book of education, composed in 988 by Amyr Mohammad. It is possible that the date of the
p.

demise of Fikry (see

405 supra)

is

erroneously stated
is

by biographers and that the author

Fikry.
It contains the instructions

identical

with

which the author

\* ji<x,

received from his Pyr or spiritual guide.

Beginning \*^^i

e^~ J<^* ^Jj

I

js"

Ulil

Tdpkhanah, about 100 pp. of 11

lines.

(504)
Beginning^;

^Jl %>

^yto
^'.

(P.)

Description of the Miraj and mystical reflexions.

*fi

j*

^^ v!

c_s

As. Soc. No. 10, about 200 verses.

(505)

* o+*

lJ^J^Is/oj

(P.)

Record of the miracles of the Imams, by Mohammad Beginning Shafy' Beg.

Tdpkhanah, 260 pp. of 16 bayts.

No. 506.]

sha'hy.

563

(506)

^li pty*

^^o
is

(P.)
usually called

The Dywan of Aqa Malik Shaky, who

Amyr
Aqa

Shahy, because he was descended of the noble

family of Sarabdar.

He had

originally the takhalluc of

Malik. During the reign of Baysanqor, he spent his

time at Sabzwar and being an agreeable companion, and

accomplished in painting and music, he was
court, but

much

at

owing

to a slight

which he

received, he retired

to his ancestral estates

which were restored to him by the

his life

king.

Towards the end of

he was sent by Sultan

to

Babar the son and successor of Baysanqor

to in

Astrabad

make

a drawing of his palaces, and he died in that city

age.

857 more than seventy years of

;

(Taqyy Kashy,
7, 1
;

No. 123
supra
of the

Khosgii

I.

No. 31

Dawlat-shah,

see also

p. 79).

According to a note in the commencement

died in 825.

Dywan he

The
467

statements of the Mirat

p.

alkhiyal, p. 96,

and of the Atishkadah,

are to be

Ill, which

place his death in 859, and

considered as
that out of

typographical

errors.

Taqyy Kashy

says

12,000 verses which he composed, only 1000 have been

preserved, this agrees with the statement contained in a

note in the

commencement
:

of the

MS.
<JtLo

Contents

Ghazals not alphabetically arranged.

Beginning
Mdty
969.

e^^r-*^ c^kiw Aj

^Zj

^j\
;

MaAall, 12mo. 100 pp. of 10 bayts, a splendid copy

As.

Soc. Nos. 677, 921, written in 901, very splendid.

I have a copy of

There

is

also

an incomplete copy in the Tdpkhanah, 50 pp.

11 bayts, which begins,

l.^i/0 *i&*(

^S*. Q)l#U&4

^SJ-i

'

j$ )ji

4 C 2

564

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(507)

J^ typ
of Shany.

(P.)
of the

The Dywan
Turks and

He was
at

Uymaq Taklu
at

lived sometimes

Ray and sometimes

15
bayts

Hamadan
171 pp.

(see pp. 42, 94,

112 supra).
;

Contents:

Ghazals,

170 pp.

Qacydahs,

Beginning

Moty nawy in

Ma/jall

As. Soc. No. 375, this copy opens with a Math-

praise of

Shah
Xx*f

'abbas,

Beginning pJj

cj!j &x*>U

36 pp. of 17 bayts. /Jp^l er* ^'

&J^I

,*~J

The Ghazals are

differently arranged, the

is

one with which the

Lucnow copy commences

nearly at the end of Alif, they begin,

(508)

jffjfi

d \y*
author, his

(P.)

The Dywan of Shapur. Walih from this Dywan and says of the
Archasp, he had
first

quotes some verses

name
is

is

the takhallu9 of Firyby and on his

return from Persia, he chose that of Shapur.

He

pro-

bably identical with Firyby, mentioned in page 407 supra.

He was
BaAar

a friend of

Taqyy Aw/?ady.

In the

Hamyshah

(see p.

124 supra) are also some verses quoted which

are found in this

Dywan, but the quotations which occur

535 are not found
in the

in the Atishkadah, p.

Dywan.
Bg.

Contents

Qacydahs, 34 pp. of 20 bayts.

Ghazals, 50 pp. 30 bayts

few Rubays, &c. 20 pp.

Beginning

';

^M^ cW
;

^sty J*- &*/* J^'j t&j

another copy in the same

As. Soc. No. 876

Topkhanah, there

is

collection containing merely the

Ghazals, 116 pp. 24 bayts; the

Ma/^all,

Dywan

of Ghazals

is

also in the
*j*

Moty
t\j. *j>

54 pp. 21

lines.

Beginning lyjkjsf*

p*

No. 509.]
(509)

sharaf.
jOJdJ J*j>

565

^Jl u^S

^J

(P.;

The Dywan of Shah Shaykh Sharaf aldyn Abu alvy, who was familiarly called Qalandar. He was a native of
the
'iraq,

visit the

but came at the age of four years to Dilly to tomb of Qotob aldyn and was brought up under

the care of the holy

men

of that city as a saint.

After

he had been twenty years

under their

tuition,

and

after he had spent twenty years more in prayers and

devotion, he went to see the world, and on his journeys

he made

the

acquaintance

of

Shams
After
died
in

Tabryz and
his

Mawlawy

Jalal aldyn

Rumy.

return

to
is

India he lived in seclusion.

buried at Panypat (Khoshgu,

He
I.

724 and
I believe

N. 227).

the

Makhdum-zadahs, one of the four castes of Musalmans

who

inhabit Panypat are descended from him.

They do

not condescend to intermarry with any other caste of

Musalmans, their

sole

occupation was to attend at the

tomb
it

of their ancestor, and they were richly endowed for

their jagyrs

by the emperors, some of

or rent free

lands they possess up to this day.

'abd

al-Haqq Dihlawy,

Akhbdr alakhydr,
^cxJI^J^*
is

p.

278, says that the f>J. U

^
it

ascribed to him, but he does not consider

genuine, but his

u^Uy^

or letters are considered genuine.

Contents

Ghazals, in which he uses the takhalluc of

Sharaf, Qalandar and Bu-'alyy.

Beginning ytjJI ^J u^!/* **Ji c-?*^ *^ *y*sr\ Moty Ma/zall, 11 pp. of 52 bayts. There is also a Mathnawy
ascribed to this saint,
it

has been lithographed at Lucnow, Sultfan-

alma^abi' press, 1266, 19 pp. of 21 bayts.

Beginning

e^ U

0^

Up, <jf jf

|(j

cLL ^i Vxa^

566

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(510)

Ljy.

4)1

o+*

rfy*

(P.)

The Dywan of 'abd Allah b. Fadhl Allah Sharaf of Shyraz who had the title of Waccafe Hadhrat. He is the
author of the
u-ita,

&M which he

dedicated to Sultan

Mohammad Khoda-bandah
men
to

and, adds Walih, some learned

ascribe to

him

also the fs*" Mfi*

which

is

dedicated

Nucrat aldyn Atabak.

According to Ouseley, Pers.

Poets, p. 230, these two

works are

identical.

(See also

Hammer Schbene
Contents
:

Redek. Pers.
(jo^Xt
in

p. 243).

preface in prose, written in 693.

Beginning

^ys^ jyy

^r^

<**^

Qacydahs and Qi^'ahs

LL>

praise of the

Imams and
Beginning
JJyJ ote

princes, not alphabetically arranged.

Jlxi

\jtytf eJ^o,

Uj ji^ii*^

^
is

Moty Ma^all, Dywan of a poet

jJU J(i
dl^il)

nbout 134 pp. of 24 bayts.

In the Topkhanah

of the takhalluc of Sharaf, containing Qacydahs and

Ghazals, 120 pp. 13 bayts.

Beginning

*jA.j

tyc&A

fly

i*1 Jj~j o'o

^y *te 4^1

(511)

^
of Sharafe
it.
:

c l^

(PO
at the court of

The Dywan

Jahan, his father Qadhiye

Jahan held a high appointment

deprived of

Shah

Tahmasp, but being suspected of being a Sunny, he was

Sharaf died in 968
(see pp. 50, 79, 22).

Contents

Ghazals and three Ruba'ys.

Bg.

As. Soc. No. 912, 58 pp. of 12 bayts, this copy was written by

Jeswant Singh Panvdnah (see

is

p.

296 supra) in 1196, in the

first

page

a biography of Sharaf taken from Taqjy Kashy.

In the same

No

513.]
No. 1169,
is

SHARYF.
a very elegant old copy of this

567
Dywan, which
Beginning

collection,

contains also some Qacydahs, &c.

In the Moty Ma^all

is

a copy of this

Dywan, with a preface by

it

adr _ffbsayny who

collected the

Dywan,

begins

(512)

jM*-*&
of Sharyf
:

tft#>
(see pp. 26, 124).
;

(P-)

The Dywan
Contents

Kashy
a^>U

Ghazals, 350 pp. of 14 bayts

Ruba'ys
*UI
**uj

40

pp.

Beginning

]j

^^

3j uJujA

,jrl

Qacydahs, Qi^'ahs and Tarjy'bands in praise of the

Imams, Mohammad Qofob Shah, the Khankhanan, Hakym Humam, &c. about 400 pp.
Beginning

Jk^ ^ji f>j$of

J* j tf*
]

The Loves
200 pp.

Khosraw and Shyryn, a Mathnawy about

Beginning

As. 3oc. No. 1405,

good copy, written for Qofob Shah, at Hay-

darabad in 1026.

(513)

uii/ J^o
of Sharyf, a brother of Abii-lma'aliy,
for

(P.)

The Dywan

who

was Waqi'ah-nawys, and accompanied

Zabar-dast Khan.

some time

Contents: Ghazals, 15 pp. of 11 bayts; a Mathnawy,

some epigrams and chronograms

12 pp.

for 1089,

1090, 1091,

Beginning \hj ^Ua* Mdty Ma/^all, 12mo.

Hi

t>

c^^o e^*ck

568
(514)
^315*.

PERSIAN POETRY.
^lyt* =*

[CHAP.
va*a

II.

U^Ui Jo

(P.)

Spectacles of the Heart, being a mystical and ethical

poem by Mohammad Sharyf Haqany.

composition
is

The date of

the

recorded in these two verses.

Bg.
Mdty

JV^Iid^^/^lj
MaAall, 240 pp. 11 bayts.

u/I^Vjlj ^^=v

/I y

url

(515)

lJujA ci***^ Lf>^

(P-)
con-

Mathnawy of Myr Mohammad Sharyf Sharyf,

Bg.

taining felicitations

on the accession of Ghaziy aldyn

//aydar, (A. H. 1229).

^j*

ly

JLj*. l^fc* b*

Moty

Ma/iall, 18 pp. of 8 bayts, a splendid copy.

(516)

i&fy
of Molla

rftfi

(P.)

Dywan
Khan

Shawkat of Bokhara.

He came

in

1088 to Herat, and entered the service of Cafyy Quly

Shamlii, thence he proceeded to

Mashhad where

he was supported by Myrza Sa'd aldyn Mohammad, the

governor of Khorasan.
(Walih).

He

died at Ispahan in 1107

The author

gives us the date of his

Dywan,

1093, in a chronogram.

i^~*sLC 2

U^

fcsr^*

fifi

,J^su

^j y, CJh

^ &Z

J^*o>

Qacydahs, 44 pp. 15 bayts, mostly in praise of Sa'd

aldyn Khan.

Beginning

Ghazals, 336 pp. 13 bayts

Ruba'ys, 10 pp.

No. 518.]

sha'yiq.
)j

569

Beginning

JUi

^ \z^*\ *#/& *S*j y^

;

Moty

MaAall, a good copy

Tdpkhanah, containing Ghazals, 225

pp. of 15 bayts.

(517)

$A
of
Jalisy Shdyiq,

^
^

(P.)

Dywan Radhawy

Myr Gholam iJosayn b. Sayyid Fath 'alyy who flourished under Ghaziy
Mathnawy
containing stories, 35 pp.

aldyn Haydar, reigned 12291242.

Contents
:

a
{

wy*. Beginning j&>.j?^. V*5 u*** ur* d c/^ Qacydahs, mostly in praise of the Imams, 25 pp.

^
Bg.
*;*>

]j

Ghazals, 120 pp. 10 bayts. U*5 Jteoj*. J^I; Ui^ JU*^i

jil

Beginning

,$ fdt

y Jp^

Ruba'ys and chronograms, among the

death of

latter,

one on the

Myrza Jan Tapish

1220.

Beginning

Moty

Ma7iall, a magnificent copy.

(518)

e^j!}if
of Love, a

(P.)

The Garden
siyar,

Mathnawy in praise of FarrokhIt

is
is,

composed in 1130; chronogram e^j^Js^.

not clear
clusion,

who

the author

but from a verse in the con-

it

would appear that his takhalluc was Shaykh.

Topkhanah, about 100 pp. of 13 bayts.

570

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

(519)

J>\*>

cjUT

(P.)

Complete poetical works of the physician Sharaf aldyn

.Hasan Shifdyiy,
Contents
l :

who

died in 1037 (see pp. 90, 28, 150).

; <Hdkl i*i<*

Mathnawy, composed
o

in 990,

46 pp. of 40 bayts. Beginning *j^ eu*ix

pp. pf 40 bayts.

kji^^x^]

>x^i) ^-^yi *Ul

in 1021,

***->

c^s^^y^ Another Mathnawy, composed

50

Chronogram

Beginning tfi&~f

^;K

to

^d

s^j'r*

cr^^O'
pp.

^"

Mathnawy (Namakdane Haqyqat?) 38

*-+*>

^^^k jj^ Jj Another Mathnawy of only 6 pages.

beginning
Beginning [i^\j^\ ^sr*
Beginning
y**)J

<s^ cuo.lU

^^ *ff ^

^ ^j ^1
3

Qacjrdahs, 52 pp. of 48 bayts.

Ghazals, 200 pp.

^ J^ ^ Ruba
ys,

ei*oJk e^ki ^-*

&c. 40 pp.
ci>^^* *^- ^j c**j
first

Beginning ei?^^* ** ir*& iMJ

Moty

^
;

As. Soc. Nos. 115 and 795 (containing only the

Mathnawy)

MaAall, 506 pp. of 17 bayts containing only Ghazals, they

begin in this copy

(520)

^Bjife

(P.)

The Book
Brahman.

of Victory, being a poetical account of the

military career of General

Lake
c~^

(?)

iil,

by Shimbhu, a
Jf

Beginning J^*j
As. Soc. No.

^j

\<*v

^Id j;l3

j)Sl

{&

200, 131 pp. of 11 bayts, a splendid copy.

No. 523.]

siNJAlt.

571

(521)

i^;^Jb&
of

(P.)

The Dywan

Hakym Shaykh

ifbsayn Shohrat, who

died in 1149 (see supra pp. 124, 156, 150).

Contents: Qagydahs, 16pp. 17 bayts; Ghazals, 248

pp. 13
bayts.

bayts: Ruba'ys and Mokhammas', 25 pp.

10

Beginning

Tdpkhanah

As. Soc. No. 573

a copy in the Fara^-bakhsh doea

not contain the Qacydahs.

(522)

l?j dty*

p -)

The Dywan
al-Hayy
(see
:

Contents

of Shyry of Kokowal J'jjV a son of 'abd supra pp. 59 and 90). Qacydahs in praise of God and Akbar,
1

alphabetically arranged,

28 pp. of

7 bayts.

Bg.

Ghazals
Moy

40 pp. and about 60 Ruba'ys.

Bg.

MaAall, a correct copy written in 1040.

(523)

j^;

gjj*)

(P.)

The Dywan of Mohammad Hashim Sinjar, a son of Uaydar of Kashan as he was particularly strong in making logogriphs, he is called Mo'ammayiy. He died
in 1021 (see pp. 123, 150 supra

and
1

A'tislik. p. 438).

Contents

Qacydahs, 70 pp. of

Bg.
Ghazals,
1

j&* J^
96
pp. of

5 bayts.

*J

sS

&J

1 1

bayts.

Beginning

"

D 2

572
Moty

PERSIAN POETRY.
MaAall, two copies, in one of

[CHAP.

II.

them and

in the beautiful copy

of the As. Soc. No. 513, and in

my

copy the Ghazals begin

'

In the Society's copy are

;

at the end, short

first

15 bayts (incomplete)

the

has the

title

Mathnawies, 80 pp. of of Saqiy-namah and

the others are d>^Ux>, one contains the story of Shyryn.

(524)

CLmU j^;*
Jalal aldyn Siyddat, a son of
(see pp.

(P.)

Tbe Dywan of Myr

flourished in 1081, as

Jamal aldyn Mo^addith

124, 129, 107).

Myr He

nogram which occurs

we learn from the among his poems.

following chro-

Contents: Ghazals, 162 pp. 13 bayts; Ruba'ys, &c.

16 pp.
Tdpkhanah

Beginning
Moty
Ma&all, 266 pp. 15 bayts.

(525)

JU- i^i
:

(P-)

The Dywan of Nitzam aldyn A//mad Shaykham Sohayly, who died in 907 (see pp. 78 and 20).
Ghazals about 200 pp. of 1 7 bayts, at the end a short Mathnawy and some Ruba'ys. Beginning l;U J cb ^Xj 15 J a ji,w> kxx"
Contents
I

As. Soc. No. 665, a fine copy written in 999.

(526)

jyi-

j)jg)
It contains

(P.)

The Dywan
zals.

of Sokhonwar.

merely Gha-

Beginning

Private collection,

128 pp. 17 bayts.

No. 528.]

su'zany.

573
(p.)

(527)

i^-^yr
usually called

Complete poetical works of Radhyy aldyn Soriiry,

who was

Gholam Mortadha.
his

He was from
after

the age of seven to seventeen a pupil of

his death he

Mu jiz, and
brother

was instructed by

own

Gholam

Moctafa Maftun, but Maftiin died about 1168

of thirty, and after that he had no instruction.

at the age

He com1

posed besides these Persian poems from

0,000 to

2,000

Rekhtah

verses.

He was

still

alive

and resided

at

Luc-

now

in 1211.
:

Contents

Qacydahs, 60 pp. of 50 bayts

;

Mokham^1

mas', 38 pp.

Mathnawy, 22
y^U*;*J*>V*

pp.

Beginning

l#ilj;

ll*j*

ty
-

y Ji

Ghazals, 488 pp. and miscellaneous poems, 14 pp.

Beginning

\j

^sj^

W-

i J*

y>

J^ ty& l*W*
Lucnow
for hia
fjy*, it is

I have the autograph which the author wrote at

son

Imam

aldyn whose takhalluc was Khorram

folio

a fine
is

volume in
in the

written with great care.

Another autograph copy

Mdty

Ma&all.

(528)

jjy. ft* d,yr

Siizany of Samarqand.

(P.)

Complete Poetical Works of Shams aldyn

b. 'alyy

Mohammad
of

Some say he was

Nasaf Gayhan.

He claimed

descent from Salman Farisy,

a companion of the prophet.

When

he was a student at
for the

Bokhara, he conceived so great a friendship

apprentice of a needle-maker, that he himself learned

that profession, and he therefore assumed the takhalluc

of Suzany.

He

is

considered the best humoristic poet

of his age, but he

was not the only

one,

it

seems there

were in those days several wits in Ma-wara-lnahr as

574

PERSIAN POETRY.
;

[CHAP.

II.

Lami'y Bokhary
Tirmidzy who
nah.
is

Shatranjy,

Shams Khalah, and

?)

Jalaly

nick-named Pusare (khare

Khumkhawhen

He

nsed to write satyres against poets of a more

serious turn of

mind and

to travesty their verses, but

first

he became older he repented, and chose

he went to Balkh to
Sanayiy against

Abii-1-

Manciir MaVurydy as his spiritual guide, and subsequently

profit

by the spiritual advice of

whom

he had been writing doggerels, and

he made the pilgrimage with him to Makkah.

in 569.

He

died
left

Besides his humoristic compositions he

in praise of

Qacydahs

God.

Taqyy Kashy has

'awfy
c.

seen

10,000 verses of his

(MoAammad
16).

10; Dawlat-

shah 2,10; Taqyy Kashy No.

Contents
:

chiefly

Qacydahs and Qif ahs in praise of

'ala

SuUan

Sinjar,

Sayyid

aldyn, Qadhiy As'ad, &c.

j

Beginning ^*jj s^j

Moty
into

^^ Jy*$ e^i*

^r^-

Mafcdl, 588 pp. of 20 lines, the book seems to be divided

;

two parts

in both the

poems are alphabetically arranged, but

not stand in their place and in
perceptible.

there are also

many poems which do

is

the arrangement of which, no plan

in the

There

is also

a copy

panegyrics, satyres,

Topkhanah about 200 pp. of 14 lines containing besides many of which are very obscene. j** ^f Beginning ** zz\^ *&k+**jL ala^J flaiii &U$ j* ft*

In the As. Soc. No. 1254, about 500 pp. of 14 bayts,

it

begins

oJUr The Qacydahs of Syraty. Some of them gyrics on Cadiq Khan and Ja'far Khan Razy.
(529)

Jj^

(P.)
are pane-

Bg.

Moty

Ma&all, 126 pp. 19 bayts, bound with the

Dywan of Nuzhat.

No. 532.J
(530)

ta'lib.

575
(P.)

Jj Uu^S Jl)| tff*

m

Transfiguration of Imagination, a

Ridha
sary.
It is

Tajalliy, an encomiast of

Mathnawy by 'alyy Aqa Hosayn Khwan-

He

died in 1088 (see pp. 110, 150 supra).

a Sarapa or description of the

human

figure,

pp. 17 bayts.

Added

to

it

Beginning ;V. <>~ ^f^*^-:^ *j~ j*. are Ghazals, 30 pp. of 14 bayts.

Beginning tag ;)}% *Ui i&fy Mdty MaAall and Tdpkhanah.

^*

^j\

^jy

(531)

**)=>

w\$b
^ u*>^
<-^i

(P.)
merely Ghazals.

The Dywan of Tajryd.

Beginning
Mdty

It contains

^^H" jky.

Ma^all, 110 pp. 14 bayts, the copy ends with dal.

(532)

JA lisJi cjUT
(see

(P.)

Complete poetical works of Talib of Amol, who died

in

1035 or 1036

supra pp. 90, 125, 151 and Ouseley,

p. 176).

Contents: Qacydahs in praise of Jahangyr, 126 pp.

28

bayts.

Beginning J*>j~*\ j, *> g* Ghazals, 1 64 pp. 25 bayts Ruba y s,

;

^
1

2 pp.

Beginning

)j

^'W;

J\&*>1 mf**"

^^

*J&

J^i

Mdty

Ma&all, a good copy

As. Soc. No. 486.

In the As. Soc.

No. 847, about 300 pp. of 13 bayts, is a mystical Mathnawy ascribed in the fly-page to ^alib Amoly the word tfalib occurs several times
;

in the poem, but

it is

not clear whether it

is

to be taken as a takhalluc.
1

Beginning

fl/^t

U& *0* v* ^"1

j*

**-'*

^ y***| 4/M^l

576
(533)

PERSIAN POETRY.
ljtf

[CHAP.

II.

^o

(p.)

The Dywan
Shahrastany
Contents
:

of 'abd al-Latyf
1

Khan Tanhd Miisawy

(see pp.

10 and 119 supra).

Qacydahs, mostly in praise of the Imams,

31 pp. 15 bayts.

Beginning y s&ij> t^y j* J> &M Ghazals, 1 00 pp. 1 3 bayts, and a short Mathnawy.

Bg.

W|>

^J

&rt*

M*itf ^^J
two
copies.

Moty

^ Ui *-&* ^J^r* **dkj* ^

Ma/iall,

(P.) j|f c^Uf Complete poetical works of Taqyy b. Mo'yn aldyn b. Sa'd aldyn Aw^ady JHbsayny (see p. 95 supra). Contents a preface in prose, Qacydahs in praise of

(534)

^*^|

the Imams, 59 pp. 15 bayts; Ghazals, 198 pp. 14 bayts;

Rubays, 144
Topkhanah, a

pp. of 10 bayts.

Beginning of Ghazals:

fair

copy; As. Soc. No. 912, an abstract of the

written the date and place where the poet

Dywan

copied by Jeswant Singh JParwdnah (see page 567 supra) in

1196. Over every

poem

is

composed

it,

as Shyraz, 991, Ispahan, 1012, A/*madabad, 1021, 1031,

Agra, 1023.

(535)

JJ d\y*
of Ibrahym

(P.;

The Dywan
was
originally a

Tasallly of Shyraz.
^sf**

He

whip-maker c-J^
In

After he had

taken to poetry he went to India and was supported by

Masy^-alzaman.
he added some as
as

1028 he

collected his

poems and

late as

1029

and in 1032 (not in 1025

Jahir

states)

he made the pilgrimage, and he died

soon after his return to India.

No. 537.]
Contents
:

taslym.

577

Qacydahs, some in praise of Khwajah Abu1

1-iJasan, 55 pp. of

6 bayts.

Beginning

Ghazals, 240 pp. 13 bayts and about 100 Rubays.

\SJ& ^) Chronogram on the completion of the Dywan.

)j

Beginning

^*

A* cyl

&&$

Moty

Ma7*all, written in 1029.

(536)

JLJ &\j*

(P.) of Shyraz

The Dywan of Mohammad Hashim Taslym who came under 'alamgyr to India, (Walih).
Contents
:

a Mathnawy, 45 pp. of 15 bayts.

ji) j**. LStty? *-&; ^sf*L
it

Beginning

In another copy

begins:

Qacydahs, 40 pp.
Ghazals, 140 pp1109.

^j&j ^JW jl urj^i f**f Bg. i^cU&J ^^X* ^^y **^

bayts

^;J
for

14

and a chronogram

Beginning
MaAall, a magnificent copy

Moty
this

Topkhanah As.
;

Soc.

No. 1463,

copy contains only the Grhazals.

(537)

yb"
of

j^j

(P.)
flourished

The Dywan
in

Myrza Mo^sin Tathyr, who

119 supra).

1130

(see pp. 138,

Contents: Ghazals, 372 pp. of 14 bayts, about 100

Ruba'ys
(5**?),

short Mathnawies, one has the

;

title

of

y~*l

40

pp.

Qacydahs, &c. 52 pp.

Beginning

Topkhanah, an inferior copy.

578
(538)

PERSIAN POETRY.
c^U; ggjd
of

[CHAP.

II.

(P.)

The Dywan
p.

154 supra).

Myr Mohammad He died in 1161.

'atzym Thabdt (see

Chronogram
Ghazals,

Contents: Qacydahs, 28 pp. of 17 hayts

1

80 pp.

5 bayts.

Beginning of Ghazals

Mdty

Ma%all, a good copy.

(539)

ia*jI?

&)#>

(P.)

The Dywan
120).
It

of

Myr

Afdhal aldyn

Mohammad Thabit
Bande
;

of Dilly, father of the preceding poet, (see pp. 154, 150,

was
:

collected
1

by

his disciple
1

'alyy.

Contents

Ghazals,

00 pp.

2 bayts

Qacydahs, 78
pp.

pp. of 15 bayts,

Mokhammas', Marthiyahs, &c. 24

Jky-iUj

Bg. \y ^jljsrM
Moty

JLflLjj

ty
;

\jc ^la.

JLtfj

f^j*-

^^

MaAall, written in 1146

TopkMnah.

(540)

Jtt d y.j
of flbsayn Thanayiy of

(P.)

The Dywan
57, 120).

Mashhad a son

of Ghiyath aldyn

Mohammad, he

died in 996 (see pp. 43,

Contents

a preface in prose, in which he narrates

what
it

first

led

him

to

compose poetry.

He

says he

made

a rule to write on the heading of every poem, the date

it

and occasion on which

Beginning j\*&

was composed.
(

c^^ ;lo

\jz^h

^UUl*

*X>

cUa.

Qacydahs in praise of the Imams, Shah 7'ahmasp,

No. 542.]

tzahyr.

579

Sultan Khalyl, Akbar, the Khan-khanan, &c. 130 pp.

of 14 bayts.
tii. \-Siji

Beginning
Juwjf Jsj ty*.

%y^c

Ui-iyih.
y

MKj c^-*^a
.

-U^

(J****

l%)J)&

A Mathnawy.
Beginning

At

the end are some Ghazals, Ruba'ys, &c.

^^ ^
jUi)

I believe it is entitled
)j*

^/) d U J^. J^.

fj^f\^

^
Bg.

Moty MaMl; Tdpkhanah;

As. Soc. No. 455.

(541)

^\ px
of Manohar, a
is

(P.)

The Story
Beginning

poem by Tzahyr Kirmany,

*p
#!..

composed in 1162, the chronogram

ajS

)j

^y*

il*jjM>

*y*j

i->l

**>"}")

^
(P.)

Topkhanah, about 400 pp. of 25 bayts.

(542)

^
He was

^y*
Jahir
b.

The Dywan
Faryaby.

of Tzahyr aldyn

Mo/zammad

a native of Faryab and a pupil of

Rashyd aldyn of Samarqand, the author of the romantic poem Mihru Wafa or "Love and Faith." He is one of
the poets of the Atabeks, and most of his poems are in

Sul&n Rokn aJdyn Toghril b. Qizil Arslan, Nuc^at aldyn Abu Bakr b. Mohammad b. Yldagiz, and Toghan-shah II. He died at Tabryz in A. H. 598. (Hammer, p. 130; Sir G. Ouseley, p. 154 Mohammad
praise of the
;

'awfy cap.

Dawlat-shah

2,

Khhdnah

'dmirah

Nqfdyis

almdthir).

The Dywan was collected by a contemporary of Majd aldyn (Hamkar) who prefixed a preface to it, in which he 4 E 2

580
says
:

PERSIAN POETRY.
"

[CHAP,

II.

As

had not the privilege of seeing the poet,

collect his

most beautiful thoughts into a book."

\j

The
which

preface begins

\S)& ^-eW*

^ ^yT
))j*

c^U

^ ^r^
Beginning

The Dywan
also panegyrics
jy*.

consists chiefly of Qacydahs, all of

are panegyrics, at the end are a few Qi/'ahs which are

and a few Ghazals.

uJjl

Ail)

^J)

\jiyi *jT^4gi*

\s\jm *js" + <X*j*-p <*&

Moty

MaAall,

(56

pp. 44 lines.

Printed at Calcutta in 1245, 4to.

147 pp. of 23 lines, in some copies the second Qacydah commenceswith the above verse.

(543)

is)^
of Tarshyz
in

^^
(see

(P.)

Complete poetical works of Ntir aldyn

Mohammad

Twhury
125, 151).

Khorasan

pp. 44, 112,

Contents: Saqiy-namah, 120 pp. 29 bayts.

Beginning

\j

u-T^ *;^ i^^ty

\j

u/lg

&$

*>**>

UJ
the

Another Mathnawy,

chiefly in praise of

God and

Imams, 35 pp.

Beginning

Ghazals, 250 pp. 35 bayts; another copy, 846 pp. 10

bayts
:

Ruba ys, 39
I* <j^.J
I/O

pp.
*i ^.j

Beginning

yj^^j '^ e*la j&I^. djl& P C^Ii) ,ii*e.

me
for sale
;

&,&

A complete
;

copy was offered to

the Saqiy-namah has

been lithographed, Lucnow, Moctafay press, 1260 1263, 224 pp. with glosses As. Soc. No. 664, containing merely the Ghazals, the
first

verse in this copy

is

U\

^Af^i. A&ij

Ibidem, No. 747, contain-

ing the Mathnawies.

No. 546.]
(544)

ummyd.
i-jJl

581
(P.)

$j$>

The Dywan
not probable,
Ishtiyaq.

of Ulfat.

According to a pencil note in

the fly-page his

name was Shah Walyy Allah, but this is for Shah Walyy Allah had the takhallu9 of

In another note in the fly-page is written in ink " the late Myrza Mohammad 'alyy whose takhalluc

was

Ulfat,"

and in a third note we read

copy was written.
j

aUJa*Lm u^AJt
still

^)^ j

from which we might infer that he was

alive in

1805 when
Contents
lovers, a

this
:

^U

ten letters

written between two

verses
;

Mathnawy

of about

400

Ghazals near

400

pp. of 13 bayts; Ruba'ys, 24 pp.

Beginning of

Ghazals ^U> ^*l)j *-&**"j ^JS\ ^1

As. Soc. No. 815, written for H. Boileau in 1805.

(545)

<V>i

d )j>4

(P.)
died in

The Dywan of Qazalbash Khan Ummyd who .1159 (see pp. 153, 300, 149 supra).
Contents
:

Qac^ydahs some in praise of Farrokh-siyar

and

Mohammad

Shah, 26 pp. of 15 bayts.

Ruba'ys, Mokhammas',

Ghazals, 450 pp. 14 bayts

&c. 20 pp.

Beginning

Moty

MaAall, written in 1159; As. Soc. No. 1396, written in

1191, containing merely the Ghazals, Kuba'ys, &c.

(546)

The Dywan
Contents
:

of

cJj 0\$* 'abd al- Walyy \c%lat (see p.

;

(P.)

301 supra).

a preface in prose

Qacydahs, Marthiyahs,

582

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

&c. 36 pp. 15 bayts; single verses from Ghazals two or Beginning of Ghazals three of each 130 pp.

Moty

Ma^all, a bad copy written in 1169.

(547)

eMH ci*uJ adS ^U*

of

(P.)

The Maharaj-namah by Wa^il Khan

Kashmyr who

came under Mohammad Shah to Dilly. He praises in the preface Acaf aldawlah, Maharajah Narmal Das and
Lalah Holas Ray.
Beginning

Moty

MaAall, about 120 pp. of 15 bayts.

(548)

^jo &0*
iiZadyqah, or an imitation of the

(P.)

The Second
mentioned in

poem

of

Sanay by Warithy.
p.

He may
5

be identical with the poet

40 supra.
*JI

Beginning
Mdty

*JI Si

nd^

jfo*

^jJ

ty&jfl j?

^
(P.)

Ma&all, 124 pp. 11 lines, a beautiful copy.

(549)

J*%
of

Myrza Imam Wirdy Beg Wdply. He was good calligraph, he lived at Lucnow and was supported
Contents
miscellaneous poems

Dywan

^
;

by Nawab Shyr-afgan Khan.

:

among them chrono-

grams, for 1146, 1166, 1178, 1190, 1194, &c. 46 pp. of

15 bayts;

Ghazals,

about
Jj

Beginning of Ghazals
As. Soc. No. 428.

200 pp.; Ruba'ys, 13 pp. /A*M& gi$ ^s" ^^Jl J5

No. 551.]
(550)

wa'dhih.

583,

>\j
of

$*
(see p.

(P.)

The Dywan
originally a

Aqa

'alyy

Acghar Wddhih who was

160
1127, as appears from this

manufacturer of gold-thread
flourished in
his

supra).

He

chronogram of
Contents

Qa^ydahs

in praise of the

Imams, and the

amyrs of Jahandar-shah, a son of Jahangyr, 50 pp. Ghazals, 140 pp. of 10 bayts, and about 50 Ruba'ys;
Beginning of Ghazals
l/e

ijlJxil

<\U>J

fry* *-&j* .A*"

^*

V^ ) & |t*|

\J^:

**5*4^

Moty

MaAall, a fine copy.

(551)

\>

rfjtp

(P.)

The Dywan
title of Iradat

was of a

of Myrza Mobarak Allah who had the Khan and the takhallu9 of Wadhi^. He good family, and his grandfather who was an

amyr of Jahangyr had equally the title of Iradat Khan, his mother was a daughter of Ac^if Khan and he was
married to a daughter of his spiritual guide Sinjar
it

who
in

appears was a great saint of the Naqshbandy order.

deeply versed in Ciifism and
left

He was

Mathnawy
<uj$

the metre of Yusof 6 Zalykha, entitled

jjlj

and a
title

commentary on
Contents

his

own Ruba'ys which

332 pp.
1

has the

cyUAk e,UK (Arzu, and supra pp. 160, 130).

:

Ghazals,

3 bayts

Qif'ahs

in

praise of Farrokhsiyar,

Mohammad Shah
pp.

and Murshid
is

Quly Khan, &c. nogram

for
1

Ruba ys 44

among them

a chro-

134.

584

PERSIAN POETRY.
Xo^. _fU? ^syj ^U.

[CHAP.
&)j
c^ftS

II.

u&&;ti

^jj

Bg.

Moty

Ma&all, a splendid copy

extracts only.

As. Soc. No. 845, 225, containing Beginning IjSUUa JmaLo ALkU (jb) ^l^L ^|
;

(552)

Uj
of

&)&
familiarly called

(P.)
'alyy JEZosayny

The Dywan

Myrza Sharaf aldyn

Wafd

of

Qomm, who was

1

Aqasy Beg*
died.

he came in
Contents

162 to India and lived in the house of WaliA.

still

Talib says that he was

:

a child

when he

a preface in prose, panegyrics on Cafdar-

jang and Shah-'alam, 47 pp. 13 bayts. Beginning zy*^ )\ mS*&

J^^
gJ

^^

??**> \S*

Ghazals, 150 pp.; Ruba'ys, Tarjy'bands, &c. 40 pp.

Beginning

^J A Mathnawy
b
Mantziim.

\j

^j

^*J^\)^ &** ^*
{&* y^, 20
pp.

J|

J&jfi ***** \^*>h* tjfcj*

entitled

Bg. fi&lj**")* p/iJJljyi Moty MaAall; As. Soc. No. 987,

j\*A]jmj&

pZZjyZ

^jf\

containing merely the Lulue

(553)

J&j

J
J^ ]yj^^
(1254)
;

(P.)

The Rose and the Nightingale, a Mathnawy by Diya Nath Wafd, a Kashmyry of Bareilly, composed about
1263 and dedicated to the present king of Oudh.
a short preface in prose which begins *JH
SjL&i &3lj)

It

has

cuJ^

o^'l^

T^f'

}S>

P^

fy \j**$$
s.

^^; *& &

on the
is

Lithographed, Lucnow,

Mo^ammady

press,

a.

margin

is

a Eekhtah
for 1138.

Mathnawy
Bg.

entitled

J^

>.

The

title

chronogram

<^

u*i**Jt*)tf ptj u*jl

cr^~->^~

No. 556.]

wahshat.

585
(P.)

(554)

The Dywan

^ ^o
of

Wahby.

It contains Ghazals,

746 pp.

of 17 bayts; Ruba'ys, &c. 40 pp.

Beginning

Mdty

Ma7tall, a fair copy, 4to.

(555)

ttJ^j
of Wahshat.

q)^
I
is

(P.)

The Dywan
identify him.

have not been able to

called Wa//shat 'iraqy.

In the

fly

page he

Contents

Ghazals and a few Ruba'ys.

)j

Beginning

sld*i J*

**>

igj^i

^ ^^1

As. Soc. No. 1082, 510 pp. of 13 bayts.

(556)

i*>6*$

$f*
who was
Gul.

(P.)

The Dywan
liarly called

of 'abd al-A/zad Wahdat,

fami-

Shah Gul or

My an

He was

a son of

Shaykh Mohammad Sa'yd and a grandson of Shaykh A/zmad Sirhindy and resided mostly in the Kotlah near
Dilly.

He
:

died in 1126.
(see p.

Ishtiyaq (see p. 241 supra)

'ishq).

was

his

grandson

130 supra, and Nashtare

;

Contents

short Qa^ydahs,
;

near 600 pages

37 pp. of 12 bayts Ghazals a few Ruba'ys and at the end a Qacydah

this

on Shaykh A//mad, it appears from it that was born in 1005 and died in 1071.
Beginning J$ &&&
As. Soc. No. 724.

impostor

^ oW
F

to&j

^j

586

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP,

II.

(557)

j*j
of

g^O

(P.)

The Dywan

Hk]y Tahmasb Quly Wahmy, who

and died between 1047 and 1057.

flourished in India

Contents: Ghazals, 200 pp. of 15 bayts; Ruba'ys, 22

pp.
;

Qi^ahs (among them several chronograms for 1042,

1047, &c.) short Mathnawies, &c. 150 pp.

Beginning \$\jldj**&j"y ty*j uJ^ ^1 Collection of Mawlawy Mo/iammad Wajyh, copied

Bidha, a son of the author.

in 1057 by

(558)

JL+j c^UT
The author

(P.)

Complete poetical works of Molla Wahshy Bafiqy who

died in 992 (see p. 35 supra).

of the Miriit

alkhiyal p. 146 ascribes a Ghazal which begins^! *

^
in

ty

&i\s* jt jA&. ^.S, jKcl to

Wa/isby Dawlatabady who,

in this

he says, died in 1061.

This Ghazal occurs

work

and in a copy of Taqyy Kashy which was written

993,
as
it is

therefore very doubtful whether such a person

Wahshy Dawlatabady
Contents
:

ever existed.

Qacydahs,

Tarjy'bands

and Marthiyahs,

164 pp.

Beginning u^ikUis \jL^y

o^^^l V>h

Ghazals, 148 pp. of 15 bayts; Qtfahs and Ruba'ys, Beginning 24 pp.

u tydj J^U>

&ii^ djdj

\)

V*

U fy j>jjj

^ysi pj]

*.i~$ ^j*m

^\

Mathnawy

entitled

<^

dJU or

jjk<* j

15 bayts.

J^ 36 pp. Beginning

No. 560.]

walady.

587
bayts.

Farhad and Shyryn, a Mathnawy, 80 pp. 13

Moty Ma^all

Topkhanah, in this copy the Qacydahs begin

Farhad and Shyryn baa been lithographed, Bombay, 12051849, 12mo. 95 pp. of 12 bayts
;

and Calcutta, 8vo. 1249, 68 pp.

(559)

Mj
of Wa'itz.

^o
identical

(P.)

The Dywan

He may be

with Wa'itz

Qazwyny

(see pp. 114, 130, 151)

but the verses of that

poet quoted in Tadzkirahs are not found in this

Dywan.
Bg.

Contents

Ghazals and a few

Ruba ys.
Topkhanah, 20Q pp.

Mdty

MaAall, 258 pp. of 15 bayts

As. Soc.

No. 646, copied in 1088.

(560)

^oU uy&o

(P.)

The Mathnawy of Walady. He informs us that he is a son of Mawlana Rumy, and that he composed this poem in 690, after he had given to the world a Dywan. His
object

was

to imitate the
father's

example of his father and to

throw light on his

Mathnawy,

to

which

this

one

stands in the place of a commentary.

His own words are

d*SB* ^dfllj

jj\

JV Wyo

^JJfr d \Llm ^tOAj

^UU j

fj)j

4 F 2

588

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

^jSj

ill]

^c\ j^Sl)

s-Sf

gi^l

*!j

y>*

^JJ)

,,U^^
^<J ^I^j

itf*

rv

1;

J^ *V^ *S

*^J

^.y

^]

|j

^^

)>

^UaI^/o j ^JfjJJi

A^Jllaxlj jJt

a^S

yi. J^>)

4J0! -^T

tyOA*

^*. J'^l .ij^oiU

*i t>jdi <y^

U^*) itSy^* v^^-'

uT^

*^

Beginning

U*

JU &*f

J^. ^Uj ,i&*

jJu)

As. Soc. No. 1431, 578 pp. of 17 bayts, incomplete.

(561)

yjjyi
of

*J|,

The Dywan

Darwysh 1/osayn Walih

^
;

(P.)
of Herat.

He came
for
(see p.

to India apparently

under Jahangyr, and lived

some time in Bengal.

He was

a pupil of

Fapyhy

390 supra).
:

Contents

a preface in prose

Qacydahs, Tarjy'bands

and chronograms, 140 pp. of 18 bayts, among the chronograms, is one on the death of Facy/zy, which it appears
from
c)Jt

it

happened in 1049.
Jfirfjl

C~y&~ i^sy*

s^aS

J^

CUJ;iu*
to

Beginning ^a>J J&X& *S j&i Jj

bid**

Ghazals, 220 pp.

Collection of

Bg. Ifi)uU^d

J^ ^J^i Jl&>

Mawlawy Mohammad Wajyh,

a good old copy.

No. 565.]

wa'lih.

589

(562)

Aj UuXJ

l*<J|

The
Ij^J)

Star of Guidance, a mystical

$poem

(P.)

by Walih of

Daghestan, composed in 1149.

Js*

Chronogram

^^

As^\

^
In
!jlt*

Beginning

As. Soc. No. 833, about 500 pp. of 12 bayts, written in 1192.
the same collection No. 792, 26 pp. of 11 bayts,
is

another
title

Mathnawy

by Walih, which contains a

love story

and has the

of **>^

(563)

^W
of

-*<>

Jj "j^>_

(P.)

The Dy wan
Khorasan.

Walyy

of Dashte Biyadh, a place in

He was
his
:

a contemporary of

Mohammad Quly
Bg.

Mayly, and
Contents
)j

poems are in Mayly's

style.

xfou.

M ^Jjd

Ghazals and twenty Ruba'ys.

dy.

^y

^^
J,

\\

*j4

!^ djjd L>f *ty u^

As. Soc. No. 1060, about 100 pp. of 12 bayts, written in 1196.

(564)

r\j
of

The Mathnawy Banwaly Das.

*1aw^o

Waly Ram, who was

(P.)
usually called

Beginning
JU/o &> \j^*jj&
lines, postscript
:

jtUo

<~*y dj&

Ac

^1

Tdpkhanah, near 100 pp. of 18

isy^ *j
was

j*Uj(j

^a Li

ti-*a:

x5
i

it

would appear from

this that the poet

alive in

1142, or nourished shortly previous to that date.

(565)

UJ]} c>l^
of Niir al'ayn

(P.)
of Patialah, where

The Dywan
his father

Waqif

was Qadhiy, he was a pupil of Arzu and died

590
about 1190,
(see

PERSIAN POETRY.
T&lib and supra
p.

[CHAP.
160 but read

II.

to

whom

(A'rxu) he sent his poems for correction).

Contents: Ghazals and Fards, 544 pp. 16 bayts; Mo-

khammas', &c. 50 pp.

Mdty MaMl,

Beginning

written in 1210

As. Soc. No. 1125, a bad copy.

(566)

JU;

U^S 0O**J *ty

the late
still

p -)

The Loves of Farhad and Shyryn, by Kochak Wicdl of Shyraz. His son is
resides at

Myrza
and

alive,

Bombay.
jf.2^

Beginning U*l

dy>\Z ^

j^ $fr*

Lithographed with "Wa&shy, Bombay, 1265, 12mo. 126 pp. There

has also been lithographed at Bombay, 1260, 12mo. 212 pp. of 11
bayts, the **i *iy*> j& *JU>

by Wical.
A>

It consists of elegies

on the

Imams and

begins *jj j&*

&b>) ^jI

^ ^1
(P.)
'ala

(567)

JU,

^ ^y
who was
**

An

Elegy on the Imams, by Sayyid

aldyn Wicdly,

a modern poet of Khorasan

settled in

Oudh.

Beginning *ijW& ^s

d*&*

Lithographed, Lucnow, Mocfafay press, 1260, also press of

bakhsh, 1260, 16 pp. with short notes.

'alyy-

(568)

e^l/j U&isyS*
Mathnawy.
is

(P.)

Intuition and Miracle, a

The authors
^s^f}
is

name
or

not mentioned, but the word

it is

Ymany

written in red ink, and

therefore possible that

Yman

Ymany was

his takhalluc.

No. 571.]

ZAKHMY.

591

Bg.

cS

w_Le; 0JU3

\j

^
lines.

^UJ

^ir^^^l ^|

Topkhanah, 8vo. 55 pp. of 11

(569)

j>l*d\ L-iSlU)

^^o

^fi+tjifi)*

jjjjjjo

(P.)

The

second

Dywan
:

of Yusofy, which was collected in

926, chronogram

Contents

a preface, Ghazals, 94 pp. of

1

1 1

bayts

Ruba ys and Qif ahs,

Moty
Mafoll.

pp.

Beginning of Ghazals

(570)

^y i*j
He

(P.)

The Persian Dywan of the Rajah Fakhr aldawlah Dabyr almulk Ratan Singh Bahadur Zakhmy. He was
a native of Lucnow, where he was minister of Finance,

but his property and family were at Bareilly.

in

died

1850 or 1851 and

left
*i
]

a considerable library.

Bg.
/* *f ]

y**

vhsj*

**"tj

&

****

j&

y f^j

Lithographed, Lucnow,

MoAammady

press, 1253,

512 pp. 8vo.

(571)
Assistance to

^^l
men engaged

*fc*

(P-)

in religious war, a

Mathof

nawy by Zayn
Shushtar.
service of

al'abidyn a son of Sayyid

Radhyy

He lived long at Madras and was in the Nawab Acaf-jah, subsequently he went to
he became a courtier of Typii Sullan,
at

Balaghat and entered the service of Uaydar 'alyy Khan,

and

finally

whose

592

PERSIAN POETRY.

[CHAP.

II.

request he wrote this poem.

He
cA?*

died at JF/aydarabad.

(Sub^e wa/n,

p. 105).

Beginning \^>

(j** ji

^^*

} f&

As. Soc. No. 1032, about 300 pp. of 11 bayts.

(572)

J\*+ JJ

^o

(P.)

The Dywan of Zakyy of Hamadan. Zakyy is his name as well as his takhalluc. He spent the greater
part of his
life

in

the service of the Turks of the court

in

of

Shah Tahmasp and died

p. 343).

1030

(see

supra pp. 39, 91

and A'tishhadah,
Contents
:

on the death of Shah

Qacydahs, 126 pp. a chronogram Qiwam aldyn Hosayn.

;

for

1015
Bg.

Ghazals, 102 pp. of 11 bayts.

b

^j*

&*

*&

Beginning

**J

%i(J*

r^ c^J &&}
Postscript
:

Moty

Ma/iall, a splendid

copy written in 1044.

oilj eli>

cj^
,J>j

%? di^jj iS u>\*+a

(573)

JSj l&*5 ^^\ &** m

These seven Poems are

(P.)
(see pp.

Seven Mathnawies by Zulaly of Khwansar

41, 90 supra).

also called ****

Contents

a preface in prose by Tbghray, followed by

a preface from the pen of Zulaly.

in the

The former

is

wanting

copy of the Asiatic Society.

No. 573.]
1. jbfj

zula'ly.

593

says

The History of Ma/zmud and Ayaz. He he commenced this poem in 1 00

d?+s",
1

He

completed

it

in

024.
e^v',c ^$J)
t*"")

Chronogram ^i^ *v="

Bg. cul /$*>
2.
;U ails*?

^i
1

&I

yJ^***
*r

)y*$

^^>

70 pp. of

5 bayts in the measure of

the

Makhzan

alasrar divided into 41 chapters

dedi-

cated to Shah 'abbas and Baqir

Damad.

Beginning

3. yljj^j dix^,

52 pp. of 15 bayts, in the metre of the

Mathnawy
ters *.kt^.
4.
*>U

of

Mawlana Rumy,
8**>&Xil j*>

divided into 49 chapA^ljj*

Bg.

)\&l& *-U^

ym ,J0

)\

X>

d^~, 48

pp. in the metre of the Sikandarcalls this

tXw>
I

namah.
Bg.

Taqyy Kashy
40 pp.

poem

^j~t*t? j

^UaL,.
v

cJjtf sy* <*LX> .jfcil jJU

<xi

u^jj ^lyij

.jJJjI

Axj

5. ;Ji^ ^ yoT,

in the

measure of Layla Majnun.

6.

Ailsi'*,

60 pp. in the metre of the Jame Jam and

-<a*.
10

the iiTadyqah, divided into forty chapters

Beginning *&Uw l^-**^

7.

aS

r fc

Jfcj

aAs*'

aIa^ xjb

Xs

j^^L ^

ij j,

30 pp.

in the

measure of the Sabbat

alabrar.

Beginning

Beginning of another copy

ujk *.U&

\j<*

dj>

*U

Each of these poems

tion in prose

is

preceded by a short introduc-

from the pen of the author.

;

Mdty
much

MaAall, a fine copy written in 1013 (?)

Tdpkhanah, a good

copy; As. Soc. No. 1188, a fine copy, but the poems seem to be
shorter. Ibidem, Nos.

972 and 1205, copies of Ma/imud u Ayaz,

jt

the latter copy begins fc/j olli*

^1

594

PERSIAN POETRY.
*>l3fU
a

[CHAP.

II.

(574)

(P.)
in the style of the Shah-

The Sam-namah,
author.

Mathnawy

namah, containing the history of Sam by an anonymous

This copy contains about 30,000 verses.
lix.

See

Mohl's Livre des Rois. Pref. p.

First verse ^tf-1.3 &ij*i) Jj
&j

&^
me

v^I^ **U -WjI^

^?^->

Last verse

^ J*J %&> ,j~j AiAx&S

folio,

As. Soc. No. 17, 674 pp.

embellished with pictures.

^.j)) ; ft ^ written in a clear old hand and

that this
is

***

It appear to

the second

volume of

this

poem.

The poet says

in the seventh verse.

The

first

half of the

poem
is

contains the story of Tamtir.

In

folio

145th verse of the book

the passage from the Shah-namah with

viz.

which the Sam-namah described by Dr. Mohl begins,

<xu.i,jj! iJj**j +H*> &.*>

fci&t&j

xiftA

^So aXT

(jj

It

is

very likely that the

first

part

is

sometimes considered as a

separate work.

(P.) (575) j& **S The story of prince Bakhtyar, a son of the king of Nymruz, in verses. The poet says that having lost his only son, who he had hoped would be his representative after his death, the plan suggested itself to him to write a poem which would immortalize his name. I am unable
to

promote

his view,

having not succeeded in finding his

name mentioned
Beginning ^J>
tired before he

in the

poem, but he gives us the

^ />
it

date,

IOI9, of the composition.

^^

v-r^

{t^j )

(lj>

Sr^^ fa

As. Soc. 1414, 152 pp. 15 bayts,

seems that the copyist got

had completed the poem, the MS. ends abruptly in

the story of the niuth Wazyr.

The prose

version of this story has

been published by Sir

W.

Ouseley, Loudon, 1801, and by Kasimirsky

;

(lithographed) Paris, 1839

Lescallier, Paris, 1805.

and translated

into

French by Baron

THE THIRD CHAPTER.

WORKS OF HINDU'STA'NY

POETS,

Note.

As the

table of contents of

Rekhtah Tadz-

kirahs from p. 195 to p. 306 supra has been alphabetically arranged

with a view to
it

facilitate reference, I

thought

it

superfluous to refer to

in this chapter.

(576)

al/f

uSft&J

A& J2jb

(H.)

The Picture gallery of Love being the Dywan of Mahdiy -Hbsayn Khan A'bdd a son of Gholam Ja'far
Khan,
collected in 1252.
It contains
!**.

232 Ghazals.
(jjc^b

J^

^l

j u*v;
Musawy

U&.

p*

^jb

U&

^^^

Beginning

Lithographed Lucnow,
line.

press, 1263,

53 pp. 5 micra's in a

His "Wasokhts have been separately printed in 1268, 32 pp.

(577)

y/^tififj**
of Christ, in Rekhtah verses, by
I

(H.)

The History
in

Nawab

Iqtidar aldawlah Myrza 'abbas.

met him

at

Lucnow

1849

he was about eighty years of age, and told

me

that he wrote this

poem

to

show that he was above the

prejudices of his contemporaries.

Beginning u_f ^ ty)

Private collection about

^^
G 2

a ^ 4^ u^ uj
bayts.

300 pp. of 11

596
(578)

HINDU' STA'NY POETS.

[CHAP.

III.

J>T0t
of

(H.)

The Dywan
Beginning
Moty

Najm

aldyn

Abru.
<>?*

Contents: Ghazals, 104 pp. of 12 lines; Ruba'ys, &c.

ly> {*++; a*j!

or ~ **

^A
JN~o.

V.

Ma^all, 8vo. written in 1160

As. Soc.

154.

(579)

*U UjLc
of

om>^

uryto

(H.)
the takhalluc
identical with

Mathnawy
is

of the poet

not

Mohammad Mobarak, mentioned he may be

;

Abru.
Tdpkhanah, an old MS.
contains about 450 verses.

Beginning

it

(580)

L-M
:

^o
;

(H.)

The Dywan
Contents

of Acaf aldawlah A'faf.

Ghazals about 300 pp.

Ruba ys and Mo^;;^ or*

khammas',

70 pp.
lj

Beginning

^^*

V^

*-^
pp.

jy

Mathnawy of about 100

As. Soc. No. 15,

Miscellaneous poems,

100 pp.
Moty Ma^all
;

folio.

(581)

i^l a^i
of

(H.)

The Dywan

Myr Shyr

'alyy Afsos.
;

Contents: Ghazals, 360 pp. of 12 bayts

Ruba'ys and

Qacydahs, 30 pp.

A ***S^

Beginning

cj<Aj

C^**0

<_/> rv*"^

*Vt-

A-*-p

v*S

No. 584.]
Moty
Ma/tall, a
life

a'fta'b.
good copy
;

597

As. Soc. No. 07, a fine copy written

during the

time of the poet.

The Ghazals are preceded

it is

in this

copy by Qacydahs and a short biography, in which

derived his descent through the
tors were of

stated that he

Imam

Ja'far from 'alyy.

first

His ancessettled at

Khwaf

in Persia

and the

of

them who

Narnawl
Khany.

in India,

was Badr aldyn a brother of 'alam aldyn ifajy

to Dilly

The grandfather of Afsos came

left his

where Afsos was

born, but Afsos

native

town when
and

only ten years of age and

came with
went
to

his father to Patna,

after the death of his father

he

Lucnow.

(582)

V^l *****'
(

\J*& CJ^

0^-)

The most
the emperor

sacred composition being a

Mathnawy by
is

Shah

'alam,

whose takhallug was Aftab.

a chrono-

We
AS
^

are told in the last line that the title

gram, for the date of the completion of the work

^LL.

^^>
Bg^

s^Xj

^a

J.~)

^S*)

this gives

1201.

It contains

the story of MotzafFar Shah, king of China.

As. Soc. No. 37

fol.

about 1500 pp. of

9' lines,

a most splendid

copy, probably written for the Royal author.

(583)

u^fj yfa*
of

(H.)

The Dywan
is

Shah 'alam

II.

Aftab.

Having negwhich
Beginning

lected to copy the initial line, I transcribe a verse

also in Lu/f.

Moty

Ma^all, large 8vo. 244 pp. 8 lines, a magnificent copy.

(584)
Cure
for sickness, a

*|J|

fy*

(H.)
pro-

Dakhny poem on medicine, bably by Ahmad Sharyf, who was dead in 1082.

598
It is
lines,

hindu'sta'ny poets.

[Chap.

III.

preceded by a Persian preface in prose of nine

is

and

divided into an endless

number

of chapters and
fc

contains merely recipes.

the same hand, 30 pp.

Beginning yU
is

*JJI

fit

^j^

As. Soc. No. 51, bound with the Kdkshashter, and written in

In the same volume

it

another work on

medicine of 50 pp., dedicated to Qofob Shah,

begins
*^'
p""j

fJ^

(3-^ *'> f'B

4,5*

c5^

(HHV-'I

w*>jh

(585)

ob Jfcoy y?yti

(H.)

The Story of Dushmanat Rajah and Sakontala, in verse, by Gholam A/2mad Ahmad, a son of the late Gholam Haydar 'i%%at, AJimad is now alive and resides at Calcutta.
Beginning
K ^l&i

^_

vj*

s*j^

uj;!>*

Printed, Calcutta, 1849, 8vo. 153 pp.

(586)

**

(H.)

Miracles of Christ which he performed on king Jam-

jamah, by A//mad 'alyy of Sheorajpiir.

Beginning ^^1 J^^ ^j^ &. **^*

Lithographed, Lucnow,
s. a.

\j~$ yj}y>
;

9 pp. of four columns

Cawnpore,

s. a.

Masyhay

press.

(587)

O+fltl L-ft*\*aJ J**oj*o A*&3

(H.)

The Legend
Beginning h

of the martyrdom of Mancur, a Hindii-

stany saint, in verse by

A^mad
s.

'alyy.
<-X>l

^^ ^* i^i^T
a.

<j^

Lithographed, Moctafay press,

20 pp. of 19 bayts.

(588)

jh>\ tfjfi

(H.)

The Dywan of Myrza Jawad 'alyy Ahqar, a pupil of Myr Uasan, for whom he expresses the greatest gratitude
and
affection in a

poem, as

No. 591.]

AHSAN.

599

Contents

Ghazals a few Mala

s,

a poetical epistle, &c.

?

Beginning
Moty

&U^

iij

uf^ ur*

uV** lA** <-^" a**

MaAall, 128 pp. of 12 bayts, a very carefully written copy

;

with the necessary vowel points

probably an autograph.

(589)

^
of
:

d\y*
'alyy

(H.)

The Dywan
Contents

Myrza AAsan

Ahsan.
Ghazals,

three Qacydahs in praise of 'alyy, of Shuja'

;

aldawlah, Acaf aldawlah and Sarfaraz aldawlah

200

pp. of 10 bayts; seven short Mathnawies entitled

zJjjjj\^j$A 9 of the

last I find

no

title, it is

in praise of

the Governor-General.

Beginning of Ghazals
yS> jjIaj

l&ly^ Joy d^. tj

u-a^ <^b)

Topkhanah, an old copy

As. Soc. No. 134, copied in 1227 from

the autograph under the superintendence of

Qamar aldyn Khan

Qamar, who was

familiarly called

Myrza

-Hajy.

(590)

ydaUi^jt/jjA
of Lai and Gawhar,

(H.)
'ajiz, in

The Story
verses.

by

Beginning
is

JUj

.*&;

Dakhny

^_d

^)
In the

As. Soc. No. 158, 29 pp. of 17 bayts copied in 1181.

same volume
possibly

a Persian

Mathnawy, containing the same

Beginning

story

and

by the same author.

^irf

J^ ts^
(H.)

(591)

jU UuX^j jjM. by
top to toe on
fire,

From

Mathnawy by

the

Qadhiy
is

Mohammad Cadiq Khan

author of the

of Hooghly, whose takhalluc

Akhtar, composed in 1231.

He

is still

alive

and

is

the

J^ ^w

an autobiography in elegant

600
Persian prose,

hindu'sta'ny poets.

[Chap.

III.

^;<^ ^1^ or the praises of Ghaziy aldyn

is

JTaydar.

These two works are printed but his Tadzsaid to be very valuable,

kirah of Persian poets, which

and his

Insha which has the

title

of 1/aft Akhtar, are

not printed.

Bg.

&&C

The Sarapa
^ij^>

contains about

650

verses.

Lithographed, Lucnow,

^Ajip** (jJUc ^A lrj>,o MasyMy press, s. a. 8vo. 18 pp.

^ Jlc ^lA.
of 38 bayts.

(592)

y^l tfj*
of
:

(H.)

Dywan
1

Myr Akbar

'alyy

Akhtar.
;

Contents
2 bayts
;

Qac^ydahs, &c. 30 pp.

]

Ghazals, 738 pp. of

miscellaneous poems,

00 pp.
sr

Beginning of

Ghazals &/ Jj

J;) to! <+^ji gljbd

folio.

Private collection, a fine copy in

(593)

ja**>

Jl* &l*3

(H.)

Qa^ydahs

in praise of the

Imams, by Na^yr aldyn

196 supra) who had the

Saydar, king
Beginning

of

Oudh

(see p.

takhalluc of 'alyy

Haydar
^s*

or 'alyy.

^jU^V

Srs^'

^
I

^r/*
In the Top-

Para7i-bakhsh, GOO pp. of 3 bayts, a splendid copy.

khanah

is

a volume containing a poetical version of episodes of the

sacred history of the Shy'ahs, as ?>^*"

^jyy
{"jjaoa.

^ihj

LS*j4i

&)

^Jv
J

^xkl* &x ^*j'^

t

**-fc^

v^^-j &c. also some elegies.

(594)

c^3U| ^diy+i)
of 307 stanzas by Amanat.
*&T

(H.)

Wasokht

Beginning^

^i* ^V.

J^
&+&
,

<L

JM^
^

Lithographed, Lucnow, in the o*^^.^

1263, 38 pp.

No. 598.]

asyr.

<>01

(595)

^o| lJuJ^J

\&tyj

lJ^ji

(II.)

The Story of the Loves of Yiisof and Zalykha, in Dakhny verses, by Shaykh Mohammad Amyn Amyn, composed during the reign of Awranz^b in 1 1 09. Bg.
As. Soc No. 221, upwards of 300 pp. of 15 bayta.

(596)

*cG

c^U
is

(H.)

The Book

of Salvation, a

Mathnawy, by Mohammad
obsolete.

Amyn

Ayaghy.

The language
<*-*?*

Bg. W^;Vy

^
j*f|

y>2

;&>*

*;

W^ **^

J;1

Topkhanah, 16 pp. of 15 bayts.

(597)

L-i~^ JJUiJl
of

>*

(H.)

The

Miracles of the Imams, a

poem by Munshiy

Motzaffar 'alyy

Asyr

Amety

not far from Agra, he

came with
where he

his father at the age of ten years to

resides.

Lucnow
divided

still

His uncle Sayyid 'alyy translated

the \$&&\ JH*. into Persian verse.

into fourteen

The

Ma'arij

is

chapters J*ai and

Amjad
takhalluc

'alyy

Shah.

Beginning

was composed under d>jA ^

f*

Lithographed, Cawnpore, 1267, 299 pages.

is

In one instance,

his

spelled Auiyr.
is

published, which

In 1263 a^*-l isy^*> of 36 pp. has been probably by the same author.

(598)

j\
of

tfjg*

(H.)

The Dywan

Khwajah

iiZaydar 'alyy A'tish of Luc^

verses,

now, he wrote also Persian

he died in 1263, there

'alyy

are chronograms on his death

by Motzaffar
Ashraf.

Asyr,

Fawq, and Munshiy Ashraf

4

'alyy

602

hindu'sta'ny poets.

[Chap.

III.

His poems are divided into two Dywans, the

first fills

250 pp. and the second 56 pp.

Beginning

*<Ji**t
hashiyah
is

Lithographed, Lucnow,

^ *&< ^ MoAammady

J*'

^*

r*

^^
(H.)

press,

1261 8vo. also 1263, the

covered with text.

The Kullyyat of Atish have been

lithographed in 1268, 293 pp. the margin covered with text.

(599)

u^) d !^
of

The Dywan

Mohammad Tzahyr
1.

aldyn 'alyy-bakht

Atzfary, a descendant of the emperor Awrangzeb.

flourished in 121

He

Contents

Ghazals and a few Ruba'ys.

extracts from his

Bg. 515/*^ JL+& jijto )j^ Mdty Ma&all, 68 pp. of 12 lines,

400 verses of Ghazals,

Vd ;^o cj JL J*** Dywan abont

^*

form an appendix to his Memoirs.

(600)

& ^yj
of

(H.)

The Dywan
tjU|S

Shaykh Mohammad Baqa Allah JBaqd,

IjJ j<aj

It contains only

^ j

Ghazals and begins

^^^y* $ u~i lA*

******

fi

As. Soc. No. 164, 54 pp. of 13 bayts, a fine copy.

(601)

>>*> g^tt
of Bdar, see Nos.

(H.)

The Dywan
Contents
:

170173.
Beginning

Ghazals and a few Ruba'ys.

Topkhanah, an old copy, about 70 pp. of 20

lines.

(602)

Jw lJuJ^J <C^j ^L^j

(H.)

Collection of Riddles in verse, collected by BismiJ,

and dedicated to Acaf aldawlah.

Beginning

No. 605.]

bismil.
j

603

J&* \J*
Eiddles.

lA ift

a**

** *HK*#J o t -M'
Specimen

Topkhanah, in the shape of an album, containing about 500

" "What
the

is

half coal

and half pearl

Answer

Kdlii

(a plough)
liilii

first syllable

being half of kolah coal, and the second half of

pearl."

(603)

J^j

l_La-J

CM)

^Lo

(H.)
Bg.

Another collection of Riddles by the same author.

Topkhanah, about 100 pp. of 12 bayts, each riddle has, on an

average, four bayts.

(604)

J&t
**

***

U^UJ

aoU

L*o

(H.)

Mohammad's

transfiguration and death, being a

poem

by Say y id Bulaqy.
eJtW
US Ayj A^ii

First verse

Last

V.

|^

tj^*"

A^sr*

4 Hi

&

^^i ^*Hj
Moty

cU* A$

Two
the

copies are in the

Topkhanah and one

verses.

in the

MaAall,

poem has about 1000

(605)

^oU JU joU 0\M

(H.)

The Dywan
service of

of Cadiq 'alyy Ccidiq.

He was

in the

Ghaziy aldyn Haydar, and being an exquisite

for

penman, he copied several books

Contents
Qi^ahs, one
short

him, some of which

are preserved in the Fara/j-bakhsh library.

:

Mathnawies, Qac^ydahs, Fards and

is

a felicitation on the accession of his patron.

C04

hindu'sTa'ny poets.

[Chap.

III.

Para7*-bakhsh, about 300 pp. of 8 bayts, an autograpb.

In tbe

Moty
also

MaAall, 72 pp. of 3 bayts,

is

a collection of poems of tbis

autbor containing translations of Arabic verses into Persian poetry,

Hindustany and Panjaby poems and some Ddhrahs.

Pg.

(606)

dy

L^U ^j
who was commonly
ys.

(fit.)

The Dywan
Sha
Contents

of Cahib Qiran,

called

ire fo^sh-go,
:

a contemporary of Sa'adat 'alyy

;

Khan.

Ghazals

at the

Beginning

&h*- & yy ^

^ dz )^ ^^^
<juaji

end a few Ruba

ty.

Fara/i-bakbsb, 250 pp. of 12 bayts.

(607)

JU
by
Cali^,

lJi*^ iU^j^-o
33.

(H.)

The Sun and

verses,

the

Moon, a mystical poem of 1,480

1 1

'*

a^

^
fc

composed in
f*& ci*

Beginning

*>>*

**

^ u^ ^-^ tW
(H.)
merely Ghazate.

Topkhanah.

(608)

c^s^
of Combat.

tft>jtt

The Dywan
Beginning
Fara/z-bakhsh,
Insha.

It contains

J^J

_ yJ; **

^r

^*

W^i*****

Tbougb
is

in tbe note

90 pp. of 16 bayts bound witb tbe Dywan of which I have taken of tbis book, the name

of the poet
for

written QoAbat,

y.

yery p 0ss i D i e

^ nat it

is

a mistake

Ma^abbat.

(609)

Jy*
^
K &)ji

*Jj>
Ciify,
[

(H.)

Marthiyah of 70 bayts by
%}
S

Beginning
Topkhanah.

^H

J^

NO. 613.]
(610)

DHAMYR.
oj*
of

605
(H.)

The Dywan
Beginning

Myr

Dard, he

is

the only Hindus tany

poet whose mystical poems are worth reading.

J;

^j&y**) <Sj u-4

^^ j)**"
made
at

Lithographed at Dilly, 1847, 141 pp.

This edition was

my

request by

Mawlawy Imam-bakhsh.

He

has conscientiously

executed his task, and has indicated the metre of every poem.

(6ii)

jffk'i^a.
story in verse, by
is
1

(H.)

The Stringing of Pearls, a Gholam Dhamin. The title

Mawlawy
r

%^
(612)

a chronogram for 1215.

U <j>* \&f *fl ^ *- J;

Li ftU

^ <J u ^
(H.)

Private collection A, 130 pp. of 13 lines.

j^acU^I^

The Transfiguration of the Prophet, a Mathnawy by Dhamyr composed in 1227, the chronogram is &^ J^f, The author was still alive and resided at Lucnow when I
was
in that city in 1848.

Beginning

^>j g*~j ^-j

fi

&<$$$* Jx4

<^

usj*

Topkhanah, 94 pp. of 17 bayts.

(613)

y^
of

^ys*

(H.)

Mathnawy
Imams, &c.
Beginning

Dhamyr.
an account of the miracles of the

It contains chiefly

**UiI *z

*JJ!

^.Cil

k*]JS\

J^

US]

d<^|

Private collection, B.

300 pp. 11

verses.

Fara/j-bakhsh library,

244 pp. of 15 bayts.

606

hindu'sta'ny poets.

[Chap.

III.

(614)
Bread and
^fc

^o3
Salt, a

L_ft*JuJ

cJW j

^15

(H.)

Mathnawy
A^J

in imitation of the

poem

of Bahay, by Ja'far 'alyy Fapyh.

*|f!

|d&

^W

,-A

&li|

m sS^^jj

Beginning
Pj^-"
by Myrza

Lithographed, Lucnow,
'alyy,

Mo^animady

press, 1262, edited

35 pp. of 34 bayts.

(615)

jb
of Farigh

^y*
it

(H.)
contains only
t$J

The Dywan
Ghazals.

Shah Farigh,

Beginning

fcjy

J^

v-**^

^Ui ^Jj

&**.

Private collection, about 200 pp. of 12 bayts.

(616)

^1* JS U*fcJ
of Light, a

fctt$;fjlf

(H.)
'alyy a

The Garden

Mathnawy by Fat^
T.

son of Pyr 'alyy Shaykh Angary, composed in 1847 and

dedicated to Capt.
It is

Dundas and

Andrews of Jalawn.
containing legends

divided into five chapters

^^

of saints, moral advice, anecdotes, witty sayings and an

account of great poets j^t^.

Beginning o^x*- ^tiuuK

.& ^Jffi

c^U>fc jjoIs* Asj ^ft>

Lithographed, Lucnow, Moctafay press, 1264, 36 pp. of 40 bayts.

(617)
Story of

yjAi lJuJuJ

sl&

^Ljj

w
L * &*

(H.)

Ridhwan Shah (emperor of China), composed Beginning by Fayidh in 1094, in Dakhny verses.
&*>*

J&#

***y \Jh$

&&

j&* ofa

ufi J;

As. Soc. No. 124, 280 pp. of 9 bayts.

No. 620.]
(618)

FAYDH.

607
(H.)

JlJ

&

A translation of Faryd aldyn Wear's Book of Counsels, by Myr Mo'yn aldyn Faydh, a son of Fakhr aldyn b. Zayn al'abidyn. He was a ifasany Sayyid and his
ancestors, he informs us,

were of Samarqand, but eleven

in old Dilly

or

twelve generations ago they settled

and were men of importance.

settled at

On

the

fall

of Dilly he

Ghaziypur, where he made the acquaintance of

Dr. Gilchrist, this great patron of Hindiistany literature

took him to Calcutta, and on his request he made in

1218

= A. D. 1803,

& viju.

o^

this translation.

Bg.

^ji.^.

j*>)

^*>

& uj'u lJi*^

cWy y^

As. Soc. No. 91, an autograph, written in 1219, about 100 pp. of

13 bayts.

(619)

c^oi

^4
Fidwy

(H.)
of Dilly.

The Dywan

of Sayyid Fadhl alyy

Contents: a short preface in verse; Ghazals, 437 pp. of 11 bayts; miscellaneous poems, 120 pp.

Beginning of Ghazals

*z>U<~

^^J

<je*

^s

tJ>jB>

As. Soc. No. 135, a good copy written in 1228.

(620)

a Ui

tfji*

(H.)

The Dywan
Fighdn.

of Ashraf 'alyy

Khan Tzaryf almulk

Contents: Ghazals, 200 pp. of 10 bayts and a few

Bg. Qacydahs (and one or two Persian satyres), &c. Uj^ uj> ^Ij^yL % di^ uf j) W^^ U*i3 J>J J^I fj&*> **"i
I

Topkhanah, a very

fine copy.

608
(621)

HINDU' ST A' NY POETS.

[CHAP.

III.

^Uc

Uu^'i .*.li J*J>

Dakhny

(H.)
verse and

The

Tales of a Parrot, put into

dedicated to 'abd Allah Padshah of the Qofobshahian

dynasty by Mawlana Ghawwa^y.

fc

Beginning

A & '-r*^ *rH^ \J**$fi* ^_5* je* tj As. Soc. No. 18, about 400 pp. of 13 bayts, a good copy.

^'^

(622)

kfob>*
of Guya, collected in 1245.

(H.)

The Dywan

Contents: three Qacydahs in praise of 'alyy, Nacyr

aldyn iifaydar and Ghaziy aldyn iJaydar.

Bg.

Ghazals, 104 pp. of 20 bayts

bands, Marthiyahs,

a Pushtu poem, Tarjy-

Ruba ys,
this

&c.

Beginning

Topkhanah, I believe

Dywan

has been lithographed.

(623)

o*UU LJuA^^iTc^^

tj^Ato
verse

(H).

The Story of Bahramgiir in Rekhtah iiosayn Haqyqat composed in 1225.

Beginning
columns.

by Shah

^^

u$V

^iilr*

Lithographed, Cawnpore,

Mo$fe%

press, 1268,

108 pp. of four

(624)

{sr
of

^ *^ yjp

(H.)

The Dywan

Khwajah i/asan.

Contents: Ghazals about 250 pp. of 14 bayts; Mokhammas', Rubays, and Qtfahsamong them a chrono-

gram

for 1193,

about 50 pp.

Beginning

S ft<&

^j4

~y

j3

L u*Lj

As. Soc. No. 117.

; ;

No. 627.]
(625)
li

hasan.

609

r-dy.^>

(H. P.)

The Dywan
Contents
:

of

Myr Gholam Hasan Hasan.

a preface in Persian prose, in which he

mentions Sawda and

Myr Taqyy,

4 pp.

Qac^ydahs in
;

praise of Ac^iif aldawlah, Salar-jang, &c. 18 pp.

Ghazals,
:

256 pp.

miscellaneous poems, 190 pp.

Bg. of Ghazals

Moty Ma^all

another copy in the same collection, without pre-

face, written in a

bad hand, with many erasures and corrections,

is

apparently an autograph.

At

the end

is written in red ink, but

it id
r

not certain whether in the same hand

**&j jd
I
1

*J-

*>-^s^ jj te5

J*

9 r

" Faydhabad, Thursday, 25th Dzii-lhnjj, 1192."

This

copy contains also some Persian Ruba'ys.

(626)

c LJ|jS

of

(H.)

Sorcery of Eloquence, a

Mathnawy
is

Myr Hasan,
poem

composed in 1193.

It is usually called

Badre Monyr or
Beginning

Myr Hasan Mathnawy, and

in the Hindiistany language.

considered the best

It has been frequently printed, Calcutta, 1805, 4to. 1265 &c.

Lithographed, Lucnow, Moctafa press, 1261, 108 pp. of 21 bayts MasyMy press, 1262. In the Tdpkhanah, 30 pp. of 6 bayts is a

Mathnawy

of

Myr

.Hasan in praise of Acaf aldawlah, followed by

nine Ghazals.

Beginning

(627)

isjj^rfjp
of Ja'far 'alyy Hasrat.

(H.)

The Dywan
1

Contents: Ghazals, 246 pp, of 13 hayts.

J;Vj

% J^'d ^

*/

^
I

L^

uV

Bg.
J

dOf

SrC^ Utt* *****

610

hindu'sta'ny poets.

[Chap.

III.

Ruba'ys and Mokhammas', 80 pp. of 10 bayts, among

them

are chronograms, the last

is for

1182,

when he

col-

lected the first

Dywan.
praise of the

Qacydahs
&c. 36 pp.

in

Imams, Acaf aldawlah,

Beginning

fcsiy^s^^j^ c-I^

^*>^j;d

*X)
;

u;;V

(V-

^ ^l? ^V" ^"^

After this

Tarkyb-bands, &c. 52 pp.

(a

a Saqiy-namah and a Satyre

Mathnawy) against a

physician, 20 pp.

follows the second

Dywan
^ji

containing Ghazals, 200 pp.

Ruba'ys, &c. 62 pp.

t~$JJL
*.yj

Beginning
S*\

j_
of

{j*>
Tot-a.

culi %jj&

j cXo-a.

^5 ^a
Bg.

The Loves

Ram

and Shakar-para a Mathnawy

which has the

title

of Tiity-namah about 160 pp.

FaraA-baksh, a splendid copy; Topkhanah, containing only the

first

Dywan Moty Ma&all, containing only the Ghazals of the first Dywan As. Soc. No. 284?, containing merely the Mathnawy written
; ;

in 121G.

(62S)

jJU

8c>lj

^\y SC>
(see

(H.)
pp.

The Abridged Dywan of Uatim

235 supra).

422 and

Contents: a preface; Ghazals, 212 pp. of 13 bayts;

miscellaneous poems, 76 pp.

He

gives us the date of

every

poem

in the heading.

Beginning

Moty
valuable

Ma7?all, the

autograph written in 1179.

it

My

notice of this

MS.

is

not as complete as
list

ought to be, having unfor-

tunately neglected to copy the

dates of his

of his pupils, and the earliest

poems

I insert here the preface.

No. 628.]

ha'tim.

611

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2^o

o^ ^i \pp*J+*

oix^

^^^

&jy*i

(Jl*

& *&k

d'**

**> &\)>~*
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1

k-AjUj \\jjo isjj-yJ

^jVjaAjz

&y*

M 1 ' **"" MM **- ^Uk alL*| c5 ^ j -*Ak ,4 4H jj^ A

,3

^^ ^ ^j^j

51

>1

ALLL, v-^/0 otJi S*j+J pi* &'ji& Ji.1^

JJti.*I^J

e/jj

^ ^1 ^ybjjt

Aii.U ^jsLs^ id \j
5

^y^

&j

gj^j ji.tjjyjj pjs \&ifi*y fsyljoj o+"

i^i o>y (J* *i*J ^ ~i
a* &t

tf*l>*

fy* i^-Mj* pij*

^j^

oU/)i ^j~>j

^jl^ OJjaj

j^L ^J^S

cjf^J^ j,i 2X3o

<XL 0,a>

lUj

<tf

3^

J^J ^

Jail

cUd^2 ^, AAA

cjljlj^

<tf

^A.3 &<*& j O^lj

JU*i.i/l

^iTj

^1 ^JJ

&!>

^i
G ^U

at

^A^r ^a^t j^A^f

ij^jf

^-^-c^ ^
1

p*1 rJ^

o^

*5

j! AT <Jd\ &i

uzj

Jj.j

f;

jyt ^Ia ^a> ^1

iijU)
<

,^

r ja^^
-,
l

lyjj
1

jjoJoA^Ua. o.**! ji^s^^j.^.a. c^*jU*j^x>! ^Jji

.XA.j

iiXXj >jjb

^ ^ 'j^ u^ ^
x
I;

^^
1^,

IS^U

I;

8^tf ^Jt j ^itJ JUji j^l

\))

*Kf j Ij^J

l*V

>J

jLa.j)

c^a.LaJ jjl^&j j tj*3

is^*J

JUd^ljo j\j tjjfa^

lil*

Axw5,p

jlfci!

J j^ ^^c j^j ^A'^s ^JUJ

aIJi >Ua1

^.yj^e JiUJl^flii*

^;^^

*Mji

612
(629)

hindu'sta'ny poets.

[Chap.

III.

(i $j/b
of

(H.)

The Dywan
Contents
:

Myrza Taqyy Hawas.

Jifaydar,

Qacydahs in praise of Ghaziy aldyn

24 pp. of

2 bayts.

Beginning
Ruba'ys,

Ghazals

225 pp. of 14 bayts

]

&c

24 bayts.

Beginning US J&i

jy*

cii^^^a.

^-^o ^*<*j+>
a

The Loves

of

Majnun and Layla,

Mathnawy, 128
Beginning

pp. of 16 bayts.

Moty
Lucnow,
the

Ma/iiill,

a good copy

the

Mathnawy has been lithographed

margin covered with
is

Moctfafay, 1261, 79 pp. the

text.

In

Moty

MaAall, 60 pp. of 16 bayts,

an old Hindy version of

Layla Majniiu which begins

J>

^ u>~ lt^ ^iji

iAf

*0i J*J*

(630)

j{ ^>d\ (^jU Ci^JmSi Rekhtah poems by Ghaziy aldyn Uaydar

Most of them
are in praise of the

(H.)
(see p.

196

supra).
so

Imams, and

bad as to bear internal evidence that they are genuine

productions of a king.

Beginning

^^V
u?j<>*aw

^i ^

^/> Ji ytfk 'Jtj*

Fara/^bakhsh, about 200 pp. of 4 bayts, very splendid.

(631)

L-ft^^^J c^a (H.) Haft Paykar a Mathnawy by i/aydar-bakhsh Haydari/

Myrza Katzim
:

composed in 1220.

'alyy

Jowan made

chronogram on that date

^Jy* HZJty

<^^ ASb *fi

^V*

As. Soc. No. 72, about 600 pp. of 13 bayts.

No. 635.]
(632)

hosayxy.

G13
(H.)

IL* SjUj

cuLlf

The Qa^ydahs of Sayyid JFJosam 'alyy, a son of Saadat 'alyy a pupil of Karamat Allah Khan Farrokh, both the
poet and his teacher are
still

alive.

Most of the Qacyjh

dahs are in praise of the Imams.

Beginning

U.>;

ja.
s.

<UJIyi>

JJ &\Lc

Lithographed, Lucnow,

a.

215 pp.

(633)

^U u
of

|y^

(H.)
It cont-

The Dywan
Beginning

Hashim

'alyy Hosaijny.

only marthiyahs and poems in praise of the Imams.

*U

,jJ^SJ b)

LaJj

r'O*.?

*^^*

^J

Topkhanah, about 100 pp. of 15 bayts.

(634)

jl^yft^b

(^Udtjy.

Marthiyahs of Hoshdar.

Beginning ^t^.jtr urVf

Topkhanah, 17 pp. of 9 bayts.

J^ ^

f^

'

- Jj

(635)

tj>jLrjL2Jj*a

cJLjuJ

CLyU^

(H.)

The Loves

of Ratan and

aldyn 'alyy "ihrat of Dilly.

Padmawat, by Myr Dhiya He died at Rampiir when

he had completed only the fourth part of the poem.

Myr Gholam
'alyy

'alyy "ishrat of Bareilly, a pupil of

to Rampiir,

Myrza

Lu/f came

and at the request of

Myr

Qudrat Allah Shawq whose Mosha'arahs he used to

frequent, he completed the

poem

in 1211.

The chrono<>~r

gram isy^ )& ^J^Lai.

Beginning

^ ^ a^ Jh^ji M^ J

*>

4*f

614

hindu'sta'ny poets.
printed copy begins Ui

[Chap.
j^a

III.

The

J>\

^yo

oL>U>

As. Soc. No. 296, about 250 pp. of 17 bayts.

It has been litho-

graphed, Cawnpore, Moctfafay press, 1268, 77 pp. of four columns.

A poem
it

of the same title and contents has been composed in 947 in

flourished under Sher Shah,

Hindy by Malik Mohammad. Jaysy* who

original is in Sanscrit.

contains about 6,500 verses and begins jj^j*

&i

I^T

Ojjy*,

The

(636)

fU|

ui*uJ

^ J&T

(II.)

The Rose Garden of Love, a Mathnawy by Imam. Beginnings J^ J^ d l;;.

^^ ^

Lithographed, Cawnpore, 1267, 13 pp.

(637)

LSI

enUf

(H. P.)

Complete Hindustany and Persian poetical works of

Insha Allah
Contents
:

Khan

Inshd.
1

Persian poems, 28 pp. of

5 bayts.

Beginning

J^>) ^s-^ *?j

,l*j|;

^s\

Rekhtah poems, about 100

Beginning U$ ^jt^l
jgrfjjk"', a
*fj

pp.

^x*

^^

cj" i_ *-*&" r j* _

Persian

Mathnawy

in imitation of that of

Bahay

(see p.

368 supra) 50 pp. of 15 bayts.

ilMsJ] u>jb j^ar^J Lf-L.*o

Beginning
Beginning Beginning
&c. 48 pp.
tical

Persian Ghazals, 42 pp.

';

Jja-*!U

*j

t&p gku
pp.
<=_j

J*r

ij1

Rekhtah Ghazals, 280

i&ye * V:
>

^a
;

oV fi^

^Jr*

^^
Imams,

Ruba ys, &c.

;

8 pp.

Qacydahs

in praise of the

Ghazals consisting of words without diacri;

points, 14 pp.

another batch of Ghazals, Mathtitle

nawys, among them, one which has the

jS^r****

No. 639.]

isma'yl.

615

and has a double rhyme and metre.

Faqyrs, &c.

Some

of his poems

are in the dialect of ladies and some in the dialect of

Moty MaAall, a beautiful copy a very good copy ia in possession Mawlawy Mohammad Wajyh. In the Mdty MaAall is also a Mathnawy by Insha, which has the title of **&*,*> and in which a
;

of

cock-fight

is

celebrated,

Ji -

JJ

&

vt*

30 pp. of 4 bayts, written

^r-^

in 1210.
<Jl?' t5*

Bg.

j="

^b

l*1

^
(H.)

(638)

J****l &*=* lJ^**Sjj

of Light, a

<jjL*>

The Thread
was a great

Mathnawy by Mohammad

Isma'yl of Dilly, a
fanatic,

nephew of Shah 'abd al'azyz. He and according to some of his acquaint(see

ances, a great impostor

Journal of the Royal As.

Soc. London, Vol. XIII. Part 2, and Zeitschrft d. deu-

tschen morgl. Gesellsch. Vol. VII. p. 453).

When

the

Afghans were
and

at

war with

tjie

Sikhs, he fought in the

ranks of the former and was

killed.

He was a learned man,

his other writings will be described in their places.

verses.

About 250

Beginning ^fc

<-^

al-Jp?

^1

Lithographed, Calcutta, 1269, 21 pp., also at Lucnow.

(639)

A Mathnawy
still

of

( Uj*** *** Myrza Hasan 'alyy Jafary, who

-)

is

alive.

It

contains legends, reflections

on moral
Beginning

subjects, &c.

Lithographed, Lucnow, iZaydary press, 12G2, pp. 104.

On

the

margin

is

another

Mathnawy of

similar contents.

Beginning

616
(640)

HINDU STA NY POETS.

[CHAP.

III.

J*kj*
of
is

&^
Jan Cdhib. He
His

(H.)
resides
is

The Dywan

Myr Yar

'alyy

at Lucnow, and

a very favourite poet.

Dywan

in the language of the ladies of the Ma//alls of Dilly

and Lucnow, which

is

considered the most idiomatic

Hindustany.
<( ^J> *L Lithographed, Lucnow, 1262, Mortadhawy

Beginning

^y^ ?*

*?

J^i

margin covered with text;

^'ls* in the margin.

85 pp., the with the *il~s ifaydary press, 126,2,

press,

(641)

tf^*

The Dywan

of Qalandar-bakhsh

(H.)

Jordt
Beginning

Contents: Ghazals, 630 pp. of 12 bayts; Fards, Ruba'ys, Haf/bands, Satyres, &c. 194 pp.

Two Mathnawies
composed in 1225.

of 62 and 32 pp., the latter was

Chronogram

Moty

MaAall, a good copy

College of Fort William, in this copy

are also several Marthiyahs.

(642)

J^ cJua*J
Lucnow.

d^oif

(H.)

The Dywan of A/*inad ii/asan Khan who is familiarly called Achchhe Ckhib and has the takhalluc of Josh.

He

resides at

The
;

title

is

a chronogram for
v-Jl <j y

1269.

Beginning

^'U

Uj|

j^Js

l^a>

Lithographed, Cawnpore, 1269, 34 pp.

No. 645.]
(643)

KABYR.

617
(H.)

UU

*JL>

The Barah-masa,
1217.

a poetical description of the year in

Hindustan, by Myrza Katzirn 'alyy Jowdn, composed in

Beginning ^fcU? U

<. a^

cdVj^I^

Printed, Calcutta, 1812, 8vo. 105 pp. of 16 bayts.

(644)

c^^

<**** *>***<*> Afib

js

(H.)

The Book of Resurrection, a Mathnawy by Mohammad Jywan of Jhejher, who was familiarly called MaAbube 'alam. It treats on the principles of the Sunny faith.

He

says at the end of the book with regard to the date

^
the

^^ u^j^ i-*^ ^b)

&*>

J*J g*

Beginning
Moty
title

^j" ^^

& ^*
j&&*

ur^ J y
]

cT

<fy Jjr*

*M

MaAall, about 150 pp. of 15 bayts. I strongly suspect that

of this book
is

not &*>b

but

^^U

&i.

There

is

another poem, 20 pp. of 15 bayts, by the same author, which treats on the last judgment, and has the title of tebj^x*. It begins

^J
He

Uj$
is

u^y
it

3l*ft>

ujJU

Us^

Ua

tj&f ui' G

US &&

Iji" ty

also the author of a biography of

Mohammad and
lX#*J

other

episodes of the sacred history of the Sunnies, in verse, about 100 pp.

of 15 bayts,
\

has the

title

of **l> *j* and begins fb

u* j*+
is

oU^>.
*/clj

He

has also written two very short poems, one

jy**y

v^a

and the other e>yU

li

c5^

Beginning u* *^k *"bjxA&

uty

<->>*

W (3-^^*
(

called

(645)

j^U"
of

The Dywan
Contents
:

Hakym Kabyr
:

'alyy

Kabyr.
;

Ghazals, 166 pp. of 19 bayts

a

Mokhammas'

and Ruba'ys, 26 pp.

health
Hj)j^ ^5
1

Mathnawy on
;

the preservation of

8 pp.
4

a Qa^ydah, &c. 20 pp.

618

hindu' sta'ny poets.

[Chap.

III.

Beginning bl l*\+ ^Jfyj

As. Soc.
IS'o.

^W Hfr** ^
(H.)
merely Ghazals.
***

259, a good copy.

(646)

JS&\#>
K ^Uol^dS^.

The Dywan of Kamal.

Beginning
Moty

^ ^4* ^*
<ul3

It contains

^1

Ma^all, 26 pp. of 12 bayts, probably an autograph.

(647)

^JLJua*J

Uvjc^

cdoU^

^ ^*

(H.)

The Bride Book

by 'abd
al

(i. e.

the marriage of JJosayn) and the

hook of his martyrdom, and three other short Mathnawies,

Karym Karym who

y*>

is alive.

Beginning U'y jS^

W.

yCfai

^
(H.)

Lithographed, Dilly, 1269, 24 pp. the margin covered with text.

(648)

pjL i^tto

The Story of Shamshad Shah, a Mathnawy by Khwajah SuMan K/iojam, dedicated to Sa'adat 'alyy Khan. Bg.
Topkhanah, about 100 pp. of 13 bayts.

(649)

JcyS^

lJiaa-J j|j

^L->
by Khoshdil.

(H.)

The

Soldier's Child, a

Thug

story

He

informs us that he heard the story from Bhikhary Das

of Bijnaur.

Beginning^^

(jteV

^^

c ^ ^y'l

Lithographed, Lucnow, in the Sultan almatfabi'

s. a.

(650)
Enigmas ascribed

#>j*
to

^M
(see pp. 465,
p.

-)

Myr Khosraw

250

supra and Journ As.Soc.Beng.Vol. 21

516.) Specimens:

No. 652.]

QAYSAR.

619

&>
"

<u>

<*t 1* cr^

iiA

JV i

4i^
:

Under the house the Brahmin has struck me

metallic mixture exclaims

bell."

the

A wooden
this is

horse and an iron bridle

go on, Mr. horse,

your work

A khurpa.
imp

On

the black mountain dances a black

A
all

razor

for shaving the head.

Topkhanah, ten or twelve

little

volumes containing in

about

200 enigmas,

for a further account of collections of

enigmas see

Hindustany prose.

(651)

S^?*-

W***"^

\Jb** 1$}^} uJQv^*^.

(H.)

A Mystical Mathnawy in the Gujraty dialect, by Kamal

aldyn Mo/zammad Shabistany, whose takhallu9 was Khiib,

composed in 986.
ning of the poem

In 990 he wrote a Persian translation

it,

and commentary on

and

called

it

yJ.y*- ^}y^-

Begin-

Bg. of the Commentary

ol J l^a?* ury

*U|

^
(H.)

Moty

Ma^all, a fine old copy, 390 pp. of 15 lines.

(652)

j**S **?#*})

Wasokht of Qaysar.

Beginning
Printed

&$
A'bdd,

J5

^
in

***!j

*>

j> -& J>

of

Dilly,

1849,

the collection

Wasokhts.
:

This

collection contains also "Wasokhts of the following poets

Mahdiy
Firaq,

iZbsayn

Khan

Shawq a

pupil of MucAaff,

Myan

Jawlan, Imam-bakhsh Ndsikh, Myrza 'alyy Khan Sliayda a son of Nawab Bamadhan 'alyy Khan, Fat aldawlah Bakhshy almulk Myrza MoZ/ammad Kidha Barq, Myrza Qasim 'alyy Biqqat, Myan Mojrim, Nawab Bahadur Dzakyy a son of Myrza 7/aydar, iZakyiu

K 2

620
Ta9adduq IZbsayn,

hindu'sta'ny poets.
familiarly called

[Chap.

III.

Nawab Myrza, Myrza Mohammad

Hildl a son of Myrza iZajy, Sawda.

collection of

Wasokhts of

21 poets has also been printed at Lucnow, IZbsany press, 1263, 1265.

(653)

u>^ J&
of Ma//abbat

(H.)

Dywan
14 bayts.

Khan Mahabbat
Beginning
story of Sysy and Panii,

Contents: Ghazals, Ruba'ys, &c. about 400 pp. of

Mathnawy, containing the

composed in 1197, 38 pp.

As. Soc. No. 101, a good copy.

Beginning

(f)54)

kjSLX* L-ftjJUJ

d^ j!^

&1& <U*S

(H.)
princess

The

story of prince
in verse,

Rashke Chaman and

by
Ma/rfiitz, dedicated

Zamarrud Pary,
aldyn iiZaydar.
appears that the

toGhaziy
it

From

a chronogram of Mucliafy,

Beginning

poem was composed in 1238. ^^ <-*, *& ^^ l^& ^j j\^

^^ ^^

<u

Fara^-bakhsh, 130 pp. of 13 bayts, a splendid copy.

of &+*. -^J.

It has been

lithographed, Cawupore, Masy7*ay press, 1266, 97 pp. of 19 bayts,

under the

title

(655)

V>V
of Majdzub.

J*
]

(H.)
merely Gha-

The Dywan
zals.

It contains

Beginning
MaAall, 181 pp. of 14 bayts.

Moty

In the Topkhanah

is

an

imperfect copy of Majdzub which contains also Qacydahs, Ruba'ys

and chronograms, one

KjyJm*
5

for 1197.

|U lUj ^a

US'

j,^Ui s^stf^. jl

3j|f

Xj

Beginning

No. 659.]

maqbu'l.

621

(656)

iJftfoJ

JS* jV

(H.)

who were united after their death, by Mowlawy Gholam Sa'd Majruh of Jajnagar near
Story of two lovers

Cawnpore.

I believe he is still alive. Beginning <L *& ^ ^j^*"^. j* LK*a.

Lithographed, Cawnpore,

MasyMy

press,*,

a.

(1268?).

It

was

printed at Lucnow, Moctafay

press, 1261,

48 with the j>/*j

&

which begins

f*j

lhA; * *j?

&?*

t**^

(657)

cJy* ujjd*
of

(H.)

The Dywan
Contents
of
:

Myr Nitzam

aldyn

Mamnun.

Mathnawies, one of them on the occasion

Shah's accession, and a Qacydah in

Mohammad Akbar

praise of

Amyn

aldawlah 'alyy Ibrahym Khan,

who had

the takhalluc of Khalyl (see p. 180 supra), 46 pp. of 11

bayts

Ghazals about 100 pp. and a few Ruba'ys.

6

Beginning of Ghazals
As. Soc. No. 131, copied in

J^

jf^r

^ ey;^>

^^^

uj*

** J
.

1813=A. H.

1218.

(658)

JJM

j|U>

e^*J| *j*

(H.)

Pains of Love, a Mathnawy by Maqbul

huly

Ahmad MaqNa^yr aldyn

Beginning

composed in 1250 and dedicated

to

jffaydar.

Moty

Ma7*all,

42 pp. of 11

lines,

an autograph.

(659)

d;> Jy?
of Mawziin.
It contains Ghazals,

(H).
80 pp. of Beginning

Dywan

13 bayts and 25 Ruba'ys.

622

hindu'sta'ny poets.

[Chap.

III.

Tdpkhanah.

(660)

j^

J;oJ|

The Dywan of the Sayyid Khan Mihr, a son of Mo'tamid aldawlah Agha 'alyy Agha Myr, he collected it in 1253. He is still alive.
Contents
j&j
:

d !^o Nawab Amyn aldawlah

vl^5

^1

(H.)

jt^k

Qa9ydahs, 20 pp.

^* jm

14

the rest Ghazals.

Bg.

^ida.yA a v^ ju.
t.

d^

Lithographed, Lucnow, 1263, 8vo. 401 pp.

(661)

!,y

^0
1

(H.)

The Dywan of Mirza.

Contents
:

Ghazals, 65 pp. of
Vjj

2 bayts.
v^xlU*
|

Beginning

*li

1S

cutis'*

lj>

t^*>

*r**? (J""*

Mathnawy, 30

pp.

another

Mathnawy and

Qi^'ahs,

24 pp.

Beginning

Fara7*-bakhsh, a splendid copy.

(662)

^* <^U fjy
Marthiyahs by
^^^asH

(H.)
Allah Miskyn.

collection of

Myr 'abd
^S

Beginning UUjij*.

(XA*^

^lr i_ cus"

about 500 pp. of 12 bayts.

frequently

Topkhanah, about 100 pp. of 16 bayts another collection has Separate Marthiyahs of his are very
;

met with

in albums.

NO. 665.]
(663)

^
for 1245.

MOHAMMAD.

623
(H.)

U^fi

C \J\

The Garden of Repose, also called ^.^ Sweet Spring, a Mathnawy containing the story
is

^^

the

of Shyryn,

Khosraw and Farhad, by Miskyn of Khayrabad.

to be distinguished

He
a

from the preceding.

The

title is

chronogram

Beginning
y>

i-J*j

l**$J

J^*-

iJ&i ^.r' ,** *^s^

J*-=w

Lithographed, Lucnow, Mocfofay press, 1263, 54 pp. the margin

covered with text.

(664)

U}Lc d\yo
of Mobarak.
:

(H.)

Dywan
&c. 26 pp.

Contents

Ghazals, 200 pp. of

1 1

bayts

Ruba ys,
Beginning
Beginning

Mathnawy, 16

pp.

Topkhanah.

(665)

^L

a**

l-oaJuJ

^^o.

(H.)

Grief for 2/osayn, or the sacred history of the Shy'ahs,

in verse, by

Mo/zammad

'alyy b.

Baba Mohammad
1

JETosayn
1

of Z/asanabad.

The

title is

a chronogram for

78.

Contents

a preface in Persian prose, 3 pp., 14 chapters

^~V" on the death of Mohammad, the death of Fa/imah, the violent death of 'alyy, of i/asan, of Moslim, of the
sons of Moslim, Qasim, 'abbas, alyy Akbar, 'alyy Ac^ghar,

Uosayn,

elegies

and panegyrics on the Imams, the violent

death of Ridha.

In an appendix

is

the story of the

624

Hindu sta'ny poets.

cat,

[Chap,

III.

mouse and the

is

220

pp. of 13 lines,
:

The language

bad.

Beginning of the poem

Topkhanah, a

fair copy.

(H.) ^Jm o*= UuX*3 J*f jf\ Signs of the Day of Resurrection, by Mawlawy Mohammad 'alyy, whose takhallu^ is Mohammad. This is a

(666)

poetical version

of a Persian prose-work on the last

judgment, by Rafy' aldyn a brother of Shah 'abd al'azyz

of Dilly.

Beginning

Jij*Rj&

y*

'^

^*^

4g

Lithographed, Lucnow, Moctafay press, 1262, 13S pp. 12G5, Cawnpore, 1268,

59 pp. of four columns.

(667)

^J^ ^*)
of Mokhlic 'alyy
;
:

(H.)

Khan MoMilip. Contents two Qacydahs Ghazals, and a few Mokhammas\

Beginning of Ghazals
** '**' ^ulr^ ZJ <s* r* ^ 1** * & y~* *#&* v)? or sj^* Mr*?
4

The Dywan

&

As. Soc. No. 310, about 200 pp. of 12 bayts, copied in 1216.

In the As. Soc. Xo.

not

9,

are two

Mathnawies by Mokhlic.

I do

know whether he is identical with the preceding. The first treats on wine and the propriety of its use being
It has about

for-

bidden.

180 verses and begins

about 150 verses, and begins

The other

treats

on

love, has

No. 671.]

moru'wat.
^j*** lJu^<J jL^-o j

625
uu

(668)

^^Jj^a^

(H.)

The

Story of Chandar Badan and

Mahyar by Moqymy.

The language is obsolete, and betrays a want of education. Bg. *J^ U^.U> & ey/ji ^* yO^ *S ^L* ytfjtyjm y i )d^
Topkhanah, 50 pp. of 11 bayts.
of 15 bayts
of
is

In the same

collection,

24 pp.

another
****

poem by the same

author, containing the story

Somharj^^

Beginning

(669)

{j ^y I-*****

(y^- L^U^lt
'alyy

(H.)

The Talismans of Love by Qaghyr

composed
in

1207 in imitation of the

Moruwat Badre Monyr of

Myr

1/asan.

Chronogram

Bg. cAv^
Moty

44

^ ^"^

<^ liw

^
;

^--

^^

*-*ir*

4?

u^

MaAall, 243 pp. of 12 bayts

FaraA-bakhsh, 300 pp. of 11

bayts, copied in 1208.

(670)

U^ j^U

(H.)

An abridged translation of the Mathnawy of Mawlawy Rumy into Rekhtah verse, by Shah Mosta'an, who was still alive in 1261. Bg. ?> 5^ Jy ^ *. j*^
Printed at Calcutta in 1261, 8vo. 273 pp.

(671)

^-* Mji*

(H.)
(see p.

Four Dywans of Gholam Hamdany Mufhafy

182 supra).
Contents: Ghazals, 250 pp. of 13 bayts;

Ruba'ys

and a Mathnawy,

3 pp.
i*JJj

Beginning Ky^***

/S

<=_^<*

*^ J

^
b*?

Ghazals, 384 pp. of 14 bayts; Raba'ys, &c. 10 pp.

Beginning

W^y? H~J ^^i ***!

4 L

^ ^Ar*^

626

hindu'sta'ny poets.
;

[Chap.

III.

Ghazals, 350 pp.

Masaddas', Mathnawies, &c. 64 pp.

<*$!)?$*

Beginning W^ U*** L oy^J o** A -^" Ruba'ys, &c. 8 pp. Ghazals, 350 pp.
;

Beginning

Fara^-bakhsh, in four volumes.

(672)

^^ U^
of

li^jj (_*

(H.)

Yusof and Zalykha, by Shah Mujyb (Allah) Mujyb, composed in 1240, the chronogram is oJjU^ ^1 Beginning e^U^! j* cb J xl.

The Story

^^

Private collection, about 150 pp. of 18 bayts.

(673)

* rjf djl* The Dywan of Ra^mat Allah Mujrlm.

(H-)
It contains

merely Ghazals.
Topkhanah, incomplete.

Beginning
In the As. Soc. No. 295,
a copy, 204

is

pp. of 14 bayts, which contains besides Ghazals also Buba'ys, &c.

the Ghazals begin in

it

(674)

jJkjj &}j*6

The Dywan of the Miimin, who died in A. D. 1 852. The poet informs us that the title Dywane benatzyr is a chronogram for 1243, when he collected his poems, he was then twenty-nine
years of age.

^yo ^i3 (H ) Hakym Mokmmad Miimin Khan

<u

j^mo

Contents
&c. 25 pp.

a short preface in prose, 8 pp.

Ghazals,
1
]

Qacydahs,

7 pp.

miscellaneous poems, 79

pp. of 21 lines.

Beginning of Ghazals:
^yl&
1^*3)
JJa*
t iJki

& CU^^-J ry* f^,* yib

Do^l^/i

C^w Dl Cwfl^

^J^^ O^k

&&

Lithographed, Dilly, 1846, 8vo. hardly legible.

No. 677.]
(675)

munshiy.

G27

^^Xa lJua*J
of Love, a

^*

^c^li

(H.)

The Nosegay
by Munshiy
to Sa'adat in

dialect, celebrating the loves of

Mathnawy in the Dakhny Nawab Chand, composed

<jy*

1122 under Farrokhsiyar, and dedicated

Khan.

Beginning

M^ Kls*^ ^s^
(H.)

As. Soc. No. 102, near 300 pp. of 15 bayts.

(676)

u Jvo

L-ijJUJ fotutft

An

abridged translation of the Shah-namah into Rkh-

tah verse, by

Mul Chand Munshiy, composed

*ij>

in 1220.

Beginning

^s\&L.

^^^

<LoU^*

Lithographed, Cawnpore, press of 'alyy-bakhsh Khan, 1268, 178 pp. of fonr columns, this book was also lithographed at Dilly about 1844

(677)
"

^y* c^Llf
of

(H.)
Tuqee, comprising

The Poems

Myr Mohammad

the whole of his numerous and celebrated compositions

in the Urdu, or polished language of Hindustan."
Fie

died in 1225

see p. 175 supra.

Contents: Qacjrdahs and Qi^'ahs, 18 pp.; six Dywans

of Ghazals from page 19 to 768: Fards, Ruba'ys, &c. to

page 884

Mathnawies from page 885

J-+**j)j)
<

to 1069.

Beginning
title (<3j^) iiP

Printed, Calcutta, 1811, 4to.

|y& *^jy** 4p& /^ The two Mathnawies which have the

*** and

& ij^ij^

have been lithographed, Lucnow,

s.
1

1261, 16 pp. and 17 pp. Cawnpore,

a.

the former begins

*)Gjfc

^^
two

^c$a UjK ^c^Uo, the latter begins J is a beautiful MS. copy of the works
Society, which contains also

^
of

Myr

Tnere O^cs* Taqyy in the Asiatic

&*

some of his works

in Persian prose,

of his prose works have lately been lithographed at Sahseran.

In

the

Moty MaAall
has the

is

an autobiography of
of

Myr

Taqyy, 152 pp. of 12

lines, it

title

j^jS* and

begins *$ [yijy^^j^ <Xs^

**

4 L 2

628
(678)

hindu'sta'ny poets.

[Chap.

III.

ji5
of Najiy.

&
;
l

(H.)

The Dywan

Contents: Ghazals, 84 pp. of 16 bayts

3 pp. and some Ruba'ys, &c. Kjf L_>l ljk'3 Lfij) ^A j;

Wasokhts,

^^

Beginning
%j

^O^

Tdpkhanah, copied in 1184

As. Soc. No. 244, an incorrect copy.

(679)

-A3

c^lAf

(H.)

Complete poetical works of Shaykh Imam-bakhsh

sikh,

Na-

who

died in 1254, they consist of three

Dywans.
Beginning

Completed in 1232, 1247 and 1254.

^xLa.** ^Sj*
{S*

^5* ^d^fl )j

%jX*]

^^ d^}> oj* J"^

402
pp.,

Lithographed, Lucnow,

Mawlay

press, 1262,

Mocfofay

The second Dywan is printed on the margin press, 1267, 380 pp. of the first. His poems were first edited in 1259. From the chronograms contained in Nasikh we learn the following dates Sawda died in 1195 Khwajah .Hasan Thabit died in 1236 Mawlawy Makh:

diim died in 1239

another
'alyy,

Makhdum
to

died in 1229

Jorat died in

1225

Myrza Gada

who used
'alyy

compose Marthiyahs, died in

died in 1225
;

1233

Myr MoAammad Taqyy Myr

;

iZaydar 'alyy
;

Hatify died in 1234

Anwar

Beg

died in 1238
;

Myr

Ta'qub,

whose takhalluc was

'abbas, died in

1237

the

calligraph

Myrza

MoAammad

'alyy

Beg

died in 1229

Kufiwar Jaswant Singh Par;

wanah, a son of Rajah Beny Bahadur, died in 1248

Nijabat 'alyy

ShahMajdzub

died in 1234;

Myrza Qatyl
;

died in 1233;

Myrza
;

ifosayn 'alyy MiAnat died in 1235

Myr

Torab 'alyy died in 1235

Myr

Grhasyta died in 1235.

(680)

iJj LJ^UaJ

^y

p&

(H.)
title

The Light
is

of poetical composition by Nasikh, the

a chronogram for the date

when

the book was composed,

No. 683.]
viz.

NASYM.

629
It

1254, and the author died in the same year.

treats

on the wisdom of God as manifested in the creation,

founded chiefly on traditions.
Ida* cyU-o

and

is

Beginning
i\*a. j)j]jMi

.Jb

JJi>

ItX^c^lj

^-*

Lithographed, Lucnow, 1265, 92 pp. of 42 bayts.

(681)

^jljlf
of

(H.)
story of the

The Rose Garden

rose of

Nasym, being the

Bakawaly, in

verse,

by Pundit Daya Shankar

Beginning

Nasym, composed

in 1254.

Lithographed, Lucnow, Moctafay press, 1264, 45 pp. the Hashiyah

covered with text.

(682)

jftfci

ojUh

(H.)
Beginning

The Qacydahs

of Natzyr.

FaraA-bakhsh, 40 pp. of 10 bayts, a splendid copy.

(683)

Jij\f ^5U.
of

fjtyo

d !,do

(H.)

The Dywan
48 pp.
K

Myrza Khany Nawd%ish.

Contents: Ghazals, 142 pp. of 14 bayts;

Ruba ys, &c.

Beginning

5li

J^

^5*^

1 **

ih!

^^

Topkhanah.

630
(684)

hindu'sta'ny poets.

[Chap.

III.

The Dywan
Contents:

of Na'ym.

^^
pp. of

(H.)

Ghazals, 100

13 bayts

Ruba'ys,

Qacydahs, &c. 30 pp.

Tdpklianab.

Beginning

(685)

c^J

^Ijja

(H.)

The Dywan of Myrza A^rnad 'alyy Nisbat, he wrote under Na9yr aldyn iJaydar and most of his poems are
in the language of ladies, like those of

Jan Ca^ib.
;

Contents
pp.

Qacydah, Ghazals, 300 pp. Beginning of Ghazals

:

Ruba'ys, 30

Mdty

MaAall, a good copy.

(686)

jLj tJuJL^ jJaJLj L&4*

(H.)

Incomparable Hena (the leaves of Lawsonia inermis), a

description in verse of an Indian

wedding by Niyaz.

Bg.

As. Soc. No. 104, 42 pp. of 15 bayts.

(687)

Jjy*

l&2 Jle

^^
in

(H.)
the

The Garden
posed in 1068.

of Love, a

Mathnawy
:

Dakhny

dialect, containing

Hindu Love Stories, by Nucraty, comThe chronogram is

^jSs

Beginning

^jm J; ^J
l

As. Soc. No. 254, about 280 pp. of 17 bayts.

No. 691.]
(688)

pahwa'nah.

631

jl/b
of Pak-baz.

yfr*
;

(H.)

The Dywan
Contents
:

Ghazals, 101 pp. of 25 bayts

Saqiy-namah.

Wasokht, Ruba'ys, &c. 50 pp.

Beginning

W
Tdpkhanah.

tM*l

^
at;*

pM

<Lu4; cr'

*****

(689)

Uj

e^-*^

**]; ul^d

(H-)
d.

The Dywan

of Rajah Jaswant Sing

Parwdnak,

1248,

consisting exclusively of Ghazals, alphabetically arranged.

Beginning J&
^J

^ ti^^ ^ *^
&.AjZ

(jojc

J^

^fc vl&J

L->)

Ji ^-jj^ ^Oj fC A>

Private collection, 8vo. about 550 pp. of 13 lines, written in an elegant hand, at the end of every letter a page or two are left blank,

and

it

would therefore appear as

if this

copy had been written by, or

for the author; As. Soc.

No. 136.

This copy has also 12 pages of

for

miscellaneous poems,

among them chronograms

1210 and 1225.

(690)

jU^I tyj J**, j*- utfU

(H.)

A Poem

consisting of words without diacritical dots,

by Mawlawy Qabul Mohammad, the author of the Haft Qulzum. Beginning

Lithographed Lucnow 1264, MasyAay press, 32
of this edition
is

pp.,

on the margin

the^Hj-^ j C& a short Mathnawy.

(691)

fjti

y)j>*

(H. P.)

The Dywan
Contents
:

of

Qdyim

(see p.

179 supra).
1

Ghazals, 200 pp. of

2 bayts
:

Ruba'ys,

Wasokht, short Mathnawies, &c. 220

pp.

Persian poems,

632
26 pp.
;

hindu'sta'ny poets.
Qacydahs
in praise of

[Chap.

III.

Nawab Ahmad Yar Khan,

Beginning
a copy
contains

Nawab Nacr
Moty

Allah Khan, &c.

MaAall, an autograph.
;

In the FaraA-bakhsh,

is
it

which was written in 1197

in addition to the above,

a Mathnawy of 106 pp. which begins Ja {J\ c>j &* iS^\ 3 The copy of the As. Soc. No 147, J* tr*!^ j&*. is* J* contains equally Qacydahs and Mathnawies, and begins

(692)

& ^S

pJtty]

^ iAjUJ JSc** cuLlT

(U.)

Mohammad Quly Qofob Shah, a son of Ibrahym Qofob Shah. He uses general Qofob or Qoob Shah ^^ki as his takhalluc. He
Complete poetical works of the king
reigned from A. D. 1581 to 161
1.

Contents: Mathnawies, 336 pp. of 14 bayts.

*
(3*** B ^r' * o J? ^s* s*si Qacydahs, Tarjy'bands, Marthiyahs, &c. 100 pp. ^/-l e^te ^a U^ Beginning jf-^*^ *W {**>
]

Bg.

13

^ ^
r <-

^ ^=^
^

Ghazals, 860 pp

Ruba'ys, 12 pp.

Beginning &;^

fi>

'^ *i ^J la^yX*

5j

As. Soc. No. 21, a splendid copy, written for the royal library of
the successor of the author in 1022.

(693)

^$-.j&
of

-)

The Dywan
sists

Shah Qudrat Allah Qudrat.

It

con-

merely of Ghazals.

Beginning

\4

*J

)$*&"

^ J

<-

u^j

lt$&

As. Soc. No. 164, 33 pp.~of 13 bayts, a fine copy.

No. 695.]
(694)

RANGYN.

633

J&U&Z>JjS
of Sa'adat

(H.)

The Dywan
called

Yar Khan Rangyn, which he

Naw

Rattan.

It is

divided into four parts

^^

each of which has a

***l)

separate

name, the
1

first

is
;

called

and contains

Ghazals, 72 pp. of

8 bayts

Ruba'ys, &c. 25 pp.

;

among
bayts,

them

is

a chronogram for 1228

Qacydah of 600
epistles.

and two short Mathnawies, or poetical

{$*L.JL&
i.

Bg.
jtez>

iJt

_y

ayb

t>)

bU^ ; b
the

^^

^ J gj
r

The second Nuskhah has

tains Ghazals, 94 pp.

title

of *^~t and con-

and some Ruba'ys. Beginning J^ (M ^a> jpA*. a y cJiU third Nuskhah is entitled aIs^I and contains The

humoristic poetry, chiefly Ghazals

in

the language of

women, 36

pp.

Beginning

The

fourth

Nuskhah
Bg.
it

is

equally in the language of

women, and
&c. 53 pp.
the

is called ^jte&j. It contains Ghazals, Ruba'ys,

Kc^li.
;

y ^a
in the

jjJU.

^e

u; U. ^,jj
is

; )^

Tdpkhanah, two good copies

first

Moty

MaAall,

a copy of

Nuskhah

contains a chronogram for 1197.

(695)

Jij
jJ VJ% ^1

oUJI

(H.)
Bg.

A Mathnawy

by Sa'adat Yar Khan Rangy n.

^S ^A ^I^fc

ii*A

Lithographed, Lucnow, Moctafay press, 1263, 36 pp., the margin

covered with text.

There

is
it

another
begins

Mathnawy by Eangyn, which

[

has the

title

of <~{s~\ jJsl*

w^** ^J

*>y

^=

3 lsj?

Lithographed, Lucnow, MasyAay press,

1262,

26 pp. of four

columns.

634

hindu'sta'ny poets.

[Chap.

III.

(696)

MM)
first

^a
title eJ$^<

(H.;
It is divided into

Poetry of 'alyy Awsatf Rashk.

two

Dywans, the
is

has the separate

*& which

a chronogram for 1253, and the second

is entitled Ja.>

l*!j$

which

is

a chronogram for 1261.

Beginning
second

^v
is

^ \^s^ &

6 J.^>

^y^*
press,

Lithographed, Lucnow,

MoAammady
poem
called

1263, 424 pp.

the

Dywan
is

on the Hashiyah,

at the

Eashk

also the author of a

end are chronograms. &*-=*j +i*^ **^ or the

millennium of the Shy'ahs, lithographed Lucnow, 1263, 26 pp. of 35 bayts. Beginning

f697)

&\j y\y*
of Rasikh, of Atish, and of

(H.)

The Dywans

A bad

have

been published at Lucnow, 1263, 256 pp. in one volume

written in three columns, each containing a different

Dywan. This Rasikh

Allah
Ccidiq
i. e.

is

to be distinguished from 'inayat

Khan Rasikh b. Shams aldawlah Lutf Allah Khan Mohawwirjangwho is the author of the u-fJ^* J^K
j*

a transcript into the Persian character of the

U ju

a collection of Brij

Bhasha poems forming one of the

nine Ras of which the ^i^Ki** consists.

(698)

tfL*,

<JL^J

ft

J^ jO*i Jte*
Bakawly
in

(H.)

The Story
verse,

of the Rose of

Hindiistany

composed in 1212 by RayAan, divided into 40

Beginning

chapters jJ&Zti.

As. Soc. No. 125, about 650 pp, of 15 bayts.

postcript that the
poetical

It

is

stated in the
is

work was revised

The
title is

in 1221.

There

an older
title

Rekhtah version of
ssls*.

this story extant,

which has the

of

uibJL ^Is*

a chronogram for 1151.

No. 701.]
Beginning

ROSTAM.

635
c/ ^- cs'^ <J** J? ^^ Cawnpore, 462 pp. of 11
l

Liu **>

(jSji*

d* f'H*

copy

is

in a private collection at
is

bayts.

There

also a

Dakhny
it

version of this story in the Topin 1035.

]

khanah, 130 pp. of 15 bayts,

was composed
l

u*

<jV cja

f&

Oji fl>

Beginning jU**jj oA*/ojjA JL ^gj^^

ui K u*g*i J&*j]y& wj* jl^G ^jt** ^' uj^cj^***

(699)

*j
of

The Dywan
Contents
&c. 9 pp.

Mihrban Khan J?wdf who was

(H.)
in the

service of Bangash,
:

Natzim of Farrokhabad. Ghazals, near 200 pp. of 1 1 bayts

Ruba'ys,

Beginning

As. Soc. No. 173, written in 1229.

(700)

&j gljgj

4J

<*Jjj*

^^ <C*<>lf

(H.)

The Dywan of Sayyid Mohammad Khan Rind, who came in 1240 from Farrokhabad to Lucnow, where he
still resides.

Contents

chiefly Ghazals divided into

fju lax*

two Dywans.

Beginning

^^ J]3

*j s^Ct]

jjj^

Lithographed, Cawnpore, Moctafay press, 1268, 216 pp., the margin

covered with text.

(701)

^j
Qacydah
in

*o~*S

(H.)

praise of

Acaf aldawlah, by Sayyid

iJosayn-bakhsh Rostam.

Beginning

vjJ.^ uf

^
M
2

*>

^^

V * cP

l2-^'

Topkhanah, 140 verses.

636

hindu'sta'ny poets.

[Chap.

III.

(702)

ol*"
Sajjad.

ji

(H.)

The Dywan of from Nawaz 'alyy

Lucnow.

Sajjad

He must be distinguished who is alive and resides at

Contents: Qacydahs in praise of Acaf aldawlah, Ghazals

and some
Id*.
\$

Qitf'ahs, &c.
*U|

Beginning of Ghazals
|*LI

^*>

^ J^

a^ UVS

)y^ &.*

FaraA-bakhsh, 322 pp. a fine copy, apparently written for the

author.

(703)

1^
:

euUiT

(H.)

Complete poetical works of Sawda.

Contents
lah,

Panegyrics chiefly in praise of Shuja' aldaw-

230 pp. of 12 bayts. Beginning ^iUl^ ^U-J

%j

^a
pp.

L*AJj& ^-^^
;

)?*>

Ghazals, Ruba'ys, &c. 324

Qil'ahs

among them

some chronograms, 32 pp. Beginning ^Uj . l^M

fc

riddles, 4 pp.

^H \j& '))*&*

95 Salams (invocations) and Marthiyahs or elegies on \j$y&s* ^a ^^? ^*jj| Uosayn, 424 pp. Bg. fL

&

Mathnawies and miscellaneous poems, some of them

with
critical
fc3

remarks in Persian prose, 400 pp.

\J& )

Bg.
"William

fV

J^ ? *%
An

*"!/* (5^

^j**
;

^aX*

j.j^

As. Soc. No. 46, a good copy written in 1212

;

College of Fort

a book-seller of Dilly has signified his intention of lithoextract has been printed at Calcutta,

graphing the Kullyyat.

1810, 4to.
;

reprinted Calcutta, 1847, 4to.

No. 706.]

shawq.

637

(704)

Jj vjju

(H.)

Power of enjoyment, being a version of the Kok Shashter into Dakhny verse, by Shihab aldyn, dedicated to Amyr Shah king of Golcondah. This poem is based upon the Persian translation of the Kok Shashter which
was made by Baryd Shah Ma/tmud.

Bg.

riJ>

K-Il

U ^a)

^J^ )*
folio,

tfxjjj* ^s*
lines,
b.

u u ^;

^ '^
for

As. Soc. Beng. No. 43,

150 pp. 13

a beautiful copy-

written in 1082, at IZaydarabad by Khidhr

Ya'qub

Darya

Khan

b. 'alyy

Khan.

Numerous blanks

are left for drawings.

(705)

ji
of

c \y^
bayts
;

(H.)

Dywan
&c. 12 pp.

Hasan

'alyy

Khan Shawq.
Ruba'ys,

Contents:

Ghazals, 168 pp. of 14

Beginning

Moty

MaAall, a good copy.

(706)

jjyfc

u8|1,m

*ol>

^^
^-**N
v

(H.)

Mokhammas'
Beginning

of

A^mad Jan
c-S^l^ ^

Sharyr of Dilly.
^r uf
i

^^

f^

Lithographed, Mocfofay press, 1268, 8 pp., the press has been

corrected by the author; a similar

poem

of only 4 pp. by Natzyr

has been published in the

MoAammady

press in 1208.

638

hindu'sta'ny poets.

[Chap.

III.

(707)

cWQacydahs

t$*)

(H.)

The Dywan
Contents
:

of Solayman-shikoh Solaymun, which he

collected in 1225.

in praise of the
;

Imams, 12

pp.

Ghazals, 200 pp. of 12 bayts

Marthiyahs, &c. 40 pp.

Beginning of Ghazals

Moty MaAall,

a good copy.

In the same collection

is

another

Dywan

of Solayman-Shikoh, 414 pp. of 9 bayts, containing besides

Ghazals, two Qacydahs, Tarjy'bands, &c.

Beginning of Ghazals

^1*3

Alii

^U

c^lSy

%\Z

uyo

L,^

(Jj-^ >!

Ja

(708)

jr>F^v
of

->

The Dywan
Contents
:

Myr
a

Soz.
1

Ghazals 300 pp. of

bayts

Ruba'ys,

Mokhammas and

Mathnawy, 22

pp.

Beginning

his

Moty Ma&all, three fine copies As. Soc. No. 179 an Dywan has been printed 4to. s. a. (Calcutta, 1810) 68
; ;

extract of pp.

(709)

^IkU 0J>
of
is

(H.)

The Dywan
takhalluc

Khwajah Sultan Khan of Patna whose Sultan, and who was in 1853 at Calcutta.

Beginning fc^U^. &i#l

in 1261.

fx*)yj.j
8vo.

Private collection, an elegant

MS.

230 pp. 9

lines,

copied

No. 714.]
(710)

tahsyn.

639

^Lb
of Taban.
!*.

&\j>6
It contains

(H.)
merely Ghazals.
er)

The Dywan
Beginning
fc

}**ji

!*&> %j*
ijXso

&\lj

J&))

^Jt jiS ^ jX*

^Jtj^

Tdpkhanah, 130 pp. of 9 bayts.

^yut L^A*J *]&} J$j Jrf **aS (H.) The Story of Bahram and Gulandam, in 1140 Dakhny verses, composed by Tab'y in 1081. Beginning
(711)
Ctm0d

vT

5*3

j_ ul4*>

-^*

<=~

^^

^ ii/f

'

wit"

As. Soc. No. 19, 140 pp. of 10 bayts.

(712)

^jl*
Jy
^~S

(H.)

The Spring of Love, a Mathnawy, by Tacadduq Hosayn Khan, who is familiarly called Hakym Nawab Myrza.
Beginning Id* ci?U^ u;y j*
Lithographed, Cawnpore, 1268, 42 pp.

(713)

m***** L-aaJuJ tsjytftui

(H.)
Ta//syn.

The Story
Beginning

of

Kamrup, a Mathnawy, by

^ ;W^ y J^ ^1
;

Edited by Garcin de Tassy, Paris, 1835, 8vo. 96 pp.

are very rare in this part of India.

MS.

copies

(714)
Poetry of Tajalliy.

6j~cr

()

Contents: a Majnun 6 Layla, 220 pp. of 13 baytsv

composed in 1199.
JdX*^

Chronogram
i^i

jg* J** **#

JjUa ^ly _U

gp ^

640

hindu'sta'ny poets.
;

[Chap.

III.

Ghazals, 140 pp. of 16 bayts

Ruba'ys, Qacydahs,

Marthiyahs, &c. 120 pp.

Beginning

Fara^-bakhsh, a good copy

Majniin.

As. Soc. No. 159, without the Layla

(715)

JJ^J-4

(H.)

The Bahare Danish, or the story of Jahandarshah, a Mathnawy by Tapish, dedicated to Dr. W. Hunter and Mr. Taylor. The poet says that he translated the story
from the Persian.

Beginning

As. Soc. Beng. No. 35,

written

folio,

about 800 pp. 11

lines,

apparently

under the superintendence of the author.

is

In the College of

Fort William
13
lines.

a copy of the Kullyyat of Tapish, about 803 pp. of

Beginning K JiJ

W^o w*U

^ ^*Vf
****

<*-

(&

(716)

**^j t_a : i^j

\+**> si/

^ f-yi^

(H.)

the

The Story of Pary-rokh and Mah-syma, in verse, by Nawab Wajyh aldawlah Wajyh aldyn Wajyh, com-

posed in 1191.

^J viJ^ a

v^

Beginning
[i

V J ^i

*)

^ J*

\JH

~M6ty Ma^all, 174

pp. of 15 bayts.

(717)

c/^y y^&k

jjLJ

(H.)

The Story of Talib Mohiny, in verse, by Walih, whose name is spelled JMj in all three instances in which it The language is bad and incorrect. occurs.
Bg.

-^

|A.

^ K

j.j

^1

Topkhanah, about 60

pp. of 10 bayts.

;J

&&& ^yn

y$

No. 721.]

WALYY.

641

(718)

J;
of

,$|>

(H.)

The Dywan
Beginning
MS.
'

Walyy

of Gujrat.

^j** tjj*&>

s^

Wj ur^ *y*fr
it is

f*

*j

Edited by Garcin de Tassy, Paris, 1834, 4to. 144 pp. of 24 bayts,

copies are frequent in India, though
is

no longer read.

In
This

the As. Soc. No. 237

a copy which

was written in 1146.

viz
:

and some other

copies,

commence with the Qacydahs,

(719)

^)d$*
of

(H.)

The Dywan
Contents
:

Waqif

of Faydhabad.
;

Ghazals, near 200 pp. of 9 bayts

miscel-

laneous poems, 24 pp.

^ij*>

Beginning

J^i/i

v^s*

4-'

{J^^S*

^>J*& \SJ? **$

^S

V^S*

As. Soc. No. 123, a very fine copy, written in 1202.

(720)

Jj

Ul<^ Jj

**S

(H.)

The Story

of Rattan,

by Walyy.

Beginning ;UJ

^^JX, J&y

X*)Vt O^j

b*a^

Topkhanah, about 400 pp. of 11 bayts.

(721)

Sj ,!#>
of

(H.)

The Dywan
Contents
:

Matzhar

'alyy

Khan Wild.
and a few specimens
;

a short autobiography

of the poetry of his father, 12 pp. of 15 lines

1

Qacydahs,

20 pp.

Ghazals,

about

00 pp.

Mania's,

Ruba'ys

Qi^ahs, &c. about 90 pp.

Beginning of Ghazals

As. Soc. No. 60, 4to. this copy was presented to the College of

Fort William by the author, in 1810.

012

hindu'sta'ny poets.

[Chap.

III.

(722)

UTi

^y*

(H.)
exclusively of

Ghazals.

The Dywan of Yakrang. It consists The language is obsolete.

Iri
3

^Ad ay> J^ J+J*' *^

WW ab^ J4> yj^

^ J'u^
(H.)
Bg.
^

Beginning

Topkhanah, 85 pp. of 13 bayts, two copies.

(723)

j/id]y.^
of Yakrii.
J^i' \j%*

The Dywan
US
ItXi.

The language
l>dj**

is

obsolete.

jX5,

^b

yCj&

clj

O^J^4>

^f- ^S'*

Topkhanah, 180 pp. of 12 bayts.

(724)

i-Ae&a
of In'am

(H.) Yaqyn.
It

The Dywan
merely Ghazals.

Allah

contains

Beginning

Moty
copies,

MaAall, two copies, 82 pp. of 12 bayts

Topkhanah, several
'alarn

one of them was written in the 16th year of Shah

;

1188

As

Soc.

No. 164.

(725)

j,U &\j>o

(H.)
a few

The Dywan of Yawar. It contains Ghazals and Ruba'ys. The language is obsolete and bad.
Moty
MaAall, 168 pp. of 15 bayts, the copy
is

Bg.

of some age.

(726)

e^-^-l
e^s-^yj ^jt ^as

(H.)

Mysteries of Love, or the story of Sassy and Pannii,

composed in 1187, chronogram

Lithographed, Lucnow,
s. a.

20 pp.

No 723]
(727)

NAL DAMAN.

643
(H.)

^oli

Nal Daman, a Mathnawy of 1675 bayts, translated

from the Persian in 1229, chronogram
jjil

l^=J; ^U-.)j <^

Beginning^

U*j o?;)

^1 ^-^ V.^ ^

!**

^^ ^1 i%L\j*J>

Lithographed, Lucnow, Mortadhawy press, 50 pp. of three columns.

(728)

<uU eOi;

(H.)

The death of the Prophet, into Rekhtah verses.

translated from the Arabic

Beginning

Lithographed, Cawnpore, 1267, 8vo. 25 pp.

There occurs in

it

Ghazal by Kafiy but

Kafiy
is

-fiTajiy

Mohammad

iZbsayn informed

me

that

not the author of the Mathnawy.

(729)

laJiiX,

r lflJ
1

(H.)

Bahram and Gul-andam,a story in 340Dakhny verses,

composed, as
it is

stated in the conclusion, in forty days in

1081, and dedicated to Shah Raju

Hosayny
<=-<>

of Golconda.

Bg. _*!
11
lines.

&/

5$3

L**r**&
folio,

vcr

v u t

*df*

v_*v

As. Soc. Beng. No. 19,

a beautiful copy, about 100 pp.

644

ADDENDA.

[CHAP.

I.

Additions to the first chapter.

(730)

p
of Goparnaw.
this

Vl

AX

(P.)

Tadzkir.ih of Persian poets by Qudrat Allah

Khan

Qudrat
aldawlah

He came

in

1227

to
it

Madras
to Siraj

where he compiled

book and he dedicated

Mo/mmmad

Ghavvth Khan

(see p. 172).

Among

the sources, he mentions the Tadzkirahs described under

Nos. 32, 18, 19, 14, 13, 24, 25, and also the Safynah of

By-Khabar

(see p. 144),

Gule Ra'na

(see pp.

145 and

645), Baharistane

Sokhon by

'abd al-Razzaq and

Shame

Gharyban by Shafyq of Awrangabad.

This work contains 528 short biographies alphabetically arranged,

with extracts from their works.

There has been

Neatly lithographed, Madras, 1843, 8vo. 476.

lithographed at Madras, 1851, 8vo. 25G pp. a selection of Persian

and Kekhtah poetry from various authors made by Assistant Surgeon

Ward.

It has the title of

&=*" &~>

(731)

vJ,U o+=*

Mjg*.a

lytaJl

ifct

(P.)

Notices of a few Persian poets in ninety Persian verses

by Mohammad 'arif of Lahor. Beginning;^ Ley y ^Jtx Mowlawy Mohammad AVajyh's collection.

^-^

(732)

&* ysi
of Love.

(P.)

The Lancet

This

is

the poetical

title

of a

Tadzkirah of Persian

poets, compiled

by Hosayn Qulyof Dilly.

in
1

Khan

af Patna a son of

Aqa Quly Khan

Mr.

His
230.

takhalluc^

was

'ishq,
it

and he completed this work

Elliot.

He

undertook

at the request of

Among

NO. 732.]
the
authorities
are

KASHTAKE
the

'iSHQ.

i\i.'y

works described under Nos. and

the

7, 16, 34,

25, 24, 23, 18, 21, 19, 13, 14, and the follow-

ing

iiTayat alsho'ara,

Mardume
see

dydah, or

the pupil of the eye (see page 144

supra), Tadzkirah
pp.

By natzyr by Myr 'abdal-Wahhab

213.

144

and

He

also used

^xcjji

(see

p.

145) by

Lachrny
his ta-

Narayan whose
khalluc,

takhalluc^

was Shafyq.

Under

we

find

the

following

account of

Narayan, his father Mansa

Ram

was a

Lachmy Khatry, who

derived his descent from the Panjab, but his grandfather

had
in
1

settled at

Awrangabad.

Lachmy Narayan was born

first

158 and was instructed in Persian literature by Azad.

wrote Persian and Rekhtah verses and used
the
the

He

takhalluc; of Ckhib, subsequently

he changed

it

at

request of

Azad

into Shafyq.

His tadzkirah contains an

account of the poets of India and has considerable merit.

cJJlkli)

^i:-u"* apparently a general Tadzkirah by

'alyy

Mawlawy Ra/jm

Khan

of Farrokhabad a son of
of

Bahramand Khan. He had the takhallu9 was a good Arabic and Persian scholar.
aii^dilyt [,..*. (do^iw by

Yman
died

and
at

He

Farrokhabad on Wednesday the 16th Cafar, 1224.

Myrza Janjanan Matzhar who

historical

was born in 1110, see pp. 256 and 488. Besides he professes to have used several

works and dictionaries such as the Cub^ Cadiq, Firishtah, Ayyn Akbary. A copy of the Cubh Cadiq, which is
also

mentioned by Azad see

p.

144 supra

is

in the col-

lection of Sir

H.

Elliot.

Beginning obj*y*
Private collection, small

^U
folio,

s.*>

sSl j^=r" ^<

a-*^
lines.

about 1200 pp. of 16

vfl

ERRATA AND ADDENDA.

Page

3, line 11,

Rudegy read Rudaky from Rvidak

a village

of Samarqand, see

Bland, Journ. Roy. As. Soc. Vol. IX. p. 121.

,,

3, 5,

,,

34,

Bihramy read Bahramy.

read 909
(sic for 709).

,,

,,

26, read eleventh chapter.

last line,

17,

18, 12, read

MaAmud

b. 'alyy d.

Khwaju.
d.

19,

read HnUaj
1,

SabzwSry

830 Salymy
Sayfy
d.

854 Amyr

Shahy

d,

857

(these dates are from Dorn).

,,

20,
20,

,,

read

Amyr Yadgar Beg

read Fanayiy.

870.

,,
,,

,,

16, Fatayiy
1,

22,
23,

,, ,,
,, ,, ,,

read Nargisy d. 938.

,,
,,

13,

MoAtasham read MoAtashim.

is.

28,

35, #aly was read Hk\y

7,

,,
,,

32,
65,

Farusjhy tead Forughy.

3, Nijaty

read Najaty.

68, 10, 11, 13, read Abu-1-Fadhl of Abu-1-Nacr of Mahnah.

Mahnah Abii

Sa'yd of

Mahnah

,,

74,

,,

35, Koluj read Kaluj.

22, read Hatify d
5,

87,

,,
,,

927.

96,

,, ,, ,, ,,

109,
127,

,,
,,
,,
,,

Ayany read Arany. 11, read in A. H. 1106.

1, 'aily

read

'aliy.

127,
127,

10,

Ganjah read Ganjawah.

19,

Nazawy read Nagawdy.

137,
,,
,,

,,
,,

35, alal read al'al.

19, omit see p. 159, infra..
4.

144,
150,

,, ,,
,,

Burhampor read Burhanpor.

Afiryn read Afaryn.

,,

150,
150,

8,

,,

17, read

Amyr Khosraw
'attar d. 627.

d.

725.

151, 12, read

,,

152,

,,

5,

omit

it

may be by

'alyy

Ibrahym Khan,

see

No. 45

infra.

,,
,,

156,
156,

,,
,,

6,

Radhyy read Radhiy.

Zakyy read Taqyy or Naqyy. add according to the Tohf. 'alam

10, Satfy' read Sa/iy.

1,

,,
,,

160,

,,

161, 15,

of 'abd al-La/yf, p. 225,

Adzor

died in 1195.

168, 17, Rif at read Raf'at.

180, 12, 1008 read 1208.

,,

181,

,,

20, read informs us.

V?

ERRATA.
,,

182,
182,

,,

8, 'ishqy

read 'ishq.

,,

,,

18and

19, read \J)y

u*~^

f**-*fc*

%jf& ** (*^in

185,
,,

last line,

1219 read 1229 and add, he died

1250.

186,

,,

13, in Arabia read in Arabic.

(

187 26 and 27, read (j^*J>

,,

**'

aUXf.

204. 28, 1121 read 1221.

278, 29, 1105 read 1205.

,, ,,

366,

,,

12, 'orudhy read 'arudby.

367, m 18,
,,

Dywans read poems.

but one
line,

430,

last

^'jyM read ^Jjj^ J>

474,
584,
,,

22,^
last line,

read V**.
read
It

was composed

in

1238, the chronogram

is

(J<*

p!/**.

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