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UNIVOFTORONTO
presented
to
of tbe
Tllniveratt? of
Toronto
to.
A
CATALOGUEOF THE
ARABIC, PERSIAN
AND HINDUSTANI
MANUSCRIPTS,OP THE
LIBRARIES OF THE KING OF OUDH,COMPILED
UNDEE THE OEDEES OF THE GOVEENMENT OF INDIABYA.
SPRENGER, M.
D.
OF THE BENGAL MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT, TRANSLATOR TO THE
GOVERNMENT OF
INDIA, ETC.
VOL.
I.
CONTAINING PERSIAN AND HINDU'STA'NY POETRY.
CALCUTTA:PRINTED BEJ.
THOMAS, AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS.1854.
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 purposeof cataloguing the extensive collection of works in Arabic and Persian literature in the king of Oudh's libraries.
Among my
instructions
was the following, " you need not conbut you can under-
fine yourself exclusively to the king's libraries,
take, as opportunity offers, the examination of some of the best private collections in that city, which are supposed to contain
many
rare and valuable works/'
the 3rd of March, 1848, and I left it One month I had other duties to 1850. on the 1st January, perform and near three months I was sick. The time which I devoted to cataloguing was about eighteen months. During this I arrived at
Lucnow on
time I examined about 10,000 volumes. .Very many of them were duplicates; but as no kind of arrangement exists, particularly in the Topkhanah library, and as it is impossible to recollect
whether or not a note has been taken of a book, duplicates took just as much time as new works. There are also many defective volumes which after much search for 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 atropical 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 passagesmight mark ; but he soon entered into the spirit of the work and was of very great service. Some time after my return fromas I
iv
PREFACE.I
recommended him to the. late Lieut. Governor of the North Western Provinces and he appointed him first Professor
Lucnow
He died in that post in 1852, of Arabic of the Agra College. about thirty years of age. I take this opportunity publicly torecordtrious
my
sense of gratitude and esteem to this talented indus-
and conscientious young man. The Royal Library at Lucnow was originally kept in the old Palace (Purana Dawlat-khanah), which stands on an eminence
between the
and the iron bridge over the It contained the whole in ruins. nearly treasures of #afitz Ra^mat Khan, and was of the literary subsequently much enriched more particularly by Ghaziy aldyn
Rumy Darwazahis
Gumpty and
now
Uaydar.
At
present
it is
divided into three collections.
The valuable
works upwards of three thousand volumes are preserved in a garden house of the Moty Ma/jall Palace, and elegant books are kept close to the Fara/i-bakhsh Palace in which theliterary
king used to reside. This collection contains about one thousand volumes or less, and formed the private library of Hislate
late
Majesty.
librarians.
The Daroghah thereof superintends the other Books, in these two collections w ere kept in shelves,r
I was at Lucnow, and were in tolerably good order, but lately, I hear, they have been given up to pillage. The third collection is in the Topkhanah or arsenal, which isclose
when
to the house
of the British Resident.
The
arsenal
is
an
extensive building including a large square which is filled with guns. Three sides of the building are devoted to military stores,
The books are up-stairs is the library. in about forty dilapidated boxes camel trunks which are kept at the same time tenanted by prolific families of rats ; and anyadmirer of oriental lorethis collection will
and in the northern wing
who may have an
opportunity to
visit
do well to poke with a stick into the boxes, before he puts his hand into them, unless he be a zoologist as well At the end of the hall there are bags full of as an orientalist.books completely destroyed by white ants. Even new books have not been spared by these destructive insects, nearly the wholeedition of the Taj alloghat has been destroyed,
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
PREFACE.themare
Vfor the brave
some Pashtu works written with great carechief.
and learned Rohilla
It 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 are at least one hundred copies of the Gulistan and as
many
of Yusof
fill the places librarian sold
u Zalykha in the Topkhanah, which apparently of more valuable works. I have heard that a late in one week eleven hundred Rupees worth of books
to provide funds for the marriage of his daughter. In making this statement I beg to say that I have every reason to speak highly of the present Daroghahs or librarians, and that
I consider
them
perfectly honest.
They
are very civil
men, more
particularly one of the two librarians in the Topkhanah, and it is much to be regretted that men like him had not charge of thelibrary
from the commencement.strictly
Though not
connected with the subject, the reader will
perhaps be glad to obtain some information regarding theprinting offices.
Lucnow
Ghaziy aldyn #aydar founded a typography at great expense, and one of the works the Haft Qulzum which issued from ithas attained a greater celebrity in Europe than it enjoys in India. Besides this Dictionary, the following books have been printedin types at
Lucnow
:
fyky^t v-JUJi^ The praise of Ghaziy aldyn #aydar, in Arabic, by A^mad Shirwany, 1235, small folio, 200 pp. (SJ***> ^o^, a similar work in Persian prose and verse, by
Akhtar 003^
(see
4jL*4&.
page 599 infra), 1238, small folio, 288 pp. An account in Persian prose and verse of the
meeting of Lord Hastings and Ghaziy aldyn #aydar, by Akhtar, 1239, 8vo. 131 pp.Panj surah or theprayers,s.
A.
Surahs of the Q,oran usually repeated in 4to. printed in the form of a Toghra.five
Taj alloghat, an Arabic Dictionary explained in Persian, in seven volumes, large folio, only four volumes have been printed in types, s. A. the remaining three have been lithographed, Vol. I.
725 pp.
;
Vol. V. 594 pp.
Vol. II. 624 pp. ; Vol. III. 252 pp. ; Vol. IV. 176 pp. Vol. VI. 408 pp. ; Vol. VII. 138 pp. ;
;
Vi
.PREFACE.
About the year 1830, Mr. Archer who had established a came at the request of lithographic printing office at Cawnpore to Lucnow with his press and entered his Na9yr aldyn #aydarservice.
book lithographed at Lucnow is the A**y %* being a commentary on the Alfyyah, by Soyufy, 1247, 8vo. 247 pp. When I was at Lucnow there were twelve private lithographic
The
first
presses in that city.
Those of Hajythe best.
Mohammad
//bsayn and
Moytaf a
Khan were by far
In 1849, are particularly correct. to the observatory, wishing to ingratiate himself at court, shiy
Some editions of the former Kama! aldyn TJaydar, Mun-
wrote a history of the Royal family of Oudh. Two passages happened to displease His Majesty, and instantly the observatory wasabolished and printing was forbidden at Lucnow, lest this objecThe proprietor of the tionable production might be published. went on the suggestion of the author of these pages MasyMy press
and most other printers followed him. Some however, among them Mo9/afa 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 notto Cawnpore,
now
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 wealready 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 agov.erses 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
people are gradually beginning to study the book, and I shall have to describe several commentaries on it in Arabic, Persian and Hindustany which have lately been published. The study of thetraditions or
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,their religion, they areintelligible to all.
several centuries ago, entirely lost sight of the original idea of 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. India is the
and there
only country in the old continent in which the press is entirely free, is hardly a town in the upper provinces in which there
Of late, several tales and are not several newspapers published. works written expressly for ladies have been printed, and religiousseemis
to
meet with a rapid
sale.
Though the new
literature
which
rising has not
as rapidly
and came printing
intrinsic value, things are progressing as healthily as they did in Europe, when the art offirst
much
into vogue.
The tendency
is
oriental
and
already a spirit of liberality is manifesting which is the natural result of progress from school-learnitself, ing and court refinement to a general civilization.
Mo^ammadan, but
volume should comprise the fourth of which was to contain Persian grameight chapters,It
was
originally intended that this
mars, dictionaries, letters and letter-forms and works in elegant prose, the fifth, the corresponding Hindustany books, and thelast three, translations
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 atable 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
sick certificate forits
two
years,
and to content
Should it present form. be continued, what is 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 The remaining volumes will be devoted to the prose writers.sciences of the
himself with publishing the book in
Musalmans
:
in the third, for instance, will bephilo-
described the biographies and works of 9ufi es or mystical sophers and theologists.
Vlii
PREFACE.I
In transcribing oriental names and words into English,
have adopted the principle which is followed in transcribing from one European language into another. A Frenchman spellsBrougham,, Peel and Goethe, and not Broum, Pile and Gueute and
however erroneously they may pronounce these names, what persons are meant. This is the object. Writing is know a symbol for the eye, aud pronunciation must be acquired byhis readers,
the ear.
a
Koman
letter, in
I have substituted for every Arabic and Persian letter some instances however, as I did not choose tocast, it
have new types
was unfortunately necessary 'to employ
two
KomancA;
sh=
representatives for one oriental symbol, as ch= ^ ; dz= i ; tz= &. The zh= 3 ; ; ; th=
dh=
&
rendered by a diaeresis, alif where it is of any use at all, and the quiescent w, if preceded by an u, are represented by an accent ; this is
Mowayyad
.fladdady
called
explained by 3^
^j^man was
106.107.
ITakym Shamsa good poet.
Shamsy. an illiterate Majd aldyn Fahymy Bokhary, thoughala'raj
Bokhary
Hakym
108.109. 110.
'ajyby Khojandy.
Sayyid Ashrafy Samarqandy.
A9yl aldyn Najyb.III.rPoe-ts
of the
'irdq.
111.
Jffakym Nitzamy of Granjah.
/(
n\ * 'I
*^
-^^^ rtU^JW >*W*fc L ~^ ^ ^/ ^ Y
i
*."l,l
/'Ti"\I
) \I s.
The
spring garden of Jarny,
who
died in A. H. 898,
(for a notice
on his
life
see the next chapter).
It is divided into
contains eight
eight chapters ***# each of which Ayyns or rules 1 Anecdotes of Saints: .
Nos.2.
2, 3.]
DAWLAT-SHA'H.3.
7
Anecdotes and sayings of Sages4.
Advice
to rulers
and anecdotes of them5.
On
liberality arid generosity7.
On
love
6.
On kindness**J ***-=> c-f
and amiability8.'
Short
biographies of twenty-eight poets
Fables.];
Beginning
j} }
^
^
j
**
j*
As. Soc. B. No. 500, 8vo. 158 pp. of 17 lines, an old copy. Extracts from the last two chapters are contained in the Anthologia Persica, Vienna, 1778. The whole of the text with a Grerman translation has been published
by Baron Schlechta Wssehrd, Vienna, 1846.
(3)Tadzkirah,'alai.
aUll^j L-ft^^J lytie.
*jfJ
(P)b.
Memoranda
of poets by Dawlat-shah
aldawlah Bakhty-shah.
He
completed this
book in
A. H. 892, and dedicated it to the poet and wazyr Myr 'alyy Shyr. It appears from the preface that Dawlat-shah was fifty years of age when he commenced this labour.divided into a preface A^-^ which contains notices of nine Arabic poets and seven chapters,
The book
is
ci^l? answering to the spheres of the seven planets, and a conclusion. Each chapter contains about twenty poets andthe conclusion contains the lives of six contemporaries, among them are Jamy, 'alyy Shyr, A'cafy and Sohayly.
This
is
one of theIt
best
known
and most usefulhistorical
Tadzkirahs.
contains valuable
details
besides the biography of poets.this
book and
its
author
Ilahy p. 121, says on " Dawlat-shah his tadz:
kirah contains
180 biographies and
is
very celebrated.
Though he does not quote many goodcal
verses, the histori-
and biographical portion of his work is done in a masterly manner and shows much research, 'alyy ShyrTadzkirah that heis
informs us in his
the cousin
of
8
PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.Isfarayiny,
[CHAP.
I.
Amyr Fayruz
who wasis
a distinguished man.
The Takhallu9 of Dawlat-shah Initial line L^*A,O *jjjlThe best +s?
'alayiy."
l.uL
-UaU
*$
in the Moty Ma&all. Copies are not frequent, yet there are five is written in Naskhy, and has 626 pages of 17 lines.is
A
beautifully written but incorrect copy*\j*.
inscribed ja *JliftA e*&x.b
8^& Theis
the book
preface differs from that of other copies and defective, but in other respects it is a copy of Dawlattitle.
shah under a different B. No. 537.siens
There
is
also a copy in the As. Soc.
Hammer's
Geschichte der schonen Redekunste 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. Vullers has published the life of Hafitz from it, pp. 220272. Giessen 1839, and J. H. Harington the Life of Sa'dy in his editionof the works of that poet, Calcutta, 1791.
(4)
&p*
^
c-iaA-
&j\ Js^
(P.)
The mirrorMo'yn aldyn
of souls or spirits, probably
by 1/osayn
Maybodzy who
flourished in the tenth cen-
His name does not occur in the tury of the Hijrah. preface but it is found towards the end of the book.
These are
selections
from Persian and Turky poets
without biographical notices except in a very few inThe Persian poets are Firdawsy with a short stances.
Nitzamy, Kamal Khojandy, Sa'dy, Salman Sawajy, //asan Dihlawy, Amyr Khosraw,Anwary, Shaykh-zadah Lahijy (Commentator of the Gulshane Raz),vocabulary, 'a9car,
Faryd aldynry, Jamy, &c.
'a#ar,
Khaqany, Tzahyr aldyn Faryaby,
Isma'yl Ispahany, Jalal aldyn
Rumy, Ma^mud
Shabishte-
No.
5.]
LADIES' BIOGRAPHY.Poets are;
9
The Turky
Myr
'alyy
Shyr Nawayiy,*^~*
Yiisof Beg, Wacily,
Beginning c^-1
^ ^ ^/H/;
Fodhuly Baghdady, Nasymy, &c.1
*
^
As. Soc. Beng. No. 577, 8vo., 824 pp. 17copy.
lines.
An
old correct
(
R)by
GemsFakhry
of curiosities being a Tadzkirah of poetessesb.
Amyry
of Herat.
The author
informs us that
with the intention to perform the pilgrimage to Makkah, he came during the reign of Shah T'ahmasb Hosayny(reigned fromtry
930
to 984) to Sind, the ruler of that coun'ysa
was thenit
Mohammad
Tarkhanthis
(died in
974,)
and
would appear that he wrote
book
at his Court.
Ilahy who frequently quotes this book under the title of jU.jJl %j$S> or "Biography of Ladies" gives the follow" ing notice of Fakhry Fakhry Herawy was a friend of:
Myr
'alyy Shyr.
Some say
this is the
same Fakhry who
has been mentioned in the preceding article." In the " preceding article he says, Sul/an MoAammad Amyry, whose takhalluf is Fakhry, was a distinguished man
and lived to the time of Shah Tahmasb.this sovereign in his
He
praised
poems and he is the Translator of Tadzkirah called Majdlis alnafdyis* Amyr 'alyy Shyr's from Turky into Persian. He added notices of some*
Myr
'alyy
Shyr the author of the Majdlis completedin
it
in
903 ac-
cording to906.
Hammer, and
896 according to J?ajy Khalyfah, and died in
The Chagatay text is divided into eight parts Majdlis and contains 441 biographies. Baron von Hammer- Purgstall, who possesses a copy of it, has given a notice of the work and a list of the biographies in the catalogue of his library.
W.
Jahrb. Vol. 74, Anzbl.
p. 11, 1836.
C
10of the
PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.second period.
[CHAP.the
I.
poets
He
is
also
authorthe
which contains of the Bostan alkhayal various poets of his age." mania's of the ghazals of
J^'
J^
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 theIn a note to p. 263 Ilahy says equally, son of Amyry. that 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 this work, " Among the works of of the Khol^ah says
Myr
'alyy
Shyr
is
the Majdlis alnafdyis which he wrote
in the
Turky language. Mawlana SuUan Mohammadhas translatedit
Amyrymany
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'ydIt will
Shahrokh
to the time of
Shah Isma'yl."
lator
be observed that according to this author the transThis is probably Majalis was Amyry. correct, Amyry is the translator of the Majalis, and aof theis
contemporary of Myr 'alyy Shyr, and his son Fakhry the author of this Tadzkirah.In the preface**iA s-^oUa/o^
is
the following chronogramj
^I
[,
jy^
^
tj^
^^ the wife of Qiwam aldyn
JETasan,
she
initiated in ma'rifat (theosophy).
Mihry (Sj** aMoghiil
favourite wife of Shahrokh Myrza. See Khold?.
N. 634.3.
Khatym
f*l*.
Jj** wife of Mohammad Khan ShaySultan.
bany and mother of
Mohammad RaAym
Only Turky verses
are quoted of her in the Tadzkirah.4.
Abaq Bygah Jalayr^^ **#sister of
Jalayr and'alyy,5.
,)
was acquainted with Jamy and knew astrology. 7. 'i9maty !
Acaf.alphabeti-
cally arranged.
^U
**fi )
I?
*V^* *^A* y f U;
^
Moty Hawaii
a splendid copy 8vo. 640 pp. 14 lineslines.
Topkh^nah
about 700 pp. 17
C7)
(P.)
being a biography of the contemporaneous poets of Persia, compiled by the Prince Sainpresent of
The
Sam
Myrza
b.
Shah Isma'yl
in
957
Shah Ismd'yl the
father
of the author was the founder of the
Cafawy Dynasty. This book has been described by de Sacy, in the Notices et Extraits des MSS. Vol. IV. pp. 273308.Itis
divided into sevennotices
chapters
^^^.
The
first
four
contain
of Princes, Nobles,
Wazyrs and
learned
men who have
occasionally written poetry, begin-
ning with Shah 5th Chapter.
Isrna'yl,
184 pages.
On
professional poets and
men
distin-
guished by eloquence. It begins with Jamy, 162 pages. 6th. Tatars who have written Persian poetry.
Appendix. This and the preceding chapters together have only 34 pages. The book is valuable for containing contemporaneous7th.
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
BeginningIn the Fara/4-bakhsh library is an elegant copy small 8vo. 350 pages Another good copy is in the Moty Ma&all. of 15 lines.
(8)
^\(^^^\l^^^\^^
(P.)
butter of poems and the cream of conceits being a Tadzkirah of Persian poets by Taqyy aldyn Moham-
The
mad
He was b. Sharaf aldyn 'alyy Hosayny Dzikry. He is very particular born at Kashan about A. H. 946. in giving us the dates on which he completed variousportions of his
work. In 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. friend of
A
his
embodied
this date in the following
chronogram
:
^'
the five books of the Biographer Taqyy were deposited in volumes like a treasury I added to fix thedate five to the Jive books of Taqyy" The letters of the Persian words for Jive books of Taqyy have the numerical
"
When
you have the above date. After the completion of the work he made many additions and in 1016, he informs us, he found it necessary to publishvalue 988 andif
you add
five,
ai.
new editione.
in six
volumes and the words
$ ^^.^* e^-
^ixxj265.
an(i Qacydahs, G-hazals, Satyres, &c.
Amyr Akbar
'alyy Tashbyhy
was the son of a washerman.is
He
went to India, and turned a Faqyr, but as hebe of much use to hissoul.
an
infidel his
ascetic exercises cannot
He*>i
left
a
dywanbut
of about 8000 verses and a
Mathnawymany
called
H-*>^
266.
Mawlana Dhiya aldyn Grhadhanfar was bornBesidescalled
at
Qomm
educated at Kashan.a
Qa9ydahs, Grhazals, &c. he left
Mathnawy267.
^[^j^
of about 3000 verses in the measure
of Tiisof 6 Zalykha.
Mawlana Kamal aldyn TLdtim, hisfirst
original
name was Haybat
Allah and his
takhalluc Haybat.
He
had great poetical talents
and a corresponding opinion of himself.268.
Mawlana Motzaffar aldyn
TLasraty a pupil of
MoAtasham
in
whose praise he composed some Qacydahs. 269. Mawlana Ridhayiy was in 990 in Kirman.270.
Mawlana Nadzry,tribe.
his father
mother of the Olds271.
He
was a Shamlii Turk, and his was born in Kashan, but went to
Khorasan, thence he came to Qazwyn and returned to Kashan.
Faryd aldyn Sho'ayb.
272.
Mawlana Afdhal Duttiry was put to death
for infidelity in 904.
No.
9.]
TAQYY ALDYN KA'SHY.Sharaf, a native of Ardestan, whichis
25near Ispahan,distin-
273.
MawlanaKashan
came274.
to
as a tailor, but
became one of the most
guished poets of his age.
He
wrote chiefly Grhazals.
//aydar Dzihny wrote chiefly G-hazals and some huinoristic
pieces of poetry in the dialect of Kashan.
275.
Maq$ud went
in
971 from Kashan to Shyraz, and subse-
quently he performed the pilgrimage to Makkah. to 276. ~H.aydty was originally a water-carrier, subsequently owing some disgusting adventures he was obliged to take flight to Qazwyn,
where he joined some devotees. They were apprehended on the charge of infidelity, their books were examined, and they were imprisoned.
After two years' confinement he returned in 986 to Kashan.verses,
He
composed a dywan of about 2000his original
His father being a Mardumy, tradesman, he was brought up for the profession of book-binding, nevertheless he received a good education and was for some time277.
name was #ajy.
Qadhiy at Niyasir, a place near Kashan, but subsequently he returned to his original profession.278. 'abd al-Grhaffar a brother of 'abd al-FattaA and an accomplished calligraph and musician.279.
Qadhiy
Mohammad
a descendant of 'abd al-Eazzaq the
author of the Tawylat.280.
According to the new edition he was calledhis forefathers
Khwajah 'inayat Saltaq Khwdjagy,
were
Salta-
qyyah Turks. his time there.281.
He had landed property in Myasir and spent most of He imitates the style of ^afy. He was alive in 975.is
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. He dug a grave for himself He visited outside the Ispahan gate and made himself a tombstone.his grave every Friday.
282.
283.
Samdyiy was a distinguished oculist and chess-player. /Josayn Khigaly a pupil of MoAtasham had first the takhal-
Iu9 of Wi?aly. She? wry was one of the most talented poets of 284. that period.
Kashan
at
285.
KhwajahBaqir.
Jalal aldyn Mas'iid a son of Sayyid
Shams aldyn
MoAammad
His father was a merchant, and died in Turkey,
E
26
PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
[CHAP.
I
Jalal aldyn went to Constantinople leaving a considerable property. with a view of recovering it, and died of the plague in 982 or 988. Grhadhanfar a son of Pahm (Fahmy ?) a talented man who 286.
gave himself up to profligacy and died in 993.287.288.
Wahsky Khwajah ffosayn
imitates 'orfy
and Grhayraty.
Kisra '
Baku
d.
965.
'obaydy, 'obayd Allah
SuUan
b.
'itaby,
Khan b. Mafanud SuUan b. Shah Badagh Khan d. 947. 'itaby, TJabyb Allah. Abu-1-Khayr 'izzaty Hamadany. Sayyid Mohammad Najafy is alive.'azyz,
'izzy Lahijy d. 962.
Myrza Kokah.
'azyzy, 'abd al'azyz
Khan
b.
'obayd Allah
Khan
d.
959.
'azyzy Grhaznawy. 'azyzy, Myr azyz Allah. In the Nafayis are two poets of this
namepro-
and takhallu9, one was
alive
when the book was compiled and
is
bably identic with the one mentioned by Badawny, and the other died in 999. (979?)
Mirza 'askary.'ishqy,
'ishraty Yazdy.
'ishqy Sawajy.
'alayiy
'ishqy Khan. Khwajah Ma'9um. Qadhiy Kahrudy LS*JJ d. 936.
Sayyid
'ala aldyn.
'ilmy ('alamy?),'ilmy
Myr Mortadha. ('alarny ?), Mohammad b. Jffasan
Lary.'ahdy Nayistany.
'alyy Beg.
'ahdy,
Myr 'alyy A9ghar Mashhady. Khwajah Mohammad Ea%m is alive.
Qadhiy 9afyy aldyn 'ysa d. 980. Ghayiby. G-hazzaly Junbak.
Qadhiy 'ysa TabryzyGhazzaly Mashhadyis alive.
d.
981.
d.
981.
Ghaznawy, MyrGhayraty.
Mohammad Kalanb.
Ghanayiy Lary.
Farighy Shyrazy.
Farighy Qazwyny Sayfy
Myrb.
Sa'd almulk jffbsayny.
Farighy, Shaykh Abu-1-Wajd Fadhil Andejany^JVA.C^JI
Shaykh Wajyh aldyn
d.
940.
Fayidhy
MoAammad Miimin
b.
Myr Dust
jTarimy
is alive.
H
2
52
PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
[CHAP.
1.
FatAy Qard a contemporary of Humayun. Myrza A9ghar of Mashhad. Fatyayiy called Molla-zadah, his name is Fakhr aldyn b. jffbsayn Fakhry Wa'itz Kashify, sometimes he used the takhallu9 of 9 afy v^
2.
oy^ ^V
3.
**^ cr
^ 4.
and two prose works^i '^Lr* (perhaps
Siraj
aUibr) and
Moqi/md a brother of the preceding died at Teheran. Myrza Eadhyy Danish a Sayyid of Mashhad. His father AbuTorab died in India.
Dara Shikoh gave him
for a
poem one thousand
N
2
92
PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
[CHAP.
I"
at Golconda,
Tomans, subsequently he entered the service of the Qofobshahians and at present he lives at Mashhad.Murshida) of Barujard died in India. Myr Ildliy (see p. 66 supra). Myr 'ayn 'alyy. Myrza Jany 'izzaty Shyrazy died at Mashhad.
Murshid
(or
Molla Bawnaqy of Hamadan died in India. Molla Waqifvi Khalkhal imitated Nitzamy and Mawlawy Jalalaldyn Kiimy.
He
died in Turkey.
Ibrahym Tasalliy of Shyraz visited India and in 1034 or 1026 he made the pilgrimage to Makkah and died soon after.TAyib Kirmany. Myr Moghy9 Mahwy died in India. Fakhr Thabit Tafryshy died in India. TTmmaty of Khorasan wrote Qa9ydahs in praise of Shah 'abbas. Molla Sharafy Qazwyny was originally a tailor, subsequently he
obtained a pension from Shah 'abbas. Molla Qaydy Shyrazy a pupil of Ghayraty.a Sayyid of Samnan. a pupil of J?akym Shifayiy. Fadhly Churbadqany Myr 'abd al-Ghanyy Ghanyy Tafryshy a pupil of Abii-1-Qasim
Qaydy Kirmany.
Myr Fosuny
Kazeruny and a friend of Molla ^ufythe Shah died soon after.
He
cursed Shah 'abbas and
Ta^ya Sabzwary a distinguished Munshiy Molla Molhimy Tabryzy died at Shyraz.Tahmasb Quly Begabout 12,000 verses.'arshy
d.
1028.
Tazdy of Turky
origin left a
Dywan
of
Molla Darkyverses.
Qommyis is
died
many
years ago and left about 20,000
.Hasan
Beg Rafy'
of
Qazwyn but
is
called
Mashhady from
his
place of residence, he
invited by Shah-jahan to
a distinguished Insha writer and was therefore come to India. He conferred the appoint-
ment of Munshiy upon him but subsequently discarded him, and now he lives in great poverty in India.of Ispahan a contemporary of .//akym Molla Sayry Churbadqany died on his way to Makkah. Shifayiy. Myr Eafy' Dastur went with Shaykh Mohammad Khatiin to India,
Mohammad Bidha Fikry
subsequently he returned to Persia and died at Ispahan. Myrza Nitzam a Daste-Ghayb Sayyid of Shyraz died in 1039 or
1029 at an age of thirty years and
left
about 3000 verses.
No.
12.]
TA'HIR NACRA'BA'DY.adiq Daste-Ghayb.
93it
family of Sayyids at Shyraz. They were called so because on one occasion one of their enemies questioned their descent from
Myrza name of a
Daste Ghayb
appears was the
^^
(literally, from a mysterious hand, obtained a copy of their pedigree. Myrza Q^diq died o.*.^) at Lar. Myr Eadhyy Artymany. Yusofy Churfadqany. Molla Dzawqy of Ardestan left few, but good verses.
'alyy
and they miraculously
Dzawqy Kashy a TurkmanMolla Fatty of Ardestan.
resided at Kashan.
Myr
Abu-1-.ZZasan a
Sbsayny Sayyid
of Farahan wrote a com-
mentary on Anwary, was put to death at Shyraz. Shaykh Shah Natzar of Ispahan visited India.Molla
Mumina^y.
'izzy of
Fyruzabad.is alive,
Myr 'aqli^LHs-^J
(or 'aqyl)
Kawthary of Hamadan
and has written a
Molla Maklijiy Eushty. v Molla HasJiry was of Tabryz where he died. Molla Qawsy Shustary wrote an introduction *^tx^ to the of Khaqany. Molla Qawsy Tabryzy studied at Ispahan.
Dywan
Myr Afsar, a son of Myr Sanjar Kashy, visited India. Kamy Sabzwary visited India and died at Mashhad.Madzaqy Ispahany (according to one copy his patronymic a distinguished composer of Music.Sdyir Ardiibady oris
(^i^)
Mashhady
died in India.
Qasirny Cjayrafy (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 SiuVanyears ago.
Qommy Nawayiy
(Liwayiy ?) an ascetic died some
and died there. AkJitary Yazdy resided for some time in India, died in Persia. Myr 'ysa Yazdy Molla 'Amiy Nohawandy went to India and probably died there.lived long in Indialives at Shyraz.first
Molla Nawydy an old poet
Natzmy YahyanyShyraz.
(?)
resided
at
Nawydy Teherany. Ispahan subsequently atandfills
J2ajy 'abd al-"VVasi'
Aqdas
is
now
in India
the office of
Daroghah of the goldsmith's shop of Awrangzeb. Mohammad jffosayn Beg Ma'lum Tabryzy a merchant.
94
PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
[CHAP.
I.
Jamala Walih of Shyraz died in India.
and died at Ispahan. a son of .Hakym Eoknay Kashy. Mohammad .Hbsayn .Hasan Beg Girdmy. Kaldmy Ispahany a brother of Salamy. Molla GTiorury probably of Shyraz died towards the end of Shah
Myrza KJia$my
visited India
(Jafyy's reign
and
left
a
Mathnawy
in the
metre of the ToMat
al'iraqayn.
Myr GTiorury Kashy Mohammad Qasim Sorury (Sarwary ?)The copy which he wrote
died in India.is
the author of a Persianis
Dictionary.
in Persia
small, but
when
he went to India he used the Dictionary -xJ^J of Anjii^^l and enlarged the work greatly.
Myr
Jamal aldyn
Myr Mohammad Mumin Addyiy Yazdy about thirty years ago being suspected of infidelity he went to India, and died at Siirat. *&qild Mohammad Taqyy of Taliqan died under Shah 'abbas II.of Yazd. Farighy Astrabady. of Ispahan was strong in Ramal, the author saw MasliJiury when he was more than seventy years of age.
Myr Ajry
him
Myr
.Haydary Dzilmy Kashy went to Byjapur, he was clever in
painting.
.Hbsayn (Jarrdifof; Ispahan a Banker, was still full of energy when Na^ymA of Shyraz a tailor by profession. eighty years of age. .Hasan Beg a son of Molla Shany Taklii died young. His father
was so distinguished a man that Shah 'abbas weighed him up in gold. Molla Girdmy (Karamy ?) a Turk, is called Kashy because heresided chiefly at Kashan.
Wrote about 50,000
verses and five
Mathnawies in imitation of Nitzamy. Sho'ury Mashhady. Sho'iiry Kashy left about 6000 verses of Qa9ydahs and Grhazals.Zamanayiy Naqqash of Ispahan.Dhiydiy Teher&ny a friend of the late Qabu^y. Myr Ja'far Mo'allim Kashy a school master.
Khafyy Khwansary d. 1028. Myr Burhau a Sayyid of Abrquh a mystic and a pupil Asad Allah Kashy.
A qa
r
of Qadhiy
Myrza Hadiy
a brother of the preceding resided mostly at Shyraz.
He
is
dead.
Myrcalled
Qay?ar
Ghiyath aldyn a son of the preceding died young at Abrquh. is of the Yl Shamlu resided mostly at Herat, and is therefore
Herawy.
No.
12.]
TA'HIR NACRA'BA'DY.TTnsy a friend of
95
Hassan.
Beg
J/akym
Shifayiy, he wrote a Tadzit.
kirah of Persian poets, but has not completed
Molla Moqymayiy Hilmy ('ilmy ?) Kashy was in the service of prince Dara-Shikoh. He died at Makkah.
Taqyy Aw^ady was born at Ispahan he was descended from Sayyid Aw7*ad aldyn 'abd Allah Bulyany. A friend of the author saw himat
AAmadabad
in Gujrat.
He
is
the author of a Tadzkirah.*
of Khawary.
first the takhallu9 Ta'by of Qazwyn a friend of .Hakym Shifayiy. his son was Asyry. (jahyfy Shyrazy of .Hakym Shifayiy. Qafyya Ispahany, a friend Tahir 'attar Mashhady a pupil of IJmmaty Torbaty, died young. Amyn& a son of Molla MaAmud who had the keys of the tomb
Tajalliy Lahijy
was brought up in India he had
of Najab.
Molla 'a$ry 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 ofb.
Aw^ad
'abd Allah b. Mas'iid b.
Mohammad
aldyn 'abd Allah Bulyany or Balyany is b. 'alyy b. A7*mad b. 'omar b. Isma'yl:
Aby
'alyy
al-Daqqaq and he died in 686. His
life is
in
No. 322.
Taqyy
derives his patronymic Aw//ady from him.
Jamy's Nafahdt Taqyy was
born in 973.
He
compiled an anthology of Persian poetry which he calleda chronogram for 991) and which contains the verses
J^U^^Jcollected
9
(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 thestaying atseveral authors quoted.
He
undertook the task and named his Tadzkirah(j-Afl-iU
^jjjU
&lej'f. )
ol^j
ol^pj
e>^
The Biography
is
divided into twenty-eight 'a^ahs, 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 also ano-
her Tadzkirah abridged from the larger one and called
it
^Sjf-
wir.
He
and foundcomposed a Persian Dictionary called (jl+jJL. &*>j ed on the Burhane qaft' and he wrote about 30,000 verses among other -A- c py of his poems are his Mathnawies tjujjj ^^*- andj^J j&.also;
Tadzkirah
is
in the
East India House.
It
is
a thick folio and goes only
to the letter ^5.
(Bland, Journ. Royal As. Soc. IX. p. 134).
96was a Shah-namahepos.
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.
Molla Qadhiy Bashydy a brother of the preceding. Molla 'inayat Nojumy Kashy a good astronomer.
Qadhiy Dinvary Ayany.
Mohammad QaMDarwyshMolla
Sattdr went to India and died there.
K&hin of Tabryz..STosayn AsTiub of
Mohammad
Mazandaran went to India
and died there.Molla 'abd Allah Ainany of Kirman went to India but died at Ispahan. His Dywan has about 10,000 verses.Tadzkirah.
Kamilayiy Kashy a nephew of Myr Taqyy the author of the Myr Asad Allah of Ispahan died in India. Myr MasTirdb a son of Myr .ETosayn who is called Shishah-gar ofis
Qomm, he
usually called
Kashy having mostly
resided at Kashan,
he died at Tabryz.
and behaved
Sa'yda Sarmad probably of Kashan went to India under Shahjahan like a mad man. Mumindyiy Kiinabady went to India.
T%'y
Systany a friend of Molla Zamany Yazdy.
Eashyd Nawras of Qazwyn died at Byjapiir. Qufy Shyrazy is of Eorman where he died.Cufy Hamadany lived chiefly at Ispahan where he died.
Qobad Beg Kawkdby a Turk,
lived at Haydarabad.
in India. ~Hiaydty Grylaiiy has been brought up Mohammad Qasim Qismat Mashhady died some time ago.
aldyn Shaykh Jannaty (?) of Ispahan. It is only lately His Dywan contains about 20,000 that he calls himself a Sayyid.
Myr Zayn
verses but
is-
not arranged.
One
of his Mathnawies
is
called
J V -H^J Art
U
Molla AflaJcy Tabryzy.
Molla
Molla Luify JNayshapiiry the son-in-law of Molla Qaydy. WdtMq Nayshapury visited India and died at Ispahan.'atzymais
a grandson of Molla a son of Molla
Qaydy and a nephew Qaydyvisited India,
of Molla
Natzyry.
Moqyma Fawjyat Nayshapur.
and died
Karyma, the younger son of Molla Qaydy Tolii'y of Khwansar is dead.
lives
now
at Ispahan.
Ahsany Khwansary was strong
in the
Mathnawy.
No.
12.]
TA'HIR NACRA'BA'DY.
97
Qotfba Sihry is a son of Qadhiy Amyn Khwansary. Shah Murad Khwansary was distinguished in musical composition, and therefore in favour with the late Shah 'abbas.
Molla Mahshary Khwansary
Mashraby
of
about ninety years of age. Khwansar was a talented man.is
KawtJiary Khwansary.
Jadzby Khwansary the son of a rich man. Molla 'alyy Beg ILishmaty Khwansary died at the age of ninety, he was a most distinguished calligraph. He left about 15,000 verses.
Myr
Yiisofay
Khwansary was very poor but a
fertile poet.
MyrzaMolla
Niira
LamV
is
now
alive.
'ibrat (Grhayrat ?)
Molla Mofrad of
Hamadany Hamadan is dead.
imitates the ancients.
Myram Beg (Jublay is alive. Humayiin Mohammad a son-BTajy
Bay ram Beg
Sdmi'd.
of Molla Shikiih died young.lives
Ummyd
Persia.
atim
Zdyir Hamadany visited India, but Myidh Nohawandy Qadhiy of Kuh Kylii. (Khatim ?) Beg is a son of AAmad Beg.
now
in
Myr Ashub Hamadany.Molla Mahdhary Hamadany was called Molla-darwazah and wrote chiefly Qa9ydahs, he is dead,SaliM (aliAin that place?)
MashhadyA'pafdis
died of intemperance.called
Mohammad Quly;
Qommy, because he
resided
muchhe
he
is
now
in India.
Mohammadwent to India.TJlfaty
Baqir, the author
met him
at Ispahan, subsequently
a son of ^Tosayn Sawajy was for some time in the service
of Qofobshah, and wrote a treatise on prosody and rhyme. died in Persia.
He
Mahshary of Nayshapur a contemporary of Natzyry. Mohammad Katzim ^ahir died in 1085 (or 1025) at Ispahan.Najybd Astrabadyis
since
some years
at Ispahan.
Sayyid JTosayn ZaJiyy (Zayny
Myr
Sanad of Kashan
Molla Mo&aminad
a pension from the Court. a fertile poet. Ibrahym Salik of Qazwyn visited India but died?) receivesis
some time ago
at Qazwyn. Molla Salik Yazdy went to the Deccan and then to Dilly where he died.
O
98
PERSIAN TADZK1RAHS.is
[CHAP.
I.
Molla Natzim of Herat
in the service of 'abbas
Quly Khan and
the best poet of Khorasan, he wrote a Yusof 6 Zalykha. Myr Mohammad ^fosayn Shawqy a son of Myr azyz Allah of
Sawah an
old poet visited India.
He
is
dead.
Baqira Khalyl Kashy
died two years ago, his
Dywan
has about
14,000 verses.A'qa
Zaman
ZarTcasTi
Ispahany had
first
Mawlana Mohammad Qasim Qdsim
the takhallu9 of Firyty. of Mashhad ia known by the
name
of Dywanah, died at Dilly.
Tazdy resided at Ispahan. Mawlana FaraA Allah Shushtary lived at the court of -Haydarabad. The author had seen from three to four thousand verses of his. Molla Warashtah his name is Imam Quly Beg he travelled much andSa'dayiy
spent a long time in India. He died in 1075.Jalala
He
used to keep a journal of his
travels.
MollaIndia.
Kashy Yaqyn lives since many years at Ispahan. Mohammad Ibrahym Shawkaty of Ispahan was
killed in
Molla "Wa^ib Qandahary died at Ispahan. Molla Wafd of Herat lived for some time in India and died
at Ispahan.
Molla 'ishraty a son of -Hajy 'ayn 'alyy Farushayiy was long in India, died at Mashhad.
Mohammad Ibrahym
FdrigJia a brother of 'ishraty, died at Lahor.
Molla Toghrd of Tabryz some say he is of Mashhad, he resides in India and is very strong both in writing prose and verse. The author had seen some of his prose writings.
Myr
'abd
al'al
Naj&t a son of
Myr Mohammad Miiminsome time in India.at Ispahan.
.Hbsayny, a
friend of the author.
Myrza Sharyf
HMm was fornow mostly
He
returned
in 1076 and resides
Myr Jamal aldyn Mohammad Wahshat a son of Myr Dhiya aldyn a Taba^aba Sayyid of Ardestan. Resided for some time in India then he returned to Persia, but last year (1082) he again wentto India.
a son of Sayyid Ya^ya who was attached to the tomb of Karbela. .Haly resides at Ispahan. Aqa Zaman Wddhih is a son of the Pahlwan Qasim /iTaddad.
'abd Allah
H olJj came under Shahjahan to India. Myr Qaydy jffakym Mohammad Katzim who assumed the title Masy^ albayan and the takhallu9 ^JaAib imitated Jalal aldyn Bumy and left a thick
v^
Dywan and several Mathnawies as (^x^fcua.lU5 Aj lir^j ^ AjlA.-dxx5l ^50^^ (Jl ?) ju*j J*~j> ^^^>j and gave to the collection of all:
1
j
\
(
his
poems the
title
of
^asHt***^
(j*&\.
Aqa
(jddig
is
the author of
a Saqiy-namah. Cabu\\y. (jdmit (in one copy Qdyib) was a merchant gyr to India and wrote a short Dywan.
who came under
'alam-
Myr Dhiyd
aldyu Dihlawy the author saw him at the beginning ofTalib A'moly. (Tabsy ?) a fufy.
'alamgyr's reign.
JZ%gyr' s
Tabyby
Myr MohammadMolla Toffkrd.
reign to India.
Tdhir Ifosayny came towards the end of JahanHe was a wealthy merchant.is
His prose
much
admired.
He
wrote an elegant
essay on Kashmyr.
Myrza Nitzam aldyn
Tali' a friend of the author.
Tzohury Tarshyzy resided at Byjapur, it is said that he copied and sold the Eawdhat a^afa one hundred times, he is the author of crjy of tW^ O|>A. and ^1>^ these three prose treatises are
^LH
1
dedicated to Ibrahym 'adil-shah and he dedicated a **U
^^
to
Burhan Nitzam almulk.
Himmat Khan
collected one
hundred and
twenty Saqiy-namahs and that of Tzohury was the best among them. 'orfy Shyrazy died at Lahor in 999 at an age of thirty-six years.
The chronogram,
for this date is
NO.
13.]
SAR-KHU'SH.
113abir Ispahany dis-
More than thirty years after his death Myr interred his body and buried it at Mashhad. Myan N^ir ''alyy died at Dilly in 1108.**)
The chronogram
is
^*^> |^l*J ^* Shaykh 'abd al'azyzf.
'atzyma Nayshapiiry has never visited India.'izzat.
Molla 'alyy
Qommy
has never visited India.
'dmil a pupil of Qayib.
Khwajah 'abd Allah
'irfdn a mystic.
'drif Lahory left a
Dywan.
Tahir Ghanyy of Kashmyr. His takhallu9 is a chronogram (1060) for the beginning of his poetical career, his Dywan was arranged by Myrza Mohammad 'alyy Mdhir.
Mohammad
Myr Burhan Grliorury. Hajy Mohammad Isma'yl GJidfil was a most distinguished calligraph and came from Mazanderan to India. short Dywan and a Mathnawy. GJianyinat a native of India wrote aa friend of Dara Shikoh
Shaykh Mohammad MoAsin Fdniy of Kashmyr was a left a Dywan and a Mathnawy.
ufy and
Mirza Faqyky.
Aqa Mohammad Ibrahym FayadMn a son of Aqa Mohammad Sbsayn N&jiy was alive in 1093. He was an excellent calligraphand an elegant writer both in prose and poetry. Mirza (Myr ?) Ghiyath aldyn Ma^ur Fikrat came to India under'alamgyr and obtained the rank of five hundred. 'abd al-Eazzaq Fayyadh. Farqy (Fawqy ?). a poet of Bengal, yet not without talent. FawjyPrince Dara Shikoh Qddiryleft
Fdris.
besides
many
writings on
^ un s m
a short Dywan.Ifajy
Mohammad- Jan Qodsy
Shahjahan.epic
He
the king of poets during the reign of the exploits of this emperor in a beautiful described1
i*bj&* poem called t^ Qasim Dywanah Mashhady a pupil of Myrza Nawab Qdsim Khan. India. Qdni'.1'
^^
not visited ^Jayib has
Mohammad Yiisof Qadym died very young. Abd Talib Kalym d. 1061. Khwajah (Myr?)'abd al-E/a^ym
Kaldn.
Shaykh Sa'd Allah Gulshan was in Grujrat in 1093.one copy Kamgu) Kashmyry died in the Mo'izz aldyn Musawy d. 1101. Deccan. Myr Myr Mo/jainmad 'alyy Mdhir d. 1089.(in
Kukam
Ldmi\
Q
114
PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
[CHAP.
I.
.Hakym Rokna Masyh a contemporary of Jahangyr. Shaykh Sa'd Allah Masyty Panypaty. Kashmyry. Ma'y (Moghy ? or Moghniy ?) QaMk Beg Molham, the author made his acquaintance at Agra. Maviv ^i^ was a Kalal that is to say of a low caste which was 7 W? employed as Porter and Chob-dars, he flourished under Jahangyr.
^
t/
>
Molla Mofyd Balkhy came to India at the beginning of 'alamgyr's The chronogram of his death is reign and died at Multan in 1090.
tion of Agra, died during the
Mon'im Hakkak Shyrazy composed a poem containing a commencement of 'alamgyr'sMashJiur.
descripreign.
Myrza Ma?$um Kashy.d. in
Myrza Moqym.
Myrza Qo^b aldyn M&yil'alyy.
1108 eight days afterfirst
Myan N^ir
Majday Munqif.the takhallu9 of MonAsib
Akhund Mohammad Baqir had
subsequently that of Moshtdq died in the beginning of 'alamgyr's Molla Malik Qommy resided at Byjapiir. Molla Mbshriqy. reign.
khanan.
Molld Natzyry of Nayshapur a panegyrist of 'abd al-Ea^ym KhanThere was another poet who had the same takhallu9, heit.
gave him ten thousand Rupees 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 OUJH has never visitedIndia.
Myr
Naj&t has been in Persia and
is
a good poet.
Aqa Mohammad
.ETosayn N&jiy a brother of
Mohammad
Isma'yl
Ghafil was an admirable calligraph,
and in his old age he was admitted3Palib Na$y~b.
to the society of 'alamgyr.
Nazuky.
Myr
Naj&bat a brother of
Myr
Siyadat.
Wdbiq.
Molla Nisbaty of Thaneser was a good poet, in Eekhtah he usedthe takhallu9 of Nit-batty i. e. the moon. Qadhiy Nury a contemporary of Jahangyr.
Myrzd Tahir Wahyd was apoets of the age.
friend of Qayib and one of the greatest
Mohammadscribed in a
E/afy'
Wffitz
Mathnawy
Qazwyny resides at Ispahan. He dethe war of Shah 'abbas with Tilam Khan,is
and compiled the sayings of the Imams in a most elegant work towhich he gave the title of &Kfn.
He
left
a Khosraw
Myrzi Darab Juyd
resided in
Kashmyr.
Sayyid 'alyy Jud&yiy Tabryzy visited India under Akbar, and was employed in the Imperial library in painting illustrations to books.
Padshah (July Jadzby a contemporary of Jahangyr was
killed.
Myrza Mohammad Ayyiib Jawdat.Jashany Lahory Grholam 'alyy flourished under Jahangyr.
Khwajah Mohammad Maq9ud Jam? a pupil of 'abd al-Grhanyy Beg Qabiil resided in Kashmyr. Ja'far had the title of Allah Wirdy Khan, left a short Dywan. .Hakym JLddzigr was born at Pat/^pur and rose under Shahjahan tothe rank of three thousand with a salary of 20,000 Eupees a year. Yadgar Beg HAlaty of Tiiran.
Myrza Isma'yl
~B.ijab
came
to India under 'alamgyr.alive in 1136,
MoAammadIu9 of Qdbil.
"ayat
Hadhrat was
had
first
the takhal-
NO.
16.]
HAMYSHAH
BAHA'll.
121Jiiya, died at
Myrza MahdiyDilly.
llojjat a cousin of
Myrza Darab
Mo/iammad 'alyy resided at Kashmyr and was in 1136 past thirty years of age, had first the takhallu9 of Taklyf, then of Masyhd and then of ILasJimat; he is a pupil of 'abd al-Ghanyy Beg Qabul. Mohammad Beg Haqyqy resided at Gujrat.Haydty Grylany was much given to pleasure, completed by order of Shahjahan the Toghluq-namah of Amyr Khosraw which wasdefective.
Heit.
did
it
so well that Shahjahan
had him weighed up
in gold for
Hayyd a pupil of By-dil has written a Dywan. a friend of Molla Shayda left a Dywan. ~Raslimaty
Shed-Earn
Mohammad Taqyyof the Jenab.
aldyn Ispahany Hozny
d.
in
989 on the banks
Myr Kamzah Tashkandy wasTashkand.
the son of the king of merchants of
He camehe wasis
to Indiaskilled in
and became, when he got
old,
com-
pletely deaf,
chronograms
^ *jV
making chronograms. One of his ** Ai The numerical value of the p*j* L)meaning"
letters of this sentence as well as the
write nine three
times" give 999. [jN^ir 'alyy. Shaykh Ma/fcmud Hayrdn resided at Sirhind and was a pupil of Hamdy Kashmyry was a learned man. He died in 1018, the
chronogram
is
^&tf
*J
**
Sayf Allah 'alawy Hazyny a contemporary of Jahangyr studied diligently the ancient poets.
Shaykh Hasan Qorayshy Kalpy
d. in
989, the chronogram
is
Sayyid jffosayn KMli$ came to India during the reign of 'alamgyr
and obtained theSipah Salar
title
of Imtiyaz Khan.
Khankhanan 'abd al-Ea^ym a son of Bayram Khan was born on the 14th 9afar 964, and died at Dilly in 1032. Klialyl was in the service of Zyb alnisa Begam and arranged hercompositions, he wrote elegant prose and poetry. Myr Khosraivy Qayiny a contemporary of Jahangyr.
Myrza Fadhl Allah
KliusJitar a son of Sar-JcMsh'aqil
was
alive in 1136.
Shukr Allah Khan Khdksdr son-in-law of
Khan Eazy wrote
a commentary on Jalal aldyn Eumy's Mathnawy.
Mohammad JSaydar Herawy Khifdly,
a contemporary of Jahangyr.
R
122
PERSIAN TADZKIHAHS.
[CHAP.
I.
Jainal aldyn Klidwary a native of Gylan caine to India in 1011. Molla Dand was engaged in Parrokhsiyar's reign with Natzim
Khan, whoShah-namah.
is
usually called 'abd al-Ea/^ym Fiirigh, in copying the
Daklily Ispahany.
Myrza Dawiid of Mashhad a contemporary of Tahir WaAyd. Shah Isma'yl Dzabyk was born in Persia, travelled much, andresided for some time in India.
Mawlana Imam aldyn Riyudhycalled
Imam al-Radhyy he;
is
is a very learned man and usually a native of Lahor and resided at Dilly.
madewas
His father Lutf Allah Mohandis was a great Mathematician and occasionally verses in the capacity of a poet he used the
takhallu9 Mohandis.also a
Eiyady good Mathematician and his books on this science were much in vogue in schools. It seems that he was alive in 1136. Oneof his pupils wrote a commentary on the Almegest. Mohammad Myr Zaman Rasikh. Sayyid Jalal E'ulhayiy d. 1057.
The
father flourished under Akbar.
Myr Mohammad 'alyy Rtiyih is a Qalandar of Sialkot. Myr Radhyy Danish a Sayyid of Mashhad came to IndiaShahjahan.
under
Arshad
'alyy Rasfiyiy
was well versed in Persian
literature
and
seems to have beenjETasan
alive in 1136.
He was a pupil of Myanatservice of Shahjahan.
Beg Rafy'
resided
first
Shah Bhyk. Mashhad, and thence he came
in 1064 to India,.
and entered the
Molla 'abd al-Eashyd the author of the Parhange Eashydy which he dedicated to Shahjahan, he wrote a chronogram on the accession of Shahjahan. The author takes occasion to quote from the history ofpalace of Dilly,
Shahjahan a passage containing a statement of the expenses of the Shah MaAall with it cost sixty lakhs of Eupees, viz.: ;
Imtiyaz Ma^all, which contains the kitchen and out-offices, five and a half king's sleeping apartment,the golden roof fourteen lakhslakhs;
The Dawlat-khanah Kha9
(I suppose
what
is
now
called
the
Dywan) and the Dawlat-khanah 'am two and a half lakhs ; The bath and JJayat-bakhsh six 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,
seven lakhs
;
;
and
is
The
Jaini'
double as large as that of Agra, twenty-one lakhs of Eupees. masjid of Dilly cost ten lakhs of Eupees. These build-
ings would cost at least five times as
much
in our days,
1852 A. D.
No.
16.]
HAMYSHAH
BAHA'R.
123
Myr //aydar Kashy Rafy'y a contemporary of Faydhy, went from India on a pilgrimage to Makkah thence to Persia and returnedto India. father of Myrza Ibrahym Adham. Shaykh Sa'd aldyn Khafiy RihAyiy a mystic, left a Dywan and imitated the Khamsah of Nitzamy. Myrza Rostam Qandahary.
Myrza Radkyy Artymany the
Myr
'abd al-Eazzaq
Tazdy Rasmy
flourished
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 Mawlana WaAyd Rawdny resided at Agra. caviar? 'y^ SAmiry Tabryzy contemMqlld Sdti' Kashmyry was alive in 1136. porary of Jahangyr. Afdhal Sar-Mush, Myrza Mohammad
Kashmyr
in
Mohammad Ghadhanfarbrought up at Herat.
Syry (Sayry
?)
was born at Khaf and
R 2
124Sdlik
PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.Yazdy spent part ofhis life at
[CHAP.
I.
Golcondah.
In 1066 he
first the takhallu9 of 'ishrat 'abd al-Khaliq Samandar d. at Labor in 1016. Myr Sayyid 'alyy Sayyid has never visited India. Was a comtemporary of Myrza Mo'izz. Sayyid Sa'd aldyn a soldier, has not yet chosen a takhallu?.
entered the service of Shahjahan. Mohammad A^san Sam? of India hadalive in 1136.
was
Khan Multany was in the service of Shahjahan. Allah Sihry was born and educated at Agra, was a good 'abd Sdyird Mashhady has not visited India. graph, is dead.So? yd
calli-
Abu Mo/jamtnad
Sar&by born and educated at Sialkdt.
He
was a
Arslan Beg Sipdhy. contemporary of Jahangyr. was a very good calligraph and enjoyed, during Sa'yday Gyldny the reign of Jahangyr and Shahjahan, the title of By-Badal Khan
and the
office
Khwajah
of superintendent over the emperor's goldsmiths. 'abd Allah Sdmiy came from Lahor to Dilly was a conis
temporary of the author, he
the author of a thick Dywan.
Myr
Jalal aldyn Siyddat resided at Lahor.
Sdlik Qazwyny nourished under Shahjahan. Nawab Ifakym almulk Farrokhshahy this is
the
title
of Shaykh
//osayn 'arab
whose takhallu
is
Shohrat he was
alive in 1136.
Molla Shaydd born at Pat^pur Sykry, he flourished under Jahangyr and Shahjahan and died in Kashmyr, left a Mathnawy12,000 verses in the style of the Makhzan alasrar of 5 * U| $+&*>s* *^x>T f**/l e^- 3 Nitzamy. It begins f** SJiawkat Bokharayiy was probably alive in 1136.of about
o^
||
^
1
^.
Shdpur Edzy a contemporary of Jahangyr.
Gul Mohammad Shd'ir a pupil of By-dil was probably alive in Shddamdn an Afghan flourished 1136. Yiisof Beg SMyiq. under Shahjahan and 'alamgyr. Shikyb has never visited India.Shifcyty a contemporary of Jahangyr.
Sharyf Kashy was first a Qalandar and turned afterwards a $7^& Shahydd. merchant left a Dywan.
Myr Shawqy was
a mystical poet.
Mo/jammad .Hasan Jawnpiiry SMddby. Shal&by a brother of Sardby.
Qamar aldyn who had the title of Mtzam almulk and the takhallu9 of Shakir, was alive in 1136, has written a Dywan.
NO.
16.]Shot/liny.
HAMYSHAH
BAHA'R.
125
Mawlana
Shaykh Niir aldyn Skayiq was calligraph. He was He was alive in 1136. pupil of Abu al-Ma'aliy.
in this art a
Myr
Ya/*ya Shin&sd.
Myrza Mo&ammad
'alyy
Tabryzy
Qdyibtitle
came under Shahjahan to India and obtained a Manab and the of Mosta'idd Khan, he left more than 300,000 verses. Shaykh Qadr aldyn Nayshapiiry is a man of some learning.(JahbAyiy flourished
under Shahjahan.
(Jabuhi/ Chaghatay a mystic, and suspected of infidelity, d. 973. -Hajy Mohammad Qadiq Qamit a merchant, came to India under
'alamgyr and wrote a Dywan.
Mawlana
(J/ala^
aldyn Sawajy Cayrafy came from thereign.
'iraq tois
India
by the way of the Deccan during Akbar'sof a Dywan.
He
the author
.ZZakym Katzim had the(jdhib.
title
MasyA albayan andd.
the takhallu9 of
Mo/iammad Myrak
(jdlihy flourished under Jahangyr.
Qafdyiy was educated at Kalpy
1016.
Myr Qaydy came in 1064 from Ispahan to India. Qafyy aldyn Ispahany Cafyy flourished under Jahangyr.MohammadDJiamyr.'ysa Qafyry Jawnpiiry
committed suicide in 1018.
Molla Toghrd was originally of Mashhad but resided in Kashmyr. Myr 'abd al'alyy Sabzwary TaK* a nephew and pupil of Sayyid
Mohammad Thaqib. Mohammad Ibrahym KashmyryShah Tdkir of the Deccan.
lolu'y flourished under Jahangyr.ofleft
Myrza .Sasan Tirmidzychronogram is MathnawiesTdlib
Tdlib ant^'|
Amyr
Akbara
d.
1018 the
^ v^^
y^^J
^
V-^^-J
,
wrote a commentary on the Qoran entitled cjy^fit is
u^Uiis
in four volumes,left
and
is
nearly as large as the Tafsyr Kabyr.a
Faydhy
besides other works the fUV'^k'j** which
commen-
tary on the Qoran without diacritical points, he had a library of twelve thousand volumes most of which were autographs.
F&iimah Qawwalah a lady of Ispahan. Fa$y\\y. Myrza Abu-1-Eat^ Sabzwary Mtih a nephew of Myrza TZosayn, 'arif came from Ispahan to India, and returned after some years tohis
home.of Siyadat resided mostly at Lahor.
Myr A/^mad Fdyiq a brother Was probably alive in 1136.Farhat Kashmyry wasd.
alive in 1136.
Forughy Kashmyry Myrza Nadir alzaman Fa$yh a nephew of Amyn
1077.
Was
Shaykh Mohammad Fdyiz j-jlJ a pupil probably alive in 1136 and had written a short Dywan. Myrza Ghiyath aldyn Man9iir Fikrat of Ispahan came under
Mohammad 'irfdn. of Mohammad Sa'yd Tji'tz.
'alamgyr to India.
MoAammad Beg Fur$at
has never visited India.
128
PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.Fayadli&n a son of
[CHAP.
I.
Mohammad Ibrahym
Aqa Mo/^ammad JZbsayu
Fdyidh 'abhary was probably alive in 1136. N&jiy. Mohammad Dara Shikoh Qddiry a son of Shahjahan by Arjumand Banu Momtaz-Ma^all was born on Monday the 30th (Salkh) ofCafar 1024 at Ajmyr, was put to death in the night of Thursday 22nd Dzu-Uajj 1069 at an age of 46 years. He was buried in Humayun's Mousoleum
near Dilly.
He
left
among other works a
Dywan,.Hajy Mohammad Khan Qodsy of Mashhad came in 1041 to India and was favourably received by the emperor, he is the author of j&& gLi^b c*^ *^ a/c ^ and other works.
Myrza 'abd al-Grhanyy Beg Qabul a ufy is a pupil of Juyd. Qdsim Dywanah a pupil of Cdyib was probably alive in 1136.
Mohammad Panah
Qdbil was probably alive in 1136.
Qddir.
Qasim Khan Qdsim a courtier of Jahangyr. Myrza Talib Kalym was born in Hamadan and educated in India. =1061. The chronogram of his death is p& ;! ^jj ^.U/o Sa'd Allah Gulshan a mystical poet who resided for some Shaykh
^
^
time at Dilly and left nearly one hundred thousand verses of Ghazals, he was a disciple of Shah 'abd al-A^ad Sirhindy and made with himthe pilgrimage to Makkah. Myrza Kaniran Guy a, a brother ofJuyd. Shaykh ^mat Allah Kdmil of Moradabad.
Myrza Girdmy a son of 'abd al-Ghanyy Beg was a young man1136.
in
Kamtar.'alyy
GustdJch.
Karam
Giramy a son of gyr, left a Dywan.
Beg Karam nourished under Bahadurshah. Amanat Khan, who was in the service Ldmi is a good poet.y
of 'alam-
Molld Shdk a mystical poet of Badakhshan came to Lahor, and made the acquaintance of that great 5^fy Sayyid Myan Shah Myr Qalandar,
who waswas the
of Egypt,
spiritual
Ibrahym Baqayiy. Molla Shah Dara Shikoh and spent the summer in guide of
and a
disciple of
Kashmyr, and the winter
at Lahor.
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 of5 X! Musawy Khan, the chronogram on his death is -=* j L5>*i> u^^' ->*/0 has never visited India, but his poetry was much Mokhli? Kashy.
esteemed here.
NO.
16.]
HAMYSHAH
BAHA'R.Shah Q^fyj'
129
Myr Mo&ammadAbii-1-Barakat
'alyy Makla? is a son of
Minbar (Monyr ?) died at Agra, on Saturday the 7th Eajab 1054, left about thirty thousand verses, he was also a goodprose writer.
Mohammad Nitzam Mu'jiz wrote a Dywan, was alive in 1136. Myr Mohammad Samy' Matzliar a Persian, was police-officer at Ajmyr whilst Mohammad Moqym Masyh was Dywan of that Province. Myr AAmad Mohyy is a good poet.Qasim Khan Mbkklif,inhis ancestors
came from Persia and
settled
Kashmyr.
Mohammad Moqym Khan Masyh, a mystic poet, it seems that he wasalive in 1136,
and had written a Dywan. Molla Malik Qommy. Madhush a brother of Siyddat and contemporary of 'alamgyr. Myr MaAmud Beg Turany Mahmud came to India, but returned to his
home.
Myr Mohammad
'alyy Mahir.
Mun^if.
j&Takym Eokna Masyh, an Amyr of Jahangyr. Myrza Moqym. Maymanat Khan Kashmyry came as a merchant to India, and
entered the service of the emperor. "Was alive in 1136. Anand Earn Mokhlig a pupil of By-dil, was probably alive in 1136.
Abu-1-Faydh Mast was alive in 1136. Molla Mofyd Balkhy. Taj Beg Mamnun. [in 1136. a pupil of Molla Afiryn Lahory, was probably alive ufy Moshtdq, Shaykh Sa'd Allah Masyhy, a friend of Molla Shay da, put the story
Myr
of Earn and Syta in verse.
Myrza Shah Sbsayn Mondsib.the takhallu9 of Mon&sib and then of
MoAammadMoshtdq,
Baqir had
first
Mon'im Shyrazy.
Nurjahdn Begam a wife of Jahangyr. She died in 1055. Molla Nislaty Thanesery left a Mathnawy, in which he imitates the
Makhzan
alasrar. Naqyr&yiy Hamadany. Ndtzim Herawy author of a Tiisof 6 Zalykha and of a Dywan. Nffi Kashmyry was a good poet.
Myrza Nur Allah
NozJiat
is
a pupil of 'abd al-Grhanyy
Beg
Qabiil.
Sayyid 'ata Allah Nd$ir a pupil of Abu-1-Faydh Mast was alive in 1136.
MoAammad Eidha Niyaz wasAqa Mo/zammad //osaynof 'alamgyr.
a merchant residing in Gujrat.
Niijiy a calligraph.
Ni'mat Allah Khan Ni'mat
Myr
is a son of the paymaster of the troops of Ispahan has never visited India, Najut
S
130
PERSIAN TADZK1RAHS.
[CHAP.
I.
Najdhat a brother of Siyadat. Molla Naic'y flourished under Jahangyr. Nddim Gylany. Mo/iammad Yi'isof Nakliat ''alyy
(P.)
Hazyn
d.
1 J
80,
written by himself.
Beginning ^*VlIn the Moty Mahall are several beautiful MSS.published in Persian by F. C. Balfour, Lon. 1831 tion by the same, Lon. 1830.;
It
has been
English transla-
142
PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
[CHAP.
I.
(23)
oll
JU ^c
* cUs^A. H. 1150,
500 pp. 22
lines written in
probably an autograph.
This valuable copy is in a most lamentable condition. Another valuable and beautiful copy is in the M. M. folio 254 pp. of 21 lines bound with a collection of poems, it has
No.
25.]
A'ZA'D.
143
Ami's Tadzkirah mentioned above, in that copy he notes and the date when he purchased it, viz. 1193.
marginal notes written by a former owner, who also owned the copy of also wrote some
/ /
r^
_. ^ A/4
*
I
* rfI
-
i
(^4)
t>U|
Jb * ^U L-ftAA^o)
KI**
*.i
K ^
t)!j|
^^
x T"*
\
(P.)cypress.
The cypress of AzadAzad, independent,becauseit
or the
independent
the usual epithet of the cypress, disdains to bear fruit. This is another Tadzis
kirah by the same author compiled in ] 165 or 1 166. divides in it the poets into Persian and Indian.
He
Beginning ^rax*In
-Uj
a^^ (JuU^this catalogue
my
private collection, a thin 4to. I sent thisit
a time
when
was doubtful whether
book to England at would ever be
printed,
and I have therefore unfortunately neglected to take a more complete notice of it.
(25)
*]f\
ifi
LJu^oJ *cU
9
(P.)
Theworks,
rich treasury being a biographical dictionary of
Persian poets by the same author as the preceding two
who compiled
this in
1
1
76.
one hundred and six biographies in alphabetical order, and presents such a mixture of names of celebrated poets of ancient and modern times and powerIt contains
ful
Nawabs who wereit,
alive
when he
wrote, that his chiefflatter
object in compiling
seems to have been to
the
He complains of the barrenness vanity of his patrons. of other Tadzkirahs, and it must be allowed that he has
144collected
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 bookconsists in his giving us a very full list of the sources at
has been made good use of by Mr. Bland in his learned memoir cm the earliest Persianhis disposal.
This
list
biography of poets. All the works occurring in already been described, except the following:
it
have
Haft Iqlym compiled by Myrza Amyn in A. H. 1002 (see on Geogr. and Hist, infra). chap, 2. Badawuy (see Sir H. Elliot's Indian Hist, and p. 55 supra).1.
3. Majma' al-fodhala or assemblage of distinguished men, a Tadzkirah from the beginning of poetry to the reign of Akbar by Molla
Baqayiy.supra.4.
He may
be identical with Baqayiy of Qomin seelife
p.
50
JZayat alsho'ara,
who nourished from Bahadur Shah (succeeded1118) to Mohammad Shah Khan Matyn of Kashmyr,6.
of poets, a special Tadzkirah of the poets to the throne in A. H.
(succeeded in 1131) by Mo/iammad 'alyysee page 159 infra.
Safynahe By-khabar the Ark of By-khabar compiled in 1141. name is 'atzmat Allah b. Lutf Allah //osayny Wasity Belgramy By-kliabar. He was a mystical poet and died at Dilly
The
author's
in 1142.
7
8.
(3^ ^>(
**?*>
the
Dawn
of morning and the Tadzkirah of
Molla Qati'y.authors.A'zad.9.
1 can find no account of these two books and their
It is likely that there is a notice of
them
in the
Sarwe
10.
The Tadzkirah of Natzim Tabryzy, see pp. 103 and 104 supra. *A> (*^x> by Shah 'abd al-//akym of Lahor whose takhallu9155 infra, the Tadzkirah was compiled at AwrangaIt contains an account of those poets with whom thep.
was /7akim seebad in 1175.
author was acquainted. 11. ^H^ai ijtti the Tadzkirah without equal, (or perhaps the Tadzkirah of By-Natzyr) by Myr 'abd al-Wahhab Dawlatiibady who
^
compiled it according to the notes of the Khazanah which I have taken from the Lucnow copy in 1172, and according to Mr. Bland " and of which in 1178. Bland adds on the authority of A'zad
No. 25.]
A'ZA'D.
145
year the name forms the date" In the copy of the Asiatic Society the book is omitted but the words uf M^C >jjl3 ^\ ^A+AJ*^*-*l
occur in
it.
The words jtf**&
^^is is
form no such date and
there must therefore be some mistake in A'zad.in
The only mannertitle
which I can obtain the date of 1172,
by changing thesix
into^-k-^J ^[^tiJl c^riJ. I dare say this
the correct reading.
In order to complete this list, I add the names of from Mr. Eland's Memoir above referred to.1.
Tadzkirahs
lj*3J\
ol^ wls-^l.
an anonymous author in 1172.their verses.
Extracts from Tadzkirahs, compiled by It contains one hundred and fifty
short biographies of poets in alphabetical order with specimens of
A
copy of this book
is
in the India House,
No. 47,
154 pp. of 152.3.
lines.
(*^1st-i
&-c3l.
and fi*l^'
*Jns?
see
No. 45
infra.
LUJ (jA^Ji g/jj The Tadzkirah of Baba Shah, mentioned
by JTajy Khalyfah who wrote in 1062. Mr. Bland p. 168 supposes that Baba Shah is identical with Shah Shubly, who was a contemporary of Taqyy
Aw^ady and
skilled in versification,
he wrote a
Mathnawy But the author may beIspahan who
in the measure of the To/^fat al'iraqayn and a Tadzkirah.identical with theit
calligraph
Baba Shah of
same time
as
would appear from Khushgu, about the flourished, JTakym Dawayiy who died in 1004, see also p. 28
supra No. 318.in 1104.
by Mohammad QaliA who completed the work a mere anthology and contains no biographies, the extracts are alphabetically arranged according to the last letter of4.
J^^rM
iJtfLLJis
This
the rhymes like Dywans. 5. LU) & Tdhir
1029.
Tzohury
d.
1025.
Molla
Mohammad'alyy d. 'alyy1 1
Tahir Tzanny Kashmyry 1070.
Nair
OS.d.
M'mat Khan1031.'arif
'ally d. 1121.
Shaykh
Naqyy
aldyn1023.
'djiz alive.
Qadhiy ysa Sawajy
d.
896.
'it&by d.
'ishqy d.
1
142.
Shaykh FarydMolla
aldyn 'ait&r d. 927.
Mohammadd.1
GUyibMyrza
163.
Tahir Ghanyy Kashmyry d. 079. Abii Torab Farqaty d. 1026.1
Mohammad Sbsayn
FagJifur d. 1028. Fafhy Ardestany d. 1045. Ibfyhy Herawy d. 1046.
Musawy Khan Mo'izz
Fiirat
d.
1
106.
Kashmyry d. 1139. Myrza Mo/iammad Jan Qodsy Mashhady d. 1056. /Tajy'abd al-Ghanyy Qabul
Talib
Kalym Hamadany
d. 1061.
Shayk Sa'd Allah Gulslian 1141.
Myrza Malik MosTiriqy MashhadyAbii-1-Barakat
1
050.
Monyr Lahoryd.
d.
1054.
Molla Mofyd Balkhy
1091.
ifakym Eokna Kashy Masyh d. 1066. Molla Malik Qommy d. 1024. Mofy' Tabryzy d. 1050. MatzJiar alive. Myr Mafuni d. 1062. Myrza Janjanan Bilawar Khan Nu^at d. 1 139. NAtzim Herawy d. 1081.
Nyky Nathary d. 1000. Natzyr Mashhady d. 1050. NAdim Lahijy d. 1050. Nwr aldyn Mohammad Khan d. Nur Jalian Begam d. 1055. Nitzdm Astrabady d. 921.'
*7
1
126.
Nargisy Mo/^tasib of Herat d. 921. 'alyy Afanad Dihlawy Nishany d. 1025.Wffitz (Qazwyny)Iradatd. 1082.1
Khan Wadhfa d. A^mad Yar Khan YaktA
128.d.1
Myrza 2Uhir Wahycl d. 1108. Myr Tahya Kashy d. 1064.147.
152
PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
[CHAP.
I.
(30)
Jk*of
(P.)
The Garden
Meaning being a biography of PersianI
poets, apparently consisting of three or four large folio
Volumes of whichauthor's
name
is
have seen only the second. The not mentioned in it, it may be by 'alyy
Ibrahym Khan, see No. 45 infra. This Volume contains the third, fourth and fifth parts ^^. The preceding two parts may treat on quite different subjects.
In the third part are short biographies of about 157 men, who distinguished themselves throughtheir poetical talents in alphabetical order.
The
latest
whom
found among them is Shah 'alam, who it appears was on the throne of Dilly when the book was writtenI
(reign
1
173
1201.)
The
title is
probably a chronogramlives of
for 1174.
The
fourth part comprises
the
about 226
Wazyrs and Nobles, who have written poetry. The fifth contains notices of about 322 professional poets who flourished from the time of Harun al-Rashydto A.
H. 800 equally in alphabetical
order.
Moty Ma&all
folio
738 pages, 20
lines, a
good copy.
(31)
CLA,
Jl
L? LjuA*J IxJ! d>V&c
(P.)takhalluc
Sayings of the poets by
Qiyam aldyn whosea chronogram for1
was Hayrat.
The
title is
174.
No. 31.]
HAYRAT.
153
This Tadzkirah* contains short notices of 150 poets who flourished from Awrangzeb to 'alamgyr II. (diedIn the preface the Tadzkirahs of Walih, of Arzii and of Shawq are mentioned. The last named is1173).
muchauthor.
praised, see for8vo.
an account thereoflines written
p.
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 Gwalyar, studied first at Agra, thence he proceeded to Dilly, and subsequently, with the sons of Nawab Is^aq Khan, to Lucnow. Ymd UJ, Mirza Isma'yl born at Ispahan was a contemporary of Myr Najat and Shafy'ay who were fcis countrymen, and whose style
he imitated.
zeb and
Yman, A^mad 'alyy Khan of Qomm came to the court of Awrangfell at Karnal in the battle against Nadir Shah.Ahsany, Myr Gholam 'alyy of Grwalyar. J)1, Mirza Mo&animad Amyn was in 1133 at Qandahar and
MyrAzal
died in 1141.
Mo'azzaz
Khan Afsar Mohammad 'Alyy Beg
of Persia was raised
to the dignity of
Qubahdar of Bengal under Farrokh-siyar. Nitzam al-mulk A^af-jah, who assumed the poetical
name
of
Shdkir, was of a great family and a good poet.Qizil-bash (in India they pronounce Qazal-bash)
Khan Ummyd,
MoAammad BidhaBahadur Shah.
of Hainadan,
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 Anjdm, was at the court of Mohammad Shah,
and was
killed in 1159.
by 'inayat Talab-Khan whose takhallu^ was Yawar son of RaAmat Yar-Khan. He commenced his work in 1139 and completed it in 1143 or 1145, (the title is apparentlyLr*-*
* Mr. Bland, Journ. Roy. As. Tadzkirah which has the title of
Soc.
Lond. IX.
p.
143 describes another
eU&*
it i s
short biographies.
intended for a chronogram for the former date). It contains about 220 A copy is in the East India House Library, No. 427, 8vo. 65 pp. the margin frequently covered with text.
X
1
54
PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.
[CHAP.
I.
of Anjam. Asryar Khan Insdn Asad al-dawlah, a protege
Ishdq
Khan
died in 1152.
Shah Faqr (Faqyr?) Allah Afiryn of Lahor a Qufy flourished under Farrokh-siyar.
MoAammad
alah Ag&k. Imtiydz, his father was
Eajah Day Mai
Dywan
of
Asad Khan the
"Wazyr of Awrangzeb, and he was
Dywan
of Grhaziy aldyn
Khan
b.
Ghaziy aldyn Khan.
Myrza Arjumand Azdd a son of Myrza 'abd al-Grhanyy QaMl. 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 MohammadQafdar-jang.
Shafy' Bismil of Nayshapur, uncle of
Nawab
Shah Khalyl Allah Se-nawd
b.
Ibrahym a
ufy of DiUy.
Myrza Bady* of JSacrabad b. fall of Sultan .Sbsayn.Aqd^ali^
Myrza
jTahir died previous to the
BurMn
of Mazanderan, died at Dilly shortly after Nadircity.
Shah had pillaged that
Beg, a Persian of noble Nadir Shah in his expedition to India.
Mohammad Haqir
birth,
accompanied
Myr
Sharaf aldyn
Paydm
at Dilly in 1174. Khwajah Molla Mo/iammad Taqyy Tcttzym of Mazanderan nourished at the
A7*san aldyn
Agra died 1166. Bay&n of Agra was aliveof
time of Abdaly's inroads into India. EaAmat Allah Tamkyn of Kashniyr pupil of Myrza 'abd al-Ghanyy
Beg QaMlSayyid Eidha Khan Tamkyn of the family of Ni'mat Allah Walyy born at Qomm, came under Mohammad Shah to India.
Myr Mohammad
Afdhal Thdbit, born at Dilly,
left
a
Dywan
of
about 5000 bayts, died in 1151. Mo/iammad 'atzym Thobdt, son of the preceding, born at Ilahabad in 1122, wrote a Dywan of about 4000 bayts.
Ay at Allahin 1174.Jiigal
Thand, pupil of Shaykh 'alyy Tlazyn, nourished at Dilly
Kishor Tharwat of Dilly was Wakyl of the Natzim of
Bengal.
No. 31.]
HAYRAT.Jctfar of Teheran was invited by
155SuUan Ifosaynto
MoAammadcome
to Ispahan.
Myrza Abii
Talib Janffi b.
Myrza Fatyr, a
Persian, died in 1139
probably at Ispahan.
Molla Tzafar 'alyy Jordt studied at Ispahan. Hdjy Mohammad Jfosayn Grylany nourished under Sukan JETosayn. Myr MoAtasham 'alyy Khan ILashmat, of a Sayyid family of Ba-
dakhshna was born in India andSayyid Shah.
left
a
Dywan
of about 7000 bayts.
Mohammad
Hasrat of Maahhad died under
Mohammad
'abd al-/7akym Beg Khan Hakim b. Shadman Khan, a pupil of Faqyr Allah Afiryn lived at Dilly and Lahor. Sheo Earn Das Hay a brother of Eajah Daya Mai Imtiy&z and pupil of Myrza 'abd al-Qadir, By-dil left a Dywan of about 5000 bayts.
Myrza Imam Quly TLashmat a younger brotherJa'far JRdhib a contemporary of
of
Mohammad
Mohammad
Shah.
Nur-bakhsh
(?)
Hodhury of Dilly a contemporary of Arzu.H.ay&t, born near
Shaykh
'alyy
Hazyn.Qannawj, teacher of the
Shaykh Mohammadauthor of this work.
Qiyam aldyn Hayrat, author of this Tadzkirah. Bindraban Khiishgu, a Banya of Benares, and a pupil of By-dil, wrote a Tadzkirah.
MoAammad Mahdiy Khayyamof thatcity.
of Ispahan died during the siege
Nawab JDiane Dawran a noble of Mohammad Shah's court. Natzyr Beg Khadim a pupil of Mohammad Afdhal Thabit,shortly before 1174.
died
KhusJitar son of
Myrza Hashim
Myrza Mohammad Afdhal Sar-khusk. Dil, of Artyman near Hamadan, fell in the
strug-
gles of Persia against the Afghans.
Mohammad Jan Dywdnah died in 1150. Mohammad Faojh Dardmand of Dilly,Matzhar.
pupil of
Myrza JanjananBaqir
Khwajah Myr Dard.
Myr
'abd Allah Dzarrak, son of the celebrated
Mohammad
from Ispahan at the time of the siege and died at Khorramabad.Majlisy, fled
x
2
]
56
PERSIAN TADZKIRAHS.for
[CHAP.
I.
Lar, under Shah
Myrza Mo/iammad EidM of Shyraz was Tahmasb II.
some time governor of
Yzad-bakhsh
RidM
flourished under Awrangzeb.
Mohammad
Ja'far E&hib born in
1118
at Ispahan.
Xqa KidJid Grylany died during the rule of the Afghans over Iran. Fa9aAat Khan Radhyy of Kashmyr, a pupil of Myrza 'abd alGrhanyy Beg Qabul, was alive in 21 Jolus of Mohammad Shah.
Mohammad Rdhym Khan
Karayly was
first at
the court of Nadir
Shah, turned subsequently a faqyr, came to Dilly and died at Lahor.
Molla Saty* Kashmyry flourished under Bahadur Shah, he was a pupil of Myrza Darab Beg Juy&.
Myrza
Luf
Allah Sdlim of
Kashmyr
travelled in Persia and
was
alive in 1079.
Myr 'abd al-^Jamad Sokhon, spent part of his a contemporary of A'rzii. 'abd al-ifaqq Samandar of Lahor.
life
at
Agra and was
Sayyid Qalabat Khan Sayyid flourished under Farrokh-siyar. Khwajah 'abd Allah S&miy was in the service of A'tzam Shah, died
under Mo/jammad Shah at Lahor.
Myrza Zahid
'alyy Sakhd, son of1
Myrza Sa'd aldyn Lary, wasto India during
poisoned in India in
146.
Molla 'alyy Akbar Sawdd of
Qomm, came
Mo-
AammadBy-dil.
Shah's reign.a converted Hindu, was a pupil of
Mohammad A^san S&mP
Myrzashe
Khadyjah Sultan Begam, a niece of Khan Walih, with was in love.
whom
Katzim Sharar of(pafawy tombs.
Qomm
had an appointment in one of the
.ffakym .flbsayn Shohrat came at the time of Awrangzeb from Shyraz to India and died in 1149, he left a Dywan of about 5000bayts.
Aldmnd ShdkirA
of Teheran studied at Ispahan.
Myrza Q&Ji Shahddat of Balkh died 1 155. of Qomm was originally a shoeA'qa 'abd Allah Shaghaf ^i maker but gave up his trade, and devoted himself to (or stocking)literature, died previous to the siege of Ispahan.
Myr
Sayyid
Mohammad
Sho'lah aljui son of
Myr
9afyy born at
Ispahan.
He
was a physician by profession.
No. 31.]
HAYRAT.'alyy
157cutler,
MohammadMa'niy-yab
Sakkaky SJiikyb of Shyraz son of aShd'ir
was
killed during the
Afghan invasion.
Khan
Gul-Mo^ammad, a
pupil of
Myrza
By-dil,
died towards the end of
Mohammad
Shah's reign.
Kay Tansukh Bay Shawq son of Bay Majlis Bay who was Nayib of the Dywane Khan^ah of Agra, author of a Tadzkirah of Persianpoets called Safynat al-Shawq, was in 11 70 at Agra. contains about 1000 distichs.Cjahbdy (wine-drinker) of Awrangzeb's reign. beginning
His Dywanat the
Myr
'abd al-Baqiy
was in India
Mo/^ammad Mah
Cddiq, cousin of
Mohammad Akram Ghanymat,Shah.alive in1 1
died during the reign of
Mohammad
Shah Allah Dostgyr Cafyy a faqyr wasKabits and Ddhras.Sayyid Hidayat 'alyy
74.
Myrza Bawshan-dhamyr, Dhamyr a Munshiy
at Surat.
"Wrote
Khan Dhamyr was
alive in
1
174.
Myrza 'abd al-Baqiy ^abyl a Sayyid of Ispahan was a physician in the service of Nadir Shah
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