[IO Islamic 270] جلوۀ ذات

<ul> <li>Jilwa-i-Dh&acirc;t</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1696 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Eth&eacute;, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 270 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1696</span></p> <p><span>Jilwa-i-Dh&acirc;t(</span><span><span><span><span><span>جلو</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>ذات</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>A very large mathnaw&icirc; on the adventures of </span><span>Kṛishṇa</span><span>, interspersed with many ghazals rub&acirc;&rsquo;</span><span>&icirc;s, and founded on Sanskirt sources, by a poet with the takhallu</span><span>ṣ Am&acirc;nat (</span><span><span><span><span><span>امانت</span></span></span></span></span><span>), see this name in all the last baits of the ghazals and besides on fol. 13</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, lin. penult. It was composed A.H. 1145 (A.D. 1732, 1733), the title being a chronogram, comp. fol. 17</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, l. 12.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>بنام آنكه جانان جهان است</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>و جان از ديد</span></span></span><span><span><span>ۀ مرچم نهان است</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>This copy was finished the first of Rama</span><span>ḍ&acirc;n, A.H. 1176 (A.D. 1763, March 16), at Farrukh&acirc;b&acirc;d.</span></p> <p><span>The proper order of ff. 218-235 is: 218, 227-234, 219-226,235.</span></p> <p><span>No. 270, ff. 499, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 6&frac34; in. by 3&frac12; in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>