[IO Islamic 114] ديوان واله

<ul> <li>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-W&acirc;lih</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1708 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 114 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1708</span></p> <p><span>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-W&acirc;lih (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان واله</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>The lyrical poems of Naww&acirc;b </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al</span><span>&icirc;ḳul&icirc;kh&acirc;n D&acirc;ghist&acirc;n&icirc; Shamkh&acirc;l&icirc;, with the takhalluṣ W&acirc;lih, who was born A.H. 1124 (A.D.1712), in Iṣfah&acirc;n, as son of Muḥammad </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc;kh&acirc;n; the rising power of N&acirc;dirsh&acirc;h drove him from Persia and he fled to India, where he arrived A.H. 1147 (A.D. 1734, 1735), and entered Muḥammadsh&acirc;h</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s service; here he composed in A.H. 1149 (A.D. 1736, 1737) a mystical mathnaw&icirc; </span><span><span><span><span><span>نجم الهدا</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>or the </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>star of guidance,</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span> followed by another of romantic character, the </span><span><span><span><span><span>مرزا نامه</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 589), and in A.H. 1161 (A.D. 1748) his famous tadhkirah </span><span><span><span><span><span>رياض الشّعرا</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 377, 378; Rieu i. p. 371 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 132; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 622 sq.; Bland in Journal As. Soc., ix. pp. 143-147, etc.). He died in Dihl&icirc; A.H. 1169, 1st of Rajab (A.D. 1756, April 1); see on his life Rieu, loc. cit. and iii. p. 1086</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>; Khul&acirc;</span><span>ṣat-alafk&acirc;r, No. 301 (Bodleian Cat., col. 312), and Makhzan-alghar&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>ib, No. 3018 (ib., col. 393). His d&icirc;w&acirc;n, a much larger copy of which is described in Bodleian Cat., No. 1182, was completed A.H. 1157 (A.D. 1744, 1745); his love adventures with his cousin Khad&icirc;jah Sulṭ&acirc;n have been treated in a mathnaw&icirc; by Faḳ&icirc;r (see No. 1711 below). </span></p> <p><span>This copy contains:</span></p> <p><span>Ḳaṣ&icirc;das, without any order, beginning (as in the Bodleian copy):</span></p> <p><span><span><span>منم كه نيست مرا در جهان شبيه و مثال</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>م</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ر خداى غفو ستم و حق متعال</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning (likewise as in the Bodleian copy), on fol. 57</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>عالم برند رشك بعيش مدام ما</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>گر </span></span></span><span><span><span>عكس </span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>هر</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>تو در افتد بجام ما</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>The first ghazal, quoted in the Makhzan-alghar&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>ib, is found here on fol. 58</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>.</span></p> <p><span>Ḳiṭ&rsquo;as and a few mathnaw&icirc;-baits at the end, beginning, on fol. 99</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>لى از خارزار دشت فنا </span></span></span><span><span>&ndash;</span></span><span><span><span> برياض بقا فرستادم</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>This too agree with the initial ḳiṭ&rsquo;ah in the Bodleian copy.</span></p> <p><span>No date.</span></p> <p><span>No. 114, ff. 44-101, 2 coll., each ll. 17; careless Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8&frac14; in. by 4&frac12; in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>