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[IO Islamic 2093] ديوان مخلص

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Mukhliṣ</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1707 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2093  here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1707 Dîwân-i-Mukhliṣ (ديوان مخلص). Lyrical poems by Râi Ânand Râm Mukhliṣ, a Khatrî of Dihlî, son of Râjah Mardî Râm, a Khatrî of Lâhûr; he was a pupil of Bîdil (see Nos. 1676-1686 above), was appointed wakîl of the Nawwâb I’timâd-aldaulah Ḳamar-aldînkhân Bahâdur, A.H. 1132 (A.D. 170) in Muḥammadshâh’s reign, and died A.H. 1164 (A.D. 1751), in the fourth year of Aḥmadshah’s reign. His house in Dihlî was frequented by many poets and learned men. He left besides his Persian dîwân some Rekhta poetry, a collection of letters, edited A.H. 1149 (A.D. 1736, 1737), a history of the war of Nâdirshâh with Muḥammadshâh (see Elliot, History of India, viii. P. 76), and a dictionary of poetical phrases and proverbial sentences, entitled مرآت الاصطلاح , and composed A.H. 1158 (A.D. 1745); comp. Rieu iii. p. 997; see besides A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 159 and 262; and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2683 (Bodleian Cat., col. 383). This copy contains: Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 175a, beginning: الهى آب و رنگ شور بلب ده بيانم را زبرگ لاله قدرى خونچكان تر كن زبانم را Rubâ’îs, on fol. 255b, beginning: فصل گل و جوش ابر سرمست برآ مخلص اگرت ذوق طرب هست برآ This copy was written in the poet’s lifetime and dated the 10th of Rabî’-althânî, A.H. 1157 (twenty-sixth year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign=A.D. 1744, May 23). No. 2093, ff. 175-260, 2 coll., each ll. 14; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8¾ in. by 5 in.

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