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A short treatise on Islamic obligatory religious observances, in Dakhani verse. By Shāh Mulk. Begins: الہی دے توقیق انسان کون جو بندگی کرین تیری دل جان سون تون پیدا کیا محض بندگی کے تین سو او چھوژپکژے ھین گندکی کے تین Explanatory notes in Dakhani are written in red between the lines of th...
A Barahmasah poem, by Muhammad Afdal Gopal (d.1625). Of this poetic tradition, Francesca Orsini writes ‘in thiskind of poem an abandoned woman (virahini or birahini) pines forher absent lover or husband and describes her pitiful state, month after month,against the backdrop of seasonal changes a...
A short treatise on the observance of religious duties of women. by Saiyid Ghulam Ahmad. The work is written in the Dakhani dialect beginning with a poem in praise of God. حمد و ثنا ثابت ھی خاص خدا کتین غیر اوسکا خدائی کے لایی کوئی تین آسمان کون قدرت سے کیا ھی حق پیدا پانی اوپر زمین کون ...
The divan of the first female Urdu poet, Mahliqa or Chanda Bai, a courtesan in Hyderabad in the Deccan during the reign of Nizam Ali Khan (1761-1803 CE). The Divan is prefixed by a Persian preface dated 1213 AH (1798 CE), and contains the following inscription in English on the fly-leaf: "The Diw...
A treatise on Islamic religious duties, based on traditions of the Prophet. Translated from the Persian original of Shah Rafi' al-Din ibn Wali Allah of Delhi. By Beni Narayan Kshatri. Begins: اچھی اچھی مفتین اور تعریفین اللہ تعالی کو ثابت ھین کہ خدا تعالی پیدا کرنے والا اور پالنے والا تمام خلق و...