eceviii Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
igil_s0 cshyT aby gre cls 
Beg. :— oe 
Fy 2 Say! E> 
(R. 8. Lib.) 
209. 
sila yS1 be Lepite 
The author ‘Ali Akbar Shirazi wrote this Mathnav in 
praise of Lucknow, the river Gimti, etc. :— 
gh old elie asl yy oie old lig wre wT de 
composed in the time of Amjad ‘Ali Shah,! king of Oudh 
(A.H. 1258-1263 = a.p. 1842-1846). 
Written in clear Ta‘liq. Modern copy. 
(R. 8. Lib.) 
210. 
mde Lopb 9 pte 
A famous and an autograph Mathnavi on the marriage of 
the career Farrukh Siyar (4.u. 1124-1131 = a.p. 1712- 1718). 
) Amjad ‘Ali bo was the son of Md. ‘Ali Shah, whom he ge 
ed on the throne of Lucknow as king of Oudh, with the title m nee 
rayya a on the 5th Rabi‘ II, a.. 1268, 17th May, a.p. 1842, and died 
the 26th Safar, a.u. 1263, 16th March, a.p. 1847. He was ‘oneal 
his son Wajid Ali Shah (see 0,B.D p. 73). 
Md. ‘Ali Shah, son of Amjad ‘Ali Shah, built an observatory at ee s 
of 4,00,000 rupees, and there was a big magnificent library aos i in 
The library was biatators ed to the palace of Nawwab Ali Naq} 
(d. A.H.1278 = a.p. 1871), who was the father-in-law and arg “mint 
of Wajid ‘Ali Shah, poetically called ‘‘ Akhtar,” the last kin a ae 
after the deposition of Wajid ‘Ali Shah. (See Aligarh Institue 
30th May, 1917. us and 
oats librar ry contained an earanhe collection - books 
annot now oO ‘ Pie 
Oudh and its einem has been given by Dr. Sprenger 1n the ab’ 
2 : (1) Mati Mahall Palace library, 3,000 vo ; 
Bakhsh Palace Ghrsey (in which the late king used to reside), , 
(3) Topkh@nah library ; volumes deposited in 40 dilapidated Meek in 
For fuller details see my Urdii articles, published in the 4% nto the 
stitute Gazette, 23rd May, 1917, and Rep ort of the Ler gee, . 
dan libraries of Luc chow by Dr. Sprenger, 1848 wing 
The seal of the library of Wajid ‘aly Shah contains the follo 
Persian couplet 
oly gayi 8 Ais dee Us, plle cle gle oa 
(See — of the Ar. and Pers. MSS. in the Calcutta Madrasah L 
p> 99, and O. P. Lib. Cat., Vol. Il, No. 236, p. 144.) 
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