16 Contributions to Persian Lexicography. [No. 1, 



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(2nd edition.') 



The name of the author is Muhammad Qasim ibn i Hajf Muhammad 

 of Kashan in Iran. Sururi is his takhalluc. The author is also 

 known as a poet and a commentator ; his Arabic commentary on 

 Sa'di's Gulistan deserves attention. The first edition of the dictionary 

 which appeared in A. H. 1008, or A. D. 1000, is based upon sixteen 

 dictionaries, including the A'dat, the Sharafnamah, and the Muayyid, 

 but is considerably smaller than the second edition which appeared 

 thirty years later in 1088. Those who make use of Sururi must 

 carefully ascertain, whether they have before themselves the first or the 

 second edition, as MSS. of both exist. This seems to have been 

 overlooked by the Buihan. Though a very careful compiler and 

 professing to have used Sururi, Burhan does net give all words and 

 meanings that are in the second edition of the Majma'ulfurs. 



The MSS. of the second edition contain two prefaces. The second 

 preface which commences with the verse (Hazaj i musaddas) 



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" May the Majma'ulfurs of Sururi be indispensable to critical 

 compilers," is very short, and stands in the MSS. which I have seen, 

 before the original preface. Surdri's second edition was caused by 

 the appearance of the Farhang i Jahangiri, a copy of which, as late as 

 in 1038, was brought to Sururi from Hindustan. From it, as also 

 from two other dictionaries, Sururi has largely extracted. From the 

 respectful manner in which he speaks of the Farhang, we might 

 conclude that he lay under certain obligations to its author. He 

 must have known him ; else he would not call him 

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— titles fit for a king. 



He passes m silence over the blunders of the Farhang ; and if on 

 two or three places he dares openly to differ in the meaning of a word, 

 he modestly says — 



or words to this effect, although he would not so easily let off other 

 authors. 



