442 Marly Hindustani/ Poetry. [No. 5. 



Koobeloo. Thence it runs S. along the base of Loobra mountain S. 

 W. through Loobra plains and meets the Indus at Budgnak about 

 twelve miles below the fort of Hemap.* 



JEarly Hindustdny Poetry. — By A. Sprenger, M. D. Secretary 

 Asiatic Society. 



In a former number of this Journal Vol. 21, p. 513, the Eekhtah 

 verses of Amyr Khosraw have been adverted to. I have since met 

 with an important passage in the Tadzkirah of Mohammad 'awfy, 

 for which he collected materials in A. H. 600. He says in speaking 

 of Sa'd aldawlah Mas' lid : 

 ^ oji/k 6j^° *&j* bOK (J^ *+* is^t- l/0 ' *jl of*** jl*V° *^J\ 



*&>^J lsLt*^ **Wj' bj f &j\jl* **&J*3 *^J> *t* \#l\ &**jljiJ S *J 

 & djti uf jl C-^ j&J *■"• 3«>j/f ±M &&J* *\jf& V^*° ttll** **l *&»lqj 



\jj\ V A^ &]&i (JJP4& ^Cjj ^jU-J ^ j ^Uj^Cj «i*^f y;f^ <X*» fjjjj 



" I have mentioned this poet in this place (i. e. among the poets 

 of G-haznah) though he was a native of Hamadan, because providence 

 has so willed it, that he should distinguish himself in the eastern 

 countries, and his life is connected with that of the learned men 

 of that age, and because in historical works he is considered a poet of 

 Ghaznah. He had a claim to be classed among the nobles who have 

 written poetry, but he has written more poetry than most profes- 

 sional poets, having left three Dywans, one in Arabic, one in Per- 

 sian, and one in Hindiiy, and for this reason I mention him among 

 the poets." 



Khoshgu, Vol. I. No. 34, confirms this statement : 



" Amyr Khosraw of Dilly (died in A. H. 725) praises him 

 very highly in the preface to one of his works, and says that he has 

 written three thick Dywans, one in Arabic, one in Persian, and one 

 in Hindy." 



* The orthography of the MSS. as far as it could be made out has been care- 

 fully preserved. Eds. 



