1836.] 



A brief notice .of the Persian poets. 



nor do I know where it is printed, so that I am unable to refer 

 to the opinions of that illustrious author beyond the short 

 extract in Myers' work, which only treats of their heat. He 

 (Roxburgh) mentions 115° as the highest he had ever seen 

 thermometer, but adds " that some say they have ob- 

 served it at 130 degrees" during their prevalence. 



. 2d Nov. 1835, 



... \'i — A brief notice of some of the Persian poets. — By 

 Lieutenant Newcold,..23^ Regiment 'M.N. L 



(Continued from Vol. ii. page 254) 



Abiil Olai Ganjawi. 



This poet was the preceptor of Khakani and Faleki ; against 

 the former of whom he wrote some satirical verses which are 

 adduced by Hamdallah in his chapter on poets in the Tarikli- 

 i-Guzidah. They form one among the many specimens of 

 the impure style of Persian writers. — Khakani, stung to the 

 quick, vowed vengeance on the author, who however, averted 

 from himself the probable consequences of his own imprudence 

 by the timely production of some conciliatory stanzas, and 

 bestowing the hand of his daughter in marriage, on his irri- 

 tated pupil. Mahomed Bakhtawer Khan, in his Tazkirat-us- 

 Shora, mentions that Faleki, jealous of Khakani 's good for- 

 tune, retired in disgust from the world. Abul Olai, when he 

 heard of this, sent Faleki a thousand direms, telling him 

 that "such a sum would be sufficient to purchase forty beau- 

 tiful damsels, each far preferable to the daughter of Abul 

 Olai." 



Abul Olai flourished in the sixth century of the Hejira : 

 among his compositions is a Diwan which is highly spoken 

 of by Persian writers. His Pand-i-Arjaji contains some 

 elegant and fanciful poetry. 



Abu Bekr Cazoini f of Cazoin in Jebal J. 



Cazoini was the author of a • £afer~nameh. 'He" died 

 A; H. 758, 



