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A brief notice of some of the 



[Jan - . 



" Hear how yon reed, in sadly-pleasing tales, 

 Departed bliss and present wo bewails ! 

 With me from native banks untimely torn, 

 Love-warbling youths and soft eyed virgins mourn. 



0 ! let the heart, by fatal absence rent, 

 Feel what I sing, and bleed when I lament : 

 Who roams in exile from his parent bow'r, 

 Pants to return, and chides each ling'ring hour." 



The Masnavi is written in the measure, Ramal Musaddas Mahsur* 



Flourished during the reign of Yacub, king of Persia. He is author 

 of a poem, entitled the Temdrat al Ashgiah, 



This monarch is included by the author of the TazJdret-i-Serhhush 

 in his catalogue of poets, and no doubt possessed considerable talent 

 for poetry, as numerous couplets and stanzas, quoted as his extempore 

 effusions, attest ; though it does not appear that the royal amateur ever 

 achieved any thing like a regular poem. 



The memoirs of his life penned by himself are well written and 

 evince much observation and ability. Jehangir ruled in Hindustan 

 from A. H. 1014 to 1037, when he died, according to Dow, on his way 

 to Cashmir in the 58th year of his age. 



Tavernier speaks very highly of his " illustrious queen/' the Begum 

 Nur Mahal, and gives an engraving of the pieces of money coined by 

 her command, during the twenty-four hours of imperial sway granted 

 her by the emperor. She could read, write, and compose in Arabic, j 

 Persian and Hindi. One day seeing the emperor in a vest fastened j 

 by a ruby of uncommon lustre, she improvised this couplet ; 



Jelal uddin Rouzet-i-Bahary 



Jehangir Padshah, 



