metadata [IO Islamic 3126] گلشن هند

• Gulshan-i-Hind.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 703 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 3126 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Gulshan-i-Hind ( گلشن هند ) .

A tadhkirah of the most famous Rekhta poets, written in Hindûstânî by Mirzâ Luṭf, A.H. 1215 (A.D. 1800, 1801), at the request of Mr. [John] Gilchrist (see fol.2^a, l. 4 ab infra, and fol. 2^b, l. 12).

Beginning:

رعنائى اور زيبائى دلبران سخن لو اس زينت آفرين كى حمد سى حاصل هى الخ

The first poet of this alphabetical tadhkirah is Âftâb, on fol. 4^a; the last, Yakrang, on fol. 195^a.

No date. On the inner side of the binding is an entry from A.H. 1265 (A.D. 1849). Comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 184.

No. 3126, ff. 196, ll. 17; the larger portion is written in Shikasta; ff. 42-79 and 81-104 in large and stiff Nasta’lîḳ; fol. 76^b and parts of fol. 133 left blank; a few pages in diagonal lines; size, 11^1/8 in. by 6^1/4 in.