[IO Islamic 3010] پدماوت

• Padmâwat
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1582 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 3010 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1582

Padmâwat (پدماوت).

The story of Padmâwat (or Padam) and Ratan Sên (or simply Ratan or Rat), also frequently styled Rat Padam (رت پدم), founded on the older Hindî story of the same title which Malik Muḥammad Jâ’isî composed in Bhâkhâ, A.H. 947 (A.D. 1540, 1541), and put into Persian verse by Mullâ ‘Abd-alshakûr Bazmî (with his real name, according to colophon of one Bodleian copy, Walker 86, Shaikh Shukr-allâh) of Karj or Karaj in Gujarât, who was born A.H. 1001 (A.D. 1592, 1593), and died, according to Rieu iii. p. 1036^b, A.H. 1073 (A.D. 1662, 1663), at Âgra. He composed this mathnawî in A.H. 1028 (A.D. 1619), and dedicated it to the emperor Jahângîr, see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1125 and 1126; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 911; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 376. On the Hindî original comp. Garcin de Tassy, Histoire etc. ii., pp. 66-69, and Théod. Pavie in Journal Asiatique, 1856, pp. 1-47, 89-130, and 315-343; copies of the same are contained in Ouseley 196 of the Bodleian Library (No. 2352 in the Bodleian Cat.), and in Nos. 1018, 1819, 1975, 2138, 2459, and 3130 of the India Office Collection; it has been edited at Lucknow, 1844 and 1865; a Hindûstânî translation by Ḍiyâ-aldîn ‘Ibrat of Dihlî, completed by Ghulâm ‘Alî Mashhadî ‘Ishrat, appeared in Lucknow, 1858; another version in a dialect, half Bhâkhâ, half Hindûstânî, by Mîr ‘Abd-aljalîl Balgrâmî, is mentioned in Rieu, loc. cit.; a Pushtû translation by Ibrâhîm has been noticed in Zeitschrift der D.M. G. vol. xvi. p. 789. Other Persian versions are: one by Ḥusain of Ghazna, mentioned in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 911; another by ‘Âḳilkhân Râzî (see further below), and a third by Ḥusâm-aldîn, who completed his mathnawî, styled حسن و عشق , A.H. 1071 (A.D. 1660, 1661), under ‘Âlamgîr, to whom it is dedicated, see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 929.

Beginning of Bazmî’s mathnawî:

اى نام تو نقش لوح جانها – در مانده بوصف او زبانها

The author’s name appears on fol. 13^b, l. 10, and on fol. 113^a, l. 4; but the last two verses, containing the date of composition, are missing here.

This copy was finished the 23rd of Shawwâl, A.H. 1194 (A.D. 1780, Oct. 22), at ‘Ażîmâbâd, i. e. Patna.

No. 3010, ff. 115, 2 coll., each ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ, mixed occasionally with Shikasta; size, 9^7/8 in. by 6 in.