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i 116 NOTES ON THE SECOND DISCOURSE i The full name of Buzurjmihr of Qayin was Amir Abd Mansiir Qasimribn Ibrahim; and "he flourished during thf same period as the , above-mentioned Zinati. Abu Mansrir ath-Tha'alibi mentions him* in* tbe Tatimma 1 or , Supplement -to his Yatifoatu'd-Dahr, as one of the bilingual poets, who wrote both in Arabic and f Persian, and quotes some of his Arabic verses, including some very sfcrtVd satires on a miser. By Muzaffarf is meant Muzaffar of Panjdih (see 'Awfi's Lubdb, ii, 63-65). Dr Paul Horn in his edition of Asadi's Lughat has misread " " Marwi (of Merv) as " Hirawi " (of Herat), and has confused this poet with a later namesake who died in A.H. 728 (A.D. 1327-8). f The 'proper name of Manshuri was Abu Sa'id Ahmad ibn Muhammad of Samarqand (see 'Awfi's J^.ubdb, ii, 44-46). He is mentioned by Rashidu'd-Din Watwat in the HadaHqu's-Sikk as especially skilful in composing verses of the kind called Mulawwan, capable of being scanned in two or more metres. Mas'udi was one of the court poets of Sultan Mas'iid of Ghazna, whose anger he incurred, as we learn from Bayhaqi's history 2 , by sorrê admonitory verses in which he (with a foresight justified by subsequent events) warned his sovereign against the growing power of the Saljuq Turks. Qasarami was one of the panegyrists of Sultan Abu Ahmad Muhammad ibn Mahmiid of Ghazna. He is mentioned by Asadi in his Lughat (p. 27). His name remains unexplained, nor is it known to what this nisba refers. , Abu Hanifa-i-Iskaf 3 was one of the court poets of Sultan Ibrahim ibn Mas'iid of Ghazna (reigned A.H. 451-492= A.D. 1059-1099), and is repeatedly so described, in terms of the warmest eulogy, by Abu'l- Fadl-i-Bayhaqi (ed. Tihran, pp. 276-281, 387-391 and 633-636). 'A^vfi, therefore, can hardly be correct in including him amongst the poets of Sultan Sanjar the Saljuq (A.H. 511-552 A. u. 1117-1157). l The account of him given in the Majma ul-Fusahd is full of the most astonishing confusions and chronological errors, fully set forth by Mirza Muhammad at the conclusion of his long note (pp. 136-140 of the Persian text) on this poet. c- Rashidi is not mentioned by any of the biograr/ners, but somewhat detailed references are made to him by his contemporary and rival Mas'iid-i-Sa'd-i-Salman (see below) in two of his qasidas cited by Mirza Muhammad in the Persian notes (pp. 140142). Abu'1-Faraj-i-Runi was a younger contemporary of the two poets above mentioned, for he survived into the reign of Sultan Ibrahim's son Mas'tid III (A.H. 492-508 = A.D. 1099-1114), so that the biographer Taqiyyu'd-Din-i-Kashi is evidently mistaken in placing his death in' 1 2 See p. 115 supra, n. 3 ad calc. Tihran lithographed td., p. 601. * This is the form given here and in 'Awfi's Lubdb (ii, 175-6), but Abu'1-Fadl Bayhaqf, his contemporary and friend, calls him " Iskafi," which is probably trie correct form. (Tdrikh-i-Bayhaqi, ed. Tihran, pp. 276-281.) Iskaf, accord
' 1 g tf OTE XIV. POETS AND WRITERS IN ANECDOTE XI J, > . > A.H. 489 (A.D. 1096). Rtina, from which h,e took his nisba, wa?s a place near Lahore, not, asâsserted in the Ta'rikh-'i-Guzida, in.Khawa.ran of Kl/urasan, nor, as the Majma i uU-Fusahd states, near Nishaptir. Mas'ud-i-Sa'd-i-Salman. On thjs poet Mjrza Muhammad wrote a long critical based on a notice, careful study of his poems, which I translated into Etfgn'shând published in t\\zJ.R.A.S. for 1905 (pp. 693-740) and 1906 (pp. 11-51). The s'ubstance of this, which he has .summarized in the Persian notes (pp. 142-150 and 178-182) to this text, is here given in a still more condensed form. The poet's family came origjnally from Hamadan in Persia, but he himself was born at Lahore, of which, in several passages in his poems, he speaks as his native place. Five Kings of the House of Ghazna were the objects of his panegyrics, to wit Ibrahim,, Mas'tfd III, Shirzad, Arslan and Bahramshah, whose reigns extended over a period of 96 lunar or 93 solar years (A.H. 451- 547 = A.D. 1059-1152). His special patron was Sultan Ibrahim's son Mahmud,,who was made governor of India in A.H. 469 (A.D. 1076-7), an event which the poet asserts to have been foreshadowed fifty years earlier by the great astronomer al-Biriini in his Tafhim 1 . This is the earliest date explicitly mentioned by Mas'ud-i-Sa'd. He was probably born about A.H. 440 (A.D. 1048-9) and died about A.H. 515 (A.D. 1121-2). In A.H. 480 (A.D. 10878) he shared the suspicion and disgrace into which his master fell and was imprisoned in different fortresses for ten years. At the end of this period i ' 1 17 he was set free at the intercession of Abu'l-Qasim, one of Sultan Ibrahim's courtiers, and returned to his father's estate in India. In A.H. 492 (A.D. 1098-9) Sultan Ibrahim died andwds succeeded by his son Mas'iid III, who conferred the government of India on his son Shirzad, with whom he sent Qiwamu'1-Mulk Abii Nasr Hibatu'llah of Pars as commander-in-chief and adviser. This man, being an old friend of the poet, made him governor of Jalandar, a dependency of Lahore ; but soon afterwards fell into disfavour in which his clients were involved, and Mas'tid-i-Sa'd was again imprisoned ki the fortress of Maranj for another period of eight or nine years. Finally, about A.H. 500 (A.D. 1106-7), he was released at the intercession of Thiqatu'1-Mulk Tahir ibn 'AH ibn Mushkan. Being now sixty years of age and worn out Vjy his long confinements, he retired from public life and spe.nt the remainder of his days in seclusion. Many contemporary* poets, such as 'Uthman Mukhtari of Ghazna, Mu'izzi and Sana'i (who first collected and edited his poetry) bear witness to his pre-eminence in their a*rt. Jamalu'd-Dfn Muhammad ibn Nasir al-'Alawi and his brother Sayyid Hasan ion Nasir of Ghazna were two well-known poets of the court of Bahramshah, as w&s also Shihabu'd-Din Shah 'All Abu Rija. See 'Awfi^s Lubdbu'l-Albdb, vol. ii, pp. 267-282. ' There is a faint probability that Ahmad-i-Khalaf may have been the sonôf Khalaf ibn Ahmad, the ruler of Sistan, a probability enhanced by the fact that the latter bore the kunya of Abii Ahmad, although there is no other record of the existence of such a son. > 1 See the verses from this interesting poem cited on pp. 144-5 f tne Persian notes, and note i at the foot of the latter.
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xiv TABLE OF CONTENTS ANECDOTE XVII
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In the name of God the Merciful the
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PROPHETS AND KiNks -3 - .j glorious
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1 THE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE which all s
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