[IO Islamic 1814] Rauḍat-alaulyâ

Rauḍat-alaulyâ.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 655 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 1814 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Rauḍat-alaulyâ ( روضة الاوليا ) .

A short compendium or Unmûzaj on the great Saints of India, especially of the Dakhan, compiled by Ghulâm ‘Alî Âzâd alḥusainî alwâsiṭî albalgrâmî, the author of the famous tadhkiras مآثر الكرام , سرو آزاد , خزانۀ عامره , etc. (see further below, No . 682 sq.), in A.H. 1161 (A.D. 1748) , see fol. 22a , last line but two. It gives biographical accounts of ten great Shaikhs, the last of whom is the author himself, and is apparently the basis on which he wrote in A.H. 1166 (A.D. 1753) his larger works on the Shaikhs, learned men, and poets of Balgrâm and India in general. The first biography is that of Shaikh Burhân-aldîn Muḥammad bin Maḥmûd bin Nâṣir, commonly called Algharîb alhânsawî ( الغريب الهانسوى ) .

Beginning: نحمدك يا من تقدّست ذاته عن شوائب الامكان و تجلّت صفاته فى مراتب الاكوان و نصلّى و نسلّم على حبيبك الخ .

At the end of the short sketch of the author’s life (relating his various travels and his pilgrimage to Makkah and Madînah in A.H. 1150-52=A.D. 1737-1740) a ḳaṣîdah by the same is added: قصيده در بيان شجرۀ بزرگان روضۀ منوّره قدّس الله اسرارهم ‘

Beginning:

زبان خامۀ مشكين كند بنام خدا

بيان سلسلۀ اولياء روضه ادا

No. 1814, ff. 1-23a, ll. 21; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/2 in. by 51/2 in.