[IO Islamic 114] ديوان واله

Dîwân-i-Wâlih

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1708 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 114 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1708

Dîwân-i-Wâlih (ديوان واله).

The lyrical poems of Nawwâb ‘Alîḳulîkhân Dâghistânî Shamkhâlî, with the takhalluṣ Wâlih, who was born A.H. 1124 (A.D.1712), in Iṣfahân, as son of Muḥammad ‘Alîkhân; the rising power of Nâdirshâh drove him from Persia and he fled to India, where he arrived A.H. 1147 (A.D. 1734, 1735), and entered Muḥammadshâh’s service; here he composed in A.H. 1149 (A.D. 1736, 1737) a mystical mathnawî نجم الهدا or the ‘star of guidance,’ followed by another of romantic character, the مرزا نامه (see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 589), and in A.H. 1161 (A.D. 1748) his famous tadhkirah رياض الشّعرا (see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 377, 378; Rieu i. p. 371 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 132; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 622 sq.; Bland in Journal As. Soc., ix. pp. 143-147, etc.). He died in Dihlî A.H. 1169, 1st of Rajab (A.D. 1756, April 1); see on his life Rieu, loc. cit. and iii. p. 1086a; Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 301 (Bodleian Cat., col. 312), and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 3018 (ib., col. 393). His dîwân, a much larger copy of which is described in Bodleian Cat., No. 1182, was completed A.H. 1157 (A.D. 1744, 1745); his love adventures with his cousin Khadîjah Sulṭân have been treated in a mathnawî by Faḳîr (see No. 1711 below).

This copy contains:

Ḳaṣîdas, without any order, beginning (as in the Bodleian copy):

منم كه نيست مرا در جهان شبيه و مثال

مگر خداى غفو ستم و حق متعال

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning (likewise as in the Bodleian copy), on fol. 57a:

عالم برند رشك بعيش مدام ما

گر عكس چهرۀ تو در افتد بجام ما

The first ghazal, quoted in the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, is found here on fol. 58a.

Ḳiṭ’as and a few mathnawî-baits at the end, beginning, on fol. 99a:

گلى از خارزار دشت فنا – برياض بقا فرستادم

This too agree with the initial ḳiṭ’ah in the Bodleian copy.

No date.

No. 114, ff. 44-101, 2 coll., each ll. 17; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8¼ in. by 4½ in.