[IO Islamic 1982] ديوان آشنا

Dîwân-i-Âshnâ

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1584 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 1982 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1584

Dîwân-i-Âshnâ (ديوان آشنا).

A collection of lyrical poems by Âshnâ, i.e. Muḥammad Ṭâhir ‘Inâyatkhân bin Żafarkhân bin Khwâjah Abû-alḥasan, who died A.H. 1077 (A.D. 1666, 1667), the author of a history of Shâhjahân to the close of the thirtieth year of his reign, styled شاهجهاننامه or مُلَخّس, see No. 331 in this Cat., and Rieu i. p. 261, and iii. p. 1083b; W. Morley, p. 123; Elliot, History of India, vii. P. 73 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 339, and Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 3 (col. 295 in the Bodleian Cat.). His father Żafarkhân, with the takhalluṣ Aḥsan, was likewise a renowned poet (see below, in No. 1601).

The present collection of Âshnâ’s poems was already made during the author’s lifetime, probably by himself, as it is dated the 1st of Shawwâl, A.H. 1060 (A.D. 1650, Sept. 27), and consequently there are after every part several leaves left blank for future additions; the same occurs after every rhyme-letter in the ghazals and rubâ’îs.

Contents:

1.Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 1b, beginning:

باز شد فصل بهار و طرب آمد بوجود

غنچه از فيض هوا لب بتبسّم بگشود

Agreeing with the beginning of the Moty mahall copy in A. Sprenger, p. 340.

2.Muḳaṭṭa’ât, on fol. 30b, beginning:

بشنود گر گفتگوى قحطئ كشمير را

باوجود كينه جوئى آسمان گريان شود

3.Marthiyyât or elegies, in form of tarkîbbands, on fol. 35b; the first, on the death of the شاه مظلومان عبد السّلام (in the following copy, on fol. 39b, headed در مرثيّۀ شاه شهدا امير المؤمنين امام حسين شهيد دشت كربلا), begins:

آنچه شورست اى فلك كاندر جهان افگندۀ

طائر آرام را از آشيان افگندۀ

4.Fards, (a) ابيات فرد مطلع, on fol. 39b; (b) ابيات فرد غير مطلع, on fol. 41b.

5.Mathnawîs, on fol. 43b, beginning with a ساقينامه:

بنام خداى كه از قدر و شان

خم باده را نام كرد آسمان

The mathnawî in praise of Kashmir, quoted in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 340, and beginning: بهار آمد دلا ساغر بكف گير الخ, is found here on fol. 53b.

6.Another series of short mathnawis, on fol. 67b, beginning:

ز اطوار مردان راه خدا – چه بیگانۀ بشنو از آشنا

7.Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 71b, beginning:

اى بسر تاج ز توحيد تو هر ديوانرا

حمد تو در لب انديشۀ سر گردانرا

8.Short ghazals and rubâ’is, mixed without any order, on fol. 156b, beginning: نواى عشق بلبل را سوى گلزار مى آرد الخ.

9.Rubâ’îs, in alphabetical order, on fol. 161b, beginning:

پيوسته بزير چرخ بى بهره مرا

طالع كوتاه باشد و ناله رسا

No. 1982, ff. 179, 2 coll., each ll. 15; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/2 in. by 51/4 in.