Delhi Persian 66B* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Treatise on kingship
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1 copy of Gushāʾish'nāmah by Khvājah Rāj Kiran
Treatise on the ethics of kingship in refined prose and poetry, entitled Gushāʾish'nāmah by Khvājah Rāj Kiran, written at the suggestion of a certain Nand Lāl the munshī
Defective at beginning
Dated colophon (f. 97v): completed in the reign of Ghāz[ī] al-Dīn Ḥaydar Bahādur, 22 Rabīʿ al-S̲ānī 1238/6 January 1823
Roughly and, occasionally, inaccurately transcribed in Indian taʿlīq
Damaged by wormholes and poor preservation; fragile
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