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Vaqa'i'-i Kohistan

1 copy of Vaqāʾiʿ-i kūhistān by Muḥammad Faz̤l ʿAẓīm "ʿAẓīm"

Author: Muḥammad Faz̤l ʿAẓīm "ʿAẓīm" محمّد فضل عظيم عظيم

Combined prose (nas̲r) and versified (mas̲navī) account of the Nepalese war, 1814-16, completed before 1269 / 1853

Author was an eyewitness to the events, having accompanied William Fraser (political agent to General Martindell's army) as secretary

Author also wrote another mas̲navī, Shamʿ-i shabistān, on the love of an unnamed youth for a lady named Navratan, completed in 1269 / 1853

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from Agra

Filiation: Copied from lithographed edition published at the Muṣṭafāʾī Press, Shāhjahānābād, in 1269 / 1853

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 73 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 147 × 241 mm.

Hand(s)

Rough and inelegant nastaʿlīq

in watery ink. Scribe: Hari Parshād

Additions:

Note by William Irvine on brown-paper cover: "Got through Mr Rustomjee at Fathpur. Rec.d 15/5/93"

Binding

History

Origin: 1800 - 1893 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

1913-08-15

William Irvine

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/6 6_237r

Availability

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Bibliography

6_237r

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