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Bagh O Bahar, Or Tales of the Four Darweshes
by Mir Amman of Dihli
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Title: Bagh O Bahar, Or Tales of the Four Darweshes
Author: Mir Amman of Dihli
Release Date: May 17, 2004 [EBook #12370]
Language: English
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BAGH O BAHAR; OR TALES OF THE FOUR DARWESHES.
Translated from the Hindustani of Mir Amman of Dihli
By Duncan Forbes, LL.D.,
Professor of Oriental Languages in King's College, London; Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, author of several works on the Hindustani and Persian Languages.
1874.
PREFACE.
The Bagh O Bahar, or "Garden and Spring," has, for the last half century, been held as a classical work throughout our Indian empire. It highly deserves this distinguished fate, as it contains various modes of expression in correct language; and displays a great variety of Eastern manners and modes of thinking. It is an excellent introduction not only to the colloquial style of the Hindustani language, but also to a knowledge of its various idioms and popular phrases.
The tale itself is interest