Fables and Tales
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Muḥammad Riżā Nu’ī Ḫabūšānī,
Sūz wa gudāz
[Preliminary Entry] A very popular maṯnawī of four hundred and sixty couplets in the Indian poetic style (sabk-i hindī) composed by the Iranian poet Muḥammad Riżā of Khabushan (Khorasan), known under the pen name of Nu’ī (d. 1019/1610-11). The work comprises a full description of the satī ritual. It’s about an apparently true and tragic story of a Hindu bride losing her groom on the wedding day and willing to be burnt with his husband following satī ritual. Despite emperor Akbar’s (r. 1556-1605) request, the Hindu girl insists on joining her beloved and is finally burnt with him in fire. Depressed and sorrowed by this event, prince Dānyāl (d. 1013/1604) orders Nu’ī to versify it in details.
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Manuscript:
Edition: Sūz wa gudāz, Amīr Ḥassan ‘Ābidī, ed., Tehran, Bunyād-i Farhang, 1348/1969.
London, British Library, India Office, 1485
.Edition: Sūz wa gudāz, Amīr Ḥassan ‘Ābidī, ed., Tehran, Bunyād-i Farhang, 1348/1969.
Work in verses
| Main Persian Title: | Sūz wa gudāz |
| Author: | Muḥammad Riżā Nu’ī Ḫabūšānī |
| Approximate period of composition: | 1556-1605 |
| Commissioner: | Prince Dānyāl (d. 1013/1604) |