[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Persian and Urdu literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab) › [Nuh sipihr](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.nuh-sipihr) › [Nuh Sipihr (extracts)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.nuh-sipihr~en-elliot) › 9 # Nuh sipihr 9: The Ninth Sphere. Nuh Sipihr (extracts) 9 - **Language:** English ### [9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.nuh-sipihr~en-elliot.9) The poet exalts his own merits, and boastingly says that though at that time, in all 'Ajam and Írán, the two poets of chief celebrity were Shaikh Sa'di Shirazi and Hakim Humam Tabrizi, yet he excelled them both; because, whatever might be the merit of their verses, they possessed not the same multifarious accomplishments as himself. He tells us that he was sixty-five years of age, and becoming infirm, when he concluded this poem on the 30th of Jumada-s sani, 718 H. (August 24th, 1318 A.D.), and that it contains 4,509 lines. - [Previous: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.nuh-sipihr~en-elliot.8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.nuh-sipihr~en-elliot.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.nuh-sipihr~en-elliot.9) · Pramāṇa