[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Muntakhab al-tawarikh](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh) › 55.1 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 55.1 Muntakhab al-tawārīkh 55.1 - **Language:** Persian ### [55.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.55.1) گهرین بیان فصیحی که فصاحت بیانش > That cypress whose robe is the jasmine, whose body the rose, Is a spirit incarnate whose garment the body provides. What profits the Khatani musk? all the kingdoms of Chin Are conquered, and bound in the chains of her clustering curls. In the eye of her eyelashes’ needle the thread of my soul I’ll fasten and swiftly repair every rent in her robe. Could Gulrukh essay to discover the charms of her teeth, He would say they are water-white pearls of the ocean of speech. One of the poets of the reign of Sultan Sikandar was the Brahman Dunkar who, they say, in spite of being an infidel, used to give instruction in books of science. The following matla‘ (opening couplet) was spoken \[and is a most auspicious matla‘\] by him in the metre of Mas‘ud Beg, Had not thy glance been the dagger, my heart had not bled to-day; Had not thy look been the serpent I never had lost my way. Also among the great and learned men of the time of Sultan Sikandar were Shaikh ‘Abdu-llah Tulumbi in Dihli, and Shaikh ‘Azizu-llah Tulumbi in Sambhal, both of whom came to Hindūstān at the time of the realm of Multān, and introduced the systematic study of the intellectual sciences into that country. Before their time, with the exception of the Sharḥ-i Shamsīyah, and the Sharḥ-i Ṣaḥā'if, there were no books current in Hindūstān which treated of logic and metaphysics. > — George S. A. Ranking & W. H. Lowe 1884, Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) - [Previous: 54.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.54.1) - [Next: 56.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.56.1) - [Up: 55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.55) ## Translations (1) - [Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.55.1) — George S. A. Ranking & W. H. Lowe 1884, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.55.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.55.1) · Pramāṇa