قصیده سومنات (قصیدهٔ سومنات)

Farrukhī's qaṣīda on the Somnāth expedition

Panegyric in the poet's Dīwān describing Maḥmūd's march to Somnāth (1025–1026) and explaining the idol's name as su-manāt (the Arabian goddess Manāt).

Language

Persian

Date

1026 CE

Author

Farrukhī Sīstānī

Text

not yet digitised (catalogue entry)