Anarkali

Naqshbandi: this was awesome just for making the effort that you did.

although i think the language could have been translated in a more dated way... in Ulysses, joyce tried these various forms to write the same novel.. there is one chapter that is done in a baroque style.. it almost gives you the feeling that the scenes of the chapter are nothing but a collage of baroque paintings... taj`s beautiful play seems like a series of mughal miniature paintings with special care for detail and classical moseeke...

my favorite scene is the rendezvous of Saleem and Anarkali in the garden .. also Bakhtyar was a funny character...

cheers!

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dost-mittar: the reason for Dilaram (pronounced Dil-aaraam: Heart-Repose) wanting to spike Anarkali`s drink is because she was herself in love with Saleem; also before Anarkali she was the favourite of the Emperor`s affections...hence the reason was jealousy...

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Echoboom Sahib: Thank you for that wonderfully entertaining history lesson! Indeed our great and glorious heritage is so different from the stereotype...:-)

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Rahulmal: I cannot find an online version in either Roman, Devnagari or Urdu script; the original book in Urdu is quite easily available from any good Urdu bookseller.

Shadow of God is Zill-e-ilaahi in Urdu and Farsi and DHill al Ilahi Fil `Ard in Arabi: a common title for Mughal emperors.

An `ashiq has written a eulogy for the Sultan of the Saints, al-Ghawth al Azam Shaykh Sayyid Abd al Qadir al Jilani using this phrase:

Qad-e-bay-saaya zill-e-kibriyaa hai
Tu iss bay-saaya zill ka zill hai Ya Ghawth!

My translation:
His shadowless form [sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam] is the shadow of
the Great Shadow
You are the shadow of that shadowless shadow [sal Allahu alayhi wa
sallam] Ya Ghawth!

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Asif:

A true labour of love! For those who are not familiar with the detalied background, who asked Dilaram to spike Anarkali`s drink and why?

xcellent Asif naqshbandi...this was sort of different than some of your last stuff I have read on this site. very detailed but remaining simple.

Asif,

Good one! Could you point to the original in Roman or Devanagari script.

Is `Shadow of God` ZilleElahi or ZilleSubhani?

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You`re welcome! I hope you liked it...

They say Akbar himself had sexual relationship with Anarkali and he could not tolerate his son having similar invovlment with her.

asif:

itni mehnat karnay kay lyay shukria:)

rgds

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The play translated is a fiction--but based on what may be historical fact, embellished as all legend is.

Only recently I read that Anarkali may be fiction? Why would someone raise a monument to a fictious legend.

I think it is based on a real character which was muddled and exaggerated over time.