2c · The Deccan’s own voice · verse 35 · Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah · r. 1580 – 1612 · 14 words, 12 with a dictionary page

Fireworks on the earth, a garden in the sky

From the fireworks the earth stayed lit like sun, moon and stars; the sky took a bright sparkle from the rose-garden.

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What is the archive's and what is not. The Urdu text is quoted verbatim from Kulliyāt-e Sulṭān Muḥammad Qulī Quṭb Shāh, ed. Sayyid Muḥīuddīn Qādrī Zor (1940), p. 88. Each word's meaning is cited to the dictionary page it was read at. The Roman transliteration is the archive's own and has not yet had a native reader's pass — tap any word to see exactly what is cited and what is not.

Source

  1. Kulliyāt-e Sulṭān Muḥammad Qulī Quṭb Shāh, ed. Sayyid Muḥīuddīn Qādrī Zor, 1940, Part 1, Nazmeñ, Shab-e Barāt, poem 2, p. 88 (scan leaf 117) — https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.544682 · fetched · public domain (DLI); facsimile allowed
  2. Word senses: John T. Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English (London, 1884), via the Digital South Asia Library — page numbers on each word card.