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[سه بیتی در مورد خواسته های دنیایی].

Material type: TextTextLanguage: Dargwa Publication details: [هندوستان] : [ناشر مشخص نیست]، [1700-1899].Description: 1 صفحه ؛ 30 سانتی مترSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • رساله NK3639.P4  س
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University رساله NK3639.P4 92س 1700 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3ACKU000557453
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عنوان به انگلیسی : Three Bayts (Verses) on Worldly Desires

“This calligraphic fragment includes three bayts (verses) of poetry in Persian that describe the true meaning of life in verses that read: “In this ancient monastery built in olden days / Strange that man's substance is so neglected / If he were to spend his whole life with riches / He would not know their value until they are lost / In this house of sandalwood and ebony / Sometimes (there is) mourning, at others a wedding.” The poem describes the world as an ancient monastery and a house of sandalwood and ebony. The world is treacherous, as it takes back what it gives, but also consists jointly of joys and sadness. The true value of man's life must be sought elsewhere than in the acquisition of worldly goods. The verses are executed in black Nasta'liq script on beige paper and are outlined in cloud bands on a background painted in gold. The text panel is framed by blue- and cream-colored borders decorated with gold flecks, and somewhat sloppily pasted to a larger sheet of brown paper backed by cardboard. This calligraphic fragment is neither signed nor dated. However, it may have been executed in Iran or India in the 18th–19th centuries”—library of congress

The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.

عنوان توسط فهرستنویس تهیه گردیده.

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