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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vi. JULY 13. 1912

I may add that it seems to me almost, if not quite, an anachronism to suppose that Hatif was the author, or that Jones got it from his writings. Hatif died, according to Dr. Ethe, in 1784, and according to Rieu, in 1786. In either case there was hardly time for Jones to see Hatif's poems, for his translation was made, apparently, in 1784, and it is not likely that Hatif's diwdn was collected till after his death : the Bodleian copy is dated some years after. Moreover, Jones's Oriental MSS. were presented by his widow to the Royal Society, and have lately been transferred to the India Office. Hatif's poems are not among them, nor have I found any reference to Hatif (nor, indeed, to the " On Parent Knees " quatrain) in the bulky anthology, No. 55, of the Denison-Ross Catalogue of the Jones MSS. Of course, the occurrence in Galland's book of the whole point of the quatrain quite puts out of court any claim to Hatif's being the author at least, as far as regards originality.

The fact that one of the quatrains given by Jouannin is by Pindar Razi gives rise to the thought that the other may also be by him. And the didactic nature of both quatrains may incline us to this view. But it is only a guess. Unfortunately, the diwdn of Pindar Razi (his full name was Kamalu-d- din) seems to be lost. The author of the ' Atishkada ' had not seen it, and there is no copy in the English libraries. That Pindar Razi suffered the common lot of an early poet in having his verses ascribed to a later writer seems apparent from No. 23 of the quatrains in Whinfield's edition of Omar Khayyam. This quatrain, begin- ning " Quoth fish to duck," is given in the ' Atishkada ' (Calcutta lith. of 1249 H, p. 285) as by Pindar, who was nearly a century earlier than Omar. Daulat Shah says that Pindar Razi wrote both in Arabic and Persian. So if he was the author of the Persian quatrain, he might also have written the Arabic one. There is a very copious anthology of Persian poetry in the Bodleian, the ' Makhzanu-l-Gharalb ' ('The Magazine of Rarities'); but, though it has a short notice of Pindar Razi, the only specimen of his verses that it gives is the rather trivial quatrain about the fish and the duck, which has been attributed to Omar Khayyam. I could not find the Jones quatrain in the anthology known as the ' Daghistanj,' and it is certainly not in the ' Gulistan r or ' Bostan ' of Saadl.

H. BEVERIDGE.

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