{"id":1658,"date":"2014-11-19T15:40:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T20:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2014-11-19T15:42:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T20:42:16","slug":"gulshan-i-ishq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/all\/gulshan-i-ishq\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulshan-i-‘Ishq"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A scene depicting the hero Manohar in a boat from the Gulshan-I-‘ishq [ “The Rose Garden of Love”, a math<\/span>naw\u012b\u00a0in Deccani verse by Nu\u1e63rat\u012b written in 1672 ]<\/p>\n

[ illustration Indian 1815 ]<\/p>\n

” The palace of the princess, Madmalati, and her shabist\u0101n<\/em> ( chamber )\u00a0where the fairies carry Manohar are equally enchanting, while the \u00a0beauty of the princess merits a detailed description, an exercise in sar\u0101p\u0101 nig\u0101r\u012b<\/em> and nakh sikh<\/em>.\u00a0Thus her nose is a champ\u0101<\/em> bud, her tongue a guln\u0101r<\/em> petal; her teeth are pomegranate seeds; her mouth a wine-cup; her cheeks gold-sprinkled pages; her chin rounded like a Samarqand apple; while, above the dawn-bright forehead, the gleam of pearls lining the hair parting is an unfathomed mystery. The princess’s arms are likened to lotus stems, her fingers to a cluster of sovan<\/em> bananas, and her fingernails to the end of the lady-bird, while, rounding off this sar\u0101p\u0101<\/em>, her plaited hair is compared to the Ganges river; her rum\u0101ul\u012b ( the line of down on the stomach ) to the Godavari; her thighs are said to be banana stems; her stature like the sugarcane; her walk as graceful as an elephant’s. ”<\/p>\n

from :\u00a0Scent in the Islamic Garden : A Study of Literary Sources in Persian and Urdu [ Ali Akbar Husain ]<\/a><\/p>\n

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                                        A scene depicting the hero Manohar in a boat from the Gulshan-I-‘ishq [ “The Rose Garden of Love”, a mathnaw\u012b\u00a0in Deccani verse by Nu\u1e63rat\u012b written in 1672 ] [ illustration Indian 1815 ] ” The …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-the-beautiful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}