The Bagh O Bahar: Or the Garden and the Spring; Being the Adventures of King Azad Bakht and the Four Darweshes; Literally Translated From the Urdü of ... and an Introductory Preface (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Bagh O Bahar: Or the Garden and the Spring; Being the Adventures of King Azad Bakht and the Four Darweshes; Literally Translated From the Urdü of Mïr Amman, of Dihlï With Copious Explanatory Notes, and an Introductory Preface

The tale of the Four Darweshes has now become a work of so much general interest - inasmuch as it is the book in which every officer in India, civil or military, must undergo an examination - that no apology seems requisite for present ing the public, for the first time, with a translation of it. I say for the first time, for the version by Lewis Ferdinand Smith, which appeared in the days of Lord Minto s governor-general ship, and has lately been re-edited by Professor Forbes, is not a translation, but a paraphrase. In it all the difficult expressions are passed over, pede se cco, and some passages, according to Mr. Smith s own statement, are altered to give an air of greater probability to the whole. Moreover, the fragments of poetry with which the tales are interspersed, are rendered in such a doleful and dissonant manner, that no amount of compassion could induce the general reader to harass his feelings by perusing more than one line. It is to be regretted, indeed.

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