History of the Kingdom of Caubul From the Foundation of the Dooraunee Monarchy

“The Time of Lament”: A Momand drama of 1711 through the eyes of Pashtun litterateurs

“…The symbolic figure of a cupbearer ( sāqī ) in the philosophical introduction to Qādir's poem was not so much a tribute paid to the canon of classical Persian lyrics as an allusion to Khushḥāl's most famous war ode “Whence did this spring come again…” ( byā lə kūma rā-paydā shū dā bahār ) translated into English as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century by Mountstuart Elphinstone (1839: 257–9; Khushḥāl 1952: 526–8). Khushḥāl's ode also opens with a brief overture which belongs to the traditional genre of the landscape spring lyrics.…”

“…Kāmil (1915–81) in the early 1950s (Kāmil 1951; Khushḥāl 1952: xi–lii). In Western scholarship Khushḥāl's verses have been translated and examined several times beginning with the pioneering book on Pashtuns by M. Elphinstone (1839: 254–9). However, even the best works on the subject lacked Kāmil's full expertise in the original sources (cf.…”