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Poetry- Binish Kashmiri

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1.

Chu āsiā nakhuram rizq-e-digarān Binish /
ze hirs gar hamah ‘āza shawand dandānam.

2.

I do not eat others’ food like the floor mill,
Even though all my limbs have become (lean) with hunger like the teeth.
Famine & Dearth: a series of electronic texts, collected by Ayesha Mukherjee and Amlan Das Gupta

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Keywords

body, eating, food, hunger, mill, physiognomy, thin

Source text

Title: Poetry- Binish Kashmiri

Author: Binish Kashmiri

Editor(s): Md. Ehteshamuddin, Azarmi Dukht Safavi

Publication date: 2016

Original compiled c.1600-1699

Provenance/location: Original compiled c.1600-1699

Digital edition

Original author(s): Binish Kashmiri

Original editor(s): Md. Ehteshamuddin Institute of Persian Research, Aligarh Muslim University , Azarmi Dukht Safavi Institute of Persian Research, Aligarh Muslim University

Language: English

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Texts collected by: Ayesha Mukherjee, Amlan Das Gupta, Azarmi Dukht Safavi

Texts transcribed by: Muhammad Irshad Alam, Bonisha Bhattacharya, Arshdeep Singh Brar, Muhammad Ehteshamuddin, Kahkashan Khalil, Sarbajit Mitra

Texts encoded by: Bonisha Bhattacharya, Shreya Bose, Lucy Corley, Kinshuk Das, Bedbyas Datta, Arshdeep Singh Brar, Sarbajit Mitra, Josh Monk, Reesoom Pal

Encoding checking by: Hannah Petrie, Gary Stringer, Charlotte Tupman

Genre: India > poetry

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