Note 299 — APPENDIX. (continued 2)
Edward Rehatsek translation
In the Catalogue des Manuscrits et Xylographes Orientaux de la Bibliothèque Imperiale Publique de St. Petersburg, 1852, p. 410, this tale is described as a separate romance: ‘Histoire de Khavershah et de Mihr et Máh, ou de Roi de l’Orient, et du Soleil et de la Lune’; the only variations being that in place of the devotee is a philosopher called Abid; and Mukhtarí is the name of the minister of the King of Maghrab, the father of the original of the picture.—There are several mystical and erotic poems in Hindí also entitled Mihr ú Máh: see Garcin de Tassy’s Histoire de la Littérature Hindouie, second edition, tome i, 179, 187, and iii, 47.