Note 272 — APPENDIX.

This romance is ascribed by mere popular tradition, and on no solid authority, to the celebrated poet Mír Khusrau, who died in 1324, A.D. Authentic accounts of the poet make no mention of any such work, and it is probably to be assigned to a much later date. An incorrect copy of the Chehár Darvesh is described in Dr. Rieu’s Catalogue of the Persian MSS. in the British Museum, vol. ii, p. 762, Add. 8917. In the Bagh o Bahár (Garden and Spring), which is a modern Urdú amplification, by Mír Amman, not always in the best taste, the Story of the Second Darvesh is that of the Third in the Persian original.