Note 243 — Chapter XV · The Sāmānides
Reading edition
Dawlat Shāh, in his Lives of the Poets (see Browne’s edition, p. 44), quotes from `Unsuri the following quatrain in which the rulers of the house of Sāmān are enumerated—
Nūh kas būdand zi āl-i-Sāmān mazkūr Dā´īm bi imārat-i-Khorāsān mashhūr Ismā`īl ast u Ahmadī u Nasrī Dū Nūh u dū `Abd-ul-Malik u dū Mansūr.
Translation.—Nine members of the house of Sāmān were famous in the government of Khorāsān, namely, Ismā`īl, one Ahmad, one Nasr, two Nūh’s, two `Abd el-Melik’s, and two Mansūr’s.