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K-HANK-HANAN AND HIS HINDI POETRY HE poetry of 'Abdur Rahim Khankhanan is as indistinguishable and inseparable from his actual life as colour and fragrance aer from a flower.
· The life-story of a poet and for that matter a great man is worse than useless if it does not inspire our vision and fancy.
Many Hindus made their contributions to Persian poetry and many Muslims enriched Sanskrit and Hindi literatures.
Once Ganga Kavi put this question to Nawab Khankhanan : (View the image of this page) This habit of giving alms ; · As the hand goes up to give The eyes go downwards as though automatically.
cl'q I ( cfif< ~ ~ cfiU I cfGf ~ (View the image of this page) " A poor man once went to the palace of Nawab Khankhanan.
At the gate he told the porter " I am the husband of the sister of (View the image of this page) Khankhanan's wife.
Before Khankhanan Hindi poetry had achieved many landmarks in bardic and heroic narratives, didactic poems, devotional songs, love lyrics and mystical verses.
'He therefore employs small and soft metres like II doha " and II barava " in colourful imagery and sometimes in natural simplicity in which he paints sometimes with vigour and skill the pictures of life.
dohas : (View the image of this page) "Every inch of space in my eyes Is occupied by the beauty of my love ; It is impossible now for anything to get into it ; .