Gulshan-i-Hind. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 703 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 3126 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 703 Gulshan-i-Hind ( گلشن هند ) . A tadhkirah of the most famous Rekhta poets, written in Hindûstânî by Mirzâ Luṭf, A.H. 1215 (A.D. 1800, 1801), at the request of Mr. [John] Gilchrist (see fol.2a, l. 4 ab infra, and fol. 2b, l. 12). Beginning: رعنائى اور زيبائى دلبران سخن لو اس زينت آفرين كى حمد سى حاصل هى الخ The first poet of this alphabetical tadhkirah is Âftâb, on fol. 4a; the last, Yakrang, on fol. 195a. No date. On the inner side of the binding is an entry from A.H. 1265 (A.D. 1849). Comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 184. No. 3126, ff. 196, ll. 17; the larger portion is written in Shikasta; ff. 42-79 and 81-104 in large and stiff Nasta’lîḳ; fol. 76b and parts of fol. 133 left blank; a few pages in diagonal lines; size, 111/8 in. by 61/4 in.