احمد یار مرالوی در راہ فردوسی طوسی

Ahmad Yar Maralvi was a renowned name of Persian literature. He composed Shahnama Ranjeet Singh. It gave new meaning to the phenomena of patriotism and intellect thereby creating a following of its own among the scholars and intellectuals of the Indian subcontinent. Maralvi, a disciple of Firdausi, wrote Shahnama Ranjeet Singh on the request of Raja Gulab Sing. Like Firdausi, he started the Shahnama with Hamd and Naat and then penned down an elaborate description of Ranjeet Singh's life from birth to death. The epic is written in Persian with a beautiful amalgamation of Punjabi and Hindi languages. This article delineates it in light of Firdausi's stylistics technique of Shahnama, thus bringing out its distinct features.