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20th May 2022, 05:55 PM | #14 |
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On the blade is a famous couplet from the Gulistan of Sa'di:
غرض نقشیست کز ما باز ماند که هستی را نمی بینم بقایی "The aim of this design is that it should outlive us, For I see no permanence in this existence" Down the back of the grip is Surat al-Ikhlas (112) In the cartouche at the back of the base of the blade I would suggest the following فرمایش سردار شیر علی خان "Commission of Sardar Sher 'Ali Khan" The date and name of the maker I read as you have done سنه ۱۲۷۲ "Year 1272 (1854-5)" عمل احمد الله صوفی "Work of Ahmadullah Sufi" The names strongly suggest the owner and maker were from Afghanistan. There was a member of the Barakzai dynasty called Sardar Sher 'Ali Khan who was vizier to the governor in Herat and later governor himself of Kandahar. His dates fit too https://www.royalark.net/Afghanistan/barak5.htm |
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