A team of Indian scholars working at the Asiatic Society, a Kolkata-based institute for Oriental studies, has stumbled upon a 700-year-old manuscript of the Divan of Hafez, the Times of India reported on Monday 7 March 2017.
The manuscript, which bears the signature and gold insignia of Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor who reigned from 1628 to 1658, also contains an unpublished ghazal. The unpublished poem begins with this verse: “Beham Dellah Ke Bazam Didane Ruyat Moyasser Shod” (Thank God, I have the honor of looking at your face again).
