Firdausi : (c.935-c.1020/26), principal Persian poet, author of the Shāh-nāmāh (Book of Kings), the Persian national epic.
... value it so highly. The famous poet Firdausi wrote the history of the kings of Persia and recited it to Sultan Mahmud; the Sultan was Page 278 delighted and for some time he held the poet in great favour. The poem Shah-Namah was the work of thirty years, and the Sultan had promised to give the poet 60,000 pieces of gold on its completion. Firdausi was disliked by the Sultan's Vizier... man persuaded his master that the treasury was depleted and that it would be only sensible to give the poet silver instead of gold. Mahmud heeded this advice and sent Firdausi some bags containing 60,000 pieces of silver. Firdausi was at the bath when the bags arrived. He was so infuriated by the Sultan's avarice that he would not even take the gift. He gave 20,000 pieces to the messenger who had... r who happened to be there. Mahmud was informed of this insult and ordered the poet to be trampled to death by elephants. Firdausi was warned and fled to a distant city; at last he settled at Tus, his birth-place. Soon the Sultan felt sorry that he had treated Firdausi so shamefully and wished to regain the poet's respect. He sent a messenger to Tus, bearing him many presents: 60,000 pieces of ...
... is a howling desert. 19 September 1936 You have nowhere said anything about Firdausi, the epic poet of Persia, author of Shahnameh? How is it that you who have made your own culture so wide by means of learning so many languages have allowed a serious gap in it by not knowing Persian? I have read Firdausi in a translation long ago, but it gave no idea at all of the poetic qualities of the ...
... vigour, a freshness and greatness and pulse of life, a simplicity of strength and beauty that makes of them quite another kind than the elaborately constructed literary epics of Virgil or Milton, Firdausi or Kalidasa. This peculiar blending of the natural breath of an early, heroic, swift and vigorous force of life with a strong development and activity of the ethical, the intellectual, even the p ...
... Ring and the Book of Browning with its 21,116 lines to the place of runner-up. Among the world's epics which can in general be compared with it in sustained poetic quality, only the Shah-Nameh of Firdausi, the Ramayana of Valmiki and the Mahabharata of Vyasa exceed it in length — three works which, like it, are products of the East. And indeed Page 127 Savitri stands with the ...
... potency of that literature, and who marks at the same time the height to which its creative genius has attained or perhaps can ever attain. Homer and Virgil, Dante and Shakespeare, Goethe and Camoens, Firdausi in Persian and Kalidasa in classical Sanskrit, are such names – numina, each being the presiding deity, the godhead born full-armed out of the poetic consciousness of the race to which he belongs ...
... cine or other of the required qualifications. Dante and · Kalidasa. would have gone into the first row if they had possessed the elemental creativity as of a demigod that 1. I believe that Firdausi, author of the Persian epic Shah-nameh , is omitted altogether because Sri Aurobindo did not read Persian and was judging by his own direct knowledge of poetic works in the original. Page 42 ...
... Euclid, 81 Europe, 16,52,59,69-70,88, Ill, 117, 148, 150-2, 154-6, 158-9, 167, 178, 180, 211-12, 216-17, 225, 239, 243-6, 261, 326, 346 Existentialists, the, 348-50, 359, 362 FIRDAUSI, 197 Flanders, 74 France, 16, 69, 89-90, 101, 128, 145, 159, 197, 241, 244-6 France, Anatole, 145 French Revolution, 32, 52, 59, 101, 105,. 126, 149, 155, 207-8 Francis ...
... Tseu-Tse, Confucius, Minamoto Sanetomo, St. Paul, St. Augustine, Epictetus, Lao-Tse, Leibnitz, Hermes, Schopenhauer, Sadi, Asvaghosha, Rumi, Spinoza, Bahaaullah, Omar Khayyam, Pythagoras, Kant, Firdausi, Ramakrishna, Vivek ananda , Pasteur, Giordano Bruno and Antoine the Healer. It is a fascinating mosaic of the choicest quotations meant to inform, instruct and inspire at once. All the time ...
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