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Overview
Mulla Da'ud was a poet of the Delhi Sultanate period who composed the Laur Chanda or Chandayana (The Story of Chanda) in the Avadhi dialect of Hindi in 1377-78 and dedicated it to Jahan Shah, vizier of Sultan Firuz Shah Tughluq. 1
His legacy
The romance was widely popular: parts of at least five illustrated pre-Mughal copies survive, among them the copy of which the Prince of Wales Museum in Bombay holds sixty-eight miniatures. 1 Welch counts a sixteenth-century Chandayana among the loveliest of all Sultanate manuscripts, its Iranian and Indian elements in balanced synthesis. 2
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People and things also explored
Akbar Allahabadi (Urdu satirical poet, 1846–1921)· Amanat (Sayyid Agha Hasan, Lucknow poet, 1815–1858)· Abd al-Hayy al-Lakhnawi· Abd al-Rahim Khan-i-Khana· Abd al-Samad, Safavid-trained Mughal painter· Abd al-Sattar al-Kardari· Abdul Aleem Farooqui· Abdul Bari Firangi Mahali
Sources
- Stuart Cary Welch, India: Art and Culture 1300-1900 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985) , p. 136
- Stuart Cary Welch, India: Art and Culture 1300-1900 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985) , p. 119
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islam.museum contributors. “Mulla Da'ud, author of the Chandayana”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/mulla-daud/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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