Alaol Poetry

Arakan Great Muslim Poet Alaol‘s [1607-1680] some presious poetry are below for gaint knowledge.

kahite aneka katha du0kha aipanara /

rosange asiya hailun raja- achoyara //

bahu musalmana saba rosange baisanta /

sadacari kulina pa00ita gu0avanta //

sabe k0pa karenta sambha0a bahutara /

alima olama bali karenta adara //

mukhya pa0esvarira amatya mahajana /

satyavadi jitendriya0hakura Magana //

bhagyodaya haila mora vidhi parasana /

du0kha nasa hetu tana sa0geta milana //

aneka adara kari bahula sammana /

satafa po0anta anna vastra dana //

madhura alape vasa haila mora mana /

tana gu0a sutra haila grivate bandhana //

 

(Padmavati. 196-202)

 

“I feel much pain telling my story. Arrived in Rosanga, I became royal horseman.

 

Many Muslims live in Rosanga; they are honest in their conduct, noble [by birth], erudite and endowed with qualities.

 

Every one provides favors and converses much [with me]; learned men call [me] scholar and show affection.

 

The great man who is the first queen’s minister is the lord Magana, an adept of truth and a defeater of his senses.

 

Touched by destiny, my good fortune rose, [and] for the sake of annihilation of grief [I was to] meet with him.

 

Showing much affection and respect [to me], he constantly took care of me with gifts of food and garments.

 

By his sweet speech my heart has been subdued, and the garland (lit.string) of his qualities has been tied to my neck.”

 

ေဖာ္ျပပါ ပါဒ္မဝတီ လကၤာပိုဒ္၌ အတြင္းဝန္ခ်ဳပ္ မဂံ တဂိုးသည္ စာဆို၏ ပထမဦးဆံုး ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ အားေပးသူျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ အာရ္ကာန္ျပည္ ေရာက္သူ႕အတၱပၸတၱိကို လည္းေကာင္း၊ အာရ္ကာန္ျပည္၌ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမြတ္စလင္လူဦးေရ မ်ားျပားလွသည့္ ေဒသအေျခအေနကို လည္းေကာင္း ေရးဖြဲ႕ထားသည္။ ထို႔အျပင္ ဤအပိုဒ္၌ စာဆိုသည္ မဂံတဂိုးမွအပ အျခားမည္သည့္ အဦးဆံုး  ေက်းဇူးရွင္ကိုမွ် ေဖာ္ျပျခင္း မရိွခဲ့ေခ်။ အတြင္းဝန္ခ်ဳပ္ မဂံ သည္ သူ႕ ပထမဆံုး သူေကာင္းျပဳသည့္ ေက်းဇူးရွင္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ထင္ရွားေန သည္။ 

Ragtalnama သည္ ေတးဂီတေပၚ ေရးသားသည့္ သူ၏ အေစာဆံုး ကဗ်ာရွည္ ျဖစ္ၿပီး အျခား ကဗ်ာ စာအုပ္မ်ားမွာ ဘာသာျပန္ျခင္း၊ ေက်ာ႐ိုးယူျခင္းတို႔ျဖစ္သည္။ သူ႕ဘာသာျပန္ ကဗ်ာမ်ားမွာ Padmavati သည္ မာလိခ္ မိုဟာမတ္ ဂ်ယာစီ [Malik Mohammad Zayasi] ေရးသားသည့္  ဟီႏၵီ ဝတၱဳ  Padmavat ကို အေျခခံထား၍  သူ႕ အေျပာက္ေျမာက္ဆံုး လက္ရာအျဖစ္ ပညာရွင္မ်ားက သတ္မွတ္ၾကသည္။ မူရင္း ဇာတ္လမ္းမွာ စီဏ္ဟလာ မင္းသားႏွင့္ ခ်ီတိုရ္ ဘုရင္မ အေၾကာင္းကို စာပန္းခ်ီ ေရးဖြဲ႕ထားျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

Satimayana-Lor-Chandrani သည္ အာရ္ကာန္ နန္းတြင္းစာဆို ဒိုလတ္ကာဇီ၏ မၿပီးဆံုးႏိုင္ခဲ့ေသာ ကဗ်ာရွည္ကို အၿပီးသတ္ ေရးသားေပးခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ ဤဝတၱဳ၏ ပထမပိုင္းသည္ စာဆိုေတာ္ ဒိုလတ္ကာဇီက ေရးသားခဲ့ၿပီး ေနာက္ဆံုးအပိုင္းကိုသာ အာလာဝလ္က ေရးသားခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ 

Let’s now compare these verses with a passage taken fiom the prologue of Sati Mayna o Lora Candrani:

 

katheka apana du0kha kahimu prakasi / 

raja asoyara hainu rosa0gete asi //

srimanta choleman maha gu0avanta /

prra desi gu0i paile adara po0anta //

maha hara0ita haila paiya ahmare / 

anna vastra dane nitya po0anta sadare //

 

(Sat. 8-10.)

 

“I openly told some griefs of mine. Arrived in Rosanga I became royal horseman.

 

The noble Choleman is a great [man adorned] with qualities; when he acquires a stranger endowed with qualities, he respectfully takes care of him.

 

He became most joyful when he obtained me; constantly he affectionately took care of me with gifts of food and garments.”