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(6) hapitutur datëg mitranira kabèh // kag pinitutura (7) ken wirasa nig husul suluk // wdal lr ) carita sakig ki [tab ahya gulumuddin] Translation: (.p• 1, line 1) In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate // (2) and with Him we take refuge // Praised be God, (2) the Lord of the Worlds // and the ?alat on His Messenger (4) Muhammad and his Companions al together // x // (d) These are words of shaikh ul-Bari(t)) //at the time

(d) when he was holding forth to his friends. The subject on which he was holding forth (7) was the meaning of usul and suluk. 1 he words came from the book [Ihya c Ulumi ’dDïn]

Text: (p. 2, line 1) [lawan yukti nikai) Saraswati hu] wus rih idëp ira wisésa tan kalah / na (2) han hétunira prasidda sawuwus nira ya (3) ta manaran kawlswara // nwatj tékin ati (4) muda tatwa mahharëp hanïru niru ri sarj (5) kawiswara / dandyaran kawasanya dénii) ru (6) sit irj guru lagu yati candra naksara / tu (7) lya nii3 kukunarj harëp madananèr; sasadda (8) ra mapadatj, ya topama / wètnyan tan kawi (9) muda ni kamala nata tumuladda ri sai) (10) huwus mahan // tan déniij wijil iij bhisa (11) mikët ikëtta hanarppha makirtya rig (12) sarat / ddénig harsa kdëh mawasya cacaddë (13) n magawéya kata sagkanig guyu / mwag bhakti [gku ri pada nig guru] T ranslation: (p. 2, line 1) [and the approbation of Saraswati] in his mind, powerful, invincible, (2) that is the cause of the accuracy of all his words, (3) therefore he is called Prince of Poets. // But I, (4) very foolishly, still want to imitate the honoured (5) Princes of Poets. Not by far (read ndan duran) can it be done, because of the (6) difficulties of the metrical quantities, the stops, the metre (read chanda), the letters.