Introduction of Mirza Abdul Qader Bedil's Poetic Works in Salar Jung Library Hyderabad

Mirza Abdul Qader Bedil (1054_1133) is one of India’s well-known poets of the same rank as Amir Khusraw Dihlavi and Qalib Dihlavi. There may be more than a thousand of Bedil’s manuscripts in poetry and prose in the libraries, museums, and private libraries in India. We will attempt, in the present article, to briefly introduce some of these copies which are being kept in the city of Hyderabad’s Library and Oriental Sciences Museum. It should be mentioned that there is a manuscript of Bedil’s lyric poems (ghazals) in this library where Bedil has written some of the lyric poems in the margins in his own handwriting; thus it is considered to be among the very valuable copies of Bedil’s lyric poems. In this article we will merely deal with introducing the copies of the poet’s poetic works. Of course, there are prose works besides the poetic works in this collection which will be introduced in another article.