Introduction and stylistics of the Unknown Epic-Historical Ashob of India

The unknown epic-historical Masnavi of the Turmoil of India describes a tragic war of power in the Great Mongol dynasty in the last years of Shah Jahan"s life based on objective observations and the honest narration of the Persian poet Beheshti Shirazi.This epic is one of the literary works of historiography in the Indian subcontinent combinated of narrative historical and literary narrative by a poet aware of historiography and literary techniques. This study tries to answer the basic question of what are the most prominent stylistic and content features of this work at the phonetic, lexical and rhetorical levels which has been hidden from the view of other scholars. The poet"s attitude towards historical events is analysed too.

This descriptive-analytical study was conducted by referring to existing sources and other sources related to the life of Beheshti Shirazi and the stylistic and content characteristics of the Turmoil of india

The research findings show that Beheshti, by mastering the knowledge of the time, familiarity with literary techniques, attending the court of Shah Jahan and directly observing of the historical events of the end of this powerful king and plecise analysising of the events, has composed a coherent narrative of an important and sensitive part of Indian history. He has been presented in 17 events with a smooth expression the beautiful descriptions and illustrations to the readers. Also, the end of the narrative of this sad battle of fratricide is the compilation of instructive advice based on historical documents.

Easy way to avoid, difficult writing,coherent combination of narrative history and literary narration,increase of verbal music in the form of using nominal rhymes compatible with epic language and epic words in rhyme,weakening the strength of epic language by using the verbs in exding syllabes, low frequency of semantics resulting from phonology, creating formal unity and harmony of words using repetition and punctuation,success in meaningful choices of words and epic combinations and lexical appropriateness, lexical coherence and stability,use of description in the horizontal axis and Vertical storytelling,narrative and descriptive characterization a direct and indirect way,use of pictorial tools of tangible similes, metaphorical metaphors, illustrated exaggerations, documentary allusions, mythical allusions,mystical and epistemological style,Ethics, orientation and depiction of human character and advice are the most central features of the style and content of this Masnavi.