达斯坦（传奇故事） · 1804
前两章免费《花园与春天》（Bagh-o-Bahar）：四托钵僧的故事
باغ و بہار
米尔·阿曼
乌尔都语散文的经典，1801年在加尔各答威廉堡学院为约翰·吉尔克里斯特而写。米尔·阿曼用德里朴素的口语乌尔都语重新讲述了波斯的《四托钵僧的故事》，两百年来，学这门语言的人都从这本书开始。君士坦丁堡的皇帝阿扎德·巴赫特没有继承人；一个暴风雨之夜，他乔装在坟墓间游荡，遇见四个托钵僧，每人都是被爱情毁掉的王子或商人之子，于是听他们讲自己的故事：也门的商人和箱子里受伤的公主，波斯王子和巴士拉忧伤的夫人，追随一只黑羚羊的阿贾姆王子，中国王子和他背信弃义的叔叔。其中又套着哈蒂姆·塔伊和皇帝本人的故事。乌尔都语原文与译文对照；前两章免费阅读。
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前两章免费Qissa-e-Maqtool-e-Jafa (The Tale of the Victims of Cruelty)
قصۂ مقتول جفا
Hafiz Amiruddin
Hafiz Muhammad Amiruddin Maani's Qissa-e-Maqtool-e-Jafa, also titled Fasana-e-Gham Amud, written in 1870 (1287 AH): a tragic Urdu dastan of a king, his four ministers and a jealous wager on a wife's chastity, with a procuress who takes her mother's form, a forged proof, a courtroom unmasking and a double death, ending with a verse portrait of the heroine and chronograms by the poet Qalaq and his circle. Complete Urdu text from Wikisource with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Hafiz Amiruddin, Qissa-e-Maqtool-e-Jafa, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/qissa-e-maqtool-e-jafa. The first two chapters are free to read.
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前两章免费Lataif-e-Hindi (Indian Jests)
لطائف ہندی
Lallu Lal Kavi
Lallu Lal Kavi's Lataif-e-Hindi, published in 1810 in Nagari and Persian script: one hundred short anecdotes and jests in lively Urdu prose with Hindi and Braj verses and proverbs, about Akbar and Birbal, Shah Jahan and Dara Shikoh, Sawai Jai Singh, the Chaubes of Mathura, the bankas of Delhi, opium eaters, misers, holy men and fools. Complete Urdu text from Wikisource with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Lallu Lal Kavi, Lataif-e-Hindi, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/lataif-e-hindi. The first two chapters are free to read.
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前两章免费Madhonal and Kam Kandla
مادھونل اور کام کندلا
Mazhar Ali Khan Wila
Mazhar Ali Khan Wila's Urdu prose tale of Madhonal and Kam Kandla, written in 1801 at John Gilchrist's request from Moti Ram Kabishar's Braj version: the Brahmin musician Madho, banished from Puhpavati and Kamavati, his love for the dancer Kam Kandla, and how King Vikramajit of Ujjain tests their faith, brings them back from death with nectar and wins her by war. Complete Urdu text from Wikisource with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Mazhar Ali Khan Wila, Madhonal and Kam Kandla, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/madhonal-aur-kam-kandla. The first two chapters are free to read.
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前两章免费Shakuntala
سکنتلا
Mirza Kazim Ali Jawan
Mirza Kazim Ali Jawan's Urdu prose tale of Shakuntala, written in 1801 at Fort William College, Calcutta, for John Gilchrist, from a Braj version of Kalidasa's Sanskrit play: the fairy Menaka's daughter Shakuntala, raised by the sage Kanva, her forest marriage to King Dushyanta, the curse of Durvasa that makes the king forget her, the lost ring, and their reunion with their son Bharat. Complete Urdu text from Wikisource with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Mirza Kazim Ali Jawan, Shakuntala, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/shakuntala. The first two chapters are free to read.
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前两章免费Shagufa-e-Mohabbat (The Blossom of Love)
شگوفۂ محبت
Mirza Rajab Ali Beg Suroor
Rajab Ali Beg Suroor's prose dastan, written in Lucknow in the reign of Wajid Ali Shah and printed in 1856 after the end of the kingdom of Oudh: King Azar Shah's quest for an heir, the madness of Queen Saman Rukh, and the tale told to cure her, of Prince Jahan Ara of Khurasan and the fairy princess Mehr Jamal, his trials as a pigeon and a deer, his wedding in Fairyland and his single combat with the prince of Firoz Koh. Complete Urdu text from Wikisource with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Mirza Rajab Ali Beg Suroor, Shagufa-e-Mohabbat, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/shagufa-e-mohabbat. The first two chapters are free to read.
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前两章免费Nasr-e-Benazir (Benazir in Prose)
نثر بے نظیر
Mir Bahadur Ali Husaini
Mir Bahadur Ali Husaini's prose retelling, written at the College of Fort William in 1802 and printed in 1803, of Mir Hasan's famous masnavi Sihr-ul-Bayan: the fairy tale of Prince Benazir, carried off by the fairy Mah Rukh, his love for Princess Badr-e-Munir, his imprisonment in a well, and his rescue through Najm-un-Nisa, who goes out as a wandering jogan, and the jinn prince Firoz Shah. Complete Urdu text from Wikisource with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Mir Bahadur Ali Husaini, Nasr-e-Benazir, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/nasr-e-benazir. The first two chapters are free to read.
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前两章免费Nau Tarz-e-Murassa (The Tale of the Four Dervishes)
نو طرز مرصع
Mir Muhammad Husain Ata Khan Tahsin
Tahsin's eighteenth-century Urdu telling of the Tale of the Four Dervishes, in the ornate 'jewelled style': a childless king of Rum meets four dervishes in a graveyard, and each tells the adventure of love and loss that brought him there. One of the earliest works of literary Urdu prose in northern India, and the book Mir Amman retold as Bagh-o-Bahar. Complete Urdu text from Wikisource with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Mir Muhammad Husain Ata Khan Tahsin, Nau Tarz-e-Murassa, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/nau-tarz-e-murassa. The first two chapters are free to read.
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前两章免费Akhlaq-e-Hindi (Indian Morals)
اخلاق ہندی
Mir Bahadur Ali Husaini
A donkey in a tiger's skin who cannot resist singing, a crow who betrays the king who trusted him, a tortoise who opens his mouth at the wrong moment, and a loyal Rajput who gives everything for his master: these are some of the tales a wise Brahmin tells to teach the idle sons of a raja how the world works. Written in 1802 at Fort William College, Calcutta, for John Gilchrist, Mir Bahadur Ali Husaini's Akhlaq-e-Hindi puts the ancient Hitopadesha, by way of the Persian Mufarrih-ul-Qulub, into lively everyday Urdu, in four chapters on winning friends, breaking friendships, war and peace. Complete Urdu text from Wikisource with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Mir Bahadur Ali Husaini, Akhlaq-e-Hindi, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/akhlaq-e-hindi. The first two chapters are free to read.
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前两章免费Gul-e-Bakavali (Mazhab-e-Ishq: The Tale of the Bakavali Flower)
مذہب عشق یعنی قصۂ گل بکاؤلی
Munshi Nihal Chand Lahori
Blinded at the sight of his newborn son, King Zain-ul-Muluk can be cured only by the magic bakavali flower from a fairy garden. His banished youngest son, Taj-ul-Muluk, wins it with the help of a she-dev, steals it from the sleeping fairy Bakavali, loses it to his brothers, and then loses and finds Bakavali herself through prison, enchantment, the court of Raja Indar, a curse that turns her half to stone, and her rebirth in a peasant's house. Written at Fort William College, Calcutta, in 1803 from a Persian original, Nihal Chand's Mazhab-e-Ishq is one of the founding works of Urdu prose and the source of Gulzar-e-Naseem. Complete Urdu text from Wikisource with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Munshi Nihal Chand Lahori, Gul-e-Bakavali (Mazhab-e-Ishq), tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/gul-e-bakavali. The first two chapters are free to read.
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前两章免费Zahaar
زہار
Iram Farooq (Arzo)
An Urdu supernatural fantasy narrative titled Zahaar, presented with a foreword by Iram Farooq. It follows Laiyara, a young woman in a village haunted by an unseen guardian named Zahaar, whose protective bond with her is tested by ancient shadows, rival spirit factions, and the revelation of her inheritance as a bearer of light. The story moves through confrontations with dark forces, a journey to mystical realms, and a conflict over destiny, identity, and sacrifice between Laiyara and Zahaar.
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前两章免费Fasana-e-Ajaib (The Tale of Wonders)
فسانۂ عجائب
Mirza Rajab Ali Beg Suroor
The great dastan of Lucknow, written by Mirza Rajab Ali Beg Suroor (1785–1867) in 1824, in exile at Cawnpore, and revised by him for the Benares edition of his old age: Lucknow's answer to Mir Amman's Bagh-o-Bahar, in rhymed, ornate prose studded with verse. Prince Jan-e-Alam of Khotan buys a talking parrot that tells him of Princess Anjuman Ara of the golden land of Zarnigar, and he sets out, unseen love in his heart, through enchanted deserts: a witch's garden, the fairy princess Mehr Nigar and her saintly father, a fortress of fire, a vizier's son who steals his body and leaves him a monkey, a shipwreck, a yogi on a mountain, demons, a white giant, and a frozen desert where a parrot's tale saves a marriage. Around the story Suroor sets a famous portrait of Lucknow in the days of its kings: its bakers and perfumers, poets and musicians, kite-fliers and courtesans. The complete text, nothing left out, with a facing English translation paragraph by paragraph; the first two chapters are free to read.
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达斯坦（传奇故事） · c. 1803
前两章免费Rani Ketki ki Kahani (The Story of Rani Ketki)
رانی کیتکی کی کہانی
Insha Allah Khan Insha
Around 1803 the Lucknow wit Insha Allah Khan Insha (1756–1817) set himself a famous challenge: to tell a whole story in the plain speech of Hindustan without one Persian or Arabic word. The result is this short, playful romance, claimed by both Urdu and Hindi literary history and set in classical prose courses on both sides of the border. Prince Ude Bhan falls in love with Princess Ketki in a mango grove; her father refuses the match; a yogi turns the prince and his parents into deer; Ketki puts on the yogi's magic ash, becomes invisible and goes looking for him in the forests; and the god Indra restores them for one of the most extravagant weddings in the language. Complete Urdu text from the Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu edition (Aurangabad, 1933, ed. Maulvi Abdul Haq; editor's matter omitted), with a facing English translation, introduction, note on the text and glossary. Cite as: Insha, Rani Ketki ki Kahani, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026). The first chapter is free to read.
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达斯坦（传奇故事） · 1805
前两章免费僵尸鬼故事二十五则
بیتال پچیسی
马兹哈尔·阿里·汗·维拉
《僵尸鬼故事二十五则》，1803年马扎尔·阿里·汗·维拉在加尔各答威廉堡学院用乌尔都语讲述。超日王须把吊在树上的一具尸体背给一个诡计多端的瑜伽士，可附在尸体里的鬼魂拜塔尔每走一趟就给他讲一个故事，并以一个谜题结尾；国王若知道答案却不说，头就会炸裂，若开口，尸体就飞回树上。早期乌尔都语散文的经典。乌尔都语原文附译文；前两章免费阅读。
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