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बहोत रही बाबुल घर दुल्हन, चल तोरे पी ने बुलाई। बहोत खेल खेली सखियन से, अन्त करी लरिकाई। बिदा करन को कुटुम्ब सब आए, सगरे लोग लुगाई। चार कहार मिल डोलिया उठाई, संग परोहत और भाई। चले ही बनेगी होत कहाँ है, नैनन नीर बहाई। अन्त बिदा हो चलि है दुल्हिन, काहू कि कछु न बने आई। मौज-खुसी सब देखत रह गए, मात पिता और भाई। मोरी कौन संग लगन धराई, धन-धन तेरि है खुदाई। बिन मांगे मेरी मंगनी जो कीन्ही, नेह की मिसरी खिलाई। एक के नाम कर दीनी सजनी, पर घर की जो ठहराई। गुण नहीं एक औगुन बहोतेरे, कैसे नोशा रिझाई। खुसरो चले ससुरारी सजनी, संग कोई नहीं आई
इति
The Poet
अमीर खुसरो
Amir Khusrow
1253 · 1325
Amir Khusrow lived and breathed a syncretic culture centuries before the modern world even possessed the vocabulary for it. Born in 1253 in Patiyali, Uttar Pradesh, he served as a scholar, a musician, and a poet under the Delhi Sultanate. Despite his royal appointments, his true allegiance remained with his spiritual master, Nizamuddin Auliya. He is widely recognized as the father of Qawwali and is traditionally credited with the invention of the sitar and tabla. His most profound contribution, however, lay in language. He took the formal Persian of the royal courts and merged it with the everyday Hindavi spoken on the streets. His riddles, verses, and ghazals are entirely alive today, still sung at shrines and in courtyards across the Indian subcontinent. Khusrow did not merely write poetry. He shaped the cultural identity of North India, proving that authentic devotion bypasses all borders of language and religion.
Paired Painting
Scene from a Hindu Marriage
Rao Bahadur Mahadev Visvanath Dhurandhar stands as one of the most sublime chroniclers of Indian domestic and spiritual life. In this evocative masterpiece, Dhurandhar invites us into the warm heart of a traditional Maharashtrian household on the sacred occasion of a wedding. The expansive hall vibrates with quiet excitement, filled with women adorned in gorgeous nine-yard nauvari sarees, delicate gold jewellery, and fragrant flower garlands. At the lower right, a young bride dressed in radiant yellow sits with subtle grace, her face framed by traditional floral mundavalya, quietly sharing a gentle moment with an elder in deep crimson. Every posture and fold of fabric reveals Dhurandhar's profound respect for his subjects, capturing not just a social ritual, but the enduring bonds of sisterhood, love, and cultural identity that connect generations.
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