Madhumalati

by Behl, Aditya; Weightman, Simon; Manjhan, Simon

  31 Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism (New York: Doubleday, 1990), 126.

  32 See Underhill, Mysticism, 125–48.

  33 See S. W. Fallon, A New Hindustani–English Dictionary, With Illustrations from Hindustani Literature and Folklore (Benares: Medical Hall Press, 1879), 1015–16, and William Crooke, A Rural and Agricultural Glossary for the North West Provinces and Oudh (Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, and Co., 1888), 104–5.

  1 See Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925).

  2 Editio princeps, Madhumālatī (Allahabad: Mitra Prakāśan, 1961).

  3 (Benares: Hindī Pracārak Pustakālaya, 1957).

  1 The symmetry has been discussed in two studies: S. C. R. Weightman, ‘Symmetry and Symbolism in Shaikh Manjhan’s Madhumālatī, in C. Shackle and R. Snell (eds.) The Indian Narrative: Patterns and Perspectives (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1992), 195–226, and Weightman, ‘Symbolism and Symmetry: Shaikh Manjhan’s Madhumālatī revisited’, in L. Lewisohn and D. Morgan (eds.), The Heritage of Sufism, iii: Late Classical Persianate Sufism (1501–1750) (Oxford: One World Publications, forthcoming).

  2 This occurs in the story of the Merchant and the Parrot, and the preceding few lines of the story of ‘Umar and the Ambassador, in Book One of the Manavī of Jalāluddīn Rūmī. See R. A. Nicholson, The Mathnawī of Jalālu’ddīn Rūmī (London: Luzac 1926), 85–102.