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[[File:Frontispiece of the Diwān of Mūbad (BL Or. 324).jpg|thumb|Frontispiece of the ''Diwān of Mūbad'' (British Library Or. 324)]]
'''Mūbad''' (موبد) was an Indian poet, originally from [[Kashmir]], who wrote in [[Persian language|Persian]] and settled in [[Lucknow]] in the first half of the eighteenth century. Originally called Zindah Rām Pandit, he had two sons, both of whom took service in the court of [[Shah Alam II]].<ref>Charles Rieu, ''Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum'', volume 1 (London: British Museum, 1879): 714.</ref> One son, named Sītā-Rām 'Umdah, died in AH 1173. Mūbad himself was a pupil of Mīrzā Girāmī, son of 'Abd al-Ghanī Beg Qabūl. His most famous work is the ''Diwān-i Mūbad'', an extensive collection of poems. The copy in the [[British Library]], registered under the number Or. 324, contains chronograms relating to contemporty events in the reigns of [[Shah Alam II]] and [[Alamgir II]].<ref>Charles Rieu, ''Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum'', volume 1 (London: British Museum, 1879): 714.</ref> This copy was purchased from the widow of Col. George William Hamilton (1807-1868).<ref>Illustration of the frontispiece can be found online at Mūbad. (2023). frontispiece [BL Or. 324] ديوان موبد. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7545617.</ref>

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[[Category:18th-century Indian poets]]
[[Category:18th-century Persian-language poets]]

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