Kadam Rao Padam Rao is the earliest available manuscript in Dakhini masnavi of 4000 lines, written during 1421-1434 AD, by Fakhruddin Nizami of Bidar.[1][2]
It contains a Sufi tale designed to describe the soul's present state and its liberation, in the form of an exciting story: King Kadam Rao wants to learn yoga. But the shrewd yogi bans the king's soul into a parrot, slips into the king's body and rules in his place. The vizier Padam Rao notices it, searches the King and finally finds and frees him.[3]
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- ^ Masʻūd Ḥusain Khān (1996). Mohammad Quli Qutb Shah, Volume 216. Sāhitya Akademi. p. 55. ISBN 81-260-0233-6. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
- ^ "URDU LITERATURE". columbia.edu. 2007. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
- ^ Annemarie Schimmel (1975). Classical Urdu literature from the Beginning to Iqbal. Harassowitz, Wiesbaden (Germany). p. 134. ISBN 3-447-01671-X.