kangri distich





Ai kangri! ai kangri!
Kurban tu Hour wu Peri!
Chun dur bughul mi girimut
Durd az dil mi buree.



Oh, kangri! oh, kangri!
You are the gift of Houris and Fairies;
When I take you under my arm
You drive fear from my heart.


~ A persian distich from Kashmir about Kangri collected by G.T. Vigne in around 1835. 


A closer transliteration (odd though that the lines have been quoted in a bunch of books, no one pointed out the obvious):

O Kangri, with you by my side, I don’t need Houris or Fairies, you are my heart’s only consolation.


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