Crossword-Solution: TABAN 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

PORTRAIT OF ZAFAR FOREWORD URDU LYRICS:-- ABRU AMIR ASIF DAGH FIGHAN GHALIB HALI HASAN INSHA JURAT MIR MIR SOZ MIR TAQI MOMIN MUSHAFI MUZTAR NASIKH SAUDA SHAMSHAD TABAN WALI YAKRANG ZAFAR ZAHIR ZAUQ FRAGMENTS:-- ARZU GHALIB HATIM MAZHAR MIR DARD MIR SOZ MIR TAQI SAUDA TABAN GLOSSARY FOREWORD.

TABAN: of Delhi: as famous for his beauty as for his poetic talent: pupil of Hatim, and was a friend of Mazhar and Sauda: was descended from the Prophet on both father's and mother's side.

The dust of Taban we could find no more, But yet nor rest nor respite hath he won; His breath, his soul, floats round thee as before, And--what is done is done.

Early on the morning of the 13th April, the troops marched from Victoria in two columns--one commanded by Colonel Henry Somerset, Cape Mounted Rifles, the other by Colonel Richardson, 7th Dragoon Guards--and crossing the Keiskamma near its junction with Debe River, they, on the 15th, encamped on the Debe Flats, near the base of the "Taban Doda," or Man Mountain; here the two columns were formed into one division, of which Colonel Somerset assumed command.

The tree from which the true gutta taban is produced (erroneously misnamed gutta-percha, a gum yielded by a different tree,) is one of the most common in the jungles of Johore and the Malay Peninsula.