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{1325,3}

us aahuu-e ramiidah kii sho;xii kahii;N so kyaa
dikhlaa))ii de gayaa to chhalaavaa saa chhal gayaa

1) no matter what the mischievousness of that wild/panicky deer, what of it?
2) when it showed itself and then went, it vanished/faked like a will-o'-the-wisp

 

Notes:

ramiidah : 'Terrified, alarmed, scared, horror-struck, disturbed, afflicted'. (Platts p.599)

 

chhalaavaa ho jaanaa : 'To turn into or be like a will-o-thʼ-wisp,' to vanish or disappear suddenly, to elude search or pursuit.

 

chhalnaa : 'To deceive, delude, trick, cheat, outwit, circumvent, impose on; to evade; to feign, pretend; to represent falsely; to personate'. (Platts p.463)

*Platts Dictionary Online*

S. R. Faruqi:

chhalnaa = to be untouched; to trick

The reason for the epithet chhalaavaa is that people are tricked by him/her; that is, the work of a chhalaavaa is trickery. One meaning of chhalnaa is 'to be ungrasped'. Another reason for this meaning is that a traveller sees a light from afar, he hastens toward it, but he can't manage to reach it. The beauty of all these things is obtained by declaring the beloved to be a 'wild deer' and 'mischievous'. Otherwise, simply to apply the label of a tricky will-o'-the-wisp is mere words, and lacks any 'proof'.

For example, this verse of Muhabbat Khan Muhabbat's:

chhalaave kii nima:t bas dil ko chhal kar
hu))aa ik baar vuh dildaar chaltaa

[like a will-o'-the-wisp-- having tricked the heart
that heart-possessor, one time, walked along]

It's the same theme, but because the will-o'-the-wisp image isn't connected to any explanatory image, the verse has become limp. In Mir's verse the aspect of dikhaa))ii degaa is augmented-- that is, she is very rarely visible, and even when she's visible then it's from afar, and for a moment. The beloved --> a wild deer --> a will-o'-the-wisp --> to vanish; this is the kind of poetry that's called 'connected' [marbuu:t]. That is, everything should be mutually interrelated, or both lines should have a full relationship of words and meaning.

FWP:

SETS
MOTIFS
NAMES
TERMS == CONNECTION; PROOF

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