ʿĀQEL, MĪRZĀ MOḤAMMAD HONARVAR KHAN, Kashmiri poet and courtier who flourished in the first half of the 12th/18th century (B. D. Ḵᵛošgū, Safīna-ye Ḵᵛošgū, Patna, 1959, p. 275; Mīr Ḡolām-ʿAlī Āzād Belgrāmī, Ḵezāna-ye ʿĀmera, Cawnpur, 1900, p. 347). A pupil of the famous poet Mīrzā ʿAbd-al-Qāder Bīdel, he spent most of his life in the service of Neẓām-al-molk Āṣaf-ǰāh, governor of the Deccan (1718-48), first as Dārōḡa-ye Farrāš-ḵāna and later on as Dārōḡa-ye Ḵezāna. He retired at an advanced age with great honors and returned from Awrangābād to Delhi. He left behind a voluminous dīvān of Persian poetry, which remains unpublished.
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(M. Baqir)
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