ABSTRACT
Mullā Asadullāh ‘Vajhī’ (1580–ca. 1660?) was among the most prominent poets in both Dakini and Persian at the court of Golkonda/Deccan. Around 1609 he composed his famous masnavi Qutb Mushtarī, one of the first masnavīs 1 of the Dakini language. The second work he is remembered for today is the allegorical prose tale Sab Ras (‘all tastes/flavours’, 1635), the first literary prose text of Dakini and also Urdu, if Dakini is regarded as an old variety of Urdu.
