Original Ottoman Turkish Text
Zihî devlet ki Hatun buldı Hak'dan
Ki burcından belürdi gün şafakdan
O burcdan kim tulû' itdi Murâd Han
Süleymân Paşa çıkdı hem nikābdan
Selâtîn 'ankālar Hatun togurdı
Cihân rûşen nûr oldı ol çırakdan
Cihâna toldı 'anber müşk ü bûlar
'Araklar kim belürdi gül varakdan
Cevâhir ma'dini çün zâhir oldı
Tâlibler cem' olur yakın ırakdan
'Âşıkî yazdı ma'din-i menâkıb
Bunuñ üstâdını buldurındı çokdan
In English
1. What fortune, that the Hatun received it from God; from her constellation the sun appeared at dawn.
2. From that constellation Murad Han rose; Süleyman Paşa too came forth from behind the veil.
3. The Hatun bore sultans like the 'anka; from that lamp the world was lit and became light.
4. The world filled with ambergris, musk and scents; drops of essence appeared from the rose petal.
5. When the mine of jewels came to light, seekers gather from near and far.
6. Âşıkî wrote down the mine of legends; its master was found long ago.
Literary and Historical Commentary
Bride and Mother
The question of the thirteenth chapter is to whom the bride captured in the wedding raid was given. Osman Gazi gave her to his son Orhan; her name was Lülüfer Hatun. The author says that this lady had a tekke at the foot of the fortress of Bursa, near the Kaplıca Gate, that she built the bridge over the Ülüfer stream and that the stream takes its name from this bridge. Murad Han-ı Gazi and Süleyman Paşa were her sons; when she died she was buried with Orhan Gazi in the fortress of Bursa. At the beginning of the chapter it is also told that justice was done in the lands of the four fortresses taken, that the people returned to settle in their villages and that their times were "better even than in the infidel's day".
Constellation, 'Anka and Mine
The six couplets praise a birth. The Hatun is a constellation; from it Murad Han rises like the sun, and Süleyman Paşa comes forth "from behind the veil". In the third couplet the sons are compared to the 'anka, the legendary bird believed to live on Mount Kaf, a symbol of the matchless. In the fourth couplet the drops appearing on the rose petal recall the distilling of rose water and convey the fragrance of the birth. The image of mine and jewel in the fifth couplet is tied in the last couplet to the author himself: Âşıkî has written down "the mine of legends". The sense of the last line is not fully clear; "bunuñ üstâdını buldurındı çokdan" can be understood to mean that the true master of these legends, that is Yahşı Fakıh or the Ottomans themselves, was found long ago. In the edition five more couplets with another rhyme follow under the same heading; they are given on a separate page.
Bibliography
- Âşık Paşazade, Osmanoğulları'nın Tarihi, ed. Kemal Yavuz, M. A. Yekta Saraç, Istanbul: K Kitaplığı, 2003, p. 338 (transliterated text, bâb 13).
