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'''Kadam Rao Padam Rao''' is the earliest available manuscript in [[Deccan Urdu|Dakhini]] ''[[Masnavi (poetic form)|masnavi]]'' of 4000 lines, written during 1421-1434 AD, by Fakhruddin Nizami of [[Bidar]].<ref name="Sāhitya Akademi">{{cite book| title=Mohammad Quli Qutb Shah, Volume 216| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v4UKJFLZVcEC&dq=quli+kutb+shah+urdu+deccani+dakhani&pg=PA55| page=55| publisher=Sāhitya Akademi| author=Masʻūd Ḥusain Khān| year=1996| isbn=81-260-0233-6| accessdate=26 September 2011}}</ref><ref name="columbia">{{cite web| title=URDU LITERATURE| url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/srf/txt_urdulit2007.html| publisher=columbia.edu| year=2007| accessdate=26 September 2011}}</ref>

It contains a Sufi tale designed to describe the soul's present state and its liberation, in the form of an exciting story: King Kadam Rao wants to learn yoga. But the shrewd yogi bans the king's soul into a parrot, slips into the king's body and rules in his place. The vizier Padam Rao notices it, searches for the King, and finally finds and frees him.<ref>{{cite book|title=Classical Urdu literature from the Beginning to Iqbal|page=134|publisher=Harassowitz, Wiesbaden (Germany)|author=Annemarie Schimmel|year=1975|isbn=3-447-01671-X}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Urdu-language literature]]
[[Category:Indian non-fiction literature]]
[[Category:Urdu-language books]]
[[Category:15th-century Indian books]]
[[Category:Indian manuscripts]]
[[Category:Sufi literature]]
[[Category:Sufism in India]]
[[Category:Urdu in India]]
[[Category:Urdu-language poetry]]
[[Category:Works about yoga]]
[[Category:Poems about birds]]
[[Category:Parrots in art]]
[[Category:Sufi poetry]]

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