Book Tohfa e Golarviya, [Ruhani Khazain Vol 17, page 145][5]
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Language, Ideology and Power: Language Learning Among the Muslims of Pakistan and North India by Tariq Rahman . Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2002, page 363.[4]
“During the whole time I had the valuable assistance of a Molawi of the Ghalzi tribe, located in central Afghanistan in the District around Khelat-iGhalzi, and whose father was for some time Kazi of the city of Kandahar, in which office the Molawi, who is better acquainted with Pashto both theoretically and practically, than any other man I ever saw or heard of, assisted. His profound knowledge of Arabic—the foundation of all Muhammadan languages—and without which the situation of Kazi, in the western Capital of Afghanistan, could not have been held, together with the fact of his possessing no mean poetical powers, rendered him peculiarly fitted for a task of this kind, in which many works had to be examined and collated.” [A Dictionary of the Pushto Language of the Afghans, by H G Raverty, London, Williams and Norgate. ( 2nd Edition 1862) Introductory Remarks, p. xxii. [1]
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Grammaar of the Afghan Language Pakhtu By Maj H G Raverty. Preface, page. VIII [3]
