water of life) is a commentary (or tazkira) on Urdu poetry written by Muhammad Husain Azad in 1880.
[3] Aab-e hayat became the single most influential source for both anecdotes and historical theories about Urdu poetry.
... ... there is usually some one place for establishing its genuineness and its goodness or badness, as for coins there is a mint.
Their gatherings brought together people of learning and accomplishment, and through their auspicious influence made their temperaments the mold of the art and refinement and subtlety and wit of everything.
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