Daulat Qazi

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Daulat Qazi (কাজী দৌলত) (Also Qazi Daulat, Daulat Kazi) (1600-1638) was a medieval Bengali poet, believed to have been born into a Qazi family in the village of Sultanpur in Rauzan, Chittagong. No getting any recognition at home, he left for Arakan, where he seems to have been received warmly. He wrote in Bangla though he lived in Arakan.

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Quazi is believed to the first Bengali poet to write under the patronage of the Arakan court. His patron Ashraf Khan was a commanding officer of king Shrisudharma who ruled between 1622 and 1638. There is evidence that both Khan and Quazi were Sufis. Ashraf Khan asked Daulat to render the west Indian stories of Lor, Chandrani and Mayana into Bangla. Daulat Quazi died before he could finish his poem. It was completed years later by Alaol.