Ai kangri! ai kangri!
Kurban tu Hour wu Peri!
Chun dur bughul mi girimut
Durd az dil mi buree.
Oh, kangri! oh, kangri!
You are the gift of Houris and Fairies;
When I take you under my arm
You drive fear from my heart.
~ A persian distich from Kashmir about Kangri collected by G.T. Vigne in around 1835.
A closer transliteration (odd though that the lines have been quoted in a bunch of books, no one pointed out the obvious):
O Kangri, with you by my side, I don’t need Houris or Fairies, you are my heart’s only consolation.
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