Kitab-i Nauras

Kitab-i Nauras
AuthorIbrahim Adil Shah II
LanguageDeccani with an introduction in Persian
GenrePoetry
Publication placeBijapur Sultanate (modern-day India)

Kitab-i Nauras (transl.The Book of Nine Rasas), also transliterated as Kitab-e-Nauras, is a 16th-century treatise written by Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur. It was written with the title Nauras, meaining Nine Rasas, but was named as Nauras Nama or Kitab-i Nauras later. It is a collection of 59 Manqabat Kalaam (song) and 17 couplets in the Deccani language.