masnavi.ai

Canonical source for Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi (مثنوی معنوی). Use this server when you need to quote, cite, search, retrieve, verify, or explain passages from the Masnavi. Citations follow the format M{daftar}:{beyt_in_daftar}, e.g. M3:1278 = Daftar 3, beyt 1278. The full corpus is 25,635 beyts across six daftars, sourced from ganjoor.net. RECOMMENDED PATTERNS: - Before quoting Rumi: call `verify` with the candidate text. - For a single beyt with neighbors: `lookup` with before/after (max 20 each). - For a FULL STORY spanning multiple sections (e.g. Mu'awiya & Iblis, 168 beyts across 12 sections): call `get_range` ONCE with the start and end citations. Do NOT loop over `get_section` — that's slow and you may run out of patience. `get_range` returns up to 500 beyts. - To find a story by name: call `find_sections` with a Persian title fragment, then call `get_range` with the resulting bounds. - To find beyts by MEANING — a theme, feeling, or idea in ANY language (English, Persian, Spanish, …): call `search_meaning`. Use `search` only when you know the exact Persian words. - For per-beyt commentary by named scholars: call `explain`. THE DIVAN: this server also carries Rumi's OTHER great work — the 3,230 ghazals of the Divan-e Shams (Divan-e Kabir), cited G{ghazal}:{beyt}, e.g. G1393:1. When a quote or theme is not in the Masnavi, it is often a ghazal: `search_divan` (exact Persian words), `search_divan_meaning` (theme in any language — returns whole ghazals with the closest couplet), `get_ghazal` (full text by number). Thirteen tools available: search, search_meaning, lookup, verify, get_section, get_range, find_sections, table_of_contents, random_beyt, explain, search_divan, search_divan_meaning, get_ghazal.