اے ہمالہ! داستاں اس وقت کی کوئی سنامسکن آبائے انساں جب بنا دامن ترا

English translation

O Himalah! Do relate to us some stories of the time when your valleys became abode of Man's ancestors*.
* This refers to the antiquity of the Himalayas in archaeological times. Kashmir was an inhabited area at the time of the Indus Valley civilization in the third millennium B.C. It also alludes to the tradition that the Hindu sages wrote the Vedas in the Himalayas under the inspiration of its beauty.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

مسکن: رہنے کی جگہ۔آبائے انساں: انسان کے باپ دادا۔