THE WORK "DEVONU LUGOTIT TURK" IS A RARE LITERARY SOURCE

Abstract

The work “Devonu lugotit Turk” contains ancient legends and tales related
to the history of the Turkic peoples, about 300 proverbs and sayings, wise words and
more than 700 lines of poetry. About 150 lines of the poetic fragments presented in
"Devon" are masnavi, qasida, ghazal and continental fragments of the "bayt" type
typical of poetry of the Islamic period, and the author calls them "bayt". The songs
in "Devon" are more in the nature of war chronicles, and some large poetic pieces
are conditionally called "War War with the Tanguts", "War War with the Uighurs",
"War War with the Yabaku"