180 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XII, 



less than twenty -five poets, some famous, some hardly known. 

 Here are some of their names : Firdausi, Anwari, Sa'di, Rabi'i 

 Fushanji, Khaqani, Sana'i, Zahir, Safir Azhar, Fayyad Harawi, 

 Shah Haydari, Qabus, As'ad Kirmani, Sa'idi, Ruhani, Labibi, 

 Ruhi, Shihab Bagdadi, etc. 



Sayfi himself was a poet of no mean order. We have al- 

 ready seen that he wrote a Sam Namah of 20,000 lines and 

 composed eighty Qasidahs and one hundred and fifty Qit'ahs 

 in praise of Malik Fakhr-ud-Din Kurt. It will not be out of 

 place to quote here as specimens some of his poetical composi- 

 tions found in this text. 



In praise of the wine (fol. 166a) : — 



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UiUo v; — <U »U *».♦* jsaxjIj 



UiL, ow*Ui 



_,i ^u* ^ ^z j^> *r ^o^f 



>' <>> j;!*^ 5 c^j t5-y ** £5* erf 



L«iLo cu~x|^ j+e JJU ^Ju* 



The following poem of Sayfi is quoted in connection with 

 Giyas-ud-Din's brother Malik 'Ala-ud-Din's death in a.h. 713= 



a.d. 1313: 



