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reigning in Khurasan, which aroused the jealousy and envy of 
the poet Khyaja ‘Abd-al Qadir ‘Udi, who subjected the young 
Azari to a severe examination in the poems of Khyaja Salman 
in which Azari acquitted himself so well that ke earned the 
commendation of Shah Rukh, who promised him the reversion 
of the post of Malik-al-Shu‘ara, or, poet laureate. At this 
time, however, an access of religious zeal impelled him to 
abandon the quest for power and wealth and to devote himself 
to a life of poverty and pilgrimage. The following verse des- 
eribes the change which came over him :— 
oye) Lab! yo) y— Bs wiblec a> * ayy? sity —S= wtb yo yt 
‘He was wearing himself out in seeking to govern his 
fellowmen 
‘““ When the Lord of Truth conferred on him, of His bounty, 
the kingdom of poverty.” 
He attached himself as a disciple to the famous Shaikh 
Muhiyy-al-din Tisi-al-Ghazzali, under whom he studied the 
his new capital, Bidar, that is to say in A.H. 833 (A.D. 1429-30) 
when Azari was forty-nine years of age. It was here that 
| , or 
Bahman Shah,! the founder of the dynasty, and Bahman, son 
1 Usually, but eeceissint i i 
as at ne y styled by European writers, following 
Firishta, ‘ Ala-al-din Hasan Kanga Bahmani, "hls designation, which 
