Vol. VI, No. 11.] The Poet Maili of Herat. 685 



[N.S.] 



had 



logue, is <s^> ^\xc j ^\ja. ^ »f 



" Alas, Maili left the world when young '* 

 which yields 984. 



Rieu has been hampered in his account of Maili (Cat. II, 

 666) by his only knowing TaqI's account through Sprenger's 

 Catalogue. He says that Maili went to India after Sultan 

 Ibrahim's death, but, as a fact, Sultan Ibrahim survived Maili, 

 not dying till the end of 985 (1578). This appears from the 

 'Alam Aral, lithograph, p. 150, and from the very full and in- 

 teresting account of Sultan Ibrahim, who was also a poet, and 

 used the takhallas of Jahl (ruined?), given in TaqI's Supple- 

 ment, p. 1746, under the 5th Asal, which gives the notices of the 

 poets of Qazwin. The date of his death given there is Zl-1-hajja 

 985 (February 1578). It is clear too that Sultan Ibrahim could 

 not have died earlier than 984, for he was put to death by his 

 cousin Shah Isma'll II after his accession to the throne, and this 

 did not happen till after the death of his father Shah Tahmasp, 

 which occurred in Safr 984 (May 1576). Sultan Ibrahim was 

 strangled by the bow-string, and eleven other princes were put 

 to death at the same time. His widow, Gohar Sultan, who was 

 Isma'll IPs sister, did not long survive him, dving, says TaqI, in 

 the beginning of 986 (1578). 



The other Maili, that is, the Maili of Hlsar Shadman, is 

 not mentioned by TaqI, a circumstance which perhaps indicates 

 that he nourished subsequently to 993. He is mentioned by 

 <AlT Qull Daghistani "" * " *" ~~ — 



436a, and by Lufcf 'All in the Atishkada 

 lograph and 340 of Calcutta lith< 



as 



Both speak of him 



know two lines of his poetry, which they quote. 1 Badayuni 

 and Abul Fazl, Blochmann 577, only speak of the Maili of 

 Herat. Abul Fazl evidently knew little about him, and his re- 

 mark that he lived in the society of gay people seems merely an 

 inference from his having the takhallas of Ifaill, i.e., sociable. 

 Maili of Herat was a Turk by origin and he is called Maili Turk 

 m the list in the Atishkada. See also Calcutta lithograph of 

 Atishkada, p. 34, five lines from foot. His name was Mirza Qull 



Qull (Bankipore Library 



Muhammad Qulf 



-viogtial who was a servant of Akbar and of Naurang Khan, and 

 was employed by the latter to continue Payinda Hasan (Ihaz- 



Soo 1 ' 8 translation of Babur's Memoirs. See Rieu's Catalogue II, 

 7996, and the correction at p. 10946 of vol. iii. But Muhammad 



There is a curious resemblance between the two lines that they 

 quote and two lines of Mail! of Herat in Badayuni I.e., .30, nine and 

 •itfht lines from foot. 



