236 The Kiran-us-Sd'dain of Mir Khusrau. [No. 3, 



As a specimen of the series of Ghazals which, as we have said. 

 are continually interspersed through the narrative, we subjoin it in 

 the original. 



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We have next an account of the mutual gifts of the father and 

 son, and the splendid entertainment which followed, and here the 

 action of the poem may be said to terminate. The remainder 

 ' drags its slow length along' through a wilderness of extraneous mat- 

 ter and h-relevant description. 



The poet first describes the night of the festivity, then follow 

 chapters devoted to the taper, the lamp, the 27 mansions of the moon, 

 and the astrological position of the heavenly constellations at the 

 hour of the " conjunction of the two auspicious planets" of the 

 earth. After this we have a curious series of chapters on the wine, 

 the flaggon, ( t^-Jy* ) the flask ( ^}y> ) the cup, the cupbearer, the 

 harp, the Kasrabab, the pipe, the tabour, the singers, the festal 

 board, the betel, &c., and the king's crown and throne. Several 



