124 A brief notice of some of the [Jan. 



banquet i on this he retraced his steps. When the Sultan was apprised 

 of the circumstance, he despatched some of his attendants to recall him. 

 On this, J ami composed a Ghazel, ecctempa~e, and sent it to the Sultan, 

 in which J ami excuses his mal-a-propos intrusion. The two following 

 couplets are extracted from the ode in question : 



Rubai. 



Neither abstinence, nor the banquet of the votaries of pleasure, are 

 obstacles to me. 



I keep my sorrows apart from the feasts of the gay. 



It would be improper to spread my humble carpet on the place where 

 shine the satins of princes. 



The dust-soiled garment of the dervise finds a nearer way to God. 



The compositions of Jdmi are extremely numerous. The Anthologia 

 Persica, printed at Vienna, in 1778, contains a list of upwards of forty. 

 Mahomed Bukhlawer Khan, one of his biographers, declares them to 

 be innumerable. 



J ami's principal works are : — 



The Silsileh uzzahib — a poem in three books. 



The Suliman-wa-Assal. 

 The Kukaat-i-J ami — a collection of epistles. 



The Subhet-al-Abrar. 



The Secunder nameh—sxi epic on the exploits of Alexander the 

 Great. 



The Diwan-i-Jami—?m elaborate collection of poems, containing 

 many of the mysticisms of Mahomedan theology. 



