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compelled by poverty to become a tiller of the soil for the yearly sum 

 of one hundred direms. On marriage, rinding it impossible to live on 

 this miserable pittance, he presented a poem of his own composition to 

 the nephew of Sultan Mahmud I., Abul Muzaffer. Muzajfer rewarded 

 the poet munificently, and, not content with this, recommended him to 

 the Sultan his uncle, who took Furrokhi into his service, allowed him a 

 handsome salary, with twenty mounted slaves to attend him. 



With Asjadi and Anseri, Furrokhi formed the trio of poets who 

 made the celebrated trial of their great rival Firdousi's skill on his 

 first arrival among them, as described under the head " Anseri" (Jour- 

 nal No. 8, p. 250). 



Fusuni. 



The surname of Afazil Khan who flourished in the time of Jehangir 

 Badshah ; he was a man of noble birth and of a cultivated mind, and 

 author of a Sdki Nameh. 



Hakim Senai. 



Abu Mejid Mahmud Bin Adam al Ghuznavi, flourished in the reign 

 of Bahrain Shah. 



Mention is made of him among the Shaiks. The Hadikeh — the 

 Illahi Nameh, and a laudatory poem on Bahram Shah are among his 

 productions. Senai was the preceptor of the excellent poet Emadi, 

 author of a Diwan, who died A. H. 573. It is said that he converted 

 Emadi to a more religious way of thinking by his spiritual instruc- 

 tions. Senai was as much respected for the soundness of the doctrines 

 he taught as for the excellence of his poetical compositions. 



Hakim Sindi. 



A native of Ghazni — flourished in the 2d century of the Hejira — 

 supposed to have been the first person who wrote a poem in the mystic 

 style, subsequently so much in vogue among Persian poets, Mouldna 

 Rami, Hdjlz and a host of others. 



Haidti Kildni. 



A poet in the service of the emperor Akber. More distinguished by 

 having erected a handsome mosque at Berhampore ? called the Mesjid- 

 i-Mula Haidti, than by his literary productions. 



