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‘ I Muhammad have collected and written this book. He who 
hearoth it may gain the pangs of love. I collected and joined it with 
my heart’s blood, and, with the love of love, mine eyes flowed tears. 
Knowing this did I compose my lay, that so a mark might remain of 
me in this world. Where is now that Patna Sena, and where that wisdom- 
hearing parrot ? Where is that ‘ Aldu'd-din the Emperor, and where that 
Rdghava who told him tales ? Where is that lovely swan Padmdvati ? 
Naught of them hath remained, hut their story. Happy is she whose fame is 
like unto hers. The flower may die, hut its odour remaineth ever. 1 Who 
hath not sold his fame in the world, and who hath not bought it ? If 
a man read this lay and also remember me, he hath bought two-fold 
weight, (i. e., he benefiteth himself and me) (700). 
1 Muhammad, thou art old. Thy youth is gone. Thy strength is 
departed and thy body is lean. Thy sight is gone and thine eyes give 
naught but tears. Thy teeth are gone and thy cheeks are sunken. Thy 
tongue is stiff and thy words are halting. Thy wisdom is gone and 
people call thee mad. Thy pride is gone and thy head is b&ut. Thine 
ears are gone and thou only hearest those who speak loud. The blackness 
of thy locks is gone, and thy head shaketh. The black bee of thy locks 
is gone and hath left them grey. Thy youth hath won the game and 
carried it off for its prize. As long as there is life, youth remaineth, 
but when death comes, it becometh another’s. 
‘ When an old man noddeth his head, it shaketh in anger on 
that account (that his youth is gone). Who was it that blessed mo 
and wished that I might live to (forsooth) a good old age ?’ (701). 
APPENDIX I. 
List of Flowers and Trees. 
In several passages Malik Muhammad gives long lists of names of 
flowering plants and of trees. Their identification has been difficult, 
the ordinary dictionaries having been found to be untrustworthy guides. 
The following is a list of most of the names which occur. The spelling 
of the vernacular words is only provisional, pending the fixing of a 
correct text. 
I know nothing of botany myself, and must express my acknow- 
ledgments to Dr. Prain, of the Botanical Gardens, Sibpur, for the 
identifications given. The list will be found useful by future lexico- 
