The Institutes of Akbar 272.7

272.7

Like his father, he was a poet. He wrote under the takhalluq of Vaqárí, which he had bought of a Qandahar poet. He played nearly every instrument. Poets like Tálibí of Amul, Mullá Murshid i Yazdjirdí, Mír Ni’matullah Vaslí, Mullá Asad Qissah-khwán, and especially Fughfúrí of Gilan enjoyed his liberality. The last left him, because his verses were too often used for dakhl (vide p. 102, note 6). In his private life, M. Ghází was dissolute. Not only was he given to wine, but he required every night a virgin; girls from all places were brought to him, and the women of the town of T’hat’hah are said to have been so debauched, that every bad woman, even long after his death, claimed relationship with the Mírzá.