Muntakhab al-tawarikh 265: LII. BAUQHANI.

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He was an impudent jack-pudding whose jesting passed all bounds. He was for many years in the service of the emperor. He has written a dīvān containing nearly three thousand couplets. This is one of his couplets:—
“The martyr who suffers death by the sword of his injustice enjoys life eternal; Perhaps the master armourer who tempered the sword used the water of life.”
The idea contained in this couplet closely resembles that in the couplet of Mir Ashki, already quoted, namely:— “Those slain by thy cruelty lie scattered here and there like drunken men; It would seem that thy sword was tempered with wine instead of water.”
The following verses are also by Raughani:—
“I weep not for her cruelty, for I fear that my rival Might guess from my weeping whose cruelty was its cause.”
“My burning heart in her hands and beneath her feet is like a live coal, Which a boy in sport takes up and quickly flings away.”
“Thy dignity so plants upon the mountains the foot of clemency That fountains of water flow from each vein of it.”
“O messenger! Give her by word of mouth an account of my condition, for in my letter There are many words which have flowed from my pen while I was beside myself.”
“The messenger gives me news of her coming In order that the force of my desire for her may draw me to the road by which she is to pass.”
In the year H. 980 (A.D. 1572), when the imperial army was marching towards Gujarat, Raughani died beneath the fort of Abugarh and was buried there. Qasim Arsalan made the following chronogram on his death:— “Like a dog he delivered up his soul to the abode of infidelity”