Muntakhab al-tawarikh 30.2.1

30.2.1

May God, be He exalted and blessed, raise the purified and sanctified soul of that warrior prince to lofty heights and high dignities, and give him, from time to time, 'cups full of the brilliance of his beauty' and glory, and make all the kindness, and clemency, and affection, and care which he evinced towards this broken down worthless one, a means of increasing the dignity and wiping out the faults of that prince. Amen, Oh Lord of the worlds !
And Mir Khusru also on that day fell a prisoner into the hands of Lahori, a servant of the Mughul, and had to carry a nosebag and horsecloth upon his head. He recounts this circumstance in these words —
I who never even placed a rose upon my head, He placed a load on my head and said “It is a rose.”
And he composed in poetry and sent to Dehli two elegies written in tarkib-band which are found in the anthology known as Ghurratu-l-Kamāl, for a space of a month more or less, folk used to sing these tarkīb bands and used to chant them as threnodies over their dead from house to house.
The following is one of them:—