Muntakhab al-tawarikh 300: XCI. Mirza ‘Aziz Kuka.

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He is entitled A'zam Khan, and is well known for his good breeding, and for his varied accomplishments and gifts, and there is no other amir who is regarded as his equal in depth of understanding or in capacity. As he used formerly, now and again, but rarely, to make trial of his ability in the composition of verse, the following few verses of his are quoted, in order that these memoirs may not be destitute of all mention of him.
“Since honour and reputation prevented me from obtaining the desire of my heart, I will henceforward shatter my reputation with a stone.”
He also wrote an illuminated copy of an ode composed by himself, the opening couplet of which was this : —
“O thou, whose curled lock is the fetter of my heart, The love of whom is mingled with all the elements of my body!” the empire of Hindūstān he, having with much trouble collected five karors (of dams) from the Sambhal district, was appointed to the administrative and revenue charge of that district, and at last he was for several years under suspension, engaged in rendering accounts to the dīvān and his honour was changed to disgrace, and he was subjected to torture, and suffered much, and he surrendered all that he had, even to the uttermost farthing, to the imperial treasury, and, after surrendering all his possessions, surrendered his life with them. He composed a dīvān of short odes, a poem in praise of the people of his town a poem on roses and wine, and many other treatises in verse, but his poetry is all in the style of the poets of the time of Sultān Husain Mīrzā, and most of the works which I have named are in that style. The following verses are his:—
“The fresh down has sprung from her ruby lip with moisture and splendour, For she ever drinks water from the fountain of the sun.”