Muntakhab al-tawarikh 325: CXIII. Qandī.
Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 325
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He came from Transoxiana to Āgra in the time of Bairām Khān, and there studied. I have seen no poetry of his but the following ode:—
“The hermitage in which I follow my devotions is a corner of the wine-shop, The ecstatic shriek which I hear is the shout of the drunkards; My patched robe of devotion and piety has been pawned for wine, The gurgling of the wine-flask is for me the murmur of prayer and praise. Qandī was journeying, destitute, towards the temple of Makkah, When a lovely being waylaid him and he turned aside to the idol-temple.”