Muntakhab al-tawarikh 346: CXXXIV. Mihnati of Hisar.

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He was moderately fond of study and was in the college at Dihli. He was afterwards, by the emperor’s order, appointed qazi of Sirhind, and received his poetical name of Mihnati from the emperor. In Sirhind he passed away from this house of toil the world.
The following verses are by him:—
“I found in my path the print of her foot, Why should I not press my cheek against it? I have found her place.
“The folk have lost their hearts in meditating on her waist, slender as a hair; I too among them have lost my broken heart.”