Muntakhab al-tawarikh 366.3

366.3

I then began to console myself by the thought that if times were so hard with this great man and yet made no difference to him, I had a much better reason for being cheerful and happy, seeing that I had not a hundredth part of his state and pomp to keep up. My third director is a slave-girl bestowed upon me by the emperor. Quum enim, instantibus vel diaboli insidiis vel desideriis naturalibus, me sentio, sive oculorum micantium sive libidinis indulgentiae causa, ad stuprum tractum, statim domum reversus cum ea rem habeo, unde quiescit cor meum; et, corpore aqua loto, mundus fio. And a director has no greater duty than that of restraining a person from unseemly and unbecoming acts. The Mir is a most diligent student and has correct taste in poetry and in the composition of enigmas. He is high-minded and sublime in disposition. He has composed a divan, and a masnavi in the metre of the Yusuf-u-Zulaikha (of Nizami).