Muntakhab al-tawarikh 65.1.5

65.1.5

My soul, do thou look at the world and take what it gives to thy heart’s desire; Live at thine ease therein a thousand years like Nuh. Every treasure and every store which kings have laid by, That treasure and that store seize and take for thine own. Every pleasure which the world contains do thou consider as made for thee; Every fruit which grows in the world do thou taste and take. In the final round which brings the end of thy life, A hundred times seize the back of thy hand with thy teeth and gnaw it (in despair). ‘Adlī was so highly skilled in and dancing that Miyān Tānsīn, the well-known kalāwant, who is a past master in this art, used to own to being his pupil, and Bāz Bahādur, son of Shujāwal Khān, who was also one of the most gifted men of his age and had no equal in this life-wasting accomplishment acquired the art (of music) from ‘Adlī. Verse. They owned no rival, but surpassed them all, May God, be He exalted and glorified, pardon them. One day a performer from the Dakhan brought into his assembly an instrument called which is in length equal to the height of a man, so large that the hands of no man could reach the two ends of it, as a sort of challenge to those who were present, and all the performers of the kingdom of Dihlī were unable to play it; ‘Adlī, however, found out by his knowledge of other instruments how to play it, and placing a cushion on the floor beat the drum now with his hand and now with his foot;