Muntakhab al-tawarikh 66.2.9

66.2.9

And in order to recount the many virtues of that monarch who has obtained pardon and remission, may his resting-place be a separate record would be necessary. Countless poets, the wonder of the age, sprung from under the skirt of his auspicious reign. Among these, in Badakhshan was Maulana Jununi Badakhshi the enigmatist, who composed a qasidah made up of thirty-eight couplets in honour of that monarch, whose refuge is the pardon of God, during the time that he was a Mirza; and certain tours de force which had escaped the net of the qasidah which Mir Saiyyid Zu’l-fiqar Shirwani composed in honour of Khwaja Rashid Vazir, and the qasidah of Salman Sawaji which he wrote in honour of Khwaja Vazir, this poet seized, for example the mu‘amma, and izhar-i muzmar, and the tarikh and other tricks of this kind, and in very truth that work of art is a veritable kār-nāma (record of deeds), a miracle in the world of speech. The following are the opening couplet and another, taken from it: rnklj.-i-tu lala o 'nasrin lab-i-tu jan llaini binam lab-i-tu ghuncha-i-rangin shuda khandan Nami guyam khatt-i-tu sabza o raihan khad-i-tu gul Shavad zahir qadd-i-tu fitna-i-dauran dam-i-jaulan. And by taking all the verses of this qasida after the manner of an acrostic, the following opening couplet is formed: — Shahanshah-i-din padishah-i-zaman Zi bakht-i-Humayun shuda kamran.