The Memoirs of Bābur 911.8.7
The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 911.8.7
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Mīr Ḥusain the Enigmatist[1150] was another. He seems to have had no equal in making riddles, to have given his whole time to it, and to have been a curiously humble, disconsolate (_nā-murād_) [Sidenote: Fol. 181.] and harmless (_bī-bad_) person. Mīr Muḥammad _Badakhshī_ of Ishkīmīsh was another. As Ishkīmīsh is not in Badakhshān, it is odd he should have made it his pen-name. His verse does not rank with that of the poets previously mentioned,[1151] and though he wrote a treatise on riddles, his riddles are not first-rate. He was a very pleasant companion; he waited on me in Samarkand (917 AH.).