Indian Painting under the Mughals, A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1750 c20.18

c20.18

Umar Shaikh Mirza was a man of low stature, had a short bushy beard, brownish hair, and was very corpulent. He used to wear his tunic extremely tight; insomuch, that as he was wont to contract his belly while he tied the strings, when he let himself out again the strings often burst. He was not curious in either his food or dress. He tied his turban in the fashion called *Destar-pech* (plaited). At that time all turbans were worn in the *char-pech* (four plait) style. He wore his without folds, and allowed the end to hang down. During the heats, when out of the Divan, he generally wore the Moghul cap. . . . He was a middling shot with the bow; he had uncommon force in his fists, and never hit a man whom he did not knock down.