Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s2.t1.109

c7.s2.t1.109

⁴ Compare Amir Khusrau's ridicule of the dyeing of hair, M.A., 173; and of the use of antimony by night, *ibid.*, 186. The middle-aged woman struggled hard to retain her diminishing charms. She painted her eyebrows, powdered her face and put antimony in her eyes, but perhaps without very happy results, for Amir Khusrau ironically advises her to cultivate beauty in pious deeds rather than in physical looks (*vide ibid.*, 186, 194).