Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s4.94

c7.s4.94

⁴ Compare K.K., 313; M.A., 151, where Khusrau gives a pen-picture of a Muslim gambler. His wife and children go about famished and ill clad,and, according to the poet,he would not even scruple to sell his daughter. He wonders why he was tolerated by Muslim society. Compare Macauliffe, I, 160, for a reference to gambling.