Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.23

c10.23

“having one night in a debauch cut off the long tresses of his favourite mistress, was much concerned in the morning for what he had done. He sat, he rose, he walked by turns, and his attendants were alarmed to approach him. The philosopher ’Unṣurī accosted him with some extempore lines which so pleased the king that *he ordered his mouth to be thrice filled with jewels*. Calling then for wine, he sat with the poet and washed down his grief.” ¹