Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c15.s1.20

c15.s1.20

A jovial man as he was, he used to hold frequent parties, in which extempore verses and recitations in Turkish and Persian often came as a ballast to the coarseness that at times tainted them. However, many literary men were his companions, and his *Memoirs* describes a party of literary men on a boat in which they and Bābar amused themselves by making verses.⁴