Note 135 — Chapter XIX

My old friend Câsim-Wâlâ died about five years after this interview. Among other occupations of his latter years was that of preparing for himself a place of interment in the Chehâr-Bâgh of Isfahan. He built a small but handsome mausoleum, with a tomb in the centre, for the top of which a fine marble slab was obtained from Yezd; and he not only wrote his own epitaph on this stone, but had it engraved, and every way finished, with the exception of the date of his death. Near the mausoleum he made a fountain and flower garden, with bowers and seats; and a gentleman who saw him a short time before he died, tells me this spot became his favourite resort, where he delighted to receive and converse with his friends and disciples.