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The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri, Volume 1 of 2

Note 5 — The Fourth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession.

Alexander Rogers translation

On the night of the 12th an uncommon and strange event took place. Some Delhi singers (Qawwālān, see Jarrett, ii, 236) were singing songs in my presence, and Sayyidī5 S͟hāh was, by way of buffoonery, mimicking a religious dance. This verse of Amīr K͟husrau was the refrain (miyān-k͟hāna) of the song—

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