Machine summary:
H), and the diwan of our Siraji contains not even a single line in praise of the (18) The following line suggests that the poet had some connection with this city: (View the image of this page) (19) The word<$~ occurring in the following line of a qasida may create confusion in the minds of those who would prefer to read it c.
They probably came to this conc]usion because Siraji has composed a number of qasidas in praise of a prince who has been cal1ed Nasir uddin Mahmud and · who was bound to bee onfused with the Sultan of Ghazna because of these verses: 29(View the image of this page) 'The sun of time, Nasir uddin, having ocean-like palm and heaven-like threshold, Mahmud the Emperor, son of the Sultan, having the title of Mahamiid-i-Subuktagin 'But this conclusion is wrong.
Siraji's di wan contains a number of poems in· praise of Iltutmish's minister Nizamul-Mulk Muhammad Junaidi and his sons, Majdul Mulk Muhammad and Zia ul-Mulk Muhammad Junaidi, for example: The lord of the house of the Junaidis, the face of knowledge, the eyes of benevolence, he on whom wealth casts its eyes unsuccessfully.
· So far as the poet's diwan is concerned, it is quite evident that Siraji came to Delhi in the time of Sultan Shams uddin Iltutmish (607-633 A~H ) and got himself attached to the princes, ministers and nobles of the court, of whom Nasir uddin and NizamuJ Mulk Junaidi and his sons, Majdul Mulk and Ziaul Mulk Junaidi, and Masud Ashari are the most conspicuous.