Machine summary:
a brilliant conversationalist but only five samples exist of his ready wit; he wrote graceful letters but there is only one specimen to prove that he cultivated the art of letter-writing; he set some of his ghazals to music1 and was a musician of repute but his treatise on music has perished ;2 he wrote a complete reply to the Bustan of Sa'di but of that mathnawi naught remains save the bare name 'Cul Afshan ' and the opening couplet ;3 he wrote on the astrolabe an excellent ode terminating with the praise of Humayun4 but that ode is unfortunately lost, and were it not for the alif-namah of 33 couplets and 17 verses of another ode preserved chiefly in the Haft Iqlim, who could have believed that Kahi's qasidahs were better than his lyrics?
" (View the image of this page) For writing the last quatrain, the heavy hand of Shaykh Sadru'd-Din Nabi fell on the shoulders of Kahi who was arraigned before Akbar on a charge of blasphemy.
It was in nine hundred and seventy two that the twins Hasan and Husayn were born to Akbar and the, chronogram of their birth is: it was in nine hundred and seventy two -which gives 972: (View the image of this page) Kahi inquired of the· date of their appearance; and the Intellect replied: "it was in nine hundred and seventy tuur" =972.
'ii~ (View the image of this page) Whom God has made His vicegerent by investing him with His grace, in him" is the manifestation of God and Muhammad and ·'Ali. In praise of 'Ali· Deny not the .