911 AH. JUNE 4th 1505 TO MAY 24th 1506 AD. 277
Bih-bud Beg was another. He had served in the pages' circle (ckuhra jtrgast) during the guerilla times and gave such satisfaction by his service that the Mirza did him the favour of putting his name on the stamp {tamgha) and the coin {sikkd)}
Shaikhlm Beg was another.2 People used to call him Shaikhlm Suhaili because Suhaili was his pen-name. He wrote all sorts of versef,bringing in terrifying words and mental images. Here is a couplet of his :
In the anguish of my nights, the whirlpool of my sighs engulphs the firmament; Like a dragon, the torrent of my tears swallows the quarters of the world.
Well-known it is that when he once recited that couplet in Maulana 'Abdu'r-rahman /ami's presence, the honoured Mulla asked him whether he was reciting verse or frightening people. He put a diwdn together ; masnawis of his are also in existence.
Muhammad-i-wall Beg was..another, -the son of the Wall Beg already mentioned. Latterly he became one of the Mlrza's great begs but, great beg though he was, he never neglected his service and used to recline (ydstdntb) day and night in the Gate. Through doing this, his free meals and open table were always set just outside the Gate. Quite certainly a man who was so constantly in waiting, would receive the favour he received ! It is an evil noticeable today that effort must be made before the man, dubbed Beg because he has five or six of the bald and blind at his back, can be got into the Gate at all! Where this sort of service is, it must be to their own misfortune ! Muhammadi-wall Beg's public table and free meals were good ; he kept his servants neat and well-dressed and with his own hands gave ample portion to the poor and destitute, but he was foul-mouthed and evil-spoken. He and also Darwlsh-i-'all the librarian were in my service when I took Samarkand in 917 AH. (Oct. 1511 AD.); he was palsied then ; his talk lacked salt; his former claim to favour was gone. His assiduous waiting appears to have been the cause of his promotion
See Appendix H, On the counter-mark Bih-bud on coins.
Nizamu'd-din Amir Shaikh Ahmadu's-suhaili was surnamed Suhaili through ayS/ (augury) taken by his spiritual guide, Kamalu'd-din Husain Gazur-gShi; it was he induced Husain Kashifl to produce his Anwar-i-suhaill (Lights of Canopus) (f. 125 and note ; Rieu's Pers. Cat. p. 756 ; and for a couplet of his, H.S. iii, 242 1. 10).
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