She was but a woman.* She lived in Āgra and was the mistress* of Mahistī of Hirāt. The following opening couplet is by her:—

361 “I have found the day of grief and the night of pain to give
little ease,
I have experienced much grief in these days.”

Although the poets of the age have all attempted to answer this couplet none of them has equalled it:—

What manhood is this, that cannot cope with a woman?
Her son, Ja‘far by name, is now an Aḥadī in Kashmīr and
has been appointed to the service of the Mir-ī-Baḥr. He
is an able youth.