CX. QAUSĪ 315*

He was in the service of the Khān-i-Kalān,* and was unequalled in these days for the carving of toothpicks, comb, and such articles. He once wrote the following couplet in a fair hand on the pointed end* of a toothpick.

“The affairs of Qausī have been thrown into confusion by
the ringlets of his love;
His affairs are ever twisted in a hundred places like the
ringlets of his love.”