In Section 31 of the Baharestan's seventh garden, Jami surveys four poets of the Khorasan circle, marking each by a distinctive quality:

• Azari Esfaraini: A poet of Khorasan whose verse contains many tamat (ecstatic, mystical utterances); Jami singles out one of his admired opening lines (matla).
• Katebi Nishaburi: Commands many original meanings and a distinctive manner of delivering them, yet his verse is not uniform or even — it falls into what is called shotor-gorbe (camel-cat), uneven and unbalanced.
• Amirshahi Sabzevari (Shahi): Composes delicate poetry that is uniform and smooth, with clean diction and flavorful, well-seasoned meanings.
• Arefi Heravi: Author of the masnavi Guy o Chogan (Ball and Polo-stick), reckoned among his most accomplished works; Jami quotes verses from it describing the polo horse.

The grouping shows Jami's evaluative vocabulary at work: the same criteria of smoothness (salasat), evenness, and meaningful substance used to praise Sh...