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Hayaat-e-Mah Laqa is the first authentic brief biography of Mah Laqa Bai Chanda. It gives a detailed description of life and times of the celebrated poetess. It is said that Chanda Bai used to seek counselling on her poems from a poet called Meer Alam. Meer Alam was madly in love with Chanda. In this connection, his Persian masnawi, Sarapa-i-Mah Laqa, is presented as a proof of his love for her. This masnawi contains 223 shers. Similarly, Maharaja Chandu Lal has also praised her in addition to other poets like Ghulam Hussain Jauhari in his masnawi Sarapa Mah Laqa, Sher Mohammad Khan Eemaan in his masnawi of nineteen stanzas, and Ziyai have praised her for her numerous qualities. Many stories regarding her beauty did their rounds and that is how she was called the Cleopatra of her age.