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Il. Extracts from the Mualijat-i-Ddrd-Shekohi ;* selected and translated 
by Major Davin Pricer, M.R.A.S. 
Read March 6, 1830. 
Treatise the Fortieth, comprehending twenty-four discourses on the sub- 
ject of speech and writing, and the senses external and internal; with, 
under God’s assistance, the preliminary chapter of the Zdd-ul-Musafarin, 
composed by Hakim Nasar Khosru, surnamed Huwjat, the Guide.t 
* The Mualijdt-i-Ddraé Shekoht, a work of no common magnitude or importance, is a com- 
pilation, in three folio volumes, extending through not less than 3338 pages; and contains 
treatises, or discourses, not only on all the diseases to which the human frame is liable, with their 
corresponding remedies, but also on almost every subject within the compass of human under- 
standing. The compiler, Hakim Nur-ud-din Shirazxt, who appears to have been either grandson 
or sister’s son of the enlightened Abul Fazel, asserts, in his preface, that he commenced his work 
A. H. 1052, in the fourteenth year of the reign of Shah Jehan (corresponding with A.D. 1642, 
the sixteenth of Charles the First of England) ; and that he brought it to a conclusion A.H. 1056, 
having thus been only four years on his laborious undertaking. Both these dates are respectively 
comprised (the Persian characters being numerically applied) in the two following sentences :— 
Los ble clot Igat-i-Déré Shekoht. “The Medical Remedies of Dara Shekoh, and 
role ed as 5 x ead ub we in tib ajith be az jam gitt numda-shudeh. This 
physical wonder is to be preferred to the mirror which reflects the world.”"—The work may 
be regarded as an Indian encyclopedia ; and the articles here given from it are the more 
curious, as the copy in Major Price’s possession, from which they are taken, is supposed to be 
the only one in Europe, unless it be that which was made from it, about thirty years ago by 
M. Bruys, formerly a French resident at Surat, for the library of the King of France. 
+ Hakim Nasar-ibn Khosru, the author of the Zdd-ul-Musafarin, or Traveller's Viaticum, 
from which the compiler of the Mlualijat-i-Ddrd Shekoht has so largely borrowed, was a 
genuine Khoresh, and must have written under the short reign of Ul-Wathek, the ninth 
khalif of the house of Adéas, who ruled over the Musalman world between the years 840 and 
847 of the Christian era, when Ethelwolf, the son of Egbert, sat on the throne of England. He 
is said to have been particularly distinguished by his protection and patronage of the unfortunate 
but still venerated race of Fatima. Ali Rezza, the eighth im4m, and great-grandfather of 
Nasir-ibu Khusru, died under the reign of Ul-Mamun, A.D.818. The tract here given is 
evidently formed on the system of Aristotle, and the other Greek philosophers, some of whose 
