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not name. I saw the good old man, at Luchiou^ 

 in the year i784. He was a man of austere manners, 

 and incapable of deceit. His list of the kings, of 

 the Tomara and Chohan tribes at Dilli, has cer- 

 tainly much affinity with those in the Ayin-Acberi^: 

 and the Kholassey-ul-Towa?^ic a.\id Fehishta's account 

 of the Subahs of India, are most likely the sources, 

 from which the good father drew his information ; 

 but as these tracts are not at present within my reach, 

 I cannot ascertain this point. 



The Bhats, or Bhattks, who live between Dilli 

 and the Punjab, insist that they are descended from 

 a certain king, called "Sa'liva'haxa, who had three 

 sons Bhat, Maya, or Moyk, and Thaima'z, or 

 Tha'ma'z. Mo ye settled at Pattydlth, and either 

 was a Thanoroi or Thawoni, or had a son thus called. 

 When Amir-Timur invaded India, he found, at Tog- 

 hcpoor, to the N. W. of Dilli, a tribe called Solvan 

 or Saluan, who were Thanovis or Maniclieans ; and 

 these he ordered to be massacred, and their town to 

 be burned f. 'Sa'liva'hana is generally pronounced 

 'Salwan and 'Salban in the west, and Niebuhh 

 calls him Shah-Lewan. 



The Maniclieans were Christians; and when Fa- 

 ther MoNSERRAT was at Dilli, at the court of 

 AcBAR, he was informed, that near that metropolis, 

 and to the S. W. of it, and of course at Toglockabad, 

 near the palace of Pith aura', the usual residence 

 of the ancient kings of that city, there were certain 

 tombs, which were asserted to be those of some 

 ancient princes of Dilli, who M'ere Chnstians, and 

 lived a little before the invasion of the Musulmans. 

 If these tombs really existed, they did not belong 

 to Hindus, who never erect any : they could hardly 



* Vol. 2cl. p. 62. 

 t Deguignes Hisfy. of the Huns., Vol. 5. p. 50, 



