52 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
the Holy Family , found favour with him.” (Briggs’ Transla- 
tion, Reprint, IT, 179.) His court had thus become, as it were, 
a wleyiyto, “ the gathering-place of all men of worth and intelli- 
gence from adjacent countries and afforded an asylum denied 
by their wild confusion and desolating unrest, for the fostering 
and development of science.” (Noer, Op. cit., I, 126).! In 
this connection. the following passage ‘from ‘Abdu- r-Razzaq's 
Matl‘au-s-Sa‘adain is instructive and will bear quotation 
“‘ Professors of various religions, and even infidels, abound 
in that city [scdl. oo and no measure of injustice is 
permitted to any one in it; hence the city is called the abode 
so 
India, IV, 96. See also R. H. Major, India in the Fifteenth 
Century, Hakluyt Society, p. 7). 
The epithet again ‘attracts attention on the Multan 
Rupees of the very first year of Aurangzeb’s reign. (1069 
re : ; 
of Multan. “On this Aurangzeb, who had already crossed 
the Satlaj, altered his course for Multan. Before he reached 
that city, he heard that Dara had proceeded on his flight 
eo e therefore gave up his march to the westward, and 
returned without delay to Delhi.” (Elphinstone, ed. Cowell, 
605.) Aurangzeb left Dehli on 7th Zilqa‘ada 1068 (‘ Alamgir- 
nama, 160), crossed the Satlaj on the ag of Zilhajja (Jbid., 
192), was within three koss of Multan on the banks of the 
Ravi on 7th Muharram, 1069 A.H. (Jb., 307), and paid a visit 
he most eminent of these literary ae was ee historian 
Wivhiadente. who has himself given a long acco f the ‘‘ annoyances 
and misfortunes to which he was subjected nets Usbe beg ru ms in Herat.” 
(A. 8. Beveri Spy Memoirs of Babur, 605 Note. See also Elliot and 
Dowson, IV, 142-3.) He paid his rh to Babur on Saturday, the 4th 
of Muharram, 935 A.H., at Agra (E.D., IV, 143) and his Habibu-s-Siyar 
was finished in Babur’s. mp a ohani near the confluence of the 
Sarjii and the Ganges (Bombay Lithograph, I, iv, , 155, 
e rds wrote the Hum@yiin-nama or Qaniun i-Humayiini 
accompani aya Gujarat and died in his camp in 942 A.H.) 
(Beale, Oriental Biographical mete get ene, 8 16., 
d.K 
Two other emigrés—Maulana Shihab, the Enigmatist, and Mir ‘Ibrahim, 
the Harper, are also mentioned, A. 8. Beveridge, Loc. cit., 605; 
Badaoni, Ranking’s Translation, I, 449-50. A later refugee was Mir 
‘Abdu -l-Latif — Suspec of leaning towards the Sunnis, he and 
ya w igc a: 
father being too old and infirm to fly,” died in prison at Ispahan. The 
on ** fled to Gila ards at the invitation o aah Emperor 
Humayin went to Hindustan.” (Blochmann. Ain , Tran 447-8). Of 
this man, Abil Fazl says that ‘ from his lack of bigotry om his broad- 
dedness, he was called in India a Shia and in Persia a Sunni,” 
ee Trans. Sovteiiae, II. 35). He was appointed tutor to Akbar 
in the d year (964-5 A.H. ys and it was he who taught Akbar the 
nator te te of the Sulh-i-Kul or * Universal Toleratio: 
