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the time of Zain-ul-Abdin who reigned in Kasmir from 1422 to 
1474 a.D., and under his orders Mulah Ahmad, the poet laureate 
of his court, translated it into Persian. Ratndkar Purana is 
now again untraceable, and on this account the above-men- 
tioned translation is of immense importance. 
Hasan went to Pindori and took a copy of this History. 
Bape to Kasmir he wrote a History of Kasmir of his own, 
which he embodied the important facts he had found in 
Mulah Ahmad’s History of Kasmir. This copy of Mulah 
Ahmad’s History was subsequently lost by him in a flood in 
which his boat capsized, he being thrown into water together 
with the book and rescued but alas! without the book. 
In 1902 a.p. the Kasmir Durbar tried to secure a copy of 
Mulah Ahmad’s History, but Mulah Mahméd, from whom 
Hasan had got his copy, had since died and his family had 
removed to Kabul at the invitation of His Majesty the late 
Amir Abdul Rahman Khan 
Hasan gave a subtle touch of humour mingled with 
her mother-in-law was often quarrelling with her, and asked 
for a charm so that the quarrels might cease. Hasan gave 
her a charm, enjoining upon her that whenever her mother- 
in-law would be egin to utter harsh words to her she should 
at once put the charm under her own teeth and press it 
hard. e Pir’s instructions were faithfully followed. The 
daughter in law having the charm pressed under her teeth 
could not open her mouth to remonstrate with her mother-in- 
law for her abitaeations and the latter’s-fury would fas 
quently at once abate. The result was that there was soo 
peace between them. The simple woman ascribed this ohinaga 
not to her own silence, but to the efficacy of the charm, for 
which she came to the Pir and thanked him. Another time a 
woman told him that whenever she sat down to spin, it would 
happen that she had to go away to do some other more urgent 
work and she, therefore, requested to be given a charm in order 
went to spin, taking care that the thread would not break. ‘The 
result was that she thought of nothing but the thread which 
the Pir had said must not break, and the consequence was 
thing else while spinning. The ignorant woman ascribed 
this to the wonderful efficacy of the charm and had firmer faith 
in the Pir. 
_ Sir W. R. Lawrence, when Settlement Commissioner of the 
Kasmir State, was supplied by Hasan with much historical 
