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5. Note on the Shrine of Taunsa. 
By Lievrenanr-Cotonet D.C. Paittorr, Secretary, Bourd of 
Examiners. 
The following description of the 08 the Shrine of ‘ Taunsa 
Sharif,” in the district of Dera Ghaz an, has been translated 
TaunsA SHARIF. 
Taunsa Sharif lies in the district of Sanghar, about 45 miles 
2 rth of Dera Ghazi Khan and six miles 
Situation. o the west of the coe 
There is a tradition ou once some king of Khurdsan, on a 
visit to India, reached the site of Taunsa, 
and there lost by death a certain pet 
peacock. To perpetuate its memory, he Ble a monument over 
its tomb. The tomb has disappeared, but the village that rose 
on its site was named, after the bird, Taunsa, a corruption o 
ta*ts, a peacock. Latterly, 7.e., for the last century, the epithet 
‘Sharif’ has been added on account of sacred associations. 
There are two traditions regarding the origin of the village. 
According to one, some four hundred 
mirc cca years ago, a pastoral tribe called Bhutta 
or Jat resided in this spot. Later, another tribe called Chacha 
immigrated here from Rakhni in the Sulayman Range. When 
the latter tribe settled at Taunsa, a lady was at the head of the 
Bhuttas, and she married her son to a daughter of the chief of 
the Chachas, and thus both tribes dwelt sisal sharing the 
land. The second tradition is that the Chachas w the original 
Origin of Name. 
them, both intermarried. Thou gh the village is of great anti- 
lefly on milk. 
In the middle of the 12th century A.H,, there lived, in 
