26 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [January, 1908. 
Jadies mourned his death. It would fill a volume to detail all 
the miracles performed by him ; but to draw down a blessing on 
my head I will mention one or 
No famine visited this bare and rainless country during his life- 
Wivaaicn. time ; for when there was fear of drought, 
he directed the people to pray for rain at 
the tombs of certain saints, and their prayers always received 
an immediate answer. So efficacious were his prayers, espe- 
cially in this respect, that he was styled Menh-vasa*ora, or the 
“Rain-bringer.” Once in the month of Savan (July and August), 
when the river Indus was in deep flood, his gafila wished to cross, 
but the Governor “ati impressed all the boats for Government 
purposes. The Khwaja remarked that the river was occasionally 
fordable and he directed the qafila to try. All plunged into the 
water, which at once became knee-deep. Whenthe q@fila had crossed 
in safety, the river again rose to its former level. The writer has 
heard this fact from persons who were of the party and whose evi- 
dence cannot be disbelieved ; it is also corroborated by contempo- 
rarywritings, Lal Khan, thesecondson of Massi Khan, Balich, was 
a high-handed tyrant and imprisoned certain respectable men of the 
Khosa tribe in the village of “ Miti,” about 25 miles south of Taunsa, 
meaning to kill them. Some people came to the Khwaja Sahib 
to pray for their delivery, and he himself started to plead for them. 
On hearing of his coming, the ignoble chief put the prisoners to 
death. On receiving the news, the Khwaja eiciinti pert aL 
“Cursed be Lal, ill-deserving the name; his name shall d 
When Lal Khan heard this, he raised his arm gah ried Suk, 
“ Hazrat Sahib, mujhe bandig mar-deve !” After this there was 
fighting between the Khosas and Nutkanis, and Lal Khan was 
wounde en being borne off the field in a duit, he was con 
tinually hit in the very hand he had definatly: raised against the 
waja. 
The Khwaja Sahib Bide three sons who died during their 
father’s life-time. The eldest, Gul Mu- 
aig of the Ehways gee mad, left two sons; Khwaj a Allah 
khsh, who succeeded his grandfather, 
and Miyan Khayr oe sete) who became a majzib saint of the 
highest order: all his prayers were hea 
Khwaja Allah —— succeeded his grandfather at the age 
7, and crowned the improvements 
— ane started by the former. It was during the 
Bakhsh. me of this ‘ Pride of Saints’ (Fakhr« ’l- 
Auliya*) that Taunsa eto Taunsa Sharif. The number of schools 
was doubled. The —. condition of the langar improved 
great organizer. His yn ee were innumerable. They cam 
from Afghanistan, Baluchistan, and Arabia, to gain their ‘ objects. ° 
