

Vol. IV, No. 1.) - Note on the Shrine of Taunsa. 27 
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The first thing he did was to settle the accounts of the langar. 
He had all sums due to the shop people transferred to his private 
account and gradually paid them in full. He then, at the cost 
of a lakh-and-a-quarter built a Khangah over the old Khwaja, the 
cost being partially defrayed by Nawab Bhawal Khan. The tomb 
of the elder Khwaja is very fine. Though built only of brick, it 
surpasses stone, both in beauty of structure aud durability. In 

were exempted from begar. 
classes, chiefly Afghans, used to come to the langar- 
khana, First, rich men as guests. Second, religious mendicants. 
Third, small merchants who used to tarry a month or two on their way 
‘to Hindustan. Learned men from Hazarah, Rawalpindi, Shabpur, 
and Jheelum, also visited or settled at Tannsa. Population and 
trade greatly increased. The Fakhr* ’l-Auliya* used, annually, to 
visit Mahar Sharif in Bhawalpore, the burial place of his Dada Pir. 
He also, every alternate year, visited Pak Patan, on the occasion of 
the ‘Urs of Hazrat Baba Ganj-i Shakar. Ou these occasions he used 
