584 Journal of the Asiatic Society‘of Bengal. Lacan 1908. 
seven (lunar) years of age. He left no children. In accordance 
with his dying’ wishes he was buried at the side of his favourite 
mistress, a singing woman called Kesar Mahi, in a walled garden 
outside the Pumbah gate of Old Dihit. This garden was situated 
on the high road to the shrine of the saint Nizam-ud-din Auliya ; 
it had been preenten to Qutb-ul-mulk by Rajah Bakht Mal, 
diwan of the Khalisah 
Section 24.—Tae two Sayvyips: THEIR CHARACTER AND CONDUCT. 
Muhammad Shah ree that the Sayyids should be referred 
to after their death, the one as Namakharam and the other as 
Harém-namak, an order aie Nizim-ul-mulk objected to and 
refused to comply with.3 
‘Ala amgir does not seem to have been fond of Boies) Say- 
yids. Once in the official news-letter from Ahmadabad it was 
reported that Sayyid Hasan ‘Ali Khan, Bahadur (attorwetda 
‘Abdallah Khan), had shown promptitude in attacking and 
rank of both brothers, the elder from 800 to 1,000, and the 
younger from 700 to ‘Alamgir wrote across this report : 
“Wherefore should I not offer congratulations } ? But the very 
“ fact of their being Sayyids, those fountains of felicity, demands 
wardrobe, and let them be sent together with two swords, jewel- 
- «pitted and provided with pearl- mounted belts. Let Jamdat-ul- 
“mulk (¢e., the wazir) write much pre aise and many congratula- 
“ tions when Leasing these presents. 
Then, on the petition — from Zi,lfiqar Khan, he wrote: 
‘* The piopinee of that servant of my house, who knows my 
“way of thinking, was exooedingly out of place. It is a matter 
“of course for men of the sword (saif) to punish leaders of strife 
“ (kaif). But to agree to immediate promotion is difficult. Love 

afi Khan, Il, 941, cannot conceive it possible that Nizém-nl-mulk, 
shoe gh Mach had any share in these plots, but al ‘ilm ‘ind allah! “ God 
on 
2 euhar--pamsin of ee Sadiqi, son of Hanif, B.M. em a 
F 
No. i » aye fro . B. Faller’s translation, B.M. Addl 
Nos, 20,7 7 74, sth . the aa Kesar Mahi seems yg doubtful pe neg LP but 
most plainly in the Pers 
: “Ab, Tanikh-i- Hind, fol, 2508 ; Mhd. Qasim, Lihori, Kamwar Khan, p. 8: 
“i Maboioiads Core ai (Feat 1135 BL). 
Khafi Khan, IT, 94 Ie 
