6. The Rauzat-ut-Tahirin. 
By H. Brverives, I.C.S. (retired). 
This is a general history and one which is said! to be 
greatly admired in the East. It begins with Adam and goes 
down to the beginning of the 17th Century, and nearly to the 
death of Akbar. If we fake its accounts of the early times of 
Persia and India as historical, it commences at a much earlier 
period than the birth of Adam. ‘The book was written by 
Tahir Muhammed s. ‘Imadu-din-Hasan of Sabzwar in Persia. 
He was in Akbar’s service and egan to write his history in 
101] 4.n. 1602-3. He is the Kwajagi Tahir of the Akbarnama 
IIT, 423, Bib. Ind. edition, who carried a message to the Khan 
Khanan Abdu-r-Rahim. This was in the 28th year, 992 
(A.D. 1584), 
Henry Elliot’s Bibliographical Index to the Historians of Muh. 
India, Calcutta 1849, should also be consulted). It contains 
Persian MSS. There is also, as Rieu has pointed out, a short 
hotice in the St. Petersburgh (now Petrograd) publication, the 
is is by M. Veliaminof-Zernof, 
: few, if any, 
©oples are complete. Fraehn included it among the desiderata 
his Indications Bibliographiques. : 
A ee B.M. copy is Or. 168, and contains 700 large folios. 
n folio 146 the date given is 1046, and on folio 583* the date 
S 1045 (1635-6). There is also in B.M. MS. Add. 6541 an ex- 
Which contains the preface (wanting in Or. 168), and the 
elaborate table of contents. It is quite a modern extract, be- 
ti ted Masulipatam 1783. There is also, as Rieu has men- 
ned in his Additions and Corrections, Cat. Vol. III, p. 1080, 
ee ee 
we Apparently this rests on Major Stewart’s authority. See his Cata- 
ue of Tippu Sultan’s Library. 
