1918.] The Rauzat-ut-Tahirin. 271 
Rustum—as pure fiction, but it seems that this was not Mohl’s 
opinion, and may we not hold that at least the names of the 
Kabul Shahs are historical ? 
Tahir states that he is indebted for this part of his book 
to Maulana Taqiu-d-din of Shushtar, who rendered the Shah- 
nama (in which name the Garshaspnima seems included) into 
prose at the request of Akbar. (See Badayini III, 206, and- 
Tabagat, A, p. 404, Newal K. lithograph). Badayini speaks of 
Taqi as a new servant of Akbar and as having recently turned 
the Shahnama into prose, and as having thereby made silk into 
cotton. (The Shahnama was one of the works that used to be 
where he calls himself the son of ‘Imadu-d-din. (See his ab- 
Stract of the Mahabharat). A fly-leaf in my copy also calls the 
author the son of ‘Imadu-d-din Sabzwari, and another note on 
the same fly-leaf calls the Rauzat “ Sair Haft Tqlim”’! Pos- 
val two Tahirs were concerned with the authorship of the 
auzat, just as two Asadis are said to have had to do with the 
Garshaspnama, 
The Rauzat ‘has five Qisms, or Divisions, and these are 
Subdivided into Chapters, b@, and sub-chapters, fasl. There 
