1918.] The Rauzat-ut-Tahirin. 277 
Kharram waited on his father at Lahore on 13 Rabi-al-akhir 
1015. But perhaps the visit refers to 1014 and an earlier visit 
of Shah Tahir, for we know that Tahir was in Delhi in 1014. 
See the Asar-al- Sanadid of Saiyid Ahmad, from an account of 
the tomb of Amir Khusrau, p. 41, No. 33 of this ed. of 1895 (the 
No. 38 of Dr. Rieu, whose edition was the Delhi one of 1854). 
On the same page there is an inscription by Mahdi Khwaja ; 
presumably the young man whom Nizamud-din calls Babur’s 
son-in-law. But it may be the Mahdi a faa, was Babur’s 
Rirare 
turab to Mecca ay Tahir accompanied him, for the first visit 
was in 985. He came back, in 987, with the Holy Stone. It 
was in the 24th oak 987 (157 9), that Tahir seems to have gone 
to Mecca. Perhaps he only went as far as Surat. The Tahir 
of Akbarnama III, 218 seems to be the author. The Mir Fara- 
ghat of the 9th year cannot be the author, for Nizimu-d-din, 
x oa. book Tahir borrows, speaks of this Mir Faraghat as 
avin, 
Ne ee ee eer 
