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in return for the favour which he expected, to transfer to the 
king the merit of one of his two pilgrimages to Makkah. _The 
pious Ahmad, unable to decline such an offer, sent for Azari 
and caused a large sum of money to be brought before him as 
a gift for the poet. There are discrepancies regarding the 
amount of the gift. Daulat Shah savs that it was 50,000 
dirhams, ‘‘ which sum is called in their language, a lak.”’ This 
is a mistake, for a lakh is 1,009,000. “Ali bin ‘Aziz Allah gives 
the sum as 7,00,000 Dakani tangas, equivalent to about 1,000 
tumans, but Firishta is more explicit and is probably correct in 
describing the gift as ‘40,000 white tangas, each weighing a 
tola of silver,” that is to say 40,000 rupees. There is also a 
discrepancy regarding the manner in which the gift was re- 
ceived. Daulat Shah says that Ahmad Shah’s courtiers told 
Azari that he was expected to prostrate himself before the king, 
in gratitude for his bounty, and that the Shaikh indignantly 
tefused to prostrate himself before any creature and rejected 
the gift, leaving us to infer that he departed empty-handed ; 
laughed and ordered that another 20,000 rupees for the ex- 
penses of the journey and five Hindu slaves should be given to 
im. Daulat Shah’s story of the suggested prostration 1s 
improbable, for it does not appear that any Muhammadan 
iy > & 9 Se 8) 5m yy ols x cl gins Shas dorm y ose Sy w” 
- Farewell to Jaipal’s carcase, farewell to Hindustan. 
I would not give a barleycorn for the pride of Jauna 
an.”’ : 
saipal was, of course, the opponent of Mahmid of Ghazni 
i a an the title borne before 
his accession by Muhammad bin Tughlag, the first Muham- 
madan conqueror. who completely subdued the southern Dakan 
and the peninsula of India. Azari’s spelling of the title is 
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