254 Journal of the Asiatic Seciety of Bengal. |N.S., XUX, 
ethnological and religious matters. Our debt of gratitude is 
due to Sir Henry Elliot and Professor Dowson for their trans- 
lating both the volumes of Tarikh-i-Firiiz Shahi into English, 
however, incomplete the rendering might be. But one must 
study the books za a original to fully grasp the spirit 
and history of the a 
I have divided this paper into three parts, viz. — 
I. Life of Mahk ‘Aynu’l-Mulk Mahru., 
Il. A brief notice of Mabra’s letters. 
Ill. Some corroborative or additional account of Firiiz 
Shah’s expeditions to Lakhnauti and Jajnagar. 
Part L. 
Life of Malik *Aynwl-Mulk Mahra 
The writer of these letters is called by his contemporaries 
as well as by himself ‘Ayn-i-Mahria, ‘Avnu’l-Mulk, ‘Aynu’d- 
Din, or ‘Abdullah. In one of the letters, the writer introduces 
himself as‘ Abdullah Muhammad Sharaf al-mad‘a ba (commonly 
called) ‘Ayvn-i-Mabra. [nan official Manshar (royal mandate or 
patent), when he was appointed by Firiz to the aqta ‘(fief) of 
Multan, his titles 1ead as follows: Malik’ ush—Shar rq wa l— 
Wazara ‘ Aynw’]-Mulk ‘Aynu’d-Daula wa‘d-Din Qami‘ul kafarat 
i-Wa’l mushrikin Qali‘ul- -Fajarat i wa'l mutamar ridin m‘adanuw '|- 
Fadail, Jam‘i’us-Saif i wa’l-Qalam, Waliu’1-‘ilm i wa’l ‘alam, Saj- 
‘adar i Iran, Dastir i afaq ‘Abdu’llah Mahra, Makkanah ‘ullah. 
ent peel! 3 ¥ as! eal enol s Ayo! ens St pre iol s Gp! Ste) 
a ‘ os ene s ve) 
lal ty oli g dal gcle ULLEi Jone Guoyeiell y Baill dU 
oe af jloase stall s 
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He is often called by his eae historians as Malik 
‘Aynu’l-Mulk Mulian7 and sometimes without the prefix (Malik) 
and suftix (Multani). It may be that ‘Aynu’l-! Mulk’s father 
was Muhammad Sharaf and that he was ~~ = brought 
up in Multan. I think Mahri was his family n 
n his id letters Mahri calls his sons S imadu’ d-Din, 
Hamidu’d-Din, S‘adu’d-Din and Karimu’d-Din, and_his 
brothers, Fakhru’d-Din, Mu‘azzamu’d-Din, and Nizamu’d-Din. 
His name occurs for the first time among the ee 
grandees of ‘Alau’d- e nena tO a 
“ocaynut Mlk, Khaljt (695-715 H.= 1295-13815 a.) 
prefixed to the oe Chapter, 1 
Maulana Ziyau’d- pe Barani’s Tarikh-i-Firuz “ghahi, Pp. 241, 
Bibliotheca Indica edition. as Malik ‘Aynu’l-Mulk Multant. 
During this reign four revolts—from the revolts of new Muslim 
