638 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Nov., 1911. 
No. 65 occurs twice in the B.M. Collection. In the first line 
of it the word wly;= is wrongly copied as wip=, 
In some of the other Quatrains minor variations occur, 
excluding such variations as the same scribe would commit if 
e were to write the same verse or passage more than once, 
€.g. wat and uyy ; is! and (sy; jt and }, etc. I need only men- 
tion the following variants : 
The British Museum MS. is indicated by B.M., and the 
Asiatic Society of Bengals MS. as already published i in the 
Journal for 1909 by A.S. 
Quatrain 17 of A.S., line 2, runs as— 
tes aS eae 3 Oe BF ise wy 
In B.M. it occurs as 
megl Siy 99 Oe AF sits cnagynd 
Quatrain 25. In the first line of A.S. for yo Uy» the B.M. 
has 2; in the second line for sy in A.S. the B.M. has 
3! »o in the fourth line B.M. has e+ for (sc in AAS. 
Quatrain 69 of A.S. text has for ga@fiyas Siw - Sim - 
but B.M. has (oyl& - 6J$- syle It appears that the disciples 
of the Shaykh in commiting the following Pie quatrains into 
memory mixed up the words and g@fiyas of one Ruba‘i with 
those of the other ; or it may be that the Shaykh himself used 
different rhymes on different occasions 
They are copied below for the purpose of comparison. 
No. 25, A.S. 
aed us) gy? 8299 Jo woe 5S wang) ohies wh gle dy ys U pw 
B.M. 
amt! gh) 9hy2 B29 9 Jo wo™ 3F amet (Sdne wld ae Sed 123! 
No: 69, A.S. 
Soe i oe je a wld 2 tye gi Sey Utjly} » HI | 
