Annual Report. [February, 1910. 



(h) A short commentary on a portion (Mabhas-i-Aghlat- 



i-Hiss) of Sharh-i-Mawaqif, by Burhanuddin 'Ataul- 



lah ar-Razi, died 902 A.H. 

 (i) A commentary in Arabic on 'Arba'in-i-Navavi, better 



known as the Hadis of Ji brail, by Fasihuddin 



Nizami, died 917 A.H. 

 (/) A Turkish poetical version of the Chihil Hadis of 



Jami, by 'Ali Shir, died 906 A.H 



7. As-Sirat-1-Mustaqim wa Mukhalifat-i-Ahl-il-Jahim, a 

 controversial work against the Christians and the Jews, by 

 Abul 'Abbas Ahmad bin Abdul Halim bin Abd-al-Salam bin 



Taimiyah (died 728 A.H.) — a very rare work, of which the only 

 other known copy is in the Berlin Library. 



Other interesting manuscripts will be noted in a later 

 and detailed report. In conclusion, the Officer- in- charge of the 

 Search wishes to express his satisfaction with the valuable 

 work done by Maulavi Hafiz Nazir Ahmad ; the first travelling 

 Maulavi of the Society; Maulavi Hasir Razavi, the second 

 travelling Maulavi; and Moulavi Abdul Hamid, the resident 

 Maulavi. 



Search for Bardic Chronicles. 



In the annual report for the year 1908 it is stated that 

 66 during the year Major Baldock resigned his office and Maha- 

 mahopadhyaya Sudhakar Dvivedi, of the Benares Sanskrit Col- 

 lege, was appointed to supervise and direct this collection of MSS. 

 No further progress has been reported." In fact nothing was 

 done during the year under review, and very little during the 

 four years since the receipt of the Government of India's letter 

 requesting the Asiatic Society to submit a preliminary report 

 on the conservation of Bardic MSS. 



The President, Sir Thomas Holland, K.C.I.E., requested 

 Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastrl to submit a note 

 on the subject. The note was considered in the February Council 

 and Pandit Shastrl was appointed to take charge of the work. 

 He travelled in Gujrat and Rajput ana for two months, from 18th 

 September to 18th November, visiting Jaipore, Jodhpore, and 

 Baroda, interesting chiefs and leading men of Rajput ana and 

 Gujrat in the work. At Jaipore the Prime Minister, Nawab 

 Sahib, permitted the Shastrl to see all the Thakur Sahibs 

 then residing at the city. The old class Thakur Sahibs, 

 who took a pride in their Bardic songs, were all grateful to the 

 Government of India for undertaking a conservation of their 

 national history which no single State could do with thorough- 

 ness, and promised their entire support. The younger genera- 

 tion of Thakur Sahibs, who did not take much interest in these 

 old- world ballads, were roused to a sense oi responsibility in 

 thi*3 matter and promised to collect their family songs, and to 



