1900.] H. Beveridge — 'Abdul Qadir Badayiiiiis place of hurial. Ill 



as included in the village of Mujhia. It seems desirable that steps 

 should be taken to preserve the graves and also to mark the one which 

 is Badayuni's.i 



At p. 134 Mr. Blochmann says that it was tlie transfer of Badayuni's 

 grant of land from Bisawar to Badaun which has procured for him 

 the name of Badayuni. But the local account is that Badaun was the 

 home of his ancestors, though he himself was born at Tunda near 

 Bisawar on the road from Agra to Ajmir. The quarter of the town of 

 Badaun where his ancestors lived is still pointed out. 



There is a excellent account of Badayuni in Maulvi Muhammad 

 Husain Shams-al-Ulama's Darbar-i-Akbari (Lahore 1898). and at p. 461 

 of it there is a reference to the grave. The author there quoted under 

 the taJchalhis of Khushgo is, I presume, the Rai Bakhtawar Singh 

 whose Chronicles of Badaun were published at Bareilly in 1868. 

 Muhammad Husain adds that Badayuni is said to have left a daughter 

 whose descendants still live in Khasiabad in Oude. 



It will be observed that I have written the name, Badayuni. This 

 is in accordance with the Gazetteer of the N. W. Provinces, and the 

 Darbar-i-Akbari, and also with the pronounciation of some native 

 gentlemen. Others seem to pronounce it Badatini, i.e., with the u 

 short. But the town is always spelt Badaun, and the o of Badaoni 

 seems wrong, unless merely intended to prevent the a as being 

 pronounced as a dipthong. See however Mr. Blochmann's Note on 

 the point, 



2. Ahul FazVs account of the Sarhar Multan in the third hook of 

 the Ain-i-Akbari. — By 'E. D, Maclagan, Esq., I.C.S. 



1 The field seems to be known to the villagers as the " Field of the Vizier " but 

 is called by Qazi Ahmed the Milkiydt and the Nirkhiydn hd Khet. 



