1895.] W. Irvine — Reply on Guru Gohind Sirjgh and Bandah. 37 



miles. How I got N". instead of E. I do not know, unless it was by trust- 

 ing to that treacherous thing, memory. There is a little N. in the 

 direction, though, is there not ? 



Sadhaurah. — G, Forster, who passed through it, says : " A village 

 on a high hill of steep ascent (I. 235) ; " so you see that you may go 

 wrong even in copying from an eye-witness. As all my authorities spell 

 »j)^ji,^U I think I was right in putting Sadhaurah, but I notice Forster has 

 Sudhowra, which represents I suppose a short a. I will put, in a note^ 

 the modern pronunciation on your authority. I find I first had Shah 

 Qamin (^*^ , but finding Faiz u^^ in the printed text of the Ma'dsiru- 

 l-umara (I. 830) T assumed that the Native (Calcutta) Editor, being 

 himself a Mahomedan, knew the correct name of the Saint, so I rejected 

 the previous reading taken from the Mirat-i-Wdriddt. I will get out 

 Cunningham, and note what he says about Sadhaurah. 



Banur. — I will correct this. 



Second — Coins. That you have never seen a coin of Bandah's is 

 of course a presumption, — a strong presumption one may even say — that 

 no such coin ever existed. But to use the legal distinction, there is a 

 difference between evidence and proof. Even if no such coin now exists 

 anywhere on the face of this globe, that is not proof that no such coin 

 ever did exist. And in this instance, I see no sufficient reason for re- 

 jecting the statement which I have found in my authority. My authorities 

 for this Sikh episode in 1710 are, (1) Kamwar Khan, (2) "Warid, (3) 

 Mirza Muhammad, (4) Muhammad Ihsan Ijad. I do not know when the 

 first was born or when he died (his death must have been after 1137 H.), 

 bnb he was alive in 1710 and present at Sadhaurah and Lohgarh, being 

 then Mirsaman, or Chamberlain, to Hafi'u-sh-Shan, the third son of 

 Bahadur Shah. Warid was one Muhammad Shafi', born at Nadinah, or 

 Naglnah (now in the Bijndr District) in 1087 H. He professes to recollect 

 what happened from 1100, and he went on writing up to 1152 H. When 

 he died I do not know. He lived at Delhi from abont 1124 H. under 

 the protection of Bairam Khan, a noble of good descent. Mirza Muham- 

 mad was born in 1098 H., was alive in 1152 H., and probably did not die 

 till after 1163 H. He also was in Bahadur Shah's camp at Sadhaurah 

 in 1122. — But the statement as to the coin rests on the fourth authority, 

 that of the FarruTch Shah Namah of Muhammad Ihsau Ijad. The fol- 

 lowing are the reasons why I accept him : — 



1. He was a contemporary. 



2. He wrote very near the time — he mentions corrections made 

 by Farrukhsiyar in the events of 1129 H. Farrukhslyar was killed 

 in 1131 H., so the corrections took place before that year; and as the 

 events of 1129 H. had been recorded, it is to be presumed that the 



