102 H. Blochmann — On SaJcit Inscriptions. [May, 



3. A nourislier of the wretched, a friend of dervishes, a unitarian inasmuch as he 

 said ' All is He.'* 



4. When he bravely tied up his things to leave the world, and went to the shadow 

 of mercy and dwelled there, 



5. I said that the date of his departure lies in the words, ' May God Almighty illu- 

 mine his grave, O wise friend !' A. H. 1182 [A. D. 1768]. 



Saki't, N. W. Provinces. 



The following rubbings and readings of inscriptions were received from 

 Mr. Harvey James, C. S., by Mr. E. T. Atkinson, C. S., Allahabad, who 

 kindly communicated them to the Society. 



Mr. Blochmann said, S a k i t is scarcely ever mentioned by Muham- 

 raadan Historians. The emperor Buhlul Lodi got sick in Sakit and died 

 there. In the Ain, Parganah Sakit is mentioned as belonging to Sirkar 

 Qanauj. Its area was 132955 big'habs, 9 biswahs, and the revenue is 

 stated to have been 3,230,752 dams. 



A most remarkable event, however, in the local history is Akbar's fight 

 with the Sakit dacoits, which according to the Akbarnamah took place in 

 the beginning of the 7th year of his reign, (immediately after the conquest 

 of Mairt'ha), i. e. in the latter half of 969 A. H., or beginning of 1562, 

 A. D. The people inhabiting the villages round Sakit, it is said, stood unri- 

 valled for their rebellious spirit and ungratefulness, especially those of eight 

 places which were collectively called At'hgah.f " The eye of the age never 

 saw rebels, thieves, and murderers like them ; they are not only themselves 

 disorderly, but keep the villages and their inhabitants in a disordered state, 

 and they live a bold sort of life, which only fools call bravery." The officers 

 of the district had frequently complained of the inhabitants, when it hap- 

 pened that his Majesty took his way to Sakit in order to hunt. Khwajah 

 Ibrahim BadakhshiJ was at that time Jagirdar of Sakit. The drivers fell 

 in with a Brahman of the name of Hapah, and took him to the emperor ; for he 

 wished to complain of the Sakit people, who had murdered his son and plun- 

 dered his whole property. Akbar next morning resolved to punish the people 

 of the place where the robbery had been committed, and sent a detachment 

 of drivers in advance. When the emperor next morning arrived at the 

 place, the drivers informed him that the people had all fled. Several de- 

 tachments of soldiers were immediately sent out to hunt down the fuo-itives, 

 and Qarataq,§ the imperial Mir Shikar, killed a man and brought another 

 to the emperor who had in the meantime come to the village of Paronk'h 

 (MSS. *>^Jj^J). or *%^). Here, it was ascertained, the robbers had collect- 



* The usual phrase denoting ' pantheism.' 



t The Lucknow edition of the Akbarnamah (II, 205) has Afliginah. 



X Vide Am Translation, p. 435. The inscription of a mosque built by him is given 

 below, on p. 105. 



§ Vide Ain Translation, pp. 400, 516. 



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