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1. Alas, the chilly season has come ! A hundred woes to spring departed ! 



2. The fresh green has turned sere and yellow, and the pride of the rose lies scat- 

 tered on the ground. 



3. The great A'gha is dead, whose descent was noble, and his spirit has fled to the 

 heavens on high. 



4. O Gabriel, read forever a Fdtihah at the headstone of this angelic man. 



5. The Houris of paradise waft with their curls fresh breezes to his tomb. 



6. The merciful Lord himself built his mausoleum, and made it more splendid than 

 the temple of God [in Makkali]. 



7. The date of the death of this pardoned man was expressed by the thoughtful 

 poet Faiz (who tried to find one, 



8. While a voice from heaven heaved a sigh, in excessive sorrow and with plaintive 

 voice), by the word 



9. ' Bihisht-nagib' [one to whose lot Paradise has fallen], to which you are to add 

 * A'gha Buzurg,' ' the great A'gha.' 



'Iwaz Beg Khan Bahadur Hizabr-jang died on Sunday, 13th Rabi' 

 I, 1189. A. H. 



To Parganah Firuzabad belongs the village of fufipur, so called after 

 a Muhammadan Saint of the name of Shah pufi,* whose shrine is there. 

 He seems to have lived at the time of 'Alauddin. Mr. Beale has sent a 

 copy of the following letter from Mr. Mansel, Collector of Agrah, to the 

 Commissioner of Revenue at Agrah, dated 29th May, 1839, regarding the 

 shrine of Shah piifi. 



*' It is related by the Khadims of the dargah, that in the reign of the 

 emperor Akbar, Shah Sufi, a fakeer of some celebrity, wandered from Isfa- 

 han to India, and took up his hermitage among the Jamuna ravines near the 

 city of Chandwar, then the country town of the Parganah of the same name, 

 and which from the remains which still cover the surrounding country for 

 miles — ruined mosques, dilapidated octagon mausolea, fallen entrance-gates 

 and such like works of costly strength, — must have been an important post 

 in a fiscal and military point of view. At the time from which the fables of 

 Shah Sufi's miracles commence, Paja Chandersen was the lord of the fort 

 of Chandwar, and a troublesome tributary of the Delhi court. Non-com- 

 pliance with the royal demands for payment of revenue brought upon the 

 Paja the investment of his fort by the army of Akbar, who is said to have 

 commanded his forces in person and to have prosecuted his attack with no 

 approach to success for a period which the credulous or imposing Khadims 

 of the establishment have exalted to a term of ten years. In the language 



