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train of Bkhram Shah, of the Ghaznavi family, and continued to fill 

 situations of trust and emolument in that province, until it fell into 

 the hands of Sultan Mahamed Gaurie, (Shaha'b-u'-din.) When 

 Hazrat Jala'l-u'-din, the father of Shekh Farid, fled to Chance 

 Mushaikh, a village on the banks of the Satlaj, where he lived the life 

 of a hermit, practised great austerities and became celebrated for his 

 great sanctity. At this place Hazrat Shekh Farid- u'- din was born »' 

 he was sent for his education to Multdn, and afterwards spent many 

 years in travel. At Multdn he became celebrated as a Sdheb Kardmat, 

 or worker of miracles, and many ridiculous stories are told of his 

 performances. Among others it is related that whenever he felt 

 hungry he would throw into his mouth a handful of dust or pebbles 

 which immediately became sugar. He practised similar metamor- 

 phoses on the goods of other people, and turned so many things into 

 sugar that he was universally known, and is so to this day, by the 

 affix to his name of Shakar-ganj. Hazrat Shekh Farid-u'-din 

 Shakarganj and his posterity were chiefly instrumental in con- 

 verting to Islamism the numerous different tribes of Jats and Gujur 

 or Gickers, descendants of the Rajput shepherds, who so often fought 

 bravely against the invading armies of the north. The descendants 

 of Baba Shekh Farid are supposed to have inherited from him the 

 power of performing miracles, and several of them became celebrated 

 throughout Hindustan for their sanctity. At Agra, Sikru, and Dehli 

 their shrines witness to the respect in which their memory is held by 

 the Mussalman population. Akbar Shah owed to the prayers, we 

 are told, of one of the family (Shekh Nur-u'-din, or Nier-u'-din) the 

 birth of his son Jehangir. In the early attempt of the Sikhs to lay 

 waste the country between Multan and Lahor, one of the descendants 

 of Shekh Farid-u'-din at Pdkpatan placed himself at the head of a 

 number of converts, Jat peasantry, and kept his ground so well against 

 these marauders that they thought it advisable to come to an amicable 

 arrangement with him ; and, in a treaty which he concluded with one 

 of their chiefs, he was allowed to enjoy in independence the revenues 

 of Pdkpatan and several villages attached to it. At a later period, 

 when the Sikhs became united under one chief, the Shekh-zadas were 

 despoiled of their possessions. The M aha- raj a now allows them one 

 thousand rupees a year for their maintenance, derived from the town 

 duties of Pdkpatan ; be?ides which, they have a fourth share in four 

 small villages in the neighborhood. 



On the 27th to Toba Saddt, in the district of Musd-firan-wdla, esti- 

 mated distance nine kos. 

 2 c 



