1867.] Notes on Sirdjuddaulali and the town of Mursldddudd. 93 



8^j <i>J u^^ <-^v^ OJt^x) o+*3 loj^-J S&^g&s* Jj k£±> ^b+x* ^a-f 



<xli.!»>j| ^LJ J^A^ IjjI (ji.*J cj;^ j*^ tA** ^*? * CUol.Lo *l*3 <J»>^ 



^tM-a. &*J j « <XU=».Lo ^j.S^/0 ^i^. u1*jI^/o ij^S-o ji vS**» L;^ O^i: tyT 

 & *f JJ S^f ^-i^j (^ A-^Jl g^*i ^a. j.jl^j ^(i. ^JLp ^6.^0 \jjio 



" When Sirajucldaulah had reached Rajmahal, he left the ship, as 

 his wife and children were starving. With the view of procuring food, 

 he entered the hut of a faqeer and asked him for assistance. It 

 happened that Sirajudclaulah had inflicted some time ago a punish- 

 ment upon this very dervish on account of some crime, and had 

 besides disgraced him by having given the order to shave off his 

 beard and mustachios. The dervish hated him still, and having 

 recognized the Nawab by his manners, feigned compassion and tried 

 to soothe him. After making preparations to cook some kkichari 



(|) This should be cu^»-U»w. The writer wished, however, to have a rhyme 

 for pj-Ls^. The meaning of o^-U-w in Hind., is adulation, humiliation. — The 

 phrase J\ J>y c^ in the next sentence is not Persian either. 



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