274 The Capture and Death of Bar a Shikoh. [No. 4, 



Although the circumstances and the miracles of the Lord of mankind [the 

 Prophet], and the excellent qualities of his companions, and of the twelve 

 Imams, and the sayings of the Saints, are clearer than day light, &c. 

 The books ends with the following sentence — 



* tiiJi Ujm \j4-t \^*=^ *^ ^♦ = ^i * **-".*# 



If there should be an error or mistake in this book (for man may err), the 

 learned are requested to cover it with the hem of correction. Praise be to 

 God, praise for now and ever. 



In the Ehaxinat ul Aqfid ( Lft*^| zi^y^. )*■ a very full compilation 

 in Persian of biographical notes on Muhanimadan Saints by Mufti 

 Ghulani Sarwar of Labor, there is a short notice of Muhammad 

 Dara Shikoh i Qadiri (p. 163). Besides the Sqfinat-ulaulid and 

 the Risdlah i Haq-numd, the author mentions four other works com- 

 posed by Dara, — 1. The Sakinat-ulaulid ; 2. The Birr i akbav ; 8. 

 The Diwdn i Iksir i A'zam ; and 4. The JRisdlah i Ma'drif. I 

 have not seen MSS. of these works. From an extract given by 

 Ghulam Sarwar (p. 162), I conclude that the Salcinah, like the 

 Safinah, contains biographical notes on Saints. The titles of the 

 other three works imply that the contents are juristic. 



The interest which Dara took in the lives and the views of 

 Muhammadan Saints is very conspicuous in the Safinah. He 

 made it a point to visit their dargdhs, and has thus been enabled, 

 in several cases, to give valuable historical details. Thus on a 

 visit to Ghazni, he took occasion to visit the tomb of the renowned 

 poet and saint Hakim Sanai, and he states in the Safinah that the 

 epitaph shewed Sanai's death to have occurred in 525, A. H. The 

 year of Sanai's death is variously given in works on Persian Litera- 

 ture. 



The Capture and Death of Dard Shikoh. 

 The sad fate of Prince Dara Shikoh deserves to be noticed. It 

 created so much pity at the time, that the people of Dihli for once 



* Lithographed at Lahor, A. H. 1234- Royal 8vo., 1072 pages text, and 18 

 pages Index. There exists at present no other compilation that is so full of 

 notes on Indian Saints and their Dargdhs. 



Mufti Ghulam Sarwar has also published another Persian book, entitled 

 Ganj i Tdrilch, which contains upwards of fifteen hundred Tdrilchs of Muham- 

 madan celebrities. Lithographed at Labor, Kohi Nur Press, Royal 8vo., 256 

 pages, no index. 



