142 Badaoni and his Works. [No. o, 



lated into Persian. I translated the new portions within the next five 

 months, all in all about sixty juz. Soon after, the Emperor called 

 me once to his sleeping apartment, and asked me the whole night till 

 dawn about these stories. He also ordered me to re-write the first 

 volume of [Zainul 'Abidin's] Bahrul Asmdr, because it was written 

 in ancient Persian, no longer spoken, and told me to keep the MS. 

 of the portion which I had made. I performed the Zaminbos, and 

 commenced with heart and soul the new work. His Majesty also gave 

 me ten thousand Muradi tangas [struck when Murad was born] and 

 a horse as a present." (p. 402.) 



Thus Badaoni, in all his Muslim pride, had to temporise, and 

 performed tbe prostration. 



Towards the end of the same year (1003), 'Abdul Qadir had to 

 mourn over the death of two other friends, Shaikh Ya'qub of Kashmir, 

 known as poet under the name of ^^ji^ Qairafi, and Hakim 'Ain 

 ul Mulk, his old patron, who died at Hincliah, his jagir. 



In the beginning of 1004, on the 10th f afar, Faizi also died. The 

 circumstances attending his death form the conclusion of Badaoni 's 

 History. 



Our hero soon followed his heretical friend to the grave. Akbar 

 may have granted him the leave which, in 1003, he was unwilling to 

 give. He died at Badaon before the end of 1004, at the age of fifty- 

 seven years. 



The following particulars regarding Badaoni's death are of interest. 



The Khizdnah i ^ Amir ah * a valuable MS. collection of biogra- 



in the Am that he had several works translated from Sanscrit into Persian — 

 an additional example of attention paid by a Muhammadan ruler to Sanscrit 

 literature. Tide Elliot's Index, p. 259, where on 1. 18 we have to read Mulld 

 Sheri for Mulla Shabri. So also on p. 251, of which the extract relating to the 

 Mahabharat is so badly translated, that I cannot bring myself to believe that 

 it was translated by Sir H. Elliot himself. For a correct translation, vide my 

 Kin, p. 105, note 1. 



As I mentioned the name of Sultan Buhlol Lodi, I may state that the correct 

 spelling is Buhlul. But in India, Buhlul is generally pronounced Buhlol, with 

 an o ; in our Histories, the name is generally spelled Behlol. Buhlul is Arabic, 

 and means graceful. 



* MSS. of this work are rare. I possess a very excellent, almost faultless 

 copy, which I lately bought, together with a copy of tha Sarw i Azdd, another 

 similar though earlier work by the same author. Besides these two Tadzki- 

 rahs, there exists another by the same author entitled LAjj &j Tad i baiza, which 

 was written before the Sarw i Azdd. The latter work, the Sarw, contains valua- 

 ble materials for a chronicle of the town of Balgram, and extracts from (an- 

 cient) Hindi poetry. 



