168 Translation of the Toofut ul Kir am. [No. 159. 



Account of the decline of the City of Bhunbur, generally known 

 as Brahmanabad. 



They relate, that Dilu Rahi after the ruin of the city of Alor came to 



T a c «. a the latter place to reside ; he had a brother Choteh 

 .Legend or the ae- * 



cline of Brahmana- Oomrani : in his youth he had been blessed with 

 bad. 



the true belief, so that leaving that city he had stu- 

 died and learnt the Koran, and performed the duties enjoined by his 

 religion sedulously. When he returned to the city, his relations pressed 

 upon him the acceptance of the governorship, but he would not accept 

 it : some one jokingly observed, " This Turk has been to the Kaabah, 

 and married the daughter of a certain Arab." By chance in those his 

 younger days he became anxious to perform the Haj ; and when he ar- 

 rived there, he one day saw a woman in a shop occupied in repeating 

 the Koran : he staid to listen. She asked him, why he staid ? He said, 

 to hear the Koran. " If you will teach me to read, I will be your slave." 

 The woman said, " My instructor is the daughter of a certain person ; if 

 you will disguise yourself as a woman and come with me, I will take you 

 to her." In short, in this way he was taken there, and became occupied in 

 reading and meditating on the Koran. It appears, that his instructress 

 was skilled in astrology : one day the woman came to her, and asked after 

 the fortune of Choteh in disguise ; she said he would be a governor or 

 chief. Choteh said, " Since you know the fortune of others, can you tell 

 any thing of your own ?" The girl said, " You are right ; I shall wed with 

 some one who is an inhabitant of Sindh." They asked her, who it was ? 

 she said to Choteh, " You are the man." In short, concealment was at 

 an end ; the girl instructed him after this to go and change his garments, 

 and to demand her in marriage as she was destined for him ; she then 

 communicated the case to her parents, and was shortly afterwards mar- 

 ried to Choteh. He after a time returned to his own country, and took 

 his wife, whose name was Fatimah, with him : when he arrived at the city 

 of Dilu Rahi, that tyrant had made a practice of seizing newly- married 

 women, and then releasing them. Choteh tried to dissuade him from 

 this, but he would not desist, until one day he heard the praises of 

 Fatimah. Whilst Choteh was from home, Dilu Rahi came to see her. 

 Choteh suspected his intentions ; coming quickly home, he took his wife 

 and left the city, crying out, " This city through the wickedness of its 



