340 Account of a visit to the Shrine of Sakhi Sarwar. [No. 4. 



the brothers — sickness and poverty overtook them — and setting this 

 down to the effects of Sultan Sakhi' s anger against them for refusing 

 to part with the dun colt, they now came to him, at the same time 

 bringing the animal ; and requested he would forgive the past, for 

 that the Almighty had brought all these misfortunes on them in 

 consequence of the Suyed's anger. They w T ere accordingly forgiven ; 

 and after having presented a nazaranali or present given to a su- 

 perior, they became the Suyed's disciples. 



" One day Sultan Sakhi mounted on 'his steed set out unaccom- 

 panied from the village, and went to a lonely and desolate place he 

 had selected, where he fasted for a period of forty days. During this 

 period the mare was tied up near by. At this time some people, 

 who by chance happened to pass that way, saw a young man, whose 

 forehead was illumined with the light of piety, and on whose coun- 

 tenance the stamp of sanctity and devotion was impressed, engaged 

 in prayer ; and a little on one side of him was a mare which had been 

 secured with head and heel ropes. Now the three pegs to which 

 these ropes had been fastened had taken root, and had shot up into 

 young saplings. On reaching a hamlet which was not far off, they 

 mentioned to the people there this remarkable circumstance, and 

 they equally astonished, and filled with veneration, numbers of them 

 became disciples of the holy man. 



" On the termination of the forty days, Sultan Sakhi set out in 

 company with his new proselytes, for the city of Multan, which 

 at this time was governed by a ruler known by the name of 

 Ganno. The people of this Prince hearing of the arrival of the 

 Sarwar* with his followers, reported to their master that a Husainif 

 had arrived there, accompanied by a dun steed which had such eyes 

 as had never been seen in any animals before. The Prince on hear- 

 ing this account determined to visit the holy man ; and taking with 

 him an Iraki horse, and a sum of money as an offering, he set out for 

 the temporary residence of the Suyed. Having presented his nazar- 

 iinah he expected to have obtained in return the dun mare, which 

 indeed was the real object of his visit, and was going at length to 

 demand it of Sultan Sakhi ; but the tongue clave to the roof of his 



* Sarwar, — a prince, sovereign, leader, lord, &c. 



t Husaini, — the name of a sect, the followers of Husain the son of All. 



