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MSS. of the Siraj are very rare. I have only seen one, which Major 

 ! kindly placed into my hands. It belongs to the Fort William 



College Library, bnt is a bad copy. The Siraj is rather voluminous, 

 as it contains the words of the Burhtm with lengthy remarks attached 

 to each. 



The Chir&gh i Iluldyat is a much smaller work. It has been 

 several times printed. A very handy edition of the Ghias, easily 

 obtainable in any part of India, contains the Chiragh in the margin. 



Khan A'rzu's Diwan is much esteemed ; Bh. often quotes his verses. 

 Of his other works which compilers ought to read, I may mention the 

 Tanbih id ghd/Uin, a critical work on the poems of i^>^ Hazin of 

 Icfahan, who died at Benares during the last century. Hazin, though 

 a great poet and a man of learning, is not always exact in his 

 metaphors, and borrows from other poets more than native critics by 

 way of cu*.J^> allow. Khan Ami in his attack tries to shew that 

 Hazin is ^^^ *j>y*'%, all( l Cb^*- Many of his objections 

 (oiij/J) are, however, not tenable, and Tek Chand, Mirza Qatil 

 and Warastah take frequently occasion to justify Hazin. One of 

 Khan Arzd's nephews also, Mir Muhsin 'All, wrote a critic on the 

 Tanbih, Again, a very fair rejoinder, entitled J^£J Jy, appeared in 

 1862 at Cawnpore (169 pp.), written by Maulawi Imam Bakhsh, 

 poetically styled ^'L^ Qahbai. As most remarks refer to Persian style 

 and idiom, compilers and grammarians will do well to procure copies. 



Two rhetorical works written by Khan A'rzii arc entitled — 



were lithographed at Allahabad in 1830 and 1841. 



The following extract is taken from the Miftdh ut Taiodrikh* p. 

 338— 



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* Lucknow 1864, 406 pp. 4to. The author of this book is JUj *xJj jj^Ua 

 [Mr. Thomas William Bell (?)], a clever Persian writer and poet. Some 

 of his tarikhs are excellent. The tarikh on p. 371 does not refer to the Ma- 

 drasah, but to the former Fort William College at Calcutta. 



