1869.] Bad'oni and his Works. 135 



Ahmad. Daring his leave, lie intended to visit him in Gujrat, 

 because as early as 993, he had been invited by Nizam, though he 

 was prevented by circumstances from accepting the invitation. 



Not long after, Badaoni was again engaged in literary labours. " The 

 emperor," he says, u had ordered me (p. 384) to re- write the 

 Persian translation of the History of Kashmir by Mulla Shah Mu- 

 hammad of Shahabad, a learned man well versed in argumentative 

 sciences and history. I was to write it in an easy style. This I did, 

 and in the space of two months I presented my book, which was put 

 in His Majesty's library to await its turn for reading." This order 

 was connected, it appears, with Akbar's stay in Kashmir, from the 

 2nd Jumada II to 2nd Zi Qa'dah, 997, when he returned by way of 

 Kabul in the beginning of 998. 



After revising the History of Kashmir,* 'Abdul Qadir received a 

 portion of the Mu'jcm ul JBulddn, which Akbar, at the recommenda- 

 tion of Hakim Humam, had given to ten or twelve people to trans- 

 late from Arabic into Persian. Besides Badaoni, there were Mulla 

 Ahmad of T'hat'hah, Qasim Beg, Shaikh Munawwar, &c.f These 

 translations were made at Fathpur Sikri, " the old DiwanlcMnah 

 having been changed to a MahtaWchdnah for the comfort of the trans- 

 lators" (p. 344). Badaoni finished his portion in a month, and pre- 

 senting it to the emperor, asked again for leave, which was hesitat- 

 ingly granted, though Nizamuddin represented that the leave was 

 necessary, as Badaoni's mother had just died. But Akbar did not 

 make him a present, as was usual on departure ; " for f adr Jahan, 

 who had been appointed padr of the empire, told me to perform 

 before the emperor the sijdah, or prostration ; and when His Majesty 

 saw that I was unwilling to do so, he told the f adr{ to let me off. 

 But he was annoyed, and would not give me anything." 



* No copies have, till now, turned up of either Shah Muhammad's Histoiy 

 of Kashmir, or Badaoni's revision. Abulfazl in the Ain (p. 106.) says that 

 Shah Muhammad translated it from Kashmiri into Persian. 



f No copies appear to exist of the Persian translation of this valuable Geo- 

 graphical Dictionary. The Arabic text has lately been published, in eight 

 volumes, by Wustenfeld at the cost of the Deutsche Morgenl. Gesellschaft. 



£ This worthy Chief Justice set a bad example in this regard to pious 



Muhammadans. Subsequently he became a member of Akbar-' s ' Divine 



; Faith.' He also held office under Jahangir, and was exempted from perform- 



' jng the prostration, " because the Chief Justice of the empire could not well 



! be forced to act against the law of the Prophet." (Tuzuk.) 



