136 Baddoni and his Works. [No. 3, 



'Abdul Qadir accompanied Nizaniuddin to his jagir, the town of 

 Shamsabad, from where ill-health compelled him to go to Badaon. 

 Whether his ill-health continued or not, 'Abdul Qadir again overstayed 

 his leave. He also appears to have taken away with him from Akbar's 

 library a copy of a book entitled Khirad-afzd, which he lost on 

 his way to Badaon ; and though a collector of Sail mail Sultan Begum 

 (one of Abbar's wives)* reminded him several times of the book, and 

 his friends at court sent him several messages to Badaon, he was, as 

 he says, unable to go (p. 377). 



This annoyed Akbar. He cancelled Badaoni's grant, and ordered 

 him to repair to court, to answer for his conduct. Nizaniuddin and 

 Abulfazl tried in vain to assuage the just auger of the Emperor. 



During the time Badaoni enjoyed, at Court and in Shamsabad, 

 the company of Nizam, he commenced his polemical work en- 

 titled Najdturrashid, and his historical work entitled Muntakhab 

 uttawdrikh. Of the former work, the title of which contains the 

 Tdrikh of its composition (999), I have seen two MSS. One — a bad 

 one — belongs to the Asiatic Society of Bengal ; the other, a very 

 superior one— I extracted from a heap of ' rubbish' in the Delhi col- 

 lection of MSS. belonging to the Government. The extracts below 

 taken from this work, will shew that it is a valuable addition to our 

 knowledge of the religious questions which were discussed during the 

 tenth century of the Hijrah, and gives a complete account of the rise 

 of the Mahdavji sect, to which Badaoni, though not perhaps openly, 

 belonged. 



* Vide Proceedings, Asiatic Society, Bengal, for August, 1869, p. 213, 1. 7, 

 and p. 215, 1. 11. Babar in his Wdqi'dt says that he had three daughters — 

 Gulrang Begum, Gulchihrah Begum, Gulbadan Begum (married to Khwajah 

 Khizr Khan, Bad. II, p. 14). The TuzuJc i Jahdugiri (p. 113) and the Iqbdl- 

 ndmah (p. 68) say that Salimah Sultan Begum was the daughter of Gidrukh 

 Begum, who was a daughter of Babar's. Does this imply that Babar had /otw 

 daughters? I consulted the two MSS. of the Madsirul Umard which are in 

 the Society's Library, of which one is so excellent and correct, that it could 

 be printed off without the assistance of other MSS. — an excellence rarely 

 found among Indian MSS. ; in fact I suspect, the book is an autograph. This 

 excellent MS. says that Salimah Sultan Begum was the daughter of Gulbarg 

 Begum, but the inferior MS. reads Gulrang Begum. Perhaps time will clear 

 up this confusion of names in the MSS. and our printed Historical texts. 

 Vide my review of the TuzuJc, Iqbdlndmah, &c, in the Calcutta Review for Octo» 

 ber, 1 869, entitled ' Jahangir's Death.' I am convinced that as soon as the 

 existing MSS. sources of Indian History have been used up, we shall See how 

 limited and inaccurate our knowledge of the history of this country really is, 

 as far as details are concerned. 



