142 Badaoni and his Works. [No. 3, 



lated into Persian. I translated the new portions within the next five 

 months, all in all about sixty juz. Soon after, the Emperor called 

 me once to his sleeping apartment, and asked me the whole night till 

 dawn about these stories. He also ordered me to re-write the first 

 volume of [Zainul 'Abidin's] Bahrul Asmdr, because it was written 

 in ancient Persian, no longer spoken, and told me to keep the MS. 

 of the portion which I had made. I performed the Zaminbos, and 

 commenced with heart and soul the new work. His Majesty also gave 

 me ten thousand Muradi tangas [struck when Murad was born] and 

 a horse as a present." (p. 402.) 



Thus Badaoni, in all his Muslim pride, had to temporise, and 

 performed the prostration. 



Towards the end of the same year (1003), 'Abdul Qadir had to 

 mourn over the death of two other friends, Shaikh Ya'qiib of Kashmir, 

 known as poet under the name of (^rJr fytirafi, and Hakim 'Ain 

 ul Mulk, his old patron, who died at Hindiah, his jagir. 



In the beginning of 1004, on the 10th f afar, Faizi also died. The 

 circumstances attending his death form the conclusion of Badaoni 's 

 History. 



Our hero soon followed his heretical friend to the grave. Akbar 

 may have granted him the leave which, in 1003, he was unwilling to 

 give. He died at Badaon before the end of 1004, at the age of fifty- 

 seven years. 



The following particulars regarding Badaoni's death are of interest. 



The Khimnah i 'A'mirah* a valuable MS. collection of biogra- 



in the Ain that he had several works translated from Sanscrit into Persian — 

 an additional example of attention paid by a Muhammadan ruler to Sanscrit 

 literature. Vide Elliot's Index, p. 259, where on 1. 18 we have to read Mulld 

 Sheri for Mulla Sliabri. So also on p. 251, of which the extract relating to the 

 Mababharat is so badly translated, that I cannot bring myself to believe that 

 it was translated by Sir H. Elliot himself. For a correct translation, vide my 

 Ain, p. 105, note 1. 



As I mentioned the name of Sultan Bnhlol Lodi, I may state that the correct 

 spelling is Buhlu.1. But in India, BuMul is generally pronounced Buhlol, with 

 an o ; in our Histories, the name is generally spelled Behlol. BuMul is Arabic, 

 and means graceful. 



# MSS. of this work are rare. I possess a very excellent, almost faultless 

 copy, which I lately bought, together with a copy of tha Sarw i A'zdd, another 

 similar though eai'lier work by the same author. Besides these two To 

 rahs, there exists another by the same author entitled Lajj jj Tad i baiza, which 

 was written before the Sarw i A'zdd. The latter work, the Sarw, contains valua- 

 ble materials for a chronicle of the town of Balgram, and extracts from (an- 

 cient) Hindi poetry. 





