1869.] Bacldoni and his Work. 143 



phical and critical notices on the lives and works of Persian Poets by 

 Ghulam 'Ali of Balgram, as poet known under the name of Azdd, has 

 a short notice on 'Abdul Qadir of Badaon, in which the following 

 sentence occurs — 



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" The author of the book, entitled Samrdt ulquds, who was Badaoni's 

 pupil, says that 'Abdul Qadir died in 1004." 



The following much more valuable passage, translated into Urdii 

 from the Muhhtacir i sair i Hindustan by Hakim Muhammad Wahid- 

 ullah, was very kindly forwarded to me by Mr. A. S. Harrison, Bareilly 

 College. 



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u 'Abdul Qadir of Badaon, poetically styled Qddiri, was the Court Imam 

 of the Emperor Akbar. He died in 1004, A. H. The poet Sheftah 

 has expressed the TdriJch of his death in the following verse (metre 

 Khafif)- 



He is a poet of fine language and fine thoughts. 



When he left this world, 



Sheftah said under tears, 



" Alas ! Qadiri is dead." 

 This is an example of a Tarikh hatariq i ta?miyah. The third 

 Micro 1 literally translated is — Sheftah took from the beginning of v2li| 

 (tears), i. e., Sheftah added the letter Alif, with which ashk begins, to 

 the numerical value of the letters of the last micra\ which gives 1003 

 -\- 1 = 1004, provided we count *f as 1 -)- 5, and not as 8||, i. e. y 

 1 + 1 + 5. 



The Urdu pamphlet, entitled Tarikh i Badaon, by Rai Bakhta- 

 war Singh, Sub- Judge of Gorak'hpur (Bareily, 1868,) gives on p. 83 

 the following particulars — 



