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" 'Abdul Qadir of Badaon, famous for his Tdrikh i Baddoni. His 

 tomb is close to the mangoe garden which lies in the environs of 

 'Atapur, in the district of Badaon." 



Mr. Harrison informs me that a gentleman in Badaon has been 

 at some pains to discover among the numerous and decaying tombs 

 in 'Atapur the grave which encloses the remains of 'Abdul Qadir. 

 But though his efforts have not been successful, it would be any thing 

 but antiquarian sentimentality to continue the search for the resting- 

 place of a man who has left us, if not exactly the fullest, yet the 

 most original and independent history of the Great Emperor. 



The conclusion of this paper will follow in an early issue. It con- 

 tains extracts from Badaoni's Najdturrashid regarding the Mahdawi 

 Sect, in connection with which I shall make a few remarks on 

 his character. Then follow extracts from the Muntakhsb. My inten- 

 tion at first was to give in this paper Badaoni's remarks on Akbar's 

 religion ; but as the extracts have since been inserted in my Ain 

 translation, I think it will be more advantageous to collect such 

 passages as contain historical information not to be found in the 

 Akbaruamah, the Tabaqat i Nizami, and Firishtah. In collecting 

 the original information from Badaoni's work, I have been guided 

 by the excellent work, entitled Sawdnih i Ahbari, a modern compila- 

 tion by Amir Haidar Husain of Balgram, the only critical work 

 among the native Histories of India. I cannot in sufficiently strong 

 terms recommend this book to Historians : it is a work that ought to 

 have been long ago printed or translated. 



The next article concludes with notes on Badaoni's style, the text 

 of the Muntakhao* and a valuable collection of Lectiones Variantes, 

 which Mr. J. C. Lya'.l, C. S., Balandshahr, kindly placed at the dis- 

 posal of the Society. 



Corrections &c. Page 110, I. 13 from below, and a few other places, 

 read Firishtah, for Farishtah. — Page 116, last line. Add, ' since writing 

 the above, a copy of the Madsir i ' ' Alain giri has been bought b} T the 

 Society.' — Page 117, I. 4. I am somewhat doubtful whether Badaooi means 

 this Todah, or the Todah Bhim in the Sirkar of A'grah, and not very far 

 from Basawar, where B. spent his youth ; vide Ain text, p. 356. — Page 120, 

 I. 1, read Patiy all— Page 127, I. 3 from below, read [1004,] for [1005.] 



* Especially the very fair edition printed by Nawalkishor, Lucknow, 1864. 



