272 Facsimiles of several Autographs of Jahdngir, fyc. [No. 4, 



" The Khan Khanan presented [in 1019, A. H.] a copy of Jami's 

 Yusuf Zalikha, in the handwriting of Mir 'Ali, illustrated and gild- 

 ed, bound in gold, a most splendid copy. Its price is one thousand 

 goldmuhurs." 



This MS. was evidently the fellow to Babu Pratapa Chandra 

 Ghosh's MS. 



No. 3. Another autograph of Shahjahan. 



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The second volume of the Padishalmamah which belongs to this adorer of 

 God's throne. Written by Shahjahan Padishah, son of Jahangir Padishah, son 

 of Akbar Padishah i Ghazi. 



The MS. on the first page of which this autograph is written, 

 belongs to the Asiatic Society, Bengal, (Persian MSS., No. 71). 



The autograph contains a correction indicated by the letters 

 * (muqaddam) and £■ (muakhkhar) above the first three words. The 

 first word should stand second. It also shews that Shahjahan called 

 the book PddishdJmdmah, and not Bddshdhndmali. 



The similarity between autographs 2 and 3 is striking, and 

 proves the genuineness of either. The former looks more flow- 

 ing than the latter. Shahjahan was born A. H. 1000- hence he 

 was 36 [solar] years old when he wrote the first (A. H. 1037). The 

 2nd Volume of the Padishalmamah ends with 1057 A. II. ; thus when 

 Shahjahan wrote No. 3, he must have been older than 56 years. 



4. An autograph of Prince Bard ShiJcoh. 



He is the Sovereign ! 

 The Masnawf of Sultan Walad, in his own handwriting. 

 The writer of these words is Muhammad Dara Shikoh. 



The MS. on the fly-leaf of which this autograph is found, belongs 

 to the Government of India, and was noticed in the Proceedings of 

 the Society for August, 1870, p. 251. 



