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Bafinat ul-aulia, a work containing biographical notices of Muhain- 

 niadan Saints, and of a treatise on Mysticism (Tagawwuf). MSS. of 

 these two works are very rare, and the copies in the Government 

 collection of Delhi MSS. are perhaps unique. The Persian trans- 

 lation of the Upanishads which was made at Dara's cost, was men- 

 tioned by most Historians. 



The writer then mentions the two battles which Dara Shikoh 

 lost against Aurangzib, his younger brother. The first was fought 

 on the 6th Ramazan, 1068 (28th May, 1658, A. D.) at Samogar, 

 nine miles east of A'grah, in the Parganah of Pathabad ; and the 

 second at Deora, 3 kos south of Ajmir, on the 27th and 28th 

 Jumada II, 1069, or 12th and 13th March, 1659, A. D. 



After the last battle Dara fled to Ahmadabad, and from thence 

 over Kachh to Bhakkar and crossed the Indus. He passed 

 the territory of the Chandi tribe (Dehrikot, Long. 67° 34', Lat. 

 27° 38'), that of the Magasis, and reached at last Dadar (Long. 

 67° 41', Lat. 29° 26'), a town which enjoys the notoriety of being 

 the hottest inhabited place on earth. The Zamindar of the place, 

 Malik Jiwan, received Dara hospitably ; but no sooner had the 

 prince left Dadar for Qandahar than Malik Jiwan, or his brother, 

 fell upon him, took him, and his son Sipihr Shikoh, prisoners, and 

 handed them over to Aurangzib's officers. 



Dara Shikoh was killed, at Aurangzib's orders, by Nazar Beg 

 Chelah at Khizrabad (Delhi) on the 21st Zi Hajjah 1069, or 31st 

 August, 1659, and was buried in Humayun's Tomb. 



The writer then mentions the discrepancies between the 

 5 ] Alamgirnamah, Ifaasir i A'lamgiri, KMfi Khan, the Tazkiratussald- 

 tin i Chaghtai, and European Histories, as Bernier, Elphinstone, 

 Marshman, &c. Elphinstone places the capture of Dara Shikoh 

 in Eastern Sindh, instead of near Qandahar, and gives instead of 

 * Malik Jiwan, Zamindar of Dadar' merely the ' Chief of Jun or Jinn' 

 (which lies in Eastern Sindh, between T'hat'hah and Amrkot). 

 Marshman increases the confusion, by calling this Afghan Za- 

 mindar ' a Rajah ;' but Malik Jiwan could not have been a Hindu, 

 because he subsequently received fro.n Aurangzib the title of 

 Bakhtyar Khan, — a title never conferred on Hindus. It would 

 appear that Elphinstone, or the sources froin which he copied, 



