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In pagan times, when the Scandinavians had the custom of burning 

 their dead, they could without inconvenience preserve the relics some- 

 where, waiting for the occasion of the erection of a monument where 

 they could he finally deposited. Hence it is to be supposed that the 

 plurality of relics in a monument is not always due to one family only, 

 but sometimes to different families. 



Babu Pratapaehandra Ghosha exhibited a magnificent Persian MS. 

 of J ami's Khiradndmah-i-Sikandari belonging to him. 



Mr. Blochmann said that the MS. was written in 945 A. H. (or 

 1538 A. D.) at Bukhara by a copyist of the name of Mir 'All. Though 

 the writing is truly beautiful, the copyist docs not appear to be the 

 famous Mir 'Ali of Harat, who is mentioned by Abulfazl in the Ain 

 (Translation, p. 102) ; for the famous Mir 'Ali, according to a state- 

 ment in the Mir-dtul 'A' lam, died in 924 A. H. 



The MS. also bears on the fly-leaf the autographs of Jahangir and 

 Shuhjahan. They are — 



# (sic) piy&» jiyA> jb Jjl ^-^jd &l»>&b J xf\ ^ ji&^*> 



All dim Akbar ! 

 On the fifth A!zar of the first year this book was put into the library 

 of this adorer of the throne of God. This has been written by Nurud- 

 diit Jahdngir son of Akbar Padishah, on the first page of the MS., and 

 on [he third page of the pictures. 



# t>^» ^ a *> d ^JJ jLJ A *"** ^^i* * L5l3^ ' 

 In the name of God, the merciful, the clement ! 

 This copy of the Khiradnamah-i-Sihandari, which is a maslcr-piea 

 ofMulld Mir Ali, was put into the library of this adorer of the throne I 



