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rise to the sparkling conceptions of Naeir 'All of Lahor, I'jaz of 

 Agrah, and BediL the great poets of the time of Aurangzeb, nor to 

 those of Mirza Nausha of Delhi, the Persian poet of our age, they 

 are pretty, and abound in elegant allusions. 



I add a few particulars on three other Persian poets, who have 

 written under the poetical name of Sultan. 



The name of the first is Sultan Muhammad, son of Shibabuddin, 

 a nobleman of the Persian town of Qum, which lies half-way between 

 Teheran and Icfahan. According to the Atashkadah, Sultan Muham- 

 mad became the chief of the town ; but it is not mentioned when 

 he lived. To judge from the few verses quoted in the Atashkadah, 

 he belongs to the Mataakhkhar'in, or modern poets*, i. e., the poets of 

 the last three centuries. The following Rubd'i is by him. 



An dil kill ha 'aish sarfardzi mikard. 



Bar hajr nazar hah turktdzi mihard, 



Di dar Jchum i an du zulf i purtdh u khumash 



Didam kih nishastah hud u bdzi mikard. 



A heart which once engaged in life's giddy whirls, 



And looked with scorn profound on lover's pain, 



Gets soon entangled in a fair maiden's curls, 



And plays, a helpless captive, with his chain. 

 Another poet, who adopted the poetical name of Sidtdn, is the re- 

 nowned 'Ali Quli, better known in Indian history as Khan Zamdn, a 

 title bestowed upon him by the Emperor Akbar. Khan Zainan was 

 the son of Haidar Sultan, an Uzbak noble, who had attached himself, 

 m Persia, to Humayun, Akbar's father. When the exile of that 

 monarch ended with his conquest of Qandahar, Khan Zaman was 

 raised by Humayun to the dignity of an amirulumard, or principal 

 grandee. He distinguished himself in the wars which led to Huma- 

 yiin's restoration in India. The greatest service which he rendered 

 to Akbar, a few months after Humayun's death, was the victory 

 which he gained, at the head of Akbar's advance guard, over the much 

 larger army of Hemu in the battle of Panipat, on the 13th November, 

 1556. I mention this, because two passages in Elphinst one's Histor} 

 of India (Second edition, pp. 462 and 496) read as if the battle of 

 Panipat had been won by Bairdm Khan on the fifth of November, 



