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dignity, and attained great power. He was just, and pious ; con- 

 formed strictly to the rules of MiYA'N Ba'yezid, and exerted himself 

 with vigour and activity. In the year a. h. 989, when the lofty stand-' 

 ardofthe sublime presence of the emperor Acbar, was proceeding 

 from Cdbul, to the seat of authority, he came to meet him ; but after 

 some days fled from the court. In the year 1000, the sublime majesty 

 of the emperor, sent Jafar Beg Kazwini Bakhshi, who was surnaraed 

 AsAF Khan, to extirpate Jela'l-ed-din Rosheni, whom the emperor 

 termed Jeldlah ; and in the same year the emperor's warriors having tak- 

 en prisoners the wives and children of Jela'l-ed-din, by the agency of a 

 person named WAH^ADtx-AiLr/ presented them at the foot of the imperial 

 throne. In the year 1007, and during the reign of the emperor Jela'l-ed- 

 DiNT Acbar, MiyaV jELA't-ED-DiN took Ghazni, and cruelly ravaged 

 Its confines, but was not able to maintain himself in that position. When 

 he left Ghazni, however, a conflict took place between the Hazdrah and 

 the Afghans, and Miya'n Jela'l-ed-din being wounded by the hand of 

 Sha'dma'n Haza'rah, fled to the mountain Rabat, where Mura'd Beg, 

 with some of the followers of Sherif Khan Atcah^ assailed him, and cut 

 him off. 



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-. After him, Miya'n Ab'eIa'd, the soin of Omar SHiiiiK.H, the son of 

 Ba'yezid, who is known among illustrious men by the nartie of Ah'dad, 

 sat on the throne of religious authority.. He was a just and pious person, 

 and perfectly versed in the rules of his august predecessor. . He never set 

 himself to am^ss wea^lth ; l?ut gave to every one the du« re>yaij-fliof, his, la- 

 bour. The fifth of the spoil, of the holy war, which he, ir^ceived , he. depo- 

 sited in the treasury of the state ; so that the warriors also shiired i^n 

 that part of the booty. la tJiQ year a. h. 1035, and in the reign of Nu'r- 



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