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" But in my humble opinion the MS. from which I have 

 copied this is by Muhammad Hunafu-ul-Hussaini, who, by 

 his mode of writing does not appear to be a native of India. 

 This MS. appears to have been written 108 years after 

 the above date [A. D. 1123]. The greater part of the qua- 

 trains abound in errors and beyond this many are the 

 quatrains of others, as Ufzl &c, some of which contain even 

 the titular names of the poets who wrote them, and in many 

 the scent and flavour of the learned 'Omar are absent both 

 from the language and the metre. But as I, the humble 

 copyist, was highly desirous to collect his Honour's elegant 

 quatrains, I have taken an exact copy of them as also of 

 the account of his life that was written at the end of the 

 same. With respect to such quatrains as seemed wholly or 

 partly to be the productions of other poets, I have noted on 

 the margin the names of the poets who appeared on refer- 

 ence to some biographical works to be the authors thereof. 



