JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 
Part I. — HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e, 
No. I.—19GO. 
Jangnamali of FarriiTchsiyar and Jahdnddr ^ah, a Hindi poem by Qrulhar 
{Murlidhar) Brahman, of Frag.— By William Iryine, late of the 
Bengal Civil Service. 
[Eead April, 1899.] 
The following long poem of 1630 lines, on the above subject, was 
lately traced for me by Maulvi ‘Abclu-l-‘aziz of Bhitri, through a native 
of the same place now resident in Benares, Babu Radha Kisn Das. 
It was found in the library of the late Babu Haris Cand of Mahallah 
Caukhambah in the city of Benares. For this gentleman see Ho. 581 
of Grierson’s “ Modern Vernacular Literature of Hindustan,” (1889). 
After four months’ efforts permission to make a copy was obtained 
through the influence of C. L. M. Bales, Esq., C.S., District and Sessions 
Judge, to whom I am much indebted. A Hindi copy was made for 
me by the Judge’s Registration Muharrir in his leisure hours, and one 
in the Persian character by M. ‘Abdu-l-‘aziz. 
The work is so long as to debar its reproduction in full, nor is it 
throughout of equal interest. While he is expatiating at more or less 
length on the heroic virtues of the nobles and officers who have gathered 
round Farru^siyar’s standard, the poet allows his narrative to stand 
still ; and as a consequence, in spite of the copious vocabulary at his 
command, he repeats himself considerably, and the epithets soon begin 
to recur with “ damnable iteration.” I therefore propose to submit to 
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