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1873.] W. Irvine— The Bang ash Nawdls of Far rukh abaci. 
Khdndan-i-Bangash or Lauh-i-Tarikh. From about 1814 or 1819 he 
adopted the poetical title of “ Say gad.” He also wrote in Hindi (Bhdkhd) 
in the name of Manhi. 
He says he intended his books to be a memorial of him after his death, 
and he hoped that they would take the place of children. In their com¬ 
position he passed his days very happily. From the day that he began to 
write, he claims never to have written, with an object, in praise of any 
noble, nor had he sought their favours. He refused the invitations of the 
Sahibzadahs of the city, for with worldly persons there can be but two 
objects Kdida or Baida , and when neither is desired there can be no reason 
to court the great. He prays that God may grant him similar indepen¬ 
dence during the small remains of life—“ Amin sam Amin.” 
From 1225, H. (Feb. 1810—Jan. 1811) with the help of his second 
brother, Muhammad ’Ali, he observed the ceremonies of Tdziai dari yearly ; 
he belonged to the Shi’a sect. As his home did not afford the requisite 
accommodation, he bought half an acre of land at his door, intending to build 
an Imambara and a dwelling-house. He managed to complete a small 
dwelling-house, and the masonry foundations of the Imambara were laid 
on the 13th Muharrum 1241, H. (30th August, 1825). But from poverty 
he had been unable to proceed with it ; he writes that he hojDes it may be 
finished before he dies, so that his soul may rest in his grave in peace. 
His father was buried at his own request in an earthen tomb within the 
Imambara. Bahadur ’Ali himself died on the 30th Sha’ban 1270, H. (28th 
May, 1854). 
There is a small work called Mahdrldt-i Mughuliya la-Afghdniya , 
a copy of which was kindly procured for me by Maulvi Manzur Ahmad, 
Deputy Collector (to whom I am also indebted for first calling my atten¬ 
tion to the Lauh-i-Tdrikh). So much of it is in verse, and the rest is 
in such a bombastic ambitious style, that the residue of fact is very small. 
Still, although the date of the copy is January, 1834 (the author’s and owner’s 
names have been carefully obliterated), I infer that its composition is of older 
date, or that independent sources were employed, for it contains a few state¬ 
ments not met with elsewhere. The MS. measures 9! in. x 61 in. and 
has 101 pages of 14 lines to the page. I have also picked up twenty-six 
leaves of a collection of reports from some Lakhnau amil in the years 1162 
—1164 H. From internal evidence I believe the writer to be Nawab 
Baka-ullah Khan, Khan ’Alam, faujddr of Kora. I have gleaned from 
these letters a few facts about Naval Rae’s death and the subsequent events. 
The first nine leaves and some leaves at the end are wanting. 
The Bhuldsah-i-Bangash, apparently almost contemporary with Mu¬ 
hammad Khan (1713—1743), is quoted once in the Lauh-i-Tdrikh. 
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