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full plumage, tlie second had some feathers cut short, and the third had 
also feathers clipped but shorter than those of the second pigeon. The 
following morning the people wondered why the house was not opened 
as usual, and receiving no reply to repeated calls, broke open the door 
to find no one within. Discovering the pit in which the pigeons were, 
curiosity prompted them to raise the baskets to see what was under 
them. The first pigeon immediately flew away, the second was found 
half dead and got out of the pit with difficulty, while the third was 
dead. After matters had been discussed, it was concluded that those 
who fly at once will escape like the first pigeon, those who delay till 
the following day would meet with great trouble like the second pigeon, 
and those that stay behind till the third day would share the fate of 
the third pigeon. So it happened. Those who believed in the prophecy 
and left at once were saved. The next day a terrible earthquake 
occurred, and many were injured. The third day the whole town sank 
to the ground and many people died. 
By others this prophecy is attributed to a banker in whose house 
the pigeon incident is also said to have taken place. One day only in 
his life had he ever forgotten after his day’s business was done, to hand 
over his money bags to his wife’s Kaharin servant named Konsilia. 
Having to go outside shortly after his return home, an idea possessed 
him that two women were at that moment persuading Konsilia to steal the 
bags. He made for home to find she had not been given them that day, 
nor had he, as usual, had his huqqah and a drink of water after finishing 
it given him on his return. The whole affair was so mysterious and 
unusual with him, he thought something dreadful must happen. 
Those who survived made their way to the larger villages and 
towns round about, viz., to Nanpara, Bahraich and fiopur in the 
Bahraich district, to Gonda in that district and to Kliairabad in the 
Sltapur district. 
These legends have been related to me by one named falagram, 
a banker at Bahraich. His ancestors lived in Doga5. 
Nawab Asafu-d-daulah of Audli was in the habit of visiting Takia 
to shoot big game and had over Shah Sajan’s grave there a building 
erected to preserve the spot. The whole was carried away in August 
last, by the swollen Sarjii eating into the bank on which the grave 
stood. A faqlr pointed out the spot to me, and with his finger the 
bricks in the bed of the river below. 
In the cold weather I discovered in one of the villages at Dogas 
an old manuscript in Hindi verse composed by some one named Muni 
Das. The manuscript is evidently a copy of an older one named the 
Janam Tantd. An extract from it is appended to this paper. In it 
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