1895.] 
Sayyad Ilalu Ba khsh al Husainl Ancjrezdbddi . 
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Kliadim of tlie shrine, I saw that his death was on 25 Rajab 786 (1384), 
and that the chronogram was 
Alau-l-haqq, has attained God! 
His Fatiha also is celebrated on 25 Rajab. 
In the account of Mur Qutb we are told that the saint in obedience 
to his father’s wishes used to draw water from the tank, and that at 
the present day the faqirs and others carry pots of water from the Mitlia 
Talao on his Fatiha, which is on the Shab-i-Barat. This custom is known 
by the name of Pan-bharl = “ Pani-bhari, i.e., water-carrying.” 
He also quotes from some letters written by Nur Qutb. These are 
I suppose, the letters to which Abu-1-fazl refers in his memoir of the saint 
(Ain, Jarrett’s translation III, 371.) 
Chronologists have differed as to the date of the saint’s death. 
Some say he died in 808, and some say, in 848, and some say, in 813. 
and some say, in 851. The chronogram for the last is Shamsu-I- 
hidayat. 1 2 In the book of the custodian of the shrine, it is written 
that he died on the 9tli Zu-l-qa‘da 818 (1415) and the chronogram is 
“ Light went to Light.” 3 
But the author saw a small stone over the door of the kitchen in 
Mur Qutb’s shrine with an inscription which probably relates to the 
death of the saint, and may have fallen down from his tomb and been 
placed where it now is. 
The author then gives the inscription which is to be found in Ravenshaw, 
pp. 52 and 72, in Cunningham 1. c., 33, and in J. A. S. B., 271. But he gives 
the date as 18th Zu-l-hijja 833, instead of 28th Zil-l-hijja 863, as given by 
Blochmann. Ilahi Bakhsh, however, must be wrong, for the king, Masiru-d- 
din Abu-l-muzaffar Muhammad Shah, whose name is mentioned in the 
inscription, did not begin to reign till 845. 863 is, I think, an impossible 
date for the death of a man who was a contemporary and fellow-student 3 of 
1 “ Sun of Guidance.” This is the chronogram accepted by Blochmann, 
J. A. S. B., XLII, 262. Ravenshaw gives yet another date, viz., 828. 
2 It is interesting to find that in the Riyazu-l-auliya of Bakhtawar Khan, which 
was written in 1019 A.H., or 1679, the date of Nur Qutb’s death is given as 818, and 
the day of the month is apparently 19th Zu-l-qa‘cla (p. 175). As Abu-1-fazl seems to 
have copied his accounts of the saint from the Riyazu-l-auliya, his 808 is probably 
a clerical error for 818. This last I look upon as the true date. 
8 ilahi Bakhsh says they were both pupils of Hamidu-d-dm Ganj nishm Nagori. 
Abu-1-fazl, Ain III, 367 (Jarrett’s translation), mentions two Hamldu-d-dins of 
Nagor, but both belong to the 7th century A.H. Ferishta mentions that Khwaja 
Qutbu-d-din Kaki died in 634 (1236) with his head on Hamidu-d-din Nagori’s knees. 
