1895.] W. Irvine — Reply on Guru Gobind Sirjgh and Bandah. 37 
miles. How I got N. instead of E. I do not know, unless it was by trust¬ 
ing to that treacherous thing, memory. There is a little N. in the 
direction, though, is there not ? 
Sadhaurah. —Gr. Forster, who passed through it, says : “ A village 
on a high hill of steep ascent (L 235) ; ” so you see that you may go 
wrong even in copying from an eye-witness. As all my authorities spell 
I think I was right in putting Sadhaurah, but t notice Forster has 
Sudhowra, which represents I suppose a short a. I will put, in a note, 
the modern pronunciation on your authority. I find I first had Shah 
Qamin , but finding Faiz in the printed text of the Ma^dsiru- 
l-umard (I. 830) I assumed that the Native (Calcutta) Editor, being 
himself a Mahomedan, knew the correct name of the Saint, so I rejected 
the previous reading taken from the Mirat-i-Wdriddt. I will get out 
Cunningham, and note what he says about Sadhaurah; 
Banur. —I will correct this. 
Second — Coins. That you have never seen a coin of Bandah’s is 
of course a presumption,—a strong presumption one may even say—that 
no such coin ever existed. But to use the legal distinction, there is a 
difference between evidence and proof. Even if no such coin now exists 
anywhere on the face of this globe, that is not proof that no such coin 
ever did exist* And in this instance, I see no sufficient reason for re¬ 
jecting the statement which I have found in my authority. My authorities 
for this Sikh episode in 1710 are, (1) Kamwar Khan, (2) Warid, (3) 
Mirza Muhammad, (4) Muhammad Ihsan Tjad. I do not know when the 
first was born or when he died (his death must have been after 1137 H.), 
but he was alive in 1710 and present at Sadhaurah and Lohgarh, being 
then Mirsaman, or Chamberlain, to Bafi‘u-sh-Shan, the third son of 
Bahadur Shah. Warid was one Muhammad Shafi 4 , born at Nadlnah, oi* 
Naglnah (now in the Bijnor District) in 1087 H. He professes to recollect 
what happened from 1100, and he went on writing up to 1152 H. When 
he died I do not know* He lived at Delhi from about 1124 H. under 
the protection of Bairam Khan, a noble of good descent. Mirza Mu ham' 
mad was born in 1098 H., was alive in 1152 H., and probably did not die 
till after 1163 H. He also was in Bahadur Shah’s camp at Sadhaurah 
in 1122.—But the statement as to the coin rests on the fourth authority, 
that of the FarruJch Shah Ndmah of Muhammad llisan Ijad. The fol¬ 
lowing are the reasons why I accept him :— 
1. He was a contemporary. 
2. He wrote very near the time—he mentions corrections made 
by Farrukhsiyar in the events of 1129 H. Farrukhsiyar was killed 
in 1131 H., so the corrections took place before that year; and as the 
events of 1129 H. had been recorded, it is to be presumed that the 
