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1895.] Abdul Wall— On Guru Gobind Siggh and Banda. 
12. That the Hindi and Pakslitu characters be represented thus 
♦♦ — 
A or t — 3 or £ d — j or j, r 
£ ts — •) 9. —• & P — U** s h 
13. The J of the article <J| always to be transliterated l. 
14. That the vowel-points be L a, ~ i, •! u. 
The lengthened vowels t' d, ^ i, j it. That e and o may be used 
•• 
in place of l and u in these languages in which it may be 
necessary. That u and d may be also used in Turkish and 
e and o in Indian dialects. 
c o 
That the so called diphthongs and j be ay and aw. 
G. T. Plunkett. 
The Honorary Philological Secretary laid on the table two 
communications received from Maulvl Abdul Wall of Sailkapa, Jessore, 
regarding Mr. W. Irvine’s article on Guru Gobind Siggh and Banda, 1 and 
the correspondence between that gentleman and Mr. 0. J. .Rodgers on 
the same subject. 2 Maulvl Abdul Wall states that the name of the 
author of the Farrukh Shah Namah 3 was Mir Muhammad Ahsan, and 
not Ihsan. The book is wrongly called Farrukhsiyar namah During 
the reign of Shah ‘Alam, Mir Muhammad Ahsan Ijad was appointed 
Yakil to the sarkar of Prince ‘ Azimu-sh-shan, son of Shah ‘Alam, by 
Asaf Jail (Nizamu-l-mulk), and was given by that Prince a command of 
three thousand troop. In Farrukhsivar’s reign he received the title of 
Maniyab Khan and was employed by him to write the Shah Namah , 
which he used to show once a week to the Emperor, receiving on 
each occasion a reward of Rs. 1,000, and a KhiVat. Having completed 
his History to the end of Farrukhsiyar’s reign, Muhammad Ahsan died 
in 1133 H. 
The above facts are extracted from Mir Ghulam ‘Ali Azad’s Biogra¬ 
phical work, the Khazdna-i-Amirah.^ 
The Maulvi also suggests that the correct spelling of Lohgarh and 
sacd padshdh on p. 134 of the Journal, Vol. LXIII, Pt. I, should be 
Lohagarh and saccd padshdh respectively. He translates the inscription 
on p. 135 as follows : ‘ Guru Gobind Siggh inherited from (not found in) 
Nanak, sword, pot, and conquest, help without hindrance.’ As regards 
Sadhaura or Sddhaurd, he points out that Mir Ghulam ‘Ali Azad in 
1 See Journal, Yol- LXIII, Pt. I, pp. 112 and following. 
2 See Proceedings for 1895, pp. 35 and ff. 
3 Proceedings, 1895, p. 37 
* Incorrectly called the Khiranah-i ‘Atnirah of Ghulgm ‘All Arad, on p. 38 of 
the Proceedings for 1895, 
