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107 . the poet and Baja Manohar 
Das , the Kachh’waha. FI. 1577 A.D. 
He was son of Eaja Loykaran, the Kachh’waha, and was one of 
Ak’bar’s commanders of 400. (See Aln-i-Akbarl , trans., p. 494.) He 
wrote in Persian, in Sanskrit, and in the vernacular. In the first 
language he wrote under the name of Tosanl. 
108. ^^•'^51 ‘ Abdu’r Rahim Khan’khana 
Nawab, commonly called Khan’khan a, the son of Bairam Khan. 
B. 1556. 1 
Mr. He was not only learned in Arabic, Persian, Tur’kl, etc., but 
also in Sanskrit and Braj Bhakha. He was much loved by Ak’ba r. 
(See Blochmann’s translation of Aln-i-Akbarl , p. 334 and ff. He 
wrote under the nom de guerre of Rahim, ib. p. 338.) His father 
was the famous Bairam Khan, to whom may justly be ascribed 
Humayun’s conquest of India. (See Blochmann, p. 315.) Full 
particulars of his life will be found in the places above cited. Sib 
Siqgh adds that he was not only a great patron of poets himself, 
but that also he wrote extremely learned (and difficult) clokas in 
Sanskrit, and that his kabittas and dohas in all styles in the vernacular 
are admirable. Best of all are his dohas on morals ( *ftf?r). Here 
his Persian works are not dealt with. It will be sufficient to mention 
his best known Persian work, a translation of Babar’s Chaghtai 
Memoirs ( Wdqi’dt-i-Babarl ). Amongst the poets who attended his 
court may be mentioned Lachh’mi Narayan (No. 124), of Mithila. 
109. *n*T Maharaj Man Siygh, the Kachh’waha of 
Amer. B. 1535. 
He was a great patron of learned men, and used to give Han Ncith 
(No. 114) and other poets a lakh of rupees for a single verse. He was 
soil of Bhag’wan Deis . (See Aln-i-Akbarl, translation, p. 339, where a 
full account of his life is given.) He was a general of Ak’bar’s, at first 
on the Kabul frontier, and subsequently in Bihar. He died in the 
Deccan in 1618 A.D., when sixty of his fifteen hundred wives burned 
themselves. The ground on which the Taj at Ag’ra stands belonged 
to Man Siijgh. 
1 I.e. A.H. 964, which is the date given by Blochmann in passage cited below. 
Sib Siggh gives the date Sambat 1680, i.e. A.D. 1523. 
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