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after, she gave birth to Ah'bur. The details of this tradition are 
certainly incorrect, as Ak’bar was born at Amar’kot, in Nlar’war. 
He seems, however, to have been befriended as a boy by the king of 
Bandho. Cf. No. 24. See Rep. Arch. Sur. Ind. xvii, 101; xxi, 109. 
One of Nar’hari’s sons was the poet Huri l\lath (No. 114). Descendants 
of Nar’hari. still survive in Banaras and in BetJ, district Ray Bareli, 
and are scattered about in other parts of India. The village of As’ni 
is no longer in possession of his family, and his original house has been 
washed away by the Ganges, The ruins of the latter are now sold as 
rubble, and have become the day-haunts of jackals and other impure 
animals. Although no complete work of this poet has survived, 
numerous detached verses by him are still quoted. 
Ak’bar gave him the title of Mahapatr’, saying that other bards 
were vessels of virtue (gun ha pdtr ’), but he was a great vessel 
( mahapatr ’). 
He is possibly the same as a Nar’hari Das mentioned in the preface 
to Rag. 
114 . *nrsr the bard Hari Nath, entitled Maha- 
patr’, of As’ni, district Fatih’pur. FI. 1587 A.D. 
A celebrated poet, and son of Nar’hari (No. 113), the court poet of 
the emperor Ak’bar. He made a tour from court to court, receiving rich 
presents for his verses; thus king Neja 1 Ram, the Baghel of Bandho 
(Riwa), gave him a lakh of rupees for a single dblid, and Man Siygh 
(No. 109) of Amer gave him two lakhs for two dohas. On his way 
home he met a mendicant of the Naga sect, who recited a doha to 
him, at which he was so pleased that he gave the beggar all the 
presents he had collected, and returned home empty handed. Arrived 
there he passed the remainder of his life squandering his father’s 
savings in a similar manner. 
115. ^**C^*T? the poet and bard Kar’nes, 
or Karan. B. 15 5i A.D. 
He used to visit the emperor Ak’bar’s court in company with 
the poet Nar’hari (No. 113). He wrote three important works—the 
Karnabharan, the Sruti-bhukhan, and the Bhup-bhukhan. 
1 This Icing’s name is not mentioned in the list given in vol. xxi of Rep. Arch. 
Sur. Ind. 
