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He attended the court of Sabha Sahi, (cf. No. 346), Raja of 
Par’na (Panna), and translated the Rasa Mahjari into the vernacular. 
Probably the same as the poet Ratan, of Srinagar, in Bundel’khand, 
who attended the court of Raja Fat’h Sahi, the Bundela of Sri¬ 
nagar. Under this king’s name he composed two works on verna¬ 
cular composition, entitled Phateshah Bhukhan and Phate Par’kas 
respectively. Mr. Whish, Deputy Comissioner of Hamir'pur , informs 
me that Fat’h Sahi was a descendant of Chhattr’ Sal (No. 197), but 
never came to the throne. 
156. the poet Mur'li Dhar. B. (?FI.) 
1683 A.D. 
Haj., Sun. Probably the same as a Mur’li Kabi in Rag., and as 
a Mur’li Dhar Kabi mentioned by Sib Siijgh (without date) as joint- 
author with Sri Dhar (No. 157) of a work on prosody entitled Kabi 
Binod. 
157. the poet Sri Dhar. FI. (P) 1683 A.D. 
Sun. Joint author with Mur’li Dhar (No. 156) of a prosody entitled 
Kabi Binod. 
158. the poet Baran, of Bhupal. B. 1683 A.T>. 
He attended the court of Shujau’l Shah Nawab, of Raj’garh. He 
wrote a highly esteemed work on composition (*nf%<*T) entitled 
Rasik Bilas. 
159. Kalidas TribedI, of Ban'para, in 
the Doab. FI. cir. 1700 A.D. 
Nir., Sat. He was an excellent and famous poet of the Doab . At 
first he remained for many years in attendance on the emperor 
Aurayg’zeb in Gokul’kunda and other places in the Deccan. There¬ 
after he lived with king Jdgajit Siygh RaghubansI, of Jambu, and 
under his name composed a fine work entitled the Badhu-binod. His 
best known work is an anthology entitled the Kalidas Hajara 
(quoted in this work as ‘Haj.’), in which he has included a thousand 
poems by two hundred and twelve poets dating from A.D. 1423 
