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THE MODERN LITERARY HISTORY OF HINDtfSTlN. 
[§ 698, 
He is possibly the same as two other poets mentioned by Sib Siijgh, 
viz. Hand Kabi and Nand Kishor Kabi. The latter is author of a 
work entitled Ram Krish’n Gun-Mal . 
698. WfTT Mata Din Misar . Alive in 1883 . 
He translated the Shah l\lama into the vernacular- In Sambat 
1933 (A.D. 1876) he published the Kabi Ratndhar (quoted in this 
work as ‘ Kab.’), an anthology containing poems by twenty poets. 
699. Raja £iua Prasad, 1 c.s.i., of Banaras. 
B. 1823. Alive in 1887. 
This gentleman, the well-known friend of education in India, is 
the grandson of BibI Ratan Kuar (No. 376). He is also well-known 
for his efforts to popularise a style of the Hindustani language, which 
he calls the colloquial speech of Ag’ra, Dilll, and Lakh’nau, or of 
Hindustan proper, midway between the Persian-ridden Urdu and 
the Sanskrit-ridden Hindi. These efforts have given rise to a lively 
and not yet decided controversy amongst the natives of India. He 
is a most prolific author of works on education, and a complete list 
of his books, communicated by himself, is appended to this section. 
The following account of his life is compiled partly from the 
Modern History of the Indian Chiefs , Rajas , Zammddrs , etc., by Loke- 
nath Ghose, and partly from materials kindly furnished to the author 
by the Baja himself. Towards the end of the 11th century there was 
a man named Dhandhal, of the Pawar (Pramara) tribe, in Ran’tham- 
bhor (Jaipur territory). Having obtained a son through the blessing 
of a Jain pontiff, he embraced that religion and was included in the 
Os’wal caste. Ban’thambhor being taken and plundered by Alau’d-dln 
Khilji late in the 13th century, the family migrated successively to 
Ahmadabdd and Champdner, and settled finally in Khambhat . Amar 
Datt\ twenty-sixth in descent from Dhandhal, presenting a diamond to 
Shah Jahdn (1628—1658), pleased him so much, that the emperor 
conferred on him the title of Bay, brought him to Dilll, and made him 
court jeweller. Bay Amar Datt’ died leaving one son, who married a 
1 The name is transliterated thus because it is the way he spells it himself. 
According to the system of transliteration adopted in this book it would be 
Civa Pras&da, Sib Par’sad, or Siu Par’scid. 
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