1897.] W. Irvine —Nadir Shah and Muhammad Shah , a Hindi poem. 61 
66. The distance of five kos from Dihli is quite impossible, seeing 
they were all, Nizamu-l-mulk included, some seventy miles 
north of Dihli at this time. 
68. There is no foundation for saying that Nizamu-l-mulk attacked 
Klian Dauran’s men, though the two nobles were, no doubt, 
on very bad terms and intensely jealous of each other. 
71. Khan Dauran died on the 19th Zu-l-qa‘dah (27th February, 
1739). 
71. Muhammad Shah’s first visit to Nadir Shah in his camp took 
place on the 20th (28th February, 1739), Fraser, 162. 
71. Nadir Shah’s entry into the palace at Dihli took place on the 
9th Zu-l-Hijjah, 1351 H. (19th March, 1739), that is, twenty 
days before the end of the Hijri year 1151. 
72. This general slaughter lasted from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. of the 11th 
Zu-l-Hijjah (21st March, 1739), Elliot, VIII, 88, Fraser, 181. 
82. Majlis Rae, Brahman, was diwan to the wazir, Qamru-d-din 
Khan, see back note to verse 4. Fraser, 199, says that on 
the 6tli Muharram 1152 H. (14th April, 1739), his ear was 
cut off in open darbar. He committed suicide on the 12th 
(20th April, 1739). 
86. I know not what truth there is in this story of Muhammad 
Shah adopting Persian attire, but Anand Ram, Mukhlis, tells 
us, Mirdtu-l-Istildh , B. M. Or. 1813, fol. 108a, that in 1157 
H., after Nadir’s invasion, Persian customs were copied by 
the fashionable youth of Dihli. He refers especially to a 
fashion of carrying a stick called a khundi. 
88-92. I think that I have seen this marvellous story told in prose 
somewhere, but I cannot find the reference to it at present. 
96. ‘Ulwi Khan was not released, see his story in the Bayan-i- 
wdqi ‘ of Khwajah ‘Abdu-l-Karim, Kashmiri, and trans¬ 
lation thereof by F. Gladwin, Calcutta, 1788. The ^akim 
was not allowed to leave, until the 16th Rabi‘ II, 1154 H. 
(30th June, 1741),Gladwin, 95. He went from Kazwin to 
Mecca, and finally reached Dihli again on the 10th Jamadi 
II, 1156 H. (31st July, 1743), having come from Jeddah 
by sea to Chandernagore. 
97. Amr Singh. Buta Shah, Tarikh-i-Panjab, places him in the 
time of Ahmad Shah, Durrani, about 1761, and speaks of 
the title of Maharaja being conferred by this later invader. 
103. Nadir Shah reached Kabul on the 1st Ramazan, 1152 H. (1st 
December, 1739), Gladwin, 13. 
103. The Bayan-i-waqi‘ 1 Gladwin, 166, calls the place Qujun, not 
