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Bihar Legends and Ballads. [No. 2, 
Padishahnamali (I, p. 65), . 13th (a Sunday), Do. 
Khafi Khan, . 5th Babi’I. 11th, Do. 
M.aasir ul Umara, .... 7th, Do. 
According to Prinsep’s Useful Tables, the year 963 A. H. com¬ 
menced on Saturday, 16th November, 1553. The 7th Babi’ I, 963, 
would therefore correspond to the 66th day from the 16th Novem¬ 
ber 1555, i. e. to the 20th January, 1556, which would be a Mon¬ 
day. We have to bear in mind that Monday, the 7th Babi’ I, 
commenced at 6 o’clock Sunday evening, 19th January, 1556. The 
13th Pabi’ I, the date of H.’s death, according to the Pddishahnd- 
mah, is certainly a Sunday, and this may be looked upon as the 
correct day, especially as the author of the Pdclishalindmah has 
taken so much trouble to settle the chronology of the reigns of the 
Timurides up to Shahjahan. A perusal of the beginning chapters 
of that work is strongly recommended to historians. 
Khafi Khan’s Jcabutar-hhanah is either a blunder of the editors or 
the author has confounded Humayun’s death with that of ’Umar 
Shaikh Mirza, Babar’s father, who died on the 4th Bamazan, 899, 
at Akhsikat in Farganah, from a fall from the pigeon house, on 
which he stood flying pigeons. 
Legends and Ballads connected with persons deified or held in great 
veneration in Bhdgalpur and the neighbouring districts (being extracts 
from Diaries).—By Babu Bashbiha'ri Bose, Banka, Bha'galpu'r. 
I.—The Legend of Dube Bhairan. 
Nowhere, as far as I know, does demon worship prevail in 
Bengal. But in this district, every village has its own demon who 
is propitiated by offerings made at the foot of a tree where he is 
supj)osed to reside. Belief in demons' or ghosts is almost as pre¬ 
valent in Bengal as it is in this district; but if annoyances are 
caused by them, the gods are invoked or exorcisms are practised in 
