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G. H. Raverty —Memoir of the. Author 
[No. 1, 
Our author was born after this, in the year 589 H., the very year in 
which Dibit, of which, and of which Musalman kingdom, he was subse¬ 
quently to become the chief Kazi and Sadr, was made the seat of the 
Musalman government in Hindustan by the Turk Mamliik, Kutb-ud-Dm 
F-bak, who was, in after years, to become its first Muhammadan Sultan. 
That our author was born at Lahor, as the Daghistani, referred to farther 
on, asserts, cannot be correct ; for, from what he himself states respecting 
his arrival at Uchchah in 624 H. [see pages 541 and 722], that was the 
first time he set foot in Hind. Had he been born at Lahor, he would, 
doubtless, have mentioned it, and he would probably have been styled and 
known as the Lahori in consequence. 
The next mention he makes of his father is, that, when Sultan Baha- 
ud-Din Sam, ruler of Bamian and Tukharistan, succeeded his father on 
the throne, he desired that our author’s father, the Maulana Saraj-ud-Dm 
Muhammad, should take up his residence in his kingdom and enter his 
service. With the sanction of his own sovereign and patron, and Balia- 
ud-Din Sam’s suzerain, namely, the Sultan of Ghur, Ghiyas-ud-Din Mu- 
hammad-i-Sam, the Maulana proceeded to the Court of Baha-ud-Dm Sam, 
and was made Kazi of the kingdom of Bamian and Tukharistan, with the 
judicial administration over its forces, was made censor, with full powers as 
regards ecclesiastical law, and entrusted with the charge of two colleges 
and their funds. This happened in 591 H., when our author was in his 
third year. He states that the diploma conferring these offices upon his 
father, in the handwriting of the Wazir of the Bamian state, was still 
contained in the kharitah [a bag of embroidered silk for holding docu¬ 
ments] containing his own diplomas, his banner and turban of honour. 
The mother of our author was the foster-sister and school-mate of the 
Princess Mah Malik, the daughter of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din Muhammad- 
i. Sam, mention of which lady will be found in several places in his History ; 
and his mother appears to have continued in her service after her marriage. 
Our author distinctly states that his early years were passed in the Haram 
of the Princess, until the period of his entering upon adolescence, when, 
according to Musalmam usages, he had to be sent elsewhere. He speaks 
in terms of much gratitude of the fostering kindness and protection he 
received while dwelling in that Princess’s household. Under these circum¬ 
stances, Labor can scarcely have been the place of his birth. 
As early as his seventh year our author began to prosecute his studies ; 
and used to attend that eminent teacher and Imam ’All, the Qfiarmani, 
for the purpose of acquiring the Kur’an by heart. 
When Sultan Takish, Khwarazm Shah, withdrew his allegiance from 
the IChalifah Un-Nasir-ud-Din-Ullah, and the latter’s troops had been 
defeated by him, lbn-ur-Rabbi’, and Ibn-ul-^hafib, on two different occa- 
