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[No. 2, 
G. H. Raverty -—Memoir of the Author 
In the year 639 H., in the reign of Sultan Mu’izz-ud-Din, Bahrain 
Shah, our author was made Chief Kazi of the Dihli kingdom, and of the 
capital as well. In the disturbances which arose between that Sultan and 
his Amirs, our author, and other ecclesiastics, endeavoured to bring about a 
peaceful accommodation, but without effect. In Zi-Ka’dah of the same 
year, the Khwajah, Muhazzab-ud-Din, the Wazir, bribed a number of vil¬ 
lains to murder him ; and, after the conclusion of the Friday’s prayers, on 
the 7th of that month, they actually attacked him in the Jami’ Masjid, but 
he escaped without hurt. 
Soon after, on the accession of Sultan ’Ala-ud-Din, Mas’ud Shah, on 
the Khwajah, Muhazzab-ud-Din, being re-appointed Wazir, our author, in 
610 H., resigned the Chief Kaziship, and in Rajab of that year left Dihli 
in order to proceed into the territory of Lakhanawati. There he remained 
about two years, and there he acquired his information respecting it and its 
rulers. While residing in that country, he accompanied Malik Tughril-i- 
Tughan Khan in his expedition against the Rae of Jaj-Nagar, and was 
present at the attack on the frontier post of Katasin, in Shawwal, 611 H. 
On the removal of that Malik from the government Lakhanawati in 613 
H., our author accompanied him on his return to Dihli, and, in Safar of 
that year, presented himself at Court. Muhazzab-ud-Din had in the mean¬ 
time been put to death by the Amirs; and, through the interest and efforts 
of his subsequent munificent patron, Malik Ghiyas-ud-Din, Balban (after¬ 
wards Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam, and subsequently Sultan of Dihli), who held 
the office of Amir-i-Hajib, three days after his return, he was put in 
charge of the Nasiriali College once more, and entrusted with the admin¬ 
istration of its endowments, the lectureship of the Jami’ Masjid, and the 
Kaziship of Gwaliyiir, according to the previous grant. Subsequently, in 
the same year, he accompanied the army which advanced to the banks of 
the river Biah for the relief of Uchchah when invested by the Mughals. 
In 611 H., at Jalhandar [in the Panjab], on the return of the army, 
on the occasion of performing the services prescribed for the ’I'd-i-Azha 
in the hall of the College there, the new Sultan, Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud 
Shah, to whom his History is dedicated, and after whom it is named, pre¬ 
sented our author with a cloak, a turban, and a richly caparisoned horse. 
In 615 H., he wrote a description, in verse, of the expedition against 
Talsandah, entitled the “ Nasiri Namah.” The Sultan rewarded him for 
this with a yearly stipend, and Malik Ghiyas-ud-Din Balban, the hero of 
the poem, and commander of the expedition, give him the revenues of a 
village in the Hansi province, which was that Malik’s fief at that period. 
In 619 H., for the second time, the Chief Kaziship of the Dihli kingdom 
with jurisdiction over the capital as well, was conferred upon him ; but 
when, two years after, in 651 II., the eunuch, ’Imad-ud-Din-i-Rayhan, 
