Indian Antiquary Vol 34

SR No.: 032526
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 548
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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then lived peacefully for some time in the cave Mastu Khêla of Alizai, Bagzai and Chardiwar. with the serpent which provided him with 819- Offerings are made, and the mujdwars and poor tenance. One night he had a dream in which Alt people are fed. Plags are also hung here. Many appeared to him and told him to pay a visit to the miracles are told about this saint, but the most Shapôla hill, close to Pir Ghar. Next morning he important of all was that he perforated, by means went to the Shapola bill and was much astonished of his club, a bill which obstructed the water of to see a wall miraculously rise around him and the Alizei Canal. That tunnel still exists, and ao me sheep descend for him from heaven. Almost through it flowe the water of the canal. As a immediately after this he saw the face of All, reward for this miracle he was given piece of which was like a full moon. Barqa-pôsh then land, called Bargbarai, which is still in possesbowed before the Amirul-Muminin (Commander sion of his descendants. of the Faithful), and received, as token of his love,
In addition to these shrines, the 'Tarts make a gold ring and a golden flag from him. Thence
long and perilous journeys to the famous shrines forth Burqa-pôsh always kept his face under a
of Karbala and Mashhad in Persia. In former veil and never showed it to the people, signifying
days, when there were no facilities of communicathat nobody was worthy to catch sight of him.
tion, they bad to travel the whole way on foot, That is why he was known as Burqa-pôsh. His ! but now circumstances have changed and the shrine is at Shakh, close to LAIA Gul's shrine.
greater portion of the journey is made by rail and V. BhAh Ishaq, whore tomb is in Balyamin, steamer. Sometimes a whole family migrates to was the ancestor of one of the five recognised these shrines and takes up its permanent abc de khdmodda, of the Sayyids. His descendants are there. This is called hijrat by the Taris. Wellcalled Bukhari Sayyids and are found at Paiwar, to-do people often send the bones of dead relaMahura, Agra, Tutak, Makhezai and Nasti Köt. tions to the Karbala cemetery to be interred His shrine is visited by the Hamza Khels and there.
NOTES AND QUERIES. TITLES AMONG RULING FAMILIES IN THE changed. For instance, in Sukết and its daughter PANJAB HILL STATES.
state of Mandi, the heir-apparent's suffix of The subject of titles in ruling families in the Singh is changed to Sain on his accession to Native States of the Panjab is of some interest
the throne; and in Sirmur to ParkAsh. Singh is 88 bearing upon the customary law regarding
comparatively seldom used as a royal title. It is BU coussion in those families, which was discussed
assumed in Bashahr at the naming ceremony and in the note published ante, p. 226 f.
not changed at accession. In Chamba, too, it is
not changed; but, both before and after accession, There are two points to discuss: (i) that of
the suffis Varma is used instead of Singh by the the true title or profix, (ii) the other that of the
priests when the ruling chief is referred to by cognomon or suffs, which appears to be a part
name in any religious ceremony. of the name. Modifications of the latter are exceedingly common, especially when the bearer Pal. - The Kulld, Bangahal, and Kotlehr famichanges bis religion or enters a religious order. lies had the suffix Pal, as had also those of Nurpur, The best known instance occurs in Sikhism. Basauli, Bada, and Bhadarwi. The R&jas of On entering that religion the pahul or baptismal Kashtwar had also this title originally, but rite involves the assumption of the affix 'Singh'or | changed it to Sain, then to Deo, and lastly to the substitution of that affix for 'Râm,' 'Chand, Singh. The old branch of the Jammu family, &o. The customs among ruiing families appears expelled in 1816 and now jágfrdars at Akhrota, to be based on a similar principle, the assump- near Dinanagar, in the Gurdaspur District, also tion of a new function involving the assumption bear the suffix of Déô, which they still retain, of a new cognomen. Whether this assumption of younger members of the family other than the a new cognomen is an integral part of the initia- head of it being now called Singh. The present tion into a religious order or merely incidental ruling family of Jamma bear the suflix Singh for to it, I cannot at present say.'
& special reason: they are descended from a In the case of a ruling family the general rule chauthain or fourth brother of Ranjit Deo of appears to be that on accession the suffix is Jammu (1750-81).
1 The change of suffix on acoession would appear to be a somewhat modern practice, or possibly looul one No allusion to it, or to anything corresponding to it, can be traced by the present writer in A. Weber's Uber die Künignoeihe, don Rajtolya (Abhandlungen der königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1893).