Epigraphia Indica Vol 02

SR No.: 032556
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
king (on the margin the monarch who had first granted the fee is shortly mentioned with his post-morter-title). The following Divans and Sadrs appear together :
Sabir 'Ali and Sayyid Ahmad, 11th and 13th years of Jahangir,
Diyanat Khan and Nizamuddin Hasan Qadiri, 23rd year of 'Alamgir (the first with the date 1084, 17 on his seal);
'Abd Ilahyarul-Husaini and Aslam Khânazad, 33rd year of 'Alamgir (with the dates 1089, 21, viz., 1093, 27 on the seals);
Mir Ahmad Khan and Aslam Khânazad, 37th year of 'Alamgir (the latter with the date 1094, 27 on his seal);
Abd (?) Kazim and 'Abd ul. Baqi, 44th year of 'Alamgir (with the dates 32, vie., 1110, 42 on the seals);
Sa'adatmand Khan and Sayyid Ashraf Khân, 3rd year of Shah 'Alam (with the dates 1120, viz., 1119, 1 on the seals);
Sa'adatmand Khan and Khwaja Futth, 2nd year of Farrukh Siyar (the latter with the engraved first year'on his seal, as also in the following case);
Fazl 'Ali Khan and Khwaja Futah, 4th and 6th years of Farrukh Siyar;
Zivå uddin Muhammad Khan and Futuh Khan, 7th year of Farrukh Siyar (the latter with the date third year'on his seal);
Sayyid Shahamat Khan and Mir Muhammad Salih, 5th and 8th years of Muhammad Shah (with the dates 1133, viz., 1134 and 1135 on the seals);
Sayyid Shahåmat Khan and Sayyid 'Aziz Khân, 10th year of Muhammad Shah (with the dates 1138, viz. 1139, 9 on the seals);
Sayyid Shahamat Khan and Sayyid Mirakshåb Khan, 14th year of Muham. mad Shah (the latter with the date 1142, 12 on his seal);
Sayyid Bhahamat Khan and Sayyid Sultan Husain Khan Mausawi, 15th year of Muhammad Shah (with the date 1138, viz., 1145, 15 on the seals);
Sayyid Shah amat Khan and Mir Muhyi'ddin Mausawi, 18th year of Muhammad Shah (with the dates 1138, vis. 1148 on the seals); and
Savvid Shah amat Khan and Khwaja Illah Khan, 19th year of Muhammad Shah (with the dates 1138, viz., 1149, 19 on the seals).
With one seal only (on the right) the same documents have been sealed in the 25th year of Muhammad Shah (Sayyid Mirak Khân, 1153, 22), in the 2nd year of Ahmad Shah (Shamsherbeg Khân Khánazad, 1161, 1), and in the first year of Timur Shah (Dawar Khan Sadr ul-sudur). Except the farmång sealed with the personal seals of the emperors a tughrá has but seldom been added the drawing of, which is then always very poor and artless.
Even the higher functionaries did not employ a new seal every year, that is to say, they did not alter the date. We often find seals therefore with years that considerably differ from those of the sanads themselves.
On some signets the possessors are styled murid or murid-i pádisháh, a title introduced by Akbar.
Nizamuddta Han Qidirlours as Sadr ul-fuddr also in the text of some sanads from Alamgir's 2nd year. The Qadirls were darwesh order. Nineteen principles of theirs are enumerated in the Berlin Porsian manuscript, Petermann, No. 721, (cf. Pertsch, Verzeichnis der perrischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek en Berlin, No. 283, 2, p. 276).-KhanazAds were a sort of pages educated at the imperial court (cf. Ma'athir ul-Umard, vol. I, p. 797).