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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
I.-On the Gumbaz of Khovajah Muhammad
Sádek.
درگهی صاحب کرامت در مبارک ساعتی این درگاه حضرت خواجه محمد صادق فرزندان خلق را بهر زیارت حل مشکل حاجتی حضرت قطب الاقطاب سید محمد بخاری عرف مشکل آسان میشوند این خواجگان نقشینه [؟] خواجه بهاوالدین نقشبندی فرزندان حضرت امام حسن الذكرى الهى بحق شیخ دین معروف خواجه شاهی با گردان بفضل و برکتی کرخی نگهداری از انتهای چرخی اشرف خواجه آنکه در سیر و سفر چون از بخارا آمدند محمد شاه نصر من الله فتح قریب و بشر المومنين
مظهر اهل ولايت داشت جاہ و حشمتی ساخت کامل عارف این روضه اندر سال نيك یکهزار و یکصد و هفتاد بود از هجرتی
The Durgâh of the worker of Kerâmet is, at a propitious hour, to the people a place for pilgrimage, where their difficulties are solved. Difficulties become easy to these Nakshbendi Khovâjahs; the Royal Khovâjah is a turner away of calamitiest by grace and blessing; when het arrived in his wanderings and travellings from Bokhârâ, the manifester of the possession of the Velayet§ enjoyed glory and pomp. Kâmel 'Aârif built this mausoleum in the auspicious year 1070 of the exile" [1659-60].
SÅGHAR.
In the Antiquary (vol. III. p. 116) I find a query by Colonel Yule as to Saghar, a place visited by Ibn Batuta on his way from Nandurbar in Khândesh to Khambay.
It is almost certainly Sông har (or Songadh ?), on the Tapti, in 21° 9' N. latitude; and 73° 35′ E. longitude-there or thereabouts. I have not seen the place, but know it by repute as a station on the march from Khândesh to Gujarât. On the map it looks rather a roundabout way from Nan
MISCELLANEA.
The miracles worked by saints are named 'Kerimit,' and appear to hold an intermediate position between the Asar and the Ma'jzât;' the former being inferior, and the latter superior to the Kerâmât.
The speciality of the power of some saints consisted in the favour bestowed on them to remove calamities that befell people. One of the congregation of departed saints of whom Khovijah Beha-al-din Nakshbendi had
تر آن کرامت کرده اند که بلدي-: a vision, said to him They have bestowed“ نازل شده از برکت تو دفع شود
[NOVEMBER, 1875.
II. On the durgah of Khovajah Muhammad Sádek Nakshbendi.
on thee the favour (kerâmet) that calamities which have happened should be removed by thy lessing:"-Nafkat-uluns, p. Prv
The honorific they,' used also in Hindustani, Marathi, Gujarati, &c., I have translated by 'he.'
"The Durgâh of His Excellency Khovajah Muḥammad Sadek, son of His Excellency Kutballaktab Sayyid Muhammad Bokhary, known as Khovâjah Behâ-al-din Nakshbendi*, son of His Excellency Emâm Hasan Alzikri Elahy, in reality a Sheikh of the religion known as Karkhy, is a protection from the misfortunes of the times, by the nobility of the Khovijah Muhammad Shah. Assistance from God, and a speedy victory. And do thou bear good tidings to the true believers."+
III.-On the Friday Mosque.
بفضل الهي مرتب شده
زهجرت هزار و صد و نوزده
"Established by divine favour A. H. 1119" [1707-8].
durbar to Khambay; but the shortest cut across lying in this instance through very rough and unsettled country, was probably then, as now, the longest way round.
W. F. S.
SOME SONGS OF WESTERN INDIA.
It is not easy to get the words of songs in this part of India. The airs of the Dekhan-"the grave of music," as the Hindustânîs call it-are not usually very attractive; and the language is usually
§ Velayet, in a special sense, is a metaphor expressing the evanescence of the worshipper in God, and permanence in Him; only he can be in the possession of Velayet who is a Vasel, i.e. one who has attained perfection in the Suluk, or journey of piety.
This word I prefer to consider as a proper noun; its meaning is perfect knower; both have also a religious sense in reference to a knowledge of the Deity.
Kutb, axis,' is a particular degree of sanctity, here exalted to the highest, i.e. the axis of axes.'
The life of Khovajah Behâ-al-din Nakshbendi, who died A. H. 791 (1389), and appears never to have left Bokhara, may be seen in the Nafhat-ul-uns, p. FV-ro Bom. bay lithogr. ed.
+ Koran, lxi. 13.
