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the inmates of his (Shitab Khan's) haram to present themselves in the court-yard of the court where there was an assemblage of common people and soldiers; and tortured them in a most shameful manner.
The sum of the matter is this that in the kingdom of the Dakkhan the torture of Asmân aud sadden misfortune had descended, and the storm of the vengeance of God had burst upon that city and its environs.
At length a welcome event occurred which opened the doors of mercy and rejoicing to those oppressed people : on the 28th of the month Zi-ul-Qa'dah Sultan Humayun Shâh was removed from the court of sovereignty to the vestibule of the last day, much to the delight of his subjects.
The death of Sultân Humâyûn Shah occurred on the 27th of Zi-ul-Qa'dah in the year 865 (3rd October, A. D. 1461), and the period of his reign was three years, five months and five days. The poet Nazir has composed the following chronogram of the death of Hamâyún Shah :
“Humâyûn Shâh has passed away from the world. "God Almighty, what a blessing was the death of Humayun ! “On the date of his death the world was full of delight, "So delight of the world's gives the date of his death."
(To be continued.)
ESSAYS ON KASMIRI GRAMMAR. BY THE LATE KARL FRIEDERICH BURKHARDT. Translated and edited, with notes and additions, by Geo. 4. Grierson, O.I.E, Ph.D., I.C.S.
(Continued from P. 228.) D. THE NUMERALS. I. - Cardinal Numbers.
1. Simple Numbers.
282. (a) Units ; Ólak, or ási aką, 1; 6; 29, 2; o tri or tre, 8; ja tsôr, 4; 84 pânte;
ty ponte, 6 ; da shah, 6 ; e sat, 7 ; **T Oth, R; ý nau, 9. (6) Tens, hundreds, &c.; s's dah (or da, and so in all similar cases), 10 ; ó wuh, 20, syj trah, 30; del teatajih, 40 ; rquine panteah, 60; no te shqiph, 60 ;
i satat, 70 ; 4 thi, 80, 3 namat, 90, cá hat, 100 ; 4 tầa, 1,000;
con los grity pánto odo, ,000; conha só dah sia, 10,000 ; td lacnh, 100,000. (6) Tens with units : 88 kdh, 11; bán, 12 ; sleuf truán, 18 ; 81 shurdh, 16.
• Name of a gonius who presides over the 27th of every Persi an solar month. Some consider this genius to be the same with Murdåd or Agrael, the angel of death, Johnson's Dictionary.
The author states above that HumAyan died on the 28th of the month, and here on the 37th. Firishtah ives 28th.
u o ,i=586.
