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Thus 234 teachers receive in all rupees 702-5-6, averaging to each about rupees three per month. In 237 instances, which were individually ascertained, the sum of rupees 84-13 was received by the teachers as Shuruäti which, giving two scholars and a half to each school and a year to each school-book, makes an average addition of one anna and two pie to the monthly income of each teacher.

Mahomed Imam Shah and Bahram Shah, two of the three teachers of an Arabic school at Darbhanga, in the thana of that name, possess considerable property personal or endowed, and are men of high character, great intelligence, arid extensive learning. They are brothers and are both authors.

Maulavi Mahomed Imam Shah, the elder brother, has written in Persian Sharh-i-Kholasat-ul-Hisab, a commentary of 640 pages on Kholasat-ul-Hisab, a treatise on arithmetic; and Daira-o-Jadwal-i-Najum, a pamphlet of 8 pages on astronomy. In Arabic he has written Hashya Sharh-i-Sullam, notes extending to 240 pages on Hamidullah’s commentary on Sullam, a work on logic; Sharh-i-Kasideh Amali, a commentary of 34 pages on Kasideh Amali, a work on the doctrines of religion; Risaleh Rafaä Yadain, a pamphlet of 36 pages on the sayings of Mahomed; Mabahisseh Imaniya, miscellaneous essays extending to 160 pages; Durar-i-Mohammadi, a treatise of 40 pages on theology; and Siraj-ul-Kalub, a tract of 18 pages on Sufeeism.

Maulavi Bahram Shah, the younger brother, has written in Persian Risaleh Tauzih-ul-Biyan, a pamphlet of 48 pages on the doctrines of Islam, and Durur-ul-Islam one of 44 pages on the law of inheritance. In Arabic he has written Risaleh Ramzul Hidayat, a tract of 8 pages on the doctrines of Islam; and Risaleh Ashaär-ul-Mahjub, another of the same size on the law of inheritance.