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20. Masnavi Mir Hasan, a poem, by Mir Hasan, publisher) in 1882

at the Chashma-i-Faiz Press, Dehli : 64 pp. It is an Urdu poem of an ordinary sort. It relates the loves of Prince Benazir and Badr-i-Manir, a fairy.

Benazir is carried off by the fairy Mahrukh to fairyland, where he meets and falls in love with Badr-i-Manir, daughter of Mas'ud Shah, the king. When Mahrukh finds out that he visits her, she throws him into a well. Badr-i-Manir, finding this out by a dream, sends her maid, Najumu'n-nissa, to rescue him. Najumu'n-nissa, however, meets and falls in love with Firoz Shiih, king of the Jinns. In the end Mas'ud Shah agrees to the marriage of Benazir to his daughter Badr-i-Manir.

21. Badr-i-Manir, by Imamu'ddiB, published in 1282 a.h., or

1866 A.D., at the Mustafai Press, Lahore : 41 pp. 8vo. It is an abstract in Panjabi verse of the well-known Urdu work of the same name by Mir Hasan (No. 20). The composition is generally good. It relates the story of Benazir, prince of India, who was carried off by the fairy Mahrukh to Sarandip, where he fell in love with Badr-i-Manir, princess of Sarandip. This aroused the jealousy of Mdhrukh, who imprisoned him in a well, whence he was released by the exertions of Najmu'nnissd, the daughter of the Wazir, and finally married to Badr-i-Manir.

The king of India in his old age begat a very handsome son, named Benazir. One night, when he was fifteen years old, the fairy Mahrukh happened to pass the palace in which he was sleeping, and, falling in love with him, carried him off on her flying throne to Paristan (the land of the fairies). Benazir, however, so pined for his home that no kindness on the part of his captor was of any avail, so she gave him a flying horse of wood on which to visit the earth. As the horse could travel one hundred miles in a few minutes, he was to return to her every day, and was especially warned against falling in love. One day, in the course of his flying visits, he met with Badr- i-Manir, and, as a result, used to visit her daily. This was duly reported to Mdhrukh by a demon, who became very angry, and