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 Majlisi 166 Malhar Majlisi, ts '^"'^j Muhammad Bakir Majlisi. Ma j nun, C)}^^'^} this name was given to a person whose proper name was Kais, after he had fallen in love with Laila or Laili. The meaning of the word is a madman ; also a man who is transported by love either divine or profane. Vide Laili. Majnun lived in the time of the khalif Hasham of the house of Umayya, about the year 721 A. D., 103 A. H. Majnun, tiy'^'^'*^ the poetical title of two poets, one of Dehli and the other of Lakhnau. Majrull, ^-JL/^'*'j takhallus of Munshi Kishun Chand, a Ivashmfrian, who was living in 1782 A. D., 1196 A. H., at Lakhnau. Majzub, VJ'^^'"? Mirza Muhammad Majzub of Tabrez. He is the author of several Masnawfs and also of a Diwan which he completed ia 1653 A. D., 1063 A. H. Majzub, VU'^^'*^ poetical name of Mirza Ghulam Haidar Beg, an adopted son of the celebrated poet of India, Sou- da'; was living at Lakhnau in 1800 A. D., 1215 A. H., and had written two Diwans in Urdu. Majzub, ^J'^^'^} poetical title of Najabat 'Alf Shah an Urdu poet who died in the year 1819 A. D., 1234 A. H. Makanna', f vide al-Makna' or Makanna. Makbul, J^•^^*, named Makbul Ahmad. He is the author of the " Niir-nama," and " Kaf-nama," also of a Masna- wi in Urdu called " Dard Ulfat." He was living at Lakhnau in 1853 A. D., 1270 A. H. Makhdum Jahanian Jahangasht, o^^f^- fj'^>^ •^■^^iV^, vide Shaikh Jalal. Makhdum Sharki, ish^ (•J'*'^'*', author of the " Kitab un-Nawaflz." Makb.fi, cs*^j the poetical title of the princess Zeb un- Nisa Begam, daughter of the emperor 'Alamgir. She is the author of a Diwan and of a Tafsir or Commentary on the Kuran. Makhfi was also the takhallus of Nur Jahan Begam. Vide Zeb-Un-Nisa Begam. Makin, cH;^? poetical name of Mirza Muhammad Fakhir a native of Dehli, who came to Lakhnau in 1759 A. D., 1173 A. H. He is the author of a Diwan. He died in the year 1806 A. D., 1221 A. H. Makna', f-*'^'*) ^'iWe al-Makna' or Mukanna. Makrizi, ^sy'~ J^^> author of the work entitled " Kitab us-Suluh." He lived about the year 1229 A. D., 626 A. H. Makrizi, LSjij^"') whose proper name is Taki-uddin Ahmad was an eminent Arabic historian and geographer, born in 1366 A. D., in Makriz near Balbec. He early devoted himself to the study of history, astrology &c., at Cairo, where also he afterwards held the offices of inspector of weights and Imam of different mosques. Some of his works have been translated into French and Latin. He died in 1442 A. D., aged 82 years. Maktabi, L^■^^*>^, a school-master of Shii'az, who ia the author of a poem called " Laili wa-Majnun," composed in 1490 A. D., 895 A. H. Maktub Khan, (.j^Kaj^ superintendent of the librarj of the emperor Shah Jahan. Makunda Bramhehari, cs;^^*^- i*'^^'*, a famous Brahman ascetic. The Hindus insist that the emperor Akbar was a Hindu in a former generation. The proximity of the time in which this famous emperor lived, has forced them, however, to account for this in the following man- ner : — " There was a holy Brahman of the above name, who wished very much to become emperor of India, and the only practicable way for him was to die first, and be born again. For this purpose he made a desperate Tap- assia, wishing to remember then every thing he knew in his present generation. This could not be fully granted ; but he was indulged with writing upon a brass plate a few things which he wished more particularly to remem- ber ; then he was directed to bury the plate, and promised that ho should remember the place in the next generation. Makunda, wont to Allahabad, buried the plate and then buried himself. Nine months after he was born in the character of Akbar, who, as soon as he ascended the throne, went to Allahabad, and easily found the spot where the brass plate was buried." {MiWs British India, Vol. II, page 162.) The translation of the inscription on the brass plate, is as follows : " In the Sambat year 1598 on the 12th day of the 2nd fortnight of the month of Magh, I Makunda Bramhehari, whose food was nothing but milk, sacrificed myself at Parag (Allahabad) the grand place of worship, with the design that I should become the ruler of the whole world." The above date corresponds with the 27th of January, 1642 A. D., and Akbar was born on Sunday the 15th of October the same year, being three or four days less than nine lunar months after the above circumstance. Maldeo Rao, j[; a raja of Marwar of the Eathor tribe of rajputs, and a descendant of Jodha Eao who founded Jodhpftr. He acquired a pre-eminence in Eaj- putana in 1532 A. D., and is styled by Firishta, " the most potent prince in Hindustan." Powerful as he was, however, he was compelled to succumb to the emperor Akbar, and to pay reluctant homage at the court of the Mughal. After "his death his son Udai Siagh succeeded him. Malhar Rao Gaekowar, jL?^^^^!; j^'*, Eaja of Baroda succeeded to the-raj after the death of his brother Khan- de Eao on the 29th November, 1870, aged 42. His father was called Maharaja Kharide Eao Gaekowar, Sona Khas- khail Shamsher Bahadur, G. C. S. I. He is fifth in de- scent from Pilaji, the second Gaekowar and sixth from Damaji the first Gaekowar. When Sir Seymour Fitz- gerald sent a peremptory message directing his brother Khande Eao to replace his minion (Diwan) by some man of character, the Gaekowar fell into so violent a rage, that the conflict of passion deprived him of life. At that time Malhar Eao the present ruler was a prisoner. He had been confined for years on suspicion of having attempted his brother's life, and from his captivity at Padra he was called to a throne by the British Govern- ment. Colonel Phayre narrowly escaped lately being poisoned by him. Malhar Rao Holkar I, J-^^ j) jx^f. The Holkar family are of the Dhungar or Shepherd tribe. The de- rivation of the name Holkar or more properly Halkar, is from Hal a village, and Kar an inhabitant. Malhar Eiio who was the first prince of this family, was an officer in the service of the first Peshwa Bajf Eao, and was one of the earliest Marhatta adventurers in the expe-