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 Mir Mirza promoted for some time to tho Sulbadari of Bihar. In the first year of the emperor Muhammad Shah, he was appointed to the rank of Sadr us-Sudur, and died in the 13th year of his reign, ahout the year 1731 A. D., 1144 A. H. Mir Khtmd, <^b^^'^, vide Khawand Shah. Mir Mannu, j^, vide Mo'm ul-Mulk. Mir Masum, <^t^ ftr^*^^'*^ of Bihkar, -was an of&cer of the rank of 1000 in the time of Akbar and Jahangir, but an excellent poet. He is the author of a Diwan, and a Masnam' called "Ma' dan ul-Afkar," written in imitation of the "Makhzan ul-Asrar," and of a history of Sindh, called "Tan'kh Sindh." He died at Bihkar in 1606 A. D., 1015 A. H. Mir Muhammad Khan Talpur, J^i^^ o^=^ one of the Ex- Amirs of Sind. He was lately one of the members of the Bombay Legislative Council. He died at Haidarabad (Sind) on the 17th of December, 1870 A. D. Much respected, his remains were followed to the family mausoleum by the Commissioner, the Judge, and the Collector, of the district. He lies in the place origin- ally intended for his late father, Mir Murad 'AH, who preferred lying out in the open air, where the sun and moon could shed their light on his grave. He died in his 60th year. There now remain only three of the once numerous Talpur family at Haidarabad, all aged men at whose death in the course of time the once troublesome family will be extinct. The conquest of their territory and the overthrow of their power, furnish one of the most remarkable and interesting episodes in British Indian history. Mir Muhammad, Munshi, J;^, author of a collection of Letters. Mir Muhammad, Sayyad, '^■^^'^j-i'^ •^■i*", the great Mahdawi of Jaunpur. Mir Mu'izzi, C^j'*'* j^^, vide Amir Moizzi. Mir Murtaza, cs"'*t'' jj^^^^'i:'*, sumamed Al-Mad'u bi-ilm il-Huda. He died on the 25th Septem- ber, 1044 A. D., 30th Safer, 436 A. H. Mir Hazi, ts'^ a poet who received a lakh of Rupees from a prince of Dehli for a Ghazal he composed. Mir Sadik, ij^^'^^^y commonly called Miran, was the son of Mir Ja'far 'AH Khan, nawab of Bengal. He was killed by lightning when asleep in his tent on the night of the 2nd July 1760 A. D., 18th Zi-Ka'da, 1173 A. H. He had killed several women of his harem with his own hand. Being reproached by the British Eesident with the murder of one of the women, he answered, "What, shall not I kill an old woman, who goes about in her litter to stir up people against my father i" Mir Sharaef 'AUama, ^'^^^ '•h-*' j^, vide Sharif Jurjani. Mir Sayyad Jama Baf, '^i-^ji'^, the weav- er, was an excellent poet of Persia who came to India in 1662 A. I)., 969 A. H. in the time of the emperor Akbar, and died in the year 1565 A. D., 973 A. H. His compo- sitions mostly were Eubais, consequently ho is sometimes called Mir Euba'i. Mir Taki, LS^^ji^j vide Mir. Mirza, ^jj^j is an abbreviation of Amirzada, which in Persian signifies, the son of a prince or nobleman. It is 45 also written Mirza, which has been adopted in this work. The descendants of Amir Taimur were all called Mirzas till Babar Shah, who assumed the honorable title of Bad- shah, and the princes were called Sultans and Salatms. Mirza, vide Mirza. Mirza 'AH Beg, ^J. iJ^ vide 'AH Beg (Mirzd). Mirza 'Ali, Nawab, 13 J'^ He was execu- ted at Dehli on Tuesday the 9th July 1844 A. D., for the murder of two dancing-girls in that city. The Fatwa was given by Maulana Sadr-uddin Khan Bahadur, Sadr us-Sudiir. Mirza Haidar, J"^^ tjj'X', vide Haidar (Mirza) also caUed Haidar Doghlat. Mirza Hasan, l;^*, vide Hasan (Mirza). Mirza 'Isa, Js'-i* Vjj^, and Mirza Inayat-ullah, governors of Tatta in the time of the emperor Shah Jahan, where they died. Their tombs are magnificent edifices built of yellow marble, beautifully carved, with flowers in has- relief, and surpassing all the buildings of the place. The inscription gives the year of 1648 A, D., 1058 A. H. Mirza Jan, whose poetical name was Jam, was the father of Mirza Jan Janan. Mirza Jangli, ^^^^ Nawab Sa'adat 'Ali'^ second brother. Mirza Jana, ^'jy, and Mirza Ghazi, two Wazfrs who lived in the reign of the emperor 'Alamgir. Their tombs are in Tatta, and the inscription shows the date to be 1683 A. D., 1095 A. H. Mirza Khan, ^jy, author of the " Tuhfet ul-Hind," a work on Hindu music &c., composed under the pa- tronage of 'Azim Shah. It contains a minute account of Hindu literature in all, or most of its branches : he pro- fesses to have extracted his elaborate chapter on music, with the assistance of ^Pandits, from the llagarnava, or Sea of Passions, the Eagdarpana or Mirror of Iilodes, &c. Mirza Mehr Nasir, fjj^, a physician in the service of Karun Khan, king of Persia, and author of a Masnawi. Amongst the many poems which have cele- brated the charms and delights of the Spring, Iiis Masnawi holds the highest place. He flourished about the year 1770 A. D., 1184 A. H. Mirza Muhammad, <^'=^ ^jy, sumamed Bulbul, a celebrated lutanist of Persia. It is related by Sir WiUiam Jones, that an intelligent Persian repeated to him again and again, that he had more than once been present when Mu'za Muhammad was playing to a large company in a grove near Shii-az, where he distinctly saw the nightin- gales trying to vie with tho musician, sometimes war- bling on the trees, sometimes fluttering from branch to branch, as if they wished to approach the instrument whence the melody proceeded, and at length dropping on the ground in a kind of ecstacy, from which they were soon raised by a change of the mode. Mirza Muhsin, w^=='" brother of Nawab Safdar Jang. His title was Nawab Izzat-uddaula, which see. Mirza Nasir, ^jj^s the father of tho maternal grandsire of Nawab Shuja-uddaula. He came into Hin- dustan in the beginning of the reign of the emperor Bahadur Shah the son of 'Alamgii-, by whom he was ap- pointed to an office of trust at Patna about the year 1708