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 Shah 249 Shah with the two sons of his uncle the late prince Danial, marched out to oppose 'Asaf Khan the wazir, who had released prince Dawar Bakhsh surnamed Bulaki the son of Sultan Khusro from prison and proclaimed him king. The ha'ttle ended in Shahryar's defeat, he fled but being given up by his adherents, was imprisoned and blinded. He was after three months put to death together with Dawar Bakhsh and the two sons of Danial, named Tahmur and Hoshang by order of Shah Jahan who ascended the throne on the 4th February, 1628 A. D., 8th Jumada II, 1037 A. H. Shah Sadr, J'i a Muhammadan saint whose tomb is situated at the foot of a large mountain of Siwistan, at the distance of about 300 yards from the village of Lakki in Sindh which belongs to the Sayyads of that place. This famous saint, says Lutf-ullah in his Autography, originally came from Arabia, and brought thousands of infidels to the light of Islam from the darkness of idolatry in Sindh. The year of his death is not known, but his tomb was built "here by order of Nadir Shah, king of Persia, in 1155 A. H. Tradition states, that Nadir in a dream was invited by this saint to come to Amarkote where he was to find a very large treasure. Nadir having acted upon the visionary command, discovered the treasure promised to him, and received a very large amount, as a tribute from the Amfrs of Sindh. Nadir then bestowed a large sum of money upon the Sayyads of the village, directed them to have the edifice built over the remains of the saints. This they carried into execu. tion, and the following inscription at the door of the shrine gives the date of its completion : — " I inquired of intellect the year of its date. " Inspiration informed me, It is the Paradise of the members of the sacred house." 1742 A. D., 1155 A. H. All Sayyads of Sindh that are called Lakki Sayyads, are, I am informed (says Lutf-ullah) the descendants of this saint, whose parentage ascends up to the Imam 'Ali Naki. I am therefore inclined to think thai the word Lakki is a corruption of Naki, which is the name of the tenth Imam. Shah Safi., t**** '^^'^j grandson of Shah Abbas the Great, king of Persia. His father's name was Saff Mirza and his original name Bahram Mirza. He succeeded his grandfather in January, 1629 A. D., Jumada I, 1038 A. H. and took the title of Shah Safi. He was a capri- cious tyrant ; and every year of his rule presented the same horrid and disgusting Scene of barbarous cruelty. All the princes of the blood royal, and almost every minister, or general of family or character, were either put to death, or deprived of their eyes, by command of this monarch. He reigned nearly 14 years, died in May, 1642 A. D., Safar, 1052 A. H., and was succeeded by his son, Abbas II. Shah Sharaf-Uddin, eri'^-'l i-ir^ a Muhammadan saint who died in the year 1379 A. D., 781 A. H., and is buried in Behar, where his monument is still standing and is visited by the Muhammadans. There is an in- scription in the Ktifi character over the entrance to the dargah, which however time has rendered illegible with the exception of the date of the death of the saint, and of the erection of the tomb in 1569 A. D., 977 A. H. The dargah is held in great veneration by the Muhammadans who at the 'TJrs or anniversary of the death of the saint, assemble from aU parts of the country, it is said to the number of 60,000. He is also called Makhdum-ul-Mulk Shah Sharif-uddin and Shaikh Sharif. The emperor Sikandar Shah the son of Bahlol Lodi went to visit his tomb about the year 1495 A. D., 900 A. H., vide Sharaf- uddln Ahmad 'Ahia Maneri. 63 Shah Sharif or Sharif-uddin, '-^j^ jst-i^ videShih Sharaf-uddin. Shah Shujaa' or Shuj a'-ul- M u 1 k, <-^Ut ets:--L; ^Is"*" xt^^ king of Kabul, was the j'oungest son of Taimur Shah the son of Ahmad Shah Abdalf. He was sent to Kashmir by his brother Muhammad Shah and imprisoned in the fort of the K6h-i-Maran in 1812 A. D. from which place he was released in 1814 by Eanjit Singh and detained at Labor as a prisoner till his escape to the British territories. He was placed by the British Government on the throne of Kabul on the 8th May, 1839 A. D., and was murdered by his nephew, a son of Zaman Shah on the 2nd May, 1842 A. D. He is the author of a biographical sketch of his own life written at Liidhiana in 1826-27. This work was translated bj^ Lieut. Bennet, of the Artillery, and published in the Asiatic Journal, Vol. XXX, p. 6, under Asiatic Intelligence. Shah Shujaa', Sultan of the Muzafiarians whose capital was Shfraz. It is said that this prince was in such a manner plagued by a malady called Juu'I Bakar, or canine hunger, that he could not satisfy his hunger, neither on his journey, nor when he was at rest. He deprived his father Muhammad MuzatFar of his sight in 1 359 A. D., and held the reins of government in his own hands. His brother Shah Mahmiid of Isfahan beseiged Shi'raz in 1364, took possession of that country and died before his brother in 1375 A. D., 9th Shawwal, 776 A. H. after a reign of 16 years. Shah Shujaa' died on Sunday the 9th of October, 1384 A. D., 21st Shaban, 786 A. H. He was succeeded by his son Zain-ul-'Abidin, who on the approach of Ami'r Taimur to Shiraz retired to Tishtar, where his uncle Shah Mansur seized him and deprived him of his sight. Shfraz was bestowed by Amir Taimur on Shah Ahia the son of Muzalfar, but it was soon after taken by Shah MansCir, in whose possession it remained till it was retaken by that conqueror in 1393 A. D., 795 A. H. There is a garden near Shfraz called Haft-tan, which contains the remains of Shah Shujaa, and has, on one side of it, a small building, ornamented with a variety of pictures. Shah Sufi, c5-l>'* 2*^^, a Muhammadan saint whose shrine is at a village called Suffpur in the Pargana of Ffrozabad in Agrah. It is related by the Khadims of the dargah that in the reign of the emperor Akbar, Shah Suff a fakfr of some celebrity wandered from Isfahan to India, and took up his hermitage among the Jamna ravines near the city of Chandwar, then the county town of the Pargana of the same name, and which from the remains which still cover the surrounding country for miles — ruined mosques, dilapidated octagon mausolea, fallen entrance gates and such like works of costly strength, must have been an important post in a fiscal and military point of view. All the time from which the feble of Shah Sufi's miracles commence. Raja Chandarsen was the lord of the fort of Chandwar, and a troublesome tributary of the Dehlf court. Non-compliance with the royal demands for payment of revenue, brought upon the raja the investment of his fort by the army of Akbar, who is said to have commanded his forces in person, and to have prosecuted his attack with no approach to success for a period, which the credulous or imposing Khadims of the establishment have exalted into a term of ten years. In the language of Oriental metaphor, the emperor is said to have planted a mangoe tree on the commencement of the seige, and to have eaten the fruit of it, ere his success was secured. This success he owed to the anchorite of the ravines Shah Siiff. During a severe land storm, the lamps of the entire camp were put out, and the light of the Shah's hut alone glimmered in the surrounding dark- ness. This extraordinary fact led to the Shah's being