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 Wazir 282 Yafa'i interral grounds for disputing the authenticity of his pretensions having been established, he was deposed on the 21st of January, 1798 A. D. by Sir John Shore, and Saadat 'AH Khan the brother of the late Nawab was placed on the masnad. Wazir 'AH was sent to Benares where he murdered Mr. Cherry the Political Agent on Monday the 14th of January, 1799 A. D., 8th Shaban, 1213 A. H. He at first fled to Butwal and afterwards took refuge with the raja of Jaipur, a powerful indepen- dent chief who refused to give him up unless under a stipulation of his life being spared. To this it was thought prudent to accede, and being accordingly given up to the British in December following, he was brought down to Calcutta and confined at Fort William in a bomb-proof, divided by iron gratings in three parts. _ The longest, in the centre, was occupied by Wazir 'AH, and the other two by Sentries, one English and one native. After many years captivity, he was transported to a more suitable prison in the palace built for Tipu Sultan's family in the fort of Vellore, where the females of his family subsequently joined him, and there he died. Lord Teignmouth, in the Life of his father, states that Wazir 'AH died in rigorous confinement in Fort William and this is said to be a mistake. His death took place in the month of May, 1817 A. D., Eajab, 1232 A. H., after 17 years 3 months and 4 days' confinement, and was buried at Kasi Baghan close to a tomb of one of the sons of Tipu Sultan. He was then in his 36th year. His mother was the wife of a Farrash. The expenses of his marriage in 1795 amounted to 30 lakhs of rupees, while 70 rupees were sufEicient to defray all the cost of his funeral in 1817, a strange reverse of fortune. Wazir Klian, surname of Muhammad Tahir an officer of the rank of 6000 who served under the emperor ' Alamgir. In the latter years of his Hfe he was appoin- ted governor of Malwa where he died 1672 A. D. His nephew Eafi Khan is the author of the " Hamlae Hai- dari." Wazir Muhammad, Nawab of Bhopal, an ally of the British Government, died in March, 1816 A. D., and his son Nazar Muhammad Khan succeeded him. Wazir Khan, U^^-Jj? an Amir of the Court of the em- peror Shahjahan by whom he was raised to the rank of 6000 into the title of Wazir Khan and the Siibadarship of the Panjab. He built a splendid masji'dat Labor in 1044 A. H., which is still in good preservation. His proper name was Hakim AH'm-uddm. Wazir-Tiddaula, title of Wazir Muhammad Khan, the Nawab of Tonk, the son of Nawab Amir Khan the Pindara Chief, died in June, 1864 A. D. Wazir -uddaula, ^•'j'^-'ir-jjj Nazir-ul-Mulk Wazir- uddaula. Wikar-ul-TJmra, 1;** Jl/Oj the son of Shams-ul-Umrah Nawab of Haidarabad Dakhin. Wisal, d^'^J, the poetical name of Mirza Kochak of Shiraz, author of a " Farhaa wa Shi'rin." Wisali, LS^^'^J) poetical name of Sayyad 'Ala-uddin a modern poet of Khurasan who was settled in Audh. He is the author of an Elegy on the Imams, vide 'Ala-uddfn (Sayyad). Wizarat Khan, ul>^ ^Jjj} whose proper name ja Mfr Ahdur Eahman, was the second son of Amanat Khan Mi'rak, an excellent poet. His poetical name was Bikrami. He flourished in the time of the emperor 'Alamgir and has left a Diwan. Vide Bikrami. Wys Karani, ts-'ir^ cA^-j vide Aweis Karani. X. Xavier, Hieronymo, a Catholic Missionary who came from Goa to DehH in the reign of the emperor Jahan- gir. He is the author of a religious work in Persian entitled the " Mirror of Truth" which he dedicated to the emperor in the year 1609 A. D., and which has been preserved in the Library of Queen's College, Cambridge. A reply to this book was written a few years after its appearance by Ahmad ibn-Zain-ul-'Abidin Alalwi, to which he gave the title of " The divine rays in refutation of Christian error." A copy of which is also preserved in the same College. This work was written by the author in the month of November, 1621 A. D., Muharram, 1031 A. H. Y. Yadgar Muhammad, Mirza, i^+^j (f^tj Ij^*, the son of Mirza Muhammad, the son of Mirza Baisanghar, the son of Mirza Shahrukh, the son of Amir Taimur. After the death of Mirza Baisanghar, his grandfather, he succeeded him as governor of Khurasan in 1434 A. D., and held that situation till the death of Sultan 'Abu Said Mirza, who being taken prisoner by Uzzan Hasan, was made over to Yadgar Muhammad in 1469 A. D., 873 A. H. who slew him. After his death Sultan Husain Baikara took possession of Hirat, with whom Yadgar Muhammad had several battles ; but was at last slain in a night attack on the 25th of August, 1470 A. D., 27th Safar, 875 A. H. He was the last of the descendants of Shahrukh Mirza, and is said to have written excellent poetry. Yadgar Nasir, Mirza, ^'^^j'^>i':l !3y°, brother of the emperor Babar Shah. When the emperor Humayun after his return from Persia marched in person in the year 1546 A. D., 953 A. H. to reduce Badakhshan, Yadgar Nasir having attempted to stir up a sedition in the royal army, was upon conviction, sentenced to death, though he was uncle to the kiog. Yafa'i, Imam, vL?*^'- (*^'*'' a Muhammadan doctor whose proper name was 'Abdullah bin-Asad. He was a native of Yafa in Syria from which he was called Yafai. He is also called Kutb Mecca, and Yafai Nazal-ul-Haramyn, Shah Namat-ullah was one of his disciples. He is the author of several works in Arabic, among which are " Durr-ul-Nazm fi Munafa-ul-Kuran," " Eauzat-ul-Ra- yazin fi Hikaet-ul-Salahin," " Khulasat-ul-Mufakhir fi Munakib-ush-Shaikh 'Abdul Kadir," and the "Mirat- nl-Janan fi Hawadis-uz-Zaman" the latter containinS Memoirs of all the Muhammadan Generals and other illustrious Characters, from the commencement of the Hijri era 622 A. D. to the year 1300 A. D., a very interesting work. Yafai, according to some, died in 1354 A. D., and according to others in 1366 A. D., 755 or 767 A. H., but the latter date appears to be correct. He is Bometinies called 'Abdullah bin-'AbduI Yaf^i,