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 Ahmad 30 Aka in the neighbourhood of Shahjahanpur and Muhammadi during the mutiny of 1857. He is said to have heen the inspired Fakir who travelled through the upper provinces, a few years ago, on a miraculous mission. He made a pretty long stay at Agra, astonishing the natives and puzzling the authorities. It seems prohahle that _ he was even then busy in sowing the seeds of rebellion. He held great power within the city of Lakhnau, in March, 1858, when the Commander-in-chief entered that city and commanded a stronghold in the very heart of the city. He was slain at Pusain, on the 16th June 1858, sixteen miles north-east of Shahjahanpur, and the raja of that place sent the head and trunk to Mr. Gilbert Money, the Commissioner. Ahmad Shihab-uddin Talisli, jiJG ;^Jci.Jtt_,^.-io«4.=>>lj vide Shihab-uddin Ahmad Talish. Ahmad Suhaili, ^sj^Jit-" '^^1 seal-bearer to Sultan Husain Mirza of Hirat, to whom several of the poets of his time dedicated their works. Husain Waiz dedicated his " Anwar Suhaili" to him. Vide Suhaili. Ahmad- uUah Shah, commonly called " The Maulawl" ; see Ahmad Shah. Ahmad Yadgar, j(f jIj author of the "Tarik-i- Salatin-i-Afaghina," a history of the Afghan kings of India from Buhlid Lodi, composed by order of Daiid Shah, last king of Bengal. Vide Dowson, V, 1.] Ahmad Yar Khan, (jj^'^^j':! 'i>*=>-t^ whose poetical name is Yakta, was of the tribe of the Turks called Birlas. His father Allah Yar Khan held at different periods the siiba- dari of Labor, Tatta, and Multan, and was afterwards appointed to the Faujdari of Ghazni. Ahmad Yar Khan also held the Subadari of Tatta in the latter part of the reign of 'Alamgir. He was an excellent poet, and is the author of several poems. He died on the 21st September, 1734 A. D., O. S., 23rd Jumada I, 1147 A. H. Ahmad Yar Khan, (iSTawab), of Bareli, the son of Nawab Zul-iikar-ud-daula Muhammad Zul-fikar Khan Bahadur i)ilawar-Jang of Bareli. He was aUve in A. D. 1815, 1230 A. H. Ahmad Zarruk, (Jjjjj <X*.a.t^ surname of Abul-' Abbas Ah- mad bin- Ahmad bin-Midiammadbin-'I'sa Barallusi, author of the commentary, called " Sharh Asma'-il-Husna." He died in 1493 A. D., 899 A. H. Ahsan, ^^~v,a.tj poetical name of 'Inayat Khan, the son of Na- wab Zafar Khan. He was governor of Kabul in the reign of 'Alamgrr and is the author of a Diwan. Vide Ashna. Ahsan-uUah Khan, I (Hakim), so well known at Dihli, died in September 1873 in that city. Ain-uddin (Shaikh), i^<^Jt t^ji^ ^Jwi'of Bijapur, author of the "Mulhakat", and Kitab-ul-Anwar, containing a history of all the Muhammadan saints of India. He flourished in the tune of Sultan 'Ali-uddin Hasan Bah- mani. raz, and a well-educated and learned Musalman, was an officer of rank in the time of the emperor Akbar. He was an elegant poet, and his poetical name was Wafa. He died in the 40th year of the emperor's reign in 1694 A. D., 1003 A. H. For further notes, vide Km Translation I, 481.] 'Ain-ul-Mulk (Khwaja), s^^t^i.^ a distirv guished nobleman of the court of Sultan Muhammad Shah Tughluk and his successor Sultan Fii-uz Shah, kings of Dihli. He is the author of several works, one of which is called " Tarsil 'Ain-ul-Mulki." He also appears to be the author of another work called " Fath-na,ma," containing an account of the conquests of Sultan 'Ala- uddin who reigned from 1296 to 1316 A. D. 'Aish, (ji-i*^ the poetical name of Muhammad 'Askari who lived in the reign of the emperor Shah 'Alam. 'Aishi, a poet, who is the author of a Masnawi called " Haft Akhtar", or the seven planets, which he wrote in 1676 A. D., 1086 A. H. Ajit Singh, Raja, *<i <M Ssktjj a Eathauri ESjput, and hereditary zammdar of Marwar, or Jodhpur, was the son of EajaJaswant Singh Eathauri. He was restored in 1711 A. D. to the throne of his ancestors, and gave his daughter in marriage to the emperor Farrukhsiyar in the year 1716 A. D. He was murdered one night, when fast asleep, at the instigation of his son Abhai Singh, who succeeded him. This took place in the beginning of the reign of the emperor Muhammad Shah. Ajit Singh, a Sikh chief and murderer of Maharaja Sher Singh of Labor. He also slew Dhaian Singh, another chief, and was himself seized by Hira Singh, the son of Dhaian Singh, and put to death together with Lena Singh and others. This took place in September 1843. 'Ajiz, j.=>.U^ the poetical name of ' Arif-uddin Khan, who lived about 1764 A. D., 1168 A. H. 'Ajiz, the poetical title of Lala Ganga Bishn, father of Eamjas Munshi, which see. Ajaipal, the raja who founded Ajmir about 1183 A. D. Ajmal, '-^♦^'j (Shah) or Shah Muhammad Ajmal, a Pir- zada of Allahabad, was a descendant of Shah Khub-ul- lah, and younger brother of Shah Ghulam Kutb-uddin, the son of Shah Muhammad Fakhir, the respectability of whose family is well known at Allahabad, He died in the year 1821 A. D., 1236 A. H. Ajmiri Khan, an inhabitant of Ajmir. He walked with the emperor Akbar from Agra to Ajmir, on which account he received the title of Ajmiri Khan from that emperor. He had built a garden on a spot of 28 bighas of ground at Agra. This place is now called Ajmiri Khan-ka THa. Aka Muhammad Khan Kajar, jW^' king of Persia, of the tribe of Kajar, and son of Muhammad Hasan Khiin Kajar, ruler of Mazanderan. He was made an eunuch in his childhood by 'Adil Shah, the nephew and immediate successor of Nadu- Shah. After the death of 'Adil Shah, he obtained his release, and joined his father, who was afterwards slain by Karim Khiin Zand, king of Persia. Agha or Aka Muhammad was obliged to surrender liimself to him, and was a pri- soner in the citj of Shiraz. He had, for some time, been Very strictly guarded, and was never allowed to go beyond the walls of the town, but afterwards ho was permitted to go a-hunting. When the last illness of Karim Khan assumed a dangerous appearance, he con- trived to leave that city on the usual pretext of hunting. When intelligence was brought to him that the founder of the Zand dynasty was no more, accompanied by a. few attendants, he commenced his flight, and favored by the confusion of the moment, he reached his province of Mazandaran in safetj^, and proclaimed himself one of the competitors for the crown of Persia. Soon after the
 * Ain-ul-Mulk, <-i^JLJ| j^j^ (^^, Haki'm, a native of Shi-