PAD CM AW ATI. 11 ed with him, and brought him (as a disciple) to Saiyad Raji Hamid Shah. From him ( Muh!u-d-din) did I win all my (good) deeds. My tongue was loosened,'* and, a poet, (I learned to) tell my tale.'^ He was my master and I liis disciple, evermoie do I bow before him as his slave. Through him did I obtain a sight of the Creator. B. C), the founder of the second or Kayanian dynasty of the kings of Persia, and ninth in ascent before the Darius, who was conquered by Alexander. In the text, all that is meant is that Khnaja Kh izr appeared to Daniyil, and performed his cnstoinary office of guide. '* Lit. uncovered. 13 The following account of Malik Muhammad's spiritual ancpstors ie taken partly from what the poet himself tells us, and partly from the Urdu gloss and other sources He belonged to the Oishtiyd Nizamiyd, that is to say he belonged to the spiritual descent which took its name from the celebrated NizSrau-d-dIn Anliya, the teacher of Amir Khusro, who died about 1325 A. D. His disciple was Siraju-d-din, whose disciple was Shaikh 'Alaul-haqq. 'Alau-1-haqq's son and disciple Shaikh Niir Qtttb 'Alani, the date of whose death is usually given as 1444 A. D. Chi'onologists, however, vary as to this ; some say A. H. 808, i.e., A. D. 1403, others A. H. 813, i.e., A. D. 1410, others A. H. 818, i.e., A. D. 1415, others A. H. 848, i.e., A. D. 1444, and others again A. H. 831, i.e., A. D. 1447. Mr. Beveridge in J. A. S. B. Ixiv, Pt. I, 207, considers A. H. 818, A. D 1415, as the true date. He lived at Pandua in Miildah, and another disciple was Saiyad Ashraf Jahangir (see 18, 1.) Ashraf s most famous disciple was Shaikh HajT, whose disciples were .Shaikh Mubarak, and Shaikh Kamal. Shaikh NQr Quth 'Alam and Saiyad Ashraf Jahangir were fellow disciples {pir blim) and from them eighth in descent came Malik Muhammad (Fl. 1540 A. D.) The fall genealogical table is as follows : — I NizSmu-d-din (d. 1325 A. D.) I SIraju-d-din. I Shaikh 'Alau-1-haq. I Shai^ Niir Qutb 'Alam of Pandua, and Saiyad Ashraf Jahangir {vide xviii, 1), (son of preceding.) I ^1 Shaikh Hashamu-ddin of Manikput. Shaikh HajT. -| Saiyad Baji Hamid Shah. Shaikh Mubarak and Shai^ Dfiniyai fd. 1486 A. D.). Shaikh Kamrd. I Saiyad Muhammad. I Shaikh Alhadfid. I Shaikh Burhan. I Saiyad Muhiu-d-din (ride sx, 1). I Malik Muhammad, (1540 A. D.) From this it follows that the poet was not an actual disciple of Saiyad Ashraf Jahangir, as might be assumed from xviii, 1 and ff. Malik Muhammad merely refers to him and praises him as his spiritual ancestor. A tradition makes him the poet's mantra- guru, while Muhiu-d-din was his x-idyd-guru, ie . the one initiated him, and the other taught him, which agrees with Malik Muhammad's own language. Shaikh Dariyal. the fifth in the line before the poet, appears to have claimed to have had for a friend Khwaja Khizr, who introduced him to his preceptor, Saiyad Riiji Hamid Shiih. Shaikh Burhan, Malik Muhammad's spiritual grandfather resided at Kal'pi in Bnndel'khand, and is said to have died at 100 years of age in A. H. 970, or A. D. 1562-63. See Rep. Arch. Sur. Ind xxi, 131.
