The legends of the Panjâb

THE GENEALOGIES OF LAL BEG. 641
Bale Shah, the Saint :*
Saidar Shah, the Saint:
The Beloved of the Most High, the Saint.
35 The Lord, the Destroyer-of-difficulties, Dakhdakh, the
Saint.
(The Sitter on the) Blessed Throne, the Lord of the
Two Worlds, the Saint.
BaM Shah, the Saint : whose son is he
The son of Amir Shah, the Saint.
Amir SiAh the Saint : whose son is he
40 The son of Saidar Shah, the Saint.
Saidar Shah the Saint : whose son is he
The son of the Beloved of the Most High, the Saint.
The Beloved of the Most High, the Saint : whose son
is he
The son of the Lord, the Destroyer-of-difficulties, Dakhdakh,
the Saint.
45 The Lord, the Destroyer-of-difficulties, whose son is he
The son of the (Sitter on the) Blessed Throne, the Lord
of the Two Worlds, the Saiut.f
Hail ! Hail ! Lord ! what were the rites in the Golden
Aget
Golden pitcher.
Golden shrine.
* Nuri of heaven, as opposite khdJci, " of the earth earthy."
f The reciter of this genealogy can have no perception oFany real
meaning in it. It is a mere string of familiar titles of sacred personages
very much corrupted. Bala Shah is Valmiki. Saidar Shah is {)
Haidar, that is, 'AU. Manila is universal in India as a synonym for
God. MushkU-Kusha is a title of 'Ali. Dakhdakh unless it be for
ddgh ddgh, celebrated, is unintelligible. Takht-bakht RabbuTAlamin
is, they say, meant for Muhammad, but the latter is an universal title
of God.
J The reference in this and the succeeding passages is to the conventional
four ages of the world in the Hindu cosmogony. The Krita
Tuga or Golden Age : Treta Tuga or Silver Age : Dwapara Tuga or
Brazen Age : Kali Tuga or Iron Age, the present one. It will be
observed that the text has them'in the wrong order. It evidently relates
the ritual of the scavenger classes.