LETTER CCCXLVI.
To MEER JAAFUR WUFFA KHÂNY; dated 14th HÂSHIMY.
(15th August.)

THE account of Gunaish Bhyroo’s arrival in hell* has been received. We [only] require the blessing of God to attend us, in order to the [speedy] removal of whatever superfluous hairs are remaining.* Many such are [always] coming, and many going. The favour of God con­stitutes our aid and support.

OBSERVATIONS.

I can give no account of the Gunaish Bhyroo, whose death is here so exultingly noticed by the Sultan. He may either have been an insurgent Polygar or a Mah­rattah commander. If the official designation of Meer Jaafur had been given, it might have thrown some light on this point. The addition of Wuffa Khâny, which follows the proper name of this person, is, if I am not mistaken, an appellation, by which a particular tribe, or family, of Moghul descent, was distinguished.