306 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOLK-LORE.
and Basraj's CJdal, the heroes of fifty-two fights in and about Dehli.* Alha and Udal are zindd pirs, that is, heroes still supposed to be alive.
25. Panjphulan, Prince Five-flowers, by Bhdi Gopal Singh, no date ; published at the Arya Pargas Press, Amritsar: 16 pp. 8vo. It is in rustic Panjabi verse, and relates the loves of Prince Shami and Princess PanjphuUn.
A merchant of Bukhdrd named 'Aziz had a very handsome wife, and when she was pregnant he made a voyage to Constantinople. The ship was wrecked, and every one drowned except the pregnant woman, who escaped on a raft. She gave birth to Prince Shami on the raft, but was drowned soon afterwards. The child, however, floated to Constantinople, where it was taken to the Sultan and adopted by him. When he was fifteen years old a fairy carried him off, but allowed him to wander the earth on a winged horse. One day he thus met Princess Panjphulan of Persia, and they were married. He after this returned to Constantinople, and lived there for the rest of his days.
26. Tilism-i-Hairat, by Ja'fir 'AM, pubHshed in 1872 at the Nawal
Kishor Press, Lucknow : 142 pp. 8vo. It is in a lofty style of Urdu prose much mixed with Arabic and Persian. Princess Nigar Iram, of Egypt, fell in love with the picture of Prince Nigar 'Alam, of India, left her country in search of him, and finally found him and married him in India.
Nigar Iram was the beautiful daughter of Sikandarbakht, king of Egypt, and had for her companion Bahdr Iram, daughter of the minister. One day they went fishing, but the sea was rough, and only these two were landed on a foreign shore, all the rest being drowned. Here, in a house, Nigdr Iram saw the picture of Nigar 'Alam, and fell in love with it. Both the girls travelled to India in search of the original, and there they found that he had been
- Bukhara, is also quoted as a scene of their battles ! An elaborate 7'esumd
and account of tbis cycle of legends will be found in the volume for 1885 of the Indian Antiquary.
