Muntakhab al-tawarikh 18: Translation of the Singhasan Battisi.

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[Text, vol. ii. p. 183.] [In Jumada-l akhir, while the Court was at Sher-garh, otherwise called Kanauj, a book called Singhasan Battisi, which is a series of thirty-two tales about Raja Bikramajit, King of Malwa, and resembles the Tuti-nama, was placed in my hands; and I received His Majesty's instructions to make a translation in prose and verse. I was to begin the work at once, and present a sheet of my work on that very day. A learned brahman was appointed to interpret the book for me. On the first day I completed a sheet, containing the beginning of the first story, and when I presented it, His Majesty expressed his approbation. When the translation was finished, I called it Khirad-afza, a name which contains the date of its composition. It was graciously accepted, and placed in the Library.]