Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 19.5.3

19.5.3

My brother, who knew what had happened, reluctantly presented a petition, in which he requested a release of his paternal estate; and the Navvab having signed it, addressed it to Ram-narain for its execution; and thereby, in his opinion, obliged two persons with a single favour. But as he was now on his return to Bengal, he spent some days in celebrating the festival of the Holy in the Chehel-sutun, that building of stone raised by Zin-eddin-ahmed-qhan. Not content with that, he ordered a sandy spot in the river, through which ran a small stream, to be surrounded by cloth-walls, and there he spent some days in fulfilling the rites of that Gentoo festival, the last of which consists in throwing handfuls of dust and coloured earth at each other, and syringing coloured water on one another's clothes; and this ceremony, likewise, having been fulfilled to his heart's content, he returned in town, where he fixed a day for his departure. But first of all he spent some days in visiting the holy places of the town of Bahar; and especially the tomb of Shah-sherf-ben-yahya, the illuminated, who is the patron Saint of that town, and is entombed in its neighbourhood. And it was here, likewise, that he satisfied his cravings for ox's flesh, fried in sesam oil, which is a kind of minced meat, for which that town is famous, and of which the tary-drinkers of those parts are so very fond. He was heard to say, before his arrival there, that he would eat his bellyful of it;