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The poetical title of Zatali, under which Mirza Jafar wrote, comes from zatal, Hindi, "chattering, quibbling, idle-talk," (Shakespear, 1212). There are several printed editions of his works. A copy of the edition of 1853, now in the Königliche Bibliothek at Berlin, belonged to Dr. Sprenger (see his Catalogue, p. 8, No. 1638.) Beale, p. 189, says he was executed by Farrukh-siyar's orders for parodying the couplet on the coin of that Emperor. The historians make no mention of this;