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From another memorial couplet we learn that he died in A.H. 664, or A.D. 1265-66, when he was 95 lunar years of age. But as the old name of *Ajudhan* is the only one noted by Ibn Batuta in A.D. 1334, and by Timur’s historian in A.D. 1397, it seems probable that the present name of *Pák-pattan* is of comparatively recent date. It is, perhaps, not older than the reign of Akbar, when the saint’s descendant, *Núr-ud-din*, revived the former reputation of the family by the success of his prayers for an heir to the throne.