1 102 THE COURT OF THE SlKlt SOYEREIGNS.
2 M. — Misher, bring five bags of rupees of
3 a hundred each, and lay them at the sayud's
4 feet.
5 S. — Your Highness will, I hope, give me a
6 sight of yourself to-morrow.
7 (Sayud makes his salaam and retires.)
8 A. — ^Your Highness, there is a holy man who
9 has one of Gooroo Nanac's shoes.
10 M. — ^What, has he preserved it since that time?
11 Bring hither that holy man, and take my own
12 elephant for him to come on.
13 (The holy man arrives ; unfolds the shoe from a
14 hundred wrappers ; the Maharajah salutes it, and
15 applies it to his eyes, head, and breast.)
16 M, — Order a perpetual grant to be written of
17 a thousand rupee village, in the province of Va-
18 zeerabad, and give it to the holy man.
19 A, — Your Highness, there is a great pundit
20 (scholar) arrived from Benares, deeply read, who
21 has a lingum of Mahadeo's with him ; he says
22 that whatever pain your Highness may have will
23 be cured by applying it ; it must, therefore, be a
24 real one.
25 M. — Misher, saddle an elephant with a silver
26 howdah, and bring the pundit on it directly.
27 A, — Maharajah, the pundit is a man of queer
28 temper, and will not be thus brought.
29 M, — Bring him by all means, and take 500
30 rupees with you from the treasury.