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Safwi 231 Sahji Safwi Kha'n, ^ descendant of the royal house of Persia of the Safwi family. He held a high rank in the service of the emperor 'Alamgi'r, and was killed in the battle which took place between the two brothers 'Azim Shah and Bahadur Shah on the 8th June, 1707 A. D., 18th Rabi I, 1119 A. H. Saguna Ba'i Sa'heb, V*^^ dr'^ Edm of Sitara and widow of the late Maharaja of Sitara Chatrapati Appa Saheb who died about the year 1874 A. D. Saha'bi, t5^'^j poetical name of a poet who wrote poetry in Persian, and is the author of a Diwan. Sahar, J^"^} poetical title of Sayyad Nasir 'AH who died in 1833 A. D., 1249 A. H. Saliara'wi, L£"jL^^j 'oide AWl Kasim Al-Saharawi'. Sahba', '*t^> whose original name was 'Abdul Baki, was a poet who flourished about the year 1653 A. D., 1063 A. H. in the time of the emperor 'Alamgi'r. Sahba'i, l^^t^^ poetical name of Maulwi Imam Bakhsh. , He translated the Arabic work caUed "Hadaek-ul- • Balaghat," into Persian, and is the author of several Persian and TJrdii works. He was living in 1854 A. D., 1271 A. H. Sahlba'n, tte son of Wafl Kheyai, who Hved in the time of Harun-al-Rashid. Shaikh Sadi in his Gulistan says, that Sahban Wail has been considered as unrivalled in eloquence, insomuch that if he spoke before an assem- bly for the space of a year, he did not repeat a word twice, and if the same meaning occurred he repeated it m a different form. Sallib, the poetical appellation of Hakim Kazim, commonly called " Masfh-ul-Bayan." He was a physician and also a poet, and held the rank of 500 in the reign of 'Alamgir. He died two or three years before Mirza S&eb the poet about the year 1667 A. D., 1077 A. H., and left two or three Diwans. He imitated Jalal-uddin Eumi and wrote several Masnawfs or poems, viz., " Ama Khana" "ParlKhana", " Malahat Ahmadi", "Sabahat Tusafi"^ " Gul Muhammadi", and " Aufas Masflii". Sa'hib, i'^<^^ Masfli&i (Akhund). Sa'hib Balkhi, ts^^ •e^^'*, a poet of Balkh who wrote panegyrics in praise of some of the kings of Badakhshan. He flourished in the 9th century of the Hijra. Satib, "t*^^**} (Aloysius Eeinhardt) a son of Shamrii or Sombre, who had the title of Mazaffar-uddaula Mumtaz-ul- Mulk Nawab Zafaryab Khan Bahadur Nasrat Jang._ He held (says an author) sometimes assemblies of poets in his house, and is said to have been a pleasant man, but a great scoundrel. He was a pupil of Khairati Khan Dilsoz. He died in the prime of life, and was buired at Agra in the small Catholic Church built by his father. He was grand- father of the late Dyce Sombre. Sallib Jama'l, J^-*^ 'r^^'*, wife of the emperor Jahangir and a relative of Zain Khan Koka. She was the mother of Sultan Parweiz. Sa'hib Kira'n, (Arabic characters)this is the title the Orientals as well as Arabs, Persians and Turks have given to Amrr Taimur (Tamerlane), because he was bom in a particular planetary aspect {vide next article but one). Sa'hib Kira'n, i:;!^ •e=^^'*j the poetical title of Sayyad Imam 'Ali of Bilgram who became distracted m 1813 A. D., 1228 A. H., and wrote indecent and satirical poetry. He came to Lakhnau in the time of Nawab 'Asaf-uddaula. Sa'hib Kira'n Sa'ni, (/^^ c^!r» V'^'^, or Sahib Kiran the Second, a title of the emperor Shah Jahan. The first being Taimur or Tamerlane the founder of the family. The word means "nearness" and is used in Astrology to express a planetary conjunction. Taimiir and his de- scendant, the builder of the Taj, were both born when Jupiter and Venus were " in the same house. V^de Shah Jahan. Sa'hiba Zama'ni, Ls'^j daughter of the emperor Muhammad Shah. She was sought in marriage by 'Alamgir II, but she refused him. Her mother, Slalika Jahan, claimed the protection of Ahmad Shah Abdali against 'Alamgi'r's designs upon her daughter, and he carried them both to Kabul in 1757 A. D., and some time after espoused Sahiba Zamani himself. Sa'hji or Sa'huji Bhosla I, (js^^y-^ t5?=*^-, a Mahratta chief who rose to considerable rank in the time of MaUk Ambar an Abyssinian chief of Ahmad- nagar. He afterwards entered the service of the king of Bijapur and was continued in his jagir, which had fallen to that state in the partition of the Ahmadnagar territory. He was subsequently employed on conquests to the southward, and obtained a much more considerable jagir in the Mysore country including the towns of Sira and Bangalore. When at a great age, he was killed by a fall in hunting, about the year 1664 A. D. He was the father of the celebrated Sewajf, who though the son of a powerful chief, begun life as a daring and artful captain of banditti, ripened into a skilful general and an able statesman, and left a character which has never since been equalled or approached by any of his coun- trymen. Sahji, in consequence of some dispute with his first wife, separated from her, and married Toka Bai, by whom he had, Ekoji, who afterwards became king of Tanjore. List of the family of Sewaji or Rdjds of Sitara. A. D. Sahji, Subadar of the Karnatik under 'Alamgir, bestows jagirs on his sons — Tanjore on Ekoji — and dies ^ 1664 Sewaji, his son commences predatory expeditions. . 1647 plunders Surat, and assumes the title of raja 1664 establishes a military government 1669 and dies 1680 Eaja Earn, set up by minister, imprisoned at Eaegarh 1680 Sambhaji assumed the sovereignty 1680 — executed atTaiapur 1689 Santa, usurped power — murdered 1698 Eaja Earn again proclaimed 1698 A. D., at Sitara and died 1700 Tara Bai, his wife, assumed regency 1700 Sewaji II, son of Sambha, nicknamed Sahuji, re- leased on 'Alamgir's death, and crowned at Sitara in March, 1708, and died in 174» Eam Raja, nominal successor, — power resting with minister or Peishwa, died 12th December 1777 Sabu surnamod Abba Saheb, the adopted son of Eam Raja succeeded 1777 Partap Singh the son of Sabu, reinstated at Sitara by the British, 11th April 1818 Sa'hji, Sa'huji or Sa'u Bhosla II, ij'fj^^, ij?^^ thg Qf Sambhaji the Marhatta chief, after whose death in 1689 A. D., 15th Muharram, 1101 A. H