D. 1754 and was succeeded in Oudh
by his son Shuja-ud-daula.
The author's praise of the beauty of Safdar Jang's tomb will seem
extravagant to most critics. In the editor's judgement the building
is a very poor attempt to imitate the inimitable Taj. Fergusson (ed.
1910, vol. ii, p. 324, pl. xxxiv) gives it the qualified praise that
'it looks grand and imposing at a distance, but it will not bear
close inspection'. See Fanshawe, p. 246 and plate. In the original
edition a coloured plate of this mausoleum is given.
7. Nizam-ud-din was the disciple of Farid-ud-din Ganj Shakar, so
called from his look being sufficient to convert _cods of earth into
lumps of sugar_. Farid was the disciple of Kutb-ud-din of Old Delhi,
who was the disciple of Muin-ud-din of Ajmer, the greatest of all
their saints. [W. H. S.] Muin-ud-din died A.D. 1236. For further
particulars of the three saints see Beale, _Oriental Biographical
Dictionary_, ed. Keene, 1894. Dr. Horn (_Ep. Ind._ ii, 145 n., 426
n.) gives information about the Persian biographies of Nizam-ud-din
and other Chishti saints.
8. For the personal history of Nizam-ud-din see the last preceding
chapter, [13].
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