Seal of Zāhid Shāha

There are in all twenty two seals imprinted on the leaf, of which fourteen ar square and eight octagonal in shape While both the seals are identical in tha they belong to the same person, they differ in their legends to the extent tha the one on the square seals contains the name and designation

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देसाई एक पत्र पर बाईस बार अंकित दो मुहरों के फ़ारसी लेख पढ़ते हैं — चौदह चौकोर, आठ अष्टकोणीय। दोनों क़ादिरी-रिफ़ाई सिलसिलों के ख़लीफ़ा ज़ाहिद शाह की हैं; एक पर हिजरी 1201 (1786-87 ई.) अंकित है। पृष्ठभाग पर गुजराती दोहे हैं, विसनगर के मनसुखराम के हस्ताक्षर सहित। Desai reads the Persian legends on two seals - fourteen square, eight octagonal - impressed twenty-two times on one leaf. Both are of Zāhid Shāh, khalīfa of the Qādirī and Rifāī orders; one is dated AH 1201 (1786-87). Gujarati dohās on the reverse are signed by Mansukhrām of Visnagar.

Written by the archive’s cataloguers, not by the author.