SAR1VAR, a famous Muhammadan shrine in Delira. Ghazi Khan district, Panjab ; 30* N., long. 70° 10' 30" .E. The shrine crowns the high bank of a hill stremn at the foot of the Stillman range, in the midst of arid desert scenery. Founded in honour of Saidi Ahmed., afterwards known RR Sakhi Sarwar, the son of Zain-ul-Abidin, an itnmigrant from Baghdad, who Fettled at Sialkot, 12 miles east of Multan, in the year 1220. Zain-ul-Abidin was a descendant of Ali, and dreamt that Mahorned stood by his side, commanding him to proceed to India to convert the idolatora. Accordingly he reached Sialkot, where he married a daughter of Rattan Khan, Afghan, and had two sons, Syed Dhoda and Syed Alunad. Alimad became a devotee, and, having performed a very remarkable series of miracles, was presented by the Dehli emperor with four mule-loads of money, with which the Sakhi Sarwar shrine was erected. A handsome flight
of steps leads from the bed of the stream to the building, constructed at the expense of two Hindu merchants of Lahore. The buildings include—the mausoleum of Sakhi Sarwar himself ; a monument of Baba Nanak ; the tomb of Massamat Bibi Bai, wife of Sakhi Sarwar ; and a thakurdwara. They thus comprise a curious mixture of Hindu and Muhanumulan architecture, and are frequented by devotees of all religions. The guardians of the shrine are the descendants of Salthi Sarwar's three servants, always miraculously limited to the number of 1650, among whom the revenues accruing from the offerings are equally divided.• Throughout the year, the shrine forms the resort of numerous mendicants, Hindu and Muham madans.--Imp. Gaz. viii.; MacGregor, iii. p. 61.