Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 1) (London, 1832)

72. ANECDOTES OF EUNUCHS.

joyed the good will and affection of all who
could appreciate what is valuable in honest
integrity. He died as he had lived, in the
most perfect resignation to whatever was the
will of God, in whose mercy he trusted through
time, and for eternity. Many of the old inha-
bitants speak of him with veneration and re-
spect, declaring he was the perfect pattern for
good Mussulmauns to imitate.

Another remarkable Eunuch, Affrine Khaun,
of the Court of Oude, is well remembered in the
present generation also,—the poor having lost a
kind benefactor, and the rich a sensible compa-
nion, by his death. His vast property he had
willed to others than the sovereign ruler of Oude
(whose property he actually was), who sent, as
is usual in these cases, to take possession of
his estate, immediately after his death; the
gates were barred, and the heirs the Eunuch
had chosen to his immense wealth had taken
possession; which I am not aware was disputed
afterwards by the reigning Nuwaub, although
by right of the Mussulmaun law, the Nuwaub
owned both the slave and the slave's wealth.