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=Hassan Abdal=
{Hasa/i Abdal). — Village and ruins in the District
and tahs'il of Attock, Punjab, situated in T^f" 48' N. and 72° 44' E.,
and forming a part of the remarkable group of remains which lie around
the site of the ancient Taxila. Hiuen Tsiang, the Chinese Buddhist
pilgrim of the seventh century a. d., visited the tank of the Serpent
King, Elapatra, which has been identified with the famous spring
of Baba Wali or Panja Sahib in this village. Successive legends of
Buddhist, Brahman, Muhammadan, and Sikh origin cluster around the
sacred fountain.

The Muhammadan shrine of Baba Wali Kandhari
crowns a precipitous hill, about one mile east of the town ; and at its
foot stands the holy tank called the Panja Sahib, a Sikh shrine. The
story is that Guru Nanak once came to Hassan Abdal and asked the
incumbent of Baba W'ali's shrine, which then possessed a spring, for
water, which was refused. As a punishment the Gurii caused the water
to spring up at the foot of the hill, instead of the top.

The Muham-
madan saint thereupon hurled a huge rock at the Gurii, who turned it
aside with his hand. The rock was placed in the shrine, where it
stands to this day. It bears the marks of the Guru's hand, whence
its name of Panja, 'the five fingers.' Two miles from Hassan Abdal
lies Wah, a village which was once a halting-place of the Mughal
emperors on the road to Kashmir. Its ruined gardens and a bath,
recently excavated, mark the site of the imperial camp.

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OXFORD, AT THE CL..."