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INSCRIPTIONS FROM DELHI DISTRICT.
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Bayana by Khân Khånân, dared to present himself before the emperor; but the latter was so greatly offended by this that he ordered the rebel again into imprisonment.
The town was almost ruined by the great famine of 1783 A.D., but has since regained its prosperity. The following twelve inscriptions belong to seven mosques in it, and date from the tenth and eleventh centuries of the Hijrat.
1. A loose stone (20%' by 18") from the destroyed Kali Masjid, now in the house of Mardân 'Ali Shah Bhattiàn in the town of Jhajhar, bears the following inscription of four lines :
قال النبي عليه السلام من بنا مسجدا لله بنا الله له مثله في الجنة
عالي خان اعظم برگزیده رحمان مربی جهان بنا کرد این مسجد مجلس
میان افغان دارد خان بن مغفور مرحوم ملک الشرق علاء الدوله والدین ملک
سلمه الله عن الحذثات و تزج ترابه بتاج الرضوان الخامس والعشرين من رمضان سنة تسع و تسعين وسبعماية
“ The Prophet-may he be blessed I-says, 'He who builds a mosque for Allah, • will have built for him a house like it by Allâh in Paradise.'
“This mosque has been built by the high Majlis, the great Khân, the chosen of the Merciful, the educator of the world,
“Daud Khån, the pardoned deceased son of the Malik Ashsharq ('Aladdaula) Waddin Malik Miyan, the Afghån;
“May God preserve him from bad accidents and crown his reward with the crown of Paradise !-on the twenty-fifth Ramazan 799 [22nd June 1397]."
The date falls in the reign of Maḥmad Shah; an inscription of the same year has also been published by Blochmann in the Journal As. Soc. Beng., vol. XLII, p. 304.
2. Over the mihráb of the Bazarwalli mosque in the middle of the town, a sandstone slab, measuring 28" by 153", bears the following five lines :
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله في زمانه عمدة الخافت باسط العدل و رافت جلال الدين محمد اکبر بادشاہ غازی خلدالله ملکه ر سلطانه بناء مسجد ساخته مكرمه
سرکار خراج کتور رمحسنه بيکه لطباع نواب ردمیان فرمایش في التاريخ السابع والعشرين ۲۷ من شهر رجب رجب قدرة سنه سبعين تسعمائة ۹۷۰
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"In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. There is no God, etc.
"In the time of the pillar of the Kalifat, spreading justice and clemency, Jalaladdin Muḥammad Akbar Badishah-e-Gházi-may God perpetuate his kingdom and his
1 Here, at Strassburg. I am unable to refer to the Tarikh- Badaoni, the Jaunpurnama, the Minah altarárikk, Stewart's History of Bengal and other works. I have retained in the transcriptions of the inscriptions the spelling of the originals, adding no wanting dots, hamzas or tashdids, the poetry excepted; but I have omitted the signs of the short vowel: and the jasmas which often occur arbitrarily. For the short accounts of the places where the inscriptions bave been found. I have consulted Hunter's Imperial Gazetteer of India. To Dr. S. Landauer I am obliged for his kiud assistance in the elucidation of some difficulties.
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