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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
The words Bani-yi in khair in the first line are doubtful, but, as I cannot make out the correct reading, I have recurred to that of Blochmann, who has published the inscription in the Proceedings of the A8. Soc. Beng. for 1873, July, p. 141. (Perhaps Panipati should be read, written ). In the same place is given an account of Shaikh Jalal addin. The inscription falls in the 11th year of Sikandar Shah Lodi's reign.
III.-SEWAH. 14. In Sewah, 4 miles south of Panipat, is the tomb of Sayyid Bayazid. A sandstone, measuring 13" by 9", over the doorway of the dome, bears the following inscription of three lines :
بنا نموده کنبد سید بایزید شہید بلررلد نيت ساکن موضع سواه سنه ۴ فرخ سیري
"The dome of Sayyid Bayazid, the martyr, has been built by Balu, son of Nayat, an inhabitant of the village of Sewah, in the fourth year of Farrukh Siyar."
Farrukh Siyar really became emperor in 1124 A.H., but he gave orders that Jah&ndar Shah's reign should be considered as rebellion, and that his own reign should date from the 1st Rabi'al awwal 1123 [19th March 1711], Munt. allub. II, 737.
IV.-SONPAT ( que sigue singu). Sonpat is also a town of great antiquity which is said to have been founded by the earliest Aryan settlers. In the Áin it is registered with 283,299 bighas, 7.727.323 dáms, 775,105 say. dáms, 70 horse, and 1,000 foot. It had a brick fort. The principal tribes were Afghans and Jats. The following inscriptions are from three mosques and several tombs there. A celebrity buried at Sonpat is Sayyid Naşir 'Âbidallah ibn Ahmad, whose tomb is still extant, but no inscription relative to himself has been discovered. Khizr Khån, son of 'Ala addin Muhammad Khilji, is said to have made a pilgrimage to the tombs of certain martyrs buried here (Ibn Batata, French edition, vol. III, p. 187).
15. Over the central outside arch of a mosque attached to the tomb of Imam Nasir, just outside Sonpat to the south on the Dihli road, is a sandstone slab (7' 6" by 17") which bears an inscription of two lines, the letters being thick and clumsy :
نوبة السلطان الاعطم طل الله في العالم عباب الديا والد تجدد هده العمارة المسجد المباركه المدمره في العايم باید الرحمن ایرالمطعر علي السلطان
ميرسك ب اي بيك مقطع سرنت ناصر امیر المومنین خلدالله ملکه وسلطانه العبد الصعدي
دستمایه رجب عطم الله حرميه سنه سبعد في التاريخ دراردهم ماه مبارک
“The building of this blessed august mosque was renewed during the reign of the great king, the shadow of God on earth, Ghiyath addunya waddin, who stands by the assistance of the merciful, Abu-l Muzaffar Balban, the king, the aider of the
See the facsimile No. i on the accompanying plate. The fact that the late Mr. Blochmann, tbe acknowledged authority for these inscriptions, has several times giren faulty readings in the Proceedings of the As. Soc. Beng. for 1873, May, p. 94, where he has published this inscription, may show how easily errors may be committed in deciphering. .
