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INSCRIPTIONS FROM DELHI DISTRICT.
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“The date of the erection has been intrusted to the command of Qazt Aḥmad and five others (R).
"In the month of Rajab-may God increase its honour 1-A. 969" [began the 7th March 15627
The Qazizadas mentioned in the Akbarnáma were all rebels, or bad-andêsh (malicious men); one being a partisan of Ma'şum Khan; another who had the surname khabitha-ya Mawarannahr (the impure from Transowania) obeying Abu-l Ma'All's command and attempting to murder Man Chochuk Begum, Prince Muhammad Hakim's mother; a third being united with a pretended son of Mirza Shahrukh to murder Qasim
авокаліеr who tead-a
Khan.
22. Over the northern outer arch of the same mosque is a second inscription sculptured on a sandstone (measuring 2' 8" by 18") in five lines :
- لااله الا الله محمد الرسول الله
که اسلام را زینت رزیب داد شاه جهان شهنشاه بعد
که خلق آورد سری سجده چکاد چنان مسجد ساخت قاضی نصر
خدا نرنهاد
که مسجد برای پرتاریخش از عقل جستم بگفت مرتب شد عمارت هذه المسجد المباركة الميمونة في التاریخ یازدهم شهر ربيع الاول سنه الف رسته ر ستین
(Metre: Mutaqárib.) "There is no God, etc.
"In the time of the king of kings, Shahjahan, who gave ornament and beauty to Islam, Qazi Nașr has repaired the mosque that people might bow the forehead in adoration. When I asked the mind its date, he said. He has newly built the mosque for God's sake'. The edifice of this blessed and august mosque has been prepared on the 11th of Rabi'al awwal A. 1068" [8th January 1656].
23. In the southern wall, outside Imam Nasir's tomb, is a stone which has been whitewashed so much that the letters of the inscription have been partly ruined. Nor has Imâm Naşir's tomb a right to the stone, which originally belonged to a mosque; the dimensions of the inscription, which is in one line, are 3' 8' by 4* Above the letters there are ornaments in the form of Cufic characters :
عمارة هدا المسد سی العابد العال السيد اني نکر(۱) محمد بن الحس العصرلی ادام الله يرانهما في المحرم سنه احلسی رمانی رالف رمایه
“The edifice of this mosque has been built by the leader, the guardian, the Sayyid Abê Bakr (?) Muhammad, son of Hasan, the Fuzall-may God perpetuate their reward I-in the Muharram of 1181."
The first name of the builder and the two last words are very doubtful; instead of 1100, it may also be 700 or 900.
V.-ROHTAK AND MAHIM. The cities of Rohtak and Mahim have suffered in general the same fate during the Muhammadan period. In the environs of both are to be found many remains of antiquities, also of Hindu origin; in the vicinity of Rohtak have been excavated coins of
