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father of the poet Shaikh Faizi and of Abu'l Fazl, but in the year 945 Shaikh Mubarak had already left Någor.
27. Over the central outer arch of a mosque at Gaokarán, about half a mile west of Rohtak, a red sandstone (3' 2" by 2' 5") contains three lines with one line going round the stone as a border. The stone is getting worn partly by the weather and partly by copies being taken from it, but the inscription is quite legible. In the midst of
در دور جلال الدين محمد اکبر the stone the period of the erection has been engraved in a square
in the time of Jalal addin Muhammad Akbar): -
حق
بنده فرمان کشته از جان شد از آن رخشا ر قابل أن حق عرق نحر لطف يابي (2) ناي حق
بركر معبد خاصي حق نفت
مست جان درویش سپهر مكرمت
خير الأمور بقعة
جان کرده از سری آن مسجد هر آن کس رفته شد زاهدی تاریخ این مسجد نشت
Metre: Ramal.
"The Darwêsh Mastján, the heaven of benignity, has gone out of life a slave of the order of God;
" He has made his soul a temple of good works, he became happy by it, and a receiver of the time of God (of eternity).
"Every man who has come to this mosque shall get a drop of the ocean of the kindnese of God's banquet. (?)
“Zahidi (or a hermit ') wrote the date of this mosque; he said, "Say "A temple of God's favourites".!"
The letters of the tarikh give 966 [began 14th October 1558).
28. A loose stone standing on a grave in the graveyard near the Dak Banglå of Rohtak, on the west side of the Dihli road, bears an inscription of three lines; its dimensions are 17" by 16". On the left side the last letters of each line and the border have been lost :
: ساخت شمشیر خان زلطف الله كنبد بر سر قبر پیر صافی دل عا تسعمائة خمس سبعین سال است هجرات ]
"Shamsher Khan has made with the favour of God the vault over the tomb of Pir Şaft-Dil 'Â...975 H. is the year" [began 8th July 1567).
Shamsher Khan was shiqqdar of pargana Rohtak, A. H. 973, as we learn from inscription No. 43. His name occu's several times in the Akbarnáma. In 987 he was Khwajasarái and was sent to Bihar to quell the disturbances which had broken out there; and to Bengal, together with Rai Purukhôt, Maulana Tayyib, and Shaikh Najm addin (III. 284). When & rebellion arose in the same year at Patna, Shamsbêr Khân was despatched to Banaras (III, 286). In 991 he was one of the four judges who were named for the four" meadows" of the empire, the others being Raja Bir Bar, Qasim 'Ali Khân, and Hakim Rumam (III, 405). Later he seems to have revolted, for it is related that in 2008 the besiegers of Ahmadnagar received the joyful tidings of his death."
* The border contain the passage from the Qorán, Sdra ii, 256. * According to a notice on the luscription, Shamsbør Khao lios buried at Batala; I know nothing about him.
