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INSCRIPTIONS FROM DELHI DISTRICT.
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29. In the wall of the Dogawalli masjid in the north-east of the town on a soft red sandstone (19" by 16") is an inscription of four lines which has been so much eaten away by the weather that the decipherment is almost an impossibility. But the year of erection and the name of the king are legible. All I can read runs :
. جلال الدي محمد اکبر بادشاه عاری
. ملک
.
. اسهد [ ان لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله ]
سرفیں الله در عهد . . .
. بانی
. . . . . . . . . . . . acho all the 9V9 Al .
. . . . . . . . . . “The builder... by the grace of God in the time of the reign of Jalal addin Muham. mad Akbar Padishah--- Gházi, -may God perpetuate his kingdom I...anno 979" [began 26th May 1571).
The year is perhaps 972, instead of 979.
30. A sandstone partly cylindrical and partly octagonal, each face measuring 19 by 21", in a graveyard on the west of the fort of Rohtak, near the western gate of the fort. bears an inscription of nine lines. The rubbing does not permit the decipherment of the fourteen engraved hemistiche; the first and last lines are the same, they contain the date sana 998 (began 10th November 1589). On a brown sandstone (2' by 6') over the gateway of the same graveyard has been engraved, Súra xlviii, 1.
31. In the south of Rohtak, near the Government school, is a tomb the pillars of which are connected by eight lintels of red sandstone, each measuring 4' 21" by 9. The single lintels have been inscribed with the following sentences from the Qorán: Bismilláh, Sara ii, 256-59 incl., Kalima, Sura cxii. No details of the date or of the builder are found.
32. Over the Dhobi Gate in the Mahalla of Wazir Khan, is a sandstone (18" by 17") containing an inscription of four lines :
و
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بعون الله تعالی و رسوله بناء این عمارت در عهد دولت
ثانی شهاب الدین محمد صاحب قران رخلافت ابوالفتح
. شاه جهان بادشاه غازي خلد الله ملکه باهتمام خادم المرا
سررا باتمام رسید في غرة ماه محرم سنه ۱۰۴۴ پیرخان ابن سرقا
"With the favour of God Almighty and His apostle, the erection of this building in the time of the reign
"And the Khalifat of Abu-l Fath Shihab addin Muhammad, the second şahibgirán* (Timûr)
"Shahjahan Badishah-l-Ghazi-may God perpetuate his kingdom !-by the endeavour of the slave of the...
"Pir Khan, son of Sarkhan, the Sartod[nf P] has been finisbed. In the beginning of the month Muharram A. 1044" [began 27th January 1684).
33. About half a mile from the Khana, on the Rohtak road to Mahim, is the tomb of Jamal Khân. The door hag fallen in, but the walls are well built, and will stand many
* Elsewhere Shahjahan is named w a lo . phrase which is to be interpreted Thank-yi Sahibqirda, RGckert-Pertaob, Grammatik, Poetik und Rhetorik der Perser, p. 240, note 1, and Teufel, Z. D. M. G., vol. XXXVIII (188). p. 268, note. Titles such as Thdnf-yi Iskandari-daurde or Trdni-yf Islandari Zalqarnain and others ocour very often.