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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
"In his lifetime to erect this burial-place with the favour of the Lord, during the reigu of Aurangzeb
«Badishah, the shadow of God. On the 14th of the month Ramazán, the blessed A.H. 1114 [1st February 1708]. Through the effort of the architect Ustá Abe Valad Tayyib."
The inserted Sunni dogma in the first person seems to be an allusion to the formula ashhadu an lá ilaha illallah, etc.
VI.-KROKARAKOT ( SS af ger ) 43. Khôkarakot is a village in ruins situated to the north of Rohtak. Ove, a gateway of the village, built by Bhamsher Khân, a stone was placed, which has been dug up out of the ruins and is now in the Museum at Labore. Its dimensions are 2 2" by 1' 74 and it bears a bilingual inscription, three lines in Persian and five lines in Hindt. The Persian text rang
سر ایام سلطنت بندگی حضرت جلال الدين محمد اکبر بادشاه غازي خلد الله ملکه ابحما رضعته في جنات ابا شمشیر خان شقدار پرکنه رهتك عمارت این دروازه بنیاد نهاد في شهر المباركة رمضان سنه نهصد ر سه ر هفتاد باتمام رسید
“ In the days of the empire of the slave (of God), his Majesty Jalál addin Muhammad Akbar Badishab-4-Ghazt
"May God perpetuate his kingdom for ever (and) his highness in Paradise 1 Abå Shamshër Khan, the shiqqdár of pargana Rohtak,
" Has laid the foundation of this gateway. In the blessed month Ramatan anno 978 it has been finished" [began 22nd March 1586].
The words raf" ataku A janndt dbá are not certain. There is no doubt that the Bhamsher Khan of this inscription and of No. 28 are the same persons.
VII.-Bowm. 44. The village of Bohm ( !) in 4 miles cast of Rohtak on the road to Dihli. In the east wall of the tomb of ono Mahmud of Bohm, a stone (8' 9' by 9") has been recently fixed which contains an inscription of three lines not relative to its present place. The passage from the Qordin, Bara ü, 256, is followed by these words :
ابراهيم عن مواساختی فرمایش علي قلفی بهایل
بحرف
“The writer (sas) Ibrahim, known as Muwasákháni, by the order of 'Ali Qazi Bahaikhan."
VIII.-HIŅÅR FTBOLA." 48. From a mosque outside the Dihlt gate, situate in the Barat Nathta Bhatyára (a baker). Four lines on a stone ?' 8' by 1' 3*.
Bee the facrimile No. 7, at p. 140.
The Hindt inscription, Profoor G. Bübler informs me, is not quite intelligible. But it is of the same year, ED. 1506. The data is Barnvat 1638, Vaildha wadi 16, which corroesonde woording to Dr. Bebram's approximate table to the oth April 1686, if the game is taken an ended Dorthern (parimduta) Vikrama-year; the 20th April was the last of Ramala. Akbar, Bb maher Khan and the gate are all mentioned in the Hindt version.
# For a short bistorical sooount of the town of Hiper Firbas, no Bloohmann, Proceedings of As. Soo. Deng. 1677, April, p. 83, 8., where some of the fullowing incriptions have been publisbed.
