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INSCRIPTIONS FROM DELHI DISTRICT.
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47. The ruins of Ulugh Beg's mosque are near the Commissariat in the town of Hişår. The inscription consists of five lines; it measures 1' 4" by :
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال عليه السلام من بني الله مسجدا يبتغي به وجه الله تعالى بني الله له بيتا مثله في الجنة در عهد
ا
ر میمون و دولت افزون خضرت سلطان السلاطين ناصرالدنیا الذين رافع رايات المجاهدات و المغازي محمد همایون بادشاه غاضي خلد خلافته بانيه
احمد میراخور رکان في 901 بتوفيق الله الصمد امیر معظم امير الغ بيك ابن امیر یوسف
* And the interen, who raises the sta perpetuate his behin, Amir Ulu
"In the name of the merciful and compassionate God! He upon whom may be peace! says, “He who builds a mosque for God
“Desiring thereby God Almighty's honour, will have a house like it built for him by God in Paradise. In the anspicious time
"And the increasing reign of his Majesty the king of kings, the helper of the world
"And the faith, who raises the standard of holy strife and war, Muhammad Humayun Badishah-e-Gházt-may God perpetuate his khalifat 1-its builder,
"By the grace of God the eternal (was) the great Amir, Amir Ulugh Beg, son of Amir Yûsuf Aḥmad, the master of the horse. Dated in 951" (began 25th March 1544).
48. On a dome outside Hişår, about a mile to the east, inside the commissariat godowns, on a slab, measuring 1'6" by 1'10", are four lines of very bad poetry
كل رخشت اور مشک و عنبر سرشت
کشت
زاشجارر سلسبيلي روان
بر کنبد آمد نشته تاریخ که
خشت بنهاد
ببنیاد که حکمش
خوشا روضة كنبه جون بهشت
معطر دماغ باغش زانفاس
کشته بر کرد ار دبیر فلک
يزيد آفرین بر ابلي هزار
سنه ۹۷5
كاتب كبير
(Motre : Mutaqdirib). « How beautiful is the dome of the paradise-like mausoleum; its mortar and bricks are like musk and ambergris.
"From the scent of its garden the brain is perfumed ; and a salsabil (a spring in paradise) flows from its trees.
“The secretary of heaven (Mercury) turned round it, when the date was written on the dome : A. H. 975 [began 8th July 1567].
A thousand praises are due to Bayazid, by whose order the bricks were placed on the foundation. The writer was Kabir."
49. On a mosque in the yard of Sher Buhlal's mausoleum' outside Hişår, one mile to the south, is an inscription, 2' 5' square, in six lines of well-formed. Nasta'lig: -
lines
of men outside E
2 مجتبي عبدالله
پیروي شرع رسول مجتبي عبدالنبي آنکه دیدارش دهد آئینة دلرا جلا
م ن روضة بهلول شاه افتند طرح پیش مسجدي عالي که باشد مسکن اهل دعا
