Book Title: Epigraphia Indica Vol 02
Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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________________ MUHAMMADAN INSCRIPTIONS FROM BENGAL. 281 rur; the name of the saint buried there is not known. The basalt slab measures 27 by 16 inches, the inscribed part 20 by 13 inches; it contains four lines. لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله عثمان رضي | علي كرم الله ابوبکر صدیق | عمر فاروق وجهه رضي الله عليه | رضي الله عليه | الله عليه | جون اضعف عباد الله خواجه احمد سمرقندي حسب الحكم نراب قدسي القاب شاهزاد عالمیان شاه پریز جهانگیر بخدمت نرجداري سرکار منکیر آمده بود به بنای عمارت این روضه منوره ترفیق یافت سنه ۱۰۳۲ هزار سي و در TRANSLATION. There is no god but God and Muḥammad is the Apostle of God. Abů Bakr, the veracious-may God be pleased with him! 'Omar, the distinguisher between right and wrong-may God be pleased with him! 'Osman-may God be pleased with him! 'Ali-may God dignify his face !". When the humblest of the slaves of God, Khwaja Aḥmad of Samarqand, according to the order of the Nawab, bearing holy titles, the prince of the people of the world, Shah Parwêz, son of Jahangir, had entered the service as Faujdar of Sarkar Mungir, he found grco to build this splendid tomb in the year 1032 H. (began the 5th November 1622]. Shah Parwez was the second son of the emperor Shah Jahangir. He died of deli. rium tremene on the 6th Safar 1035 (7th November 1625). In the year 1032 H he ah ahan د بي. :: :gave Bengal in jdgar to Mahabat Khan, after having defeat in li (Iqbálnáma-í Jahányirí, p. 239), whereas Bihar, to which sarka. Mungir belonged (Ain-i-Akbari, vol. I, p. 419), remained his own tiyil. In the Statistical Account of Bengal, vol. XV, p. 63, is a long account of the town of Mungir, compiled by Blochmann. 3. This inscription was found near Cleveland's public garden; the rectangular black basalt stone on which it is engraved measures about 36 by 13 inches, the inscription covers 16 by 10 inches. بملك بقا از بسي افسوس رخت سفر بست زنان سرای فوت از سر اندره بكر سال روح مجسم زجهان رفت رای Metre --Sari': With much sorrow he tied up the dress of journey from the perishable house towards the country of eternity. From the head of the word) grief say the year of the death, "The soul clothed with a body went from the world, alas !" The last line gives, according to abjad reckoning, 1129. As the poet seems to mean that the head of andúh, i.e. the letter alif, is to be added to the tarikh, we get 1129+1=1130 H. (which began the 5th December 1717]. The four caliphs. • La Elliot-Dowson's History, vol. VI, p. 417, I. 4 for Bihár read Bengal.

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