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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
24. Also from the Bayley Sarat. Two lines (size 3 feet by 1' 3"); the right side is partly broken
..... lelu talle my glue ............... Bws ..... ......... [?] just too by se lol itsel
باز از ماه محرم في شعر..... شمار
دندرار تاریخ هجرت هفصد ردا سست رهفت
TRANSLATION Metre: Ramal.......... In the time of the Khånzáda............. Who is the glory of the men of the world and an esteemed satirist (?)..
inst (+)...... The account of the Hijra-date is 767 (began the 18th September 1965); backwards from the month of Muharram reckon ......"
VII.-Munte. Muner, Måner or Munair, is a very old place on the right bank of the Son at its confluence with the Ganges. Elliot-Dowson erroneously confounds it sometimes with Mungir. Firishta ascribes its foundation to the mythical times of Firoz Rai, son of Kesha Ráj, a contemporary of the hero Rustam (lithogr. ed., vol. I, p. 18, muqaddima). General Cunningham, in his Archæolugical Survey Reports, vol. VIII, pp. 22, 23, offers a theory of his own about the establishment of Munêr immediately after the Muhammadan conquest. He supposes that the Son through some unknown cause at that time bad abandoned its original bed and taken its present course, thus forming new waste lands which had no name before, not baving been in existence. The town was almost half a króh distant from the river. Båbar in his Memoirs (p. 478) describes its situation in the following words: Down the stream from the place where I was I saw a large number of trees; they said to me that it was Muner.'
In the Ain (vol. I, p. 419) Munêr is registered with 89,089 bighas, 15 biswas, 7.049,179 dáms, (say) 326,380 dame. Båbar and Sikandar Shah Lodi are related to have made pilgrimages to the shrine of Shaikh Yahya, father of Shaikh Sharaf addin (Tarikh-1 Daudi in Elliot-Dowson's History, vol. IV, p. 462, Babar's Memoirs, p. 478), from whom the pargana occasionally is named Munér- Shaikh Yahyd. Shaikh Sharaf addin was also a renowned saint; in his honour his disciple Ibrahim Qiwam Farûqi has called his dictionary Sharafnáma (Journal of As. Soc. Beng., vol. XXXVII, p. 7). Munêr now belongs to the district of Patna, subdivision Danapur."
25. Two lines (dimensions 1' 9" by 8 in.) i
مهذب
سلطان شد محمود
مقرب زاقطاب الحق جلیل عمارت کرد باز از سر مرتب بعصمت دار بنیادش تر ای رب
بحمد الله در عهد شه انجب
ارل بهین مسجد که بد بانی جر حماد خطير ار...... زهجرت هفصد و هشت و نورد برد
** The first and the third hemistich have been almost ruined; beside the letters of the inscription are very rude, 10 that I could decipher it only fragmentarily.
» No information is given about the places where the following three Muper inscriptions have been found.
