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MUHAMMADAN INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE SUBA OF DIHLI.
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born at Ajôdhan, the name for Dipâlpûr,- too striking an accord. But then the date of the latter's death, as given in the Khazinat ul-asfiya, which Blochmann has extracted, must be too early. The size of the two inscriptions is 7' 6" by 7", and 6' by 41, respectively.
الرحمن الرحيم الغرة من ربيع الأول سنة سبع وعشرين وتسع ماية باليه جنید بی چندان لله
"In the name, etc. On the first Rabi'ul-awwal, 927 (9th February, 1521). The builder of it (was) Junaid, son of Chandan."
الغرة من شهر ذي القعدة سله احدى وثلثين وتسع ماية بانيه جنید بی چندن بن محمود اجودهنی
"On the first Zi'l-Qa'da, 931 (20th August, 1525). Its builder (was) Junaid, son of Chandan, son of Mahmud, of Ajodhan."**
There are some other inscriptions from the same Mausoleum, but of no value. One, measuring 2' 1" by 6", contains, in two lines, the Bismilláh and the Kalima; two others from the north and west sides of the N.-W. pillar of the tomb, each measuring 1' 1" square, bear Qorán, Sûra cxii, adorned with flowers."
5. Over the western arch inside a tomb, west of the road leading from Hisar to Dâna Sher, outside the town half a mile from the Dihli-Gate, is an inscription in stucco; it measures 1' 2" by 1' 13", and contains eight lines, but very much damaged
بن
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الله .
در عهد ميمون ودولت
خلد ملکه و سلطانه
همایون
راعلی امره رشانه این
عمارت ازان والفرقان
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بسم
.. بن مير
سلطانمللیک در سیم [1] ماه رمضان
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سنة ثلاث واربعين وتسعماية تمام شد
"In the auspicious time and reign of Humayun (the king, etc.)-May God perpetuate his kingdom and his rule, and elevate his condition and dignity!—this building of Waltû Khân. . . . ., son of Mir..... son of Sultan Malik Bêg, was finished on the third [?] of month Ramzân, A. 943 (13th February, 1537)."
Along the right-hand side, almost in the same line with the above, are the following
words: -
بیست هزار تنکه سيه [؟] باهتمام شیخ منور بن قاسم [؟] اتمام شد
این . . . . بادشاه
* Shaikh Farid uddin Mas'ud was also born at Ajodhan,-see W. Pertsch, Verzeichniss der persischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothekzu Berlin, No. 590, p. 556.
Mr. Ghulam Husain, who prepared the impressions of all these inscriptions with the same care as those of the former Panjab series, remarks that both have been published by Amin Chand in his Settlement Report, a work which is not to hand. In the neighbourhood of this Mausoleum also the pre-Muhammadan pillar stands which, according to Captain W Brown, Journal of A. S. Beng. vol. VII. (1838), p. 429,-" has the appearance of having been partially worked by Ferez's orders, and probably some inscription was cut upon it by his workmen, but of which there is now no trace owing to the peeling off of the exterior surface." Cf. Gen. Cunningham's Archeological Survey Reports, vol. V, p. 140 et seq.
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