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MUHAMMADAN INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE SUBA OF DIHLI.
قرآن ثاني شاه جهان بادشاه غازي
ر سلطانه ملکه خلد الله.
این جاه زنان شد
بتاریخ هفتم ماه شعبان المعظم
سنه سبع رخمسين والف
"By the favour of ... in the time and reign of the king of kings, Abu'l Muzaffar Shihab uddin Muhammad, second lord of the conjunction, Shahjahan, Bádishahi Gházi-May God perpetuate his kingdom and his rule! . . . of this well for women . on the 7th of the honoured month Sha'bân in the year 1057 (7th September, 1647)."
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The words chah-i zanan-"well for women," seem to be certain, so that there can be no uncertainty about the establishment the inscription refers to. In the fourth chapter of the third book of the Ain-i Akbart, vol. I, p. 284, it is stated amongst the duties of the Kotwal, to reserve separate ferries and wells for men and women.
19. On the east wall of the enclosure of a tomb in the court-yard of Makhdum Sahib Ashraf's mosque is an inscription, measuring 1' 2" by 8", in a very bad condition; only the dateli jo A.H. 1087' (began the 16th March, 1676) and the name of the architect by the effort of the architect Sharif' are legible. The reigning monarch was Aurangzeb Alamgir.
20. There are also some fragments of inscriptions, found at Hânsi, that for want of any characteristic indications, cannot be ascribed to a certain epoch, e.g. a portion of the so-called throne-verse (Qordn, Sura ii, 256) engraved on a sandstone that has found a place above the outer doorway of the courtyard of the mosque, a little west of the fort, or a part of the well-known hadith about the building of mosques, on the well in the Dâk Bangla compound (size 8" by 20", one line).
BHATINDA.
21. Bhatinda, the Bhatti's city, according to the very probable etymology of Mr. Garrick, p. 5, has always had a strong fort. There is preserved a large cannon of Aurangzeb's time bearing two inscriptions:
هو الغالب
محمد در عهد ابوالظفر محی الدین
اورنگ زیب بہادر عالم گیر بادشاه عالی توپ اورنگ شاهی مرتب شد سنه یکهزار رهفتاد رسه هجري
باهتمام مرید ندري باخلاص معتمد خان في سنه و جلوس
مبارک را
16 Bhatinda is mentioned in the 1ín-i Akbari amongst others as a place where Akbar often hunted leopards vol. I, 207, and near which camels were numerous, vol. I, P.
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