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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
"He (God) is the conqueror! In the time of Abu'l Zafar Muhyiddin Muhammad Aurangzeb Bahadur 'Alamgir, Badisháh-i Gházi, the Aurangaháhcannon was set up in A.H. 1073 (began the 16th August, 1662). By the efforts of the devoted and sincere subject Mu'ta mid Khan, in the 5th year of the blessed reign."
در عمل متهراداس دلارامبی .... ترب ......... در قلعه گرالیار مرتب شد
و
« During the office of Mathuradas Dilaramj 1......... the cannon has been placed in the fort of Gwaliår."
The cannon, consequently, was placed at first at Gwaliår, where Mu'tamid Khan was commandant from the 24th Jumadi I, 1071.7 Afterwards it was brought to Bhatinda.
Inscriptions from other cannons have been published by Major St. G. D. Showers, Shahjahan's gun Jahánkushá by name, see Jour. As. Soc. B., vol. XVI, (1847), p. 689,and by Blochmann--a trophy gun formerly belonging to the Bengal Artillery, A.H. 1186 (began 4th April, 1772),-see Proc, Ag. Soc, B., for November 1872, p. 169.16
ROHTAK.19
22. Over the mihrab of the Adina mosque in the town of Rohtak are two lines, size 4' 6" by 1' 2"; the letters partly are very much damaged :
حصرد مردانی در خدرات ... محماسي ..... بالمله مسلمانا ..... حاد[ی] حامی سروس
معالي علا الدیا رالدیں ... سلاطیی جهاں ملي لاعب تجار ایرالطعر محمد ساه السلطاں خلد الله ملکه ... اس مسجد میمنار و درب های اهل ایماں
اربع عره ماه رمضان سال هفتصد هشت از هجری بود عمارت فرمود
« Through the grace of the sublime God............. Alá uddunya uaddin,.........of the kings of the world..........Abu'l Muzaffar Muham. mad Shah, the king,-May God perpetuate his kingdom !-has deigned to build this mosque of the true believers and......place of the people of the faith. It was on the 1st Ramazan A,H. 708 (12th February, 1309)."
23. Over the outer archway of a small mosque in the fort of Rohtak, near the Dihli Gate of the town is a rectangular sandstone, with an inscription of two lines, size 3' 09" by 8}", the right end of which is missing :
بادشاه غازي سلطان السلاطين غياث الدنيا والدین سکندر زمان ابوالمظفر تغلق شاه السلطان خدایگانی محمد علی سلطانی غره ماه مبارک رمضان عم بركاته سال بر هفتصد بیست و چهار
"(In the time) of the Badishah-i Ghází, the king of kings, Ghiyath uddunya waddin, the Alexander of the period, Abu'l Muzaffar Tughluq Shah (this mosque has been
17 See the particulars concerning this officer given by Blochmann from the Ma'athiri 'Alamgiri in the Proceedings of 43: Soc. Beng. for August 1874, p. 179.
18 I have collected considerable materials respecting the artillery of the Moghuls, for an essay on their army and warfare, now in the press (E. J. Brill, Leiden).
19 see E. I, vol. II, pp. 113 et se.
