Indian Antiquary Vol 04

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 15

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PERSIAN INSCRIPTIONS.
2. One of the Belgam inscriptions refers to the rebuilding of the south-east wall of the Fort of that place in the A.1. 1043, or A.D. 1633-34.
which give 937 A. H. The connected writing dilshad and janydd in the first and last hemi. stichs is unusual.t
4. The fourth is a photograph of an inscription from Gulbarga, halfway up the bastion, where the great gun lies.
با فتاح
حصار از زمین
فتارة از باران
مضبوط اورا وتین به بستند
تمام سرو پا
از مستعد شدي
مكين عبد الحسين بهنگام
هجرت
تارین نوشته حسابي ز
وسه دان در اربعین الف سنه
کتيه عبد العزيز ا
این برج طرب دوازده گزی در عهد ابو المظفر ابراهیم عادل شاہ خلد ملکه ابدا عمارت کرد بره ملک و ملت صندل سنه ۱۰۳۴
السن
This bastion of the 12-gaz Gunt was erected in the reign of Abul Muzaffar Ibrahim 'Adilshah by Barah Malik and Malik Şundal, in 1034 [A.D. 1624-25].
.is rather unusual توپ for طوپ The spelling
ون The three letters
and وس below the ل
o Opener! The Fort having been destroyed by the rains, it was again made strong and firm. It was entirely renovated at the time of 'Abdul Husain, the powerful. A reckoning according to the date of the Hijrah was written down: know it to be the year 1043.* Written by 'Abdul 'Aziz.
The metre is Mutaqdrib; but the 5th hemi. stich alone is sálin.
3. In the N.E. wall of Belgâm Fort, Mr. Burgess found another inscription, of which he has sent me a photograph. It consists of three distiche, Rubâ î metre; but the third hemistich contains one syllable too much.
The inscription shows that the foundation of the walls was laid in A. H. 937, or A. D. 1530-31, by Ya'qub 'Ali Khan.
final words fill up a vacant space, but have no meaning.
5. The fifth inscription was discovered by Mr. Burgass in 1869 on a ruined Wav, or well, at Siddhapur, and is mentioned by him in his Notes of a Visit to Gujardt, p. 72. His tracing enables me to give a correct reading and translation:
يعقوب عليخان که ازو دلشادست
جان آبادست
خانه از مردم کش
از استحکام دیوار دمار را اساس چون ست سکندري قوي بنهاد ست
گفت دبیر تاریخ مرتب شدنش
جانیان ست دیوار قوي تر زهمه
بناي اين باي در حین که وه به ست پور بجا گیر سلالة الامراء العظام میرزا محمد انور ولد
خان بود باهتمام حاجي
اعظم نواب مستطاب اسمعيل الشريف بن حاجي بختیار در ماه رمضان المبارك منه ۱۱۰ هزار و ده بغيريت مرتب گشت وعلى الله قصد السبيل ومنها جائر يملينا
ازرقطيونس يرانسبوس مکسلمینا کشفرطط تبيونس و اسم کلبهم قطميرا
كاتبه لطف الله
Ya'qub 'Ali Khan, who is a joy to the heart, and by whose benevolence the house of the soul is prosperous, laid the foundation of the wall of the Fort in strength, firn like the wall of Alexander. The date of its being built was expressed by a sage in the words ' a rather strong wall,' as has been mentioned by all people.
The date lies in the words díwár i gruitar,
God is Great ! The building of this Bdi (well) was sticcessfully complated in the time when the town of Sitpur was the jágír of the scion of nobility Mirrd Muhammad Anwar, son of the excellent Nawab A'zam Khan, under the superintendence of Haji Ismd il al-Sharif, son of Haji Bakhtyar, in the blessed month of Ramazín 1010 [April 1601 AD.]. And with God rests the guidance to the right road, although there are that deviate from it [Qoran, AVI, 9]. memorates ita completion." (Historical Account, ut sup.,
1 This has reference to the hugo brass gun which still lies close by.-ED..
$ The names of the builders are such a are given to Eunuchs And Habshia.
A.D. 1633-34. Mr. Stokes only alludes to this inscription, but gives the date as A.D: 1640. See Historical Account of the Belgdh District, by H. J. Stokes, M.C.S., p. 40.-ED. 1
+ From this inscription Mr. Stokes infers that the wall was completed nineteen years after Asad Khin first got possession of Belgår, if, as I believe, this stone com-