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DECEMBER, 1875.]
INSCRIPTIONS FROM AHMADÂBÅD.
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brated monasteries of Otantapura and Vi- kramasila. In the end we find that the Sena family fell under the power of the Turushka kings, but still it continued to reign. After Lavasena came Buddhasena, who was succeeded by his son Hari. tasena, and he again was followed by Pratita sea. They continued Buddhists. The race became extinct by the death of Prati:
tasena. A contury after arose in Bengal the powerful king Chagalaraja, whose dominion extended to Tili. He was convertel to Buddhism by his wife, and repaired the temples which had been destroyed. From his death to the year 1608, in which Tarinatha's work was composed, 160 years passed ; consequently the history is continued to the year 1448 of our era.
INSCRIPTIONS FROM AHMADÂBÂD. BY 1. BLOCHMANN, M.A., CALCUTTA MADRASAH.
(Continued from p. 293.)
حریر
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السلطان خلد الله ملکه سری بای
سلطانی البی
A copy of the following Persian quatrain was taken by Mr. Burgess from Ganj Ahmad's Dargah at Sarkhej, near Ahmadabad; the quatrain stands on the wall over the door :
A).............. WW1sisWhea .
.9 المحروسة في الثامن ماه جماد الاول
سفر ۲۹ ستر تسدها نهاية
بحر کف احمدي در ریز شود دامان امید گنی پرویز شود از بهر سجود در گهش نیست عجب گر روي زمين تمام سرخیز شود
Translation. This fine building and excellent edifice, erect. ed for pious purposes, and the high portico and
the four painted walls, were built, and the fruit. Translation.
bearing trees were planted, together with the The ocean of Ahmad's hands scatters pearls,
well and the tank, so that men and animals and the hem of hope becomes like Parwiz's might be refreshed, during the reign of the trensure.
king of kings of the age, who relics on the It would not be astonishing if the whole earth help of the All-Nerciful, Nasir uddun ya raised her head, in order to bow down at his waddin Abul Fath Mahmad Shah, shrine.
son of Muhammad Shah, son of Ahmal II.
Shah, son of Muhammad Shah, son of Mr. Burgess sent me some time ago a rubbing
Muzaffar Shah, the king-may God perof the Arabic inscription from Bai Harir's Well petuate his kingdom !-by Sri Bai Harir, in Ahmadâbâd, of which he has given a de
the royal (slave), the nurse,-may his angust scription in his Notes of a Visit to Gujarát, pp. Majesty place her .......... of time, 43 to 46. The inscription measures 1 ft. 11 in. the guarded. On the 8th Jumada I. of the by 1 ft. 2 in., and consists of nine lines
26th year, 896. [19th March, 1490.]
The date of the inscription, clear as it is, does not agree with the histories. First of all, the spelling of the numerals is extraordinary and secondly, the 26th year of Mahmud Shah's reign would be 898 or 899, not 896, if he really began to reign in 863, as stated in the histories.
Harir' is the Arabic for the Hind, abbreviation 'resham' (for abresham), silk.'
Noto by the Editor. The following Sanskrit inscription is on the wall opposito to the abore Arabic one, and, as will be observed, it gives the date 13th Paush Sudi Sam. 1556 or Saka 1421 (A.D. 1499). The transla
.1 بنت هذي العمارة الظريفر والبقعة الشريفة .2 والرواق الرفيعه والحدر الا ربعة المصورة
وغرس .3 الاشجار المثمرة بالفواكهة مع البشر والبركة .4 ليشفع الا نام را انعام في عهد سلطان صلا این
الزمان الواثق بتائيد . الرحمن ناصرا ادنیا .
والدین ابوالفتح .6 محمود شاه بن محمد شاه بن احمد شاہ بن
محمد شاه بن مظفر شاه
