<)G Delmerick — On Inscriptions from Sonjpat. [Mat, 



whose descendants are still residents of the town, and are the hereditary 

 Qanungos of the parganah. 



1 The date of the death of the Say y id or horse merchant is said to be 

 the 12th of Muharram, A. H. 287, or A. D. 19th January, 900. 



' The second inscription is over the doorway of the building which 

 covers the tomb of Khwajah Khizr Khan, and is dated the 11th Bajab, A. H. 

 930, or A. D. 16th May 1523. It is a beautiful edifice solidly constructed 

 of sandstone, and in tolerably good preservation. The dome is lofty and 

 grand. 



' I have been unable to ascertain what particular office or rank this 

 Khwajah Khizr, the son of Darya Khan Shirwani, held at the time of his 

 death. 



' There was a celebrated chief of that period called Darya Khan Lodi, 

 who lived up to the time of Babar's conquest of Hindustan ; for he it was, as 

 is commonly asserted by Muhammadan Historians, who invited Babar to 

 invade his master's dominions. 



' Firishtah relates that " one day while the King (Sikandar Lodi) and 

 " his court were playing at cliaugan, the bat of Haibat Khan Shirwani* by 

 " accident came in contact with the head of Sulaiman, the son of Darya Khan 

 " Lodi, who received a severe blow. This was resented on the spot by Khizr 

 " Khan, the brother of Sulaiman, who galloping up to Haibat Khan struck 

 " him violently on the skull. In a few minutes both sides joined in the 

 " quarrel, and the field was in uproar and confusion. Muhammad Khan Lodi 

 " and KhanKhanan Lodi interposing endeavoured to pacify Haibat Khan, 

 " and succeeded in persuading him to go quietly home with them." 



" The king apprehensive of conspiracy retired immediately to the 

 " palace, but nothing more transpiring he made another party at the same 

 " game a few days after. On the road to the playground Shams Khan, a 

 " a relative of Haibat Khan Shirwani, perceiving Khizr Khan, the brother of 

 '' Sulaiman Lodi, instantly attacked him with his bat and knocked him off 

 " his horse. The king abused Shams Khan grossly, and returned to his palace, 

 " and could not be persuaded but that there was some plot in agitation." 



' In the above account, if we read Haibat Khan Lodi for Shirwani, Darya 

 Khan Shirwani for Lodi, and Sulaiman Shirwani for Lodi, we shall find that 

 a Lodi struck a Shirwani, upon which the brother of the Shirwani assaulted 

 the Lodi. The quarrel was made up for the time by other Lodis persuading 

 their kinsman to go quietly home with them. As the narrative at present 

 stands, if we follow Firishtah strictly to the letter, we are perplexed in think- 



* In the Tarfkh-i-Daudi, {vide page 463 of Elliot's Muhammadan Historians of 

 India, "Vol. IV) it is said that the bat of Daria Khan Shirwani struck Sulaiman, but this 

 is manifestly an error, and shows that a confusion of titles and even names is not 

 by any means uncommon with Indian writers or copyists. 



