1873.] Pdm'pat Inscriptions. 97 



ing how the Loclis could have pacified a Shirwani so soon after the quarrel, 

 and how they should have taken him to their home, which was not the home 

 of the offended Shirwani. I am inclined, therefore, to correct the text of 

 Firishtah to the extent ahove suggested, as I helieve the same to he an 

 error. Thus I almost certainly identity Khwajah Khizr Khan Shirwani of the 

 inscription with the Khizr Khan who took so prominent a part in the 

 scuffle ahove described. 



' It is also stated by Firishtah that Khizr Khan was present during the 

 successful operations against Chanderi, which took place during the latter 

 part of the reign of Sikandar Lodi. 



Another interesting inscription received from Mr. J. G-. Delmerick, is 

 the following, from the tomb of the renowned saint B u 'All Qalandar, 

 Panipat. Mr. Delmerick says that the building has pillars of kasdoti, or 

 touchstone, to which allusion is made in the inscription ; but there are no 

 other inscriptions at Panipat. 



Bu 'All Qalandar died at Panipat on the 13th Ramazan, 724, or Sep- 

 tember, 1324 ; vide Proceedings, As. Society, Bengal, for April, 1870, p. 125. 



Pa'ni'pat Inscription, 

 ^fjj ±L~z>. \j s^.x j^ap jac - ^ JU.^. j c^«( J^jy^«^ 



^Lk &i)\ fjjj }(U. J/jy iXw t^lwa. j^ jjijlij iJjCi JL» 



1. This tomb is the place where the light of God's glory and perfection ap- 

 pears ; like Jesus, it gives life to the dead. 



2. Muqarrab Khan, the Plato of his age, had a son Rizqullah Khan. 



3. When Bu 'All [the Panipat Saint] recognized this Bii 'All [i. e. this great 

 doctor], he [Rizqullah], thus honored, became the Aristotles of his age. 



4. He then ordered the erection of this paradisiac portico, below which each pillar 

 is made of touchstone. 



5. I put thought to the touch, in order to discover the year of the building, when 

 I beheld the gold of alchemy, 



6. And the year of its erection appeared in the value of the letters ' the noble 

 Rizqullah Khan' [1071, A H., or A. D 1660]. 



Regarding Muqarrab Khan and his son Rizqullah Khan, vide my A'in 

 translation, pp. 544, 545. Rizqullah died in the 10th year of Aurangzib's 

 reign. The Maasir-ul-Umara states that the Dargah itself was built by 

 Muqarrab Khan. 



