1873.] Ganga Parshad — On Muradabad Inscriptions. 00 



1. The Jami' mosque was adorned by the excellent Khan, whose title is Sus- 

 tain Khan. 



2. The poet As'adf wrote down as TdAkh the words ' He adorned God's house.' 

 (A. H. 1067.) 



Two other tablets mention the Tdrihlis — (1) buq'ah i faiz ; and (2) Sij- 

 dahgahe khalq kardah. 



2. The Mura'da'ba'd Mosque. 

 Muradabad is the old C h a u p 1 a h or Chaupalah, so called from in- 

 cluding in its boundary four villages, viz., Bhadaura, Dindarpiirah, Manpiir, 

 and Dihri. Rustam Khan Dak'hini called it Muradabad in honor of Prince 

 Muradbakhsh, Shahjahan's son. The Jami' mosque, on the right bank of 

 the Ramganga, stands on a high mound close to the bank, and has the fol- 

 lowing inscription — 



li^wj j;^iy ^/f uij. * <>**> ^ j <& di. l '>\*) 

 i/U 8^ erij <^j^ «jj 1 ^ * (.5^1 *-»^fj cM* j***t> *^ 



1. There was no mosque in Muradabad. where only Infidels and Hindus lived ; 



2. The just king Shihab-uddin Ghazi (Shahjahan) gave it, therefore, to Rustam 

 Khan, 



3. And ordered this excellent officer to build in the town a pretty and graceful 

 mosque. 



4. Thus he firmly established the building of his religion, and elevated, in this 

 world, his faith. 



5. Many a clever writer, in order to find a tdrikh, dived ingeniously into the 

 ocean of thought, 



6. And one of the wise, thus diving, brought up a pure pearl. 



7. The lustrous pearl is this, now listen, — it belongs to (the poet) Ahrari, not to 

 the prophet Elias and the Messiah, — 



8. 'RustamKhan, by God's grace, reared the building of the house of faith.' 

 (A. H. 1046, or 1636, A. D.) 



Mr. Blochmann said : — 



The builder of the mosque, Rustam Khan D a k 'h i n i, is frequently 

 mentioned in the histories of Shahjahan's reign. The Madsir id TJmard also 

 has a biographical note, from which I extract the following : 



Rustam Khan was a Chirgiz from Mount Elburz. He was sold as a 

 slave, and came into the possession of the Nizam ul mulk of the Dak'hin. 



