1873.] Inscriptions from Panipat and Muzqffarnagar. 141 



The builder of this edifice is Firuz Muhammad Lutfullah, the Afghan. The build- 

 er of this religious edifice, during the reign of the King of Kings, Sikandar Shah, son of 

 Buhlul Shah, the king, was by the kindness of God vouchsafed the grace to erect the 

 vault of the tomb of the revered Shaikh of Shaikhs and saints, Shaikh Jalaluddm 

 (the glory of truth, the law and the faith) — may God sanctify his dear secret ! Dated, 

 2nd Shawwal, 904. [13th May, 1499, A. D.] 



Nothing is known of the builder. The saint, however, is a well-known 

 personage, and all biographical works on Muhammadan Saints contain bio- 

 graphical notes of him. His full name is Shaikh Jalaluddin, (son of) Mahmud 

 of Kazarun, a town in Persia ; but his real name was Muhammad, son of 

 Mahmud, Shaikh Shamsuddin Turk of Panipat having conferred on him the 

 title of Jalaluddin, ' the glory of the Faith.' He is the author of the Zdd ul- 

 akbar, and he was twice in Makkah. It is said that he daily fed one thousand 

 people, and even during his hunting excursions, of which he was passionately 

 fond, his table always contained miraculously food for one thousand people. 

 Many miracles are related of him. He was in high favour' with Firuz Shah. 

 Shaikh Jalal died on the 13th Eabi' I, 765 (20th December, 1363) and lies 

 buried, together with his five sons, in Panipat. 



II. 



Mr. Delmerick also sent a tracing of a Hindustani inscription from 

 Panipat. It seems that the tomb of Ibrahim Lodi was repaired in 1867 

 by the local authorities of that town ; but unfortunately they have given the 

 emperor Babar a wrong name, calling him Ghiyasuddin Babar, instead of 

 Zahiruddin Babar. 



Muzaffarnagar. 



From A. Cadell, Esq., C. S., the following readings of inscriptions from 

 Majherah and Mornah, connected with the Sayyids of Barha* (Muzaffarnagar 

 District). 



* Vide Ai'n translation, pp. 389 to 395 ; Journal, A. S. Bengal, for 1871, Pt, I, 

 p. 260 ; Proceedings, A. S. Bengal, November, 1872, p. 166. 



