1873.] MaJiohd Inscriptions. 157 



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1. By the favour of God the good news arrived that the Mosque had been built 

 at Mahoba, 



2. During the reign of the king of the seven zones, the centre of royalty, the 

 asylum of Islam, 



3. Ghiyas uddunyawaddin, a second Jam, whose throne is (as high as) 

 the heaven, Tughluq, the king of the world, 



4. ' A king who, like Alexander, by the force of his club and sword, conquered 

 countries. 



5. May he, like the heaven, be kind in his reign, and may the throne of his king- 

 dom be everlasting in the world ! 



6. A mean slave of the famous king, in whose reign the mosque was completed, 



7. MalikTajuddaulak, the fortunate, mild as Muhammad, whose excellent 

 name is Ahmad. 



8. Has with the help of God * * * * (illegible) 



9. When twenty-two years had passed beyond 700, he built the door, the wall, 

 and the courtyard of the mosque. 



10. It was in Rabi 'II. of the Hijrat, that Ids kind hand was engaged in build- 

 ing this edifice. 



Thus the mosque was built by Malik Tajuddin Ahmad, in Rabi' II, 

 722, A. H., or May, 1322, A. D. 



An imperfect reading of this inscription, together with two modern in- 

 scriptions from the Hamirpur District, were some time ago received by the 

 Society from Mr. E. T. Atkinson, C. S. The first of the modern ones refers 

 to the building of a Mosque and the digging of a well by one Khwajah 

 Firuz during the reign of Aurangzib, but the reading is not metrical. The 

 second inscription is (metre, Ichafif) — 



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1. In the reign of 'A'lamgi r, the king, this well, which is like the water of 

 life, was dug. 



2. The Fort was without water. Genius, therefore, said that the date was 

 given in the words ' A'b dad Hdtim Khan,' ' Hatini Khan procured water.' 



This gives A. H. 1113, or A. D. 1701. 



