1873.] Beetles Inscriptions from Bianah and Ajmir. 159 



This inscription contains nine lines, separated by the usual bars, and 

 looks more like a headstone than a mosque inscription. 



3. Inscription from the tomb of one Daitlat Klidn (A. H. 020.). 

 ^J sUj^AXw ejU^Jt ^i-e 0SjU\ Ja*J\ plzfi)}] ^ihi^ ^L* ±f J(i 



II aj'**-^ i i^y*^ *J-w v^j 8*° {r c <**^ X) ^'j-^ *♦#* iy^- ^j& jte*)jj* 



In the auspicious reign of the great exalted Sultan, who trusts in the All-merci- 

 ful, Sikandar Shah, son of Buhliil Shah, the king, — may God perpetuate his 

 kingdom and rule ! — this vault was built by the slave who hopes in the mercy of the 

 Creator, Daulat Khan *** Khwajah Muhammad. 1st Eajab, 920. [23rd August, 

 1514.]. 



Mr. T. W. Beale, of Partabpurah, Agrah, the learned author of the 

 • Mift ah uttaivarikh , has sent the following readings of inscriptions. 



1. Bia'nah. 

 " There is a place of worship of the Hindus, about 11 Jcos from the 

 Qacbah of Bianah, in the district of Bhartpur, called " Barmadh Mata." Irt 

 the 7th year of Jahangir (1022 A. H.), Maryam Zamani (^^j^i/ ), the 

 daughter of Raja Bihari or Bhara Mai and mother of Jahangir, caused a 

 garden and a Baoli (a well with steps) to be built there, which cost her 

 20,000 Rs. At present, there is no sign of the garden, but the building 

 which is over the Baoli still exists. It is built with red stone and has the 

 following inscription on a slab of marble." 



^AUj U &x> j\ w< ili c>£, t£)'t~»- jjyfjlya. jmJix'i jy &L£ <v*j 





IS" 



I -rr 



1. In the reign of the king Niiruddin Jahangir, the world became a rose- 

 bed, from the moon to the fish. 



2. By order of his mother Maryam Zamani, from whom the divine light 

 shone forth, 



3. This garden and this well were nicely built, so much so, that from shame the 

 face of Paradise got pale. 



4. Genius expressed the date of the building in the words, ' The 7th year of 

 the Imperial accession.' [A. H. 1022, or A. D. 1613.] 



The phrase ' from the moon to the fish' is often used by poets, and is 

 an allusion the old belief that the earth rests upon a fish ; hence ' from the 

 moon to the fish' means ' the whole earth.' 



2. Ajmi'r. 



" Jahangir writes in the Tuzuk i Jahangiri, that there is a large tank 

 in Ajmir, and that when he visited the place in 1024 A. H., he named it 



