100 Inscription from Arjrali. [AUGUST, 



" Chashmah i Nur" (' Fountain of light') after his own name Nuruddin, and 

 ordered a building to be erected on its hanks, which is still standing. The 

 following inscription is to be seen at the top of the building, which shows 

 the year of its erection, 1024 A. H." » 



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1. When the fortunate king of the seven realms, whose praise cannot be express- 

 ed in writing, — 



2. The light of the house of Shah Akbar, the sovereign of the time, Shah 

 Jahangir, — 



3. Came to this spring, the water flowed in consequence of his liberality, and 

 its soil became the elixir of life. 



4. The king named it ' Fountain of Light,' and Khizr's water [the water of 

 life] derives its taste from it. 



5. In the 10th year of the accession of the victorious king, by order of the well- 

 meaning ruler, 



6. This building at the side of the ' Fountain of Light' became, by the decree 

 of fate, an ornament of the world. 



7. Genius expressed the date of its completion in the words, ' the Mahall of 

 Shah Nuruddin Jahangir.' A. H. 1024 [A. D. 1615]. 



3. A'grah. 



The following is the Tarikh of the famous Isma'il Beg, who was im- 

 prisoned by the Mara.tb.as in the Fort of Agrah in the time of the blind 

 emperor Shah 'Alam, and died there in the year 1214, A. H. His tomb is 

 still to be seen at Agrah, bearing the following inscription — 



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1. When Ihtisham uddaulah I s m a' 1 1 K h a n left for Paradise, 



2. A voice from heaven expressed the date of his death in the words ' Alas, 

 a great man has gone from this world.' A. H. 1214 [A. D. 1799-1800]. 



Regarding Isma'il Beg, vide Keene's History of the Mogul Empire, 

 Book II, Chapter V. 



