1873.] H. Blochmann — Inscriptions from Oenl. Cunningham. 197 



more on application to the Secretary, as far as they were available, and 

 further that those members who did not intend to make use of their tickets 

 either for themselves or for a friend, should be begged to return them in 

 order that they might be available for others. The Council trusted that 

 members would assist them in carrying out these arrangements, so that the 

 inconveniences arising from the want of a larger hall might be felt as little 

 as possible. 



The lectures would be open to ladies. 



Capt. J. Waterhouse exhibited some photographic prints produced by 

 the collotype process and pointed out the advantages of the process as a 

 substitute for the ordinary methods of photographic and lithographic 

 printing and engraving. 



Mr. Blochmann exhibited the following inscriptions received from Gene- 

 ral Cunningham, C. S. I. 



Dihli'. 

 I. 



Inscription from the tomb of the renoivned Shaikh Farid i BuTchari. 



A biography of this excellent man will be found in my A'in translation, 

 pp. 413, 620. The town of Faridabad, south of Dihlj, is called after his 

 name, and numerous buildings erected by him still exist in Bihar, Dihli, 

 Faridabad, Lahor, and Ahmadabad. The inscription consists of fourteen 

 lines, and the slab measures 7 feet by 1^ feet. 



c^. ^/j.3 <d-*j jc> - a-jAj y j oj*j y (S&M ^^\ ctujt ^i*** # aJUi u 



^cjlsr! *+sk| 4>a« ^\ o.Jji ±x£ ^jli j(Li lj yS\ ^Cy)\ jAU ^ilj^f^c 



LT^JJ c5 — ^l J>y~?i ^ — 1 * ^^ ^AU >jj13 jg 



O God! 



Wonderful is the King, the Living, who neither dies, nor passes away. 



In the reign of 'Arsh-ashyani J a 1 a 1-u d-d i n A k b a r Padishah i Ghazi, Shaikh 

 Farid, sonofSayyid Ahmad Bukhari, was distinguished by the favors of that 

 monarch, and during the just rule of Nur-uddin Jahangir Padishah, son of Akbar 

 Padishah, he was honored with the title of Murtaza Khan. 



In the 9th year of the accession, corresponding to 1025 A. H.,* he joined God's mercy. 



* It is curious that a chronological mistake should occur on the tombstone of so 

 famous a man as Farid i Bukhari. The ninth year of Jahangir's reign lasted from 9th 

 Safar, 1023, to 17th Safar, 1024. But the tdrihh of Farid' s death given in the A'in 



