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c * bowed down their foreheads to the ground. Na- 

 <c dir Shah sternly asked them what they wanted; 

 " they cried out with one voice, Spare the city* 

 K< Mohummud said not a word, hut tears flowed 

 f fast from his eyes; the tyrant, for once touched 

 cc with pity, sheathed his sword, and said, For the 

 " sake of the prince Mohummud, I forgive. " Since 

 this dreadful massacre this quarter of Delhi has been 

 but very thinly inhabited. The mosque ofRosHUN- 

 a-Dowlah is situated at the entrance of the Chandney 

 Choke, or market ; it is built of red stone, of the com- 

 mon size, and surmounted by three domes richly 

 gilt. 



Zeenul-al Muss at id, or the ornament of 

 mosques, is on the banks- of the Jumna, and was erect- 

 ed by a daughter of Aurungzebe, of the name of 

 Zee nut al Nissa'h. It is of red stone with inlay- 

 ings of marble, and has a spacious terrace in front 

 of it, with a capacious reservoir faced with marble. 

 The princess who built it, having declined entering 

 into the marriage state, laid out a large sum of mo- 

 ney in the above mosque, and, on completing it, she 

 built a small sepulchre of white marble, surrounded 

 by a wall of the same, in the west corner of the ter- 

 race. In this tomb she was buried in the year of the 

 Hegira 1122, corresponding with the year of Christ 

 1710. There were formerly lands al^oted for the sup- 

 port and repairs of this place, amounting to a lack 

 of rupees per annum ; but they all have been confis- 

 cated during the troubles this city has undergone. 

 Exclusive of the mosques above described, there are 



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