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*' descendants of the prophet. He reigned thirty- 

 *' eight years and nine months, and left many memo- 

 ** rials of his mao-niticence in the land. He built 

 ** fifty great sluices, forty mosques, thirty schools, 

 *' twenty caravansaries, an hundred palaces, five 

 *' hospitals, an hundred tombs, ten baths, ten spires, 

 ** one hundred and fifty wells, one hundred bridges; 

 *' and the pleasure gardens he made were without 

 *' number *." 



The author of the Huft Akleem, Mohummud 

 Ameen Razee, who wrote his history of the world, 

 (or, as the title of his book imports, of the Seven 

 Climes into which the Mahomedans divide the uni- 

 verfe,) in the reign of Akbm\ corroborates the 

 above characler of Feeroz Shah, and adds the fol- 

 lowing passage, translated verbatim from his history. 

 "Among the places built by this King Feeroz 

 *' Shah) is a hunting place, which the populace call 

 *' the Lat of Feeroz Shah. It is a house of three 

 *' stories, in the centre of which has been erected a 

 " pillar of red stone, of one piece, and tapering up- 

 *' wards. The visible part of the shaft is, by mea- 

 *' surement, twenty-seven Zirras, and it is said that 

 " one-third only is visible; the remaining two-thirds 

 " being buried in the earth. In this case, the total 

 " lenaith must be eiohtv-one Zirra.s ; and it is five 

 *' Zirras in circumference : Round it have been en- 

 *' graved literal characters which the most intelii- 

 *' gent of all religions have been unable to explain. 

 " Report says, this pillar is a monument of renown 

 " to the liajuhs, (or Hindoo Princes,) and that 

 " Feeroz Shah set it up within his hunting place. 

 " But on this head there are various traditions, 

 *' which it would be tedious to relate." 



The exa6l length of the Zirra, referred to in the 

 above description, is uncertain. But there can be 

 no doubt that the height of the pillar, now visible 



N above 



* Dow's History of Hindostan, Vol. I. page 336, 



