Vol. II r, No. 8.] Narnaid anA\it$ Buildings. 583 



raja of Pat'ala, In re(!ognifciou of the loyalty aii'd faithfulness 

 whicli the Alahai^aja had exhilnted dnrin/ the crisis. Since then 

 it has rem lined in the possession of the Cnief.s of the Patiala 

 State, and they have always held ifc with great pride and 

 Jiononr. 



Narnaul is strewn with many bulldintrs and a majority of 

 ^ ., ,. them are tumUlirig down and fast decay- 



° * inuf. The most important of them are 



the following: 



(i) Ghhatta Mukand Das. 



Rae Mukand Das, as I have said above, was the Diioan of 

 Narnaal during the reign of Shah J;ihin. Tiie author of 

 MaSisir-ul-Um-ira ' SMy« that Rae Mukand wa« at the beginnirjg of 

 his career an ordinary servant of Asif Jah, but being a man of 

 good sense and oounigo as well as integrity, he lose in time to be 

 the governor of Narnaul, He was very generous and his raiyats 

 werealvvays inutth pleased witli him. 



Ghhatttt in Urdu, means a hive, and we find that many buildings 

 cluster rout»d this house. Mr. Garrick calls it Ghuttar, butorives 



no reason for his styling it so.^ The buiMing is not at all in the 

 style that was prevalent at the time there. It is much like a 

 building of Akbar's time. Tne outlines are Muhnmmadan, bnt 

 the details ate purely Hindu. It is lyini; quite neglected and 

 is in a very dilapidated condition. Many roofs have tumbled 

 down. Wlien i was there, a suggestion vsras made by the Chief 

 Engineer of the Patiala State, that the local scliool be shifted to 

 this building and the repairs be made out of the Public Fund. 

 This was, indeed, an excellent proposal, but I do not know how 

 far it has been carried out. 



At a small distance from the Ghhatta there is Rae Mukand 

 Das's Serai. Tt has an inscription which I have read as fol- 

 lows : 



Text. 



»U»ib i:>l^?«.*ti ^^l3 isi'y k^^=^i^ Ci^^^ ur^'^^t^-^*^^^^' J5*5 J-i 



.siJlj ctyU^ ^'^ ^-A^l vy c3^* c^'^ '^'^ ^♦; ^»; *-b v/J^ 



fl — • *i« 



V4 



Translation, 



" During the reign of the victorious father Shahabu-d-din Mu- 

 hammad, the second lord of the hapi»y conjunction, Shah Jahau, 

 the victorious king; the Rae of Raes, Rae Mukund Das gave 



i Vide Ma'asir-ul-Uuiara, Asiatic Society of Bengal edition, Vol. fl, 

 pp. 237—238. 



» Vide ArchcBological Snrvey Report, Vol. XXIII, p. 28. 



