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ing the Christians and the priests from the capitation tax. 
Others on the same subject from Bahadir Shah, Muhammad 
Shah, and ’Alamgir are common. 
?Ali Gauhar, son of ’Alamgir IT, known under the name 
dalpur of the Amlah Hawaili Palam, in the Province of Dar-ul 
Khilafah of Shahjahanabad, free from all vexations of the 
revenue department and imperial taxes. 
II. The second category shows two Tibetan diplomas in 
‘Umin’ or ‘ Umin chuk’ characters. e larger one is of Mi- 
Vagn, King of Tibet, at his residence of Kadem Khanzar in the 
year of the Iron Bird, the 30th of the seventh moon, which cor- 
responds to the 9th September 1741 of the Christian era. The 
second is from the hand of the Dalai Lama, written and given 
at his great palace of Potala, the 28th of the first month of the 
star, called Thrumto. in the year of the Iron Bird, which is ac- 
cording to our reckoning October 7th, 1751. Both these 
against them by unscrupulous critics. If the slightest doubt 
remains about them, I i 
. Here are three Newari or Nepalese inscriptions, one 
from King Jaya Ranagita Malla Deva, King of Badgao in Nepal, 
dated in the Newari year 858, 7th moon, or 31st October 1737. 
— ae satel a nn nt 
1 Histoire Générale des Voyages, Tom. XXVII, p. 290 et sqqg. among 
the notes; Astley’s New Collection of Voyages and Travels, London, 
1747, Tom. IV, p. 620, among the notes. 
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