10 H. Bloclimann — CunningTici'm'' a Inscrij)i ions from Sahasrdm. [Jan. 



[It -was] in the reign of Shahjahan Padishah i Ghazi, that the excel- 

 lent Nawab IkhlaQ Khan held the command of the fort with a man9ab of 3000 

 horse and the faiydari of the region fi'om Makrain and Parganah Sir is and 

 K u t u m b a h as far as Banaras, and the jagir tenure of Parganah C h a u n d and 

 Parganah Mangror and Tilothu and Akbarpfir and Bilonjah and 

 Bijaigar and Jap la, and that the meanest of God's slaves Malik "Wicjal, who 

 was honored with the rank of a son, was the Daroghah of Fort Rohtas and Faujdar of 

 Bijaigar in the neighbourhood of the Fort. In the course of time, a near relation 

 died. Hence by God's grace it occurred to him [Malik Wi^al] that the house of the life 



to come at the time of and he built a chabutrah and a mosque .... a well 



and a garden towards the north and the south. And the beginning of the building 

 [was made] on the 5th Rabi' II, 1056, and it was ready in Eamazan, 1057 [October, 

 1647]. 



Parganahs S i r i s and Kutumbali border on the right bank of the 

 Son; Tilothu is a small town on the left bank of the Son, N. E. of 

 Eohtasgarh. Parganahs Bilonjah and Japla touch the right bank of 

 the Son, and are separated from each other by the Koil River, which flows 

 into the Son, S. of Rohtas. Mangror lies on the Karamnasa, Long. 83° 

 17', Lat. 25° 3' (vide Beames, Elliot's Races of the N. W. P., II, 119), and 

 adjacent to it, to the East, lies Parganah Chaund. Bijaigarh lies 

 W. of Rohtas. Akbarpur and Makrain are the names of two adjacent 

 parganahs in Maldah and extend along the Ganges opposite to Rajmahall ; 

 but I do not know whether they are meant. 



Regarding the commandant of Rohtas, Nawab Ikhla9 Khan, I find 

 two Amirs of that title mentioned in the Padishahnamah. One Ikhla9 

 Khan was a son of Bayazid Beg, and was in 1012 appointed to Rohtas. 

 He rose to a command of 2000 horse, and died about 1050 H., in the 13th 

 year of Shahjahan's reign. He appears to be the IkhlaQ Khan who is 

 mentioned in the inscription. The second Ikhla9 Khan was a grandson of 

 Qutbuddin, Jahangir's foster-brother (Ain Translation, 1,197); his name 

 was Shaikh Ilahdiyah. I do not find Malik 'Wi9al, the builder of the 

 mosque, mentioned in the histories. 



Sahasra'm, South Bihar. 

 - From a loose slab, found by General Cunningham at the foot of tlie 

 Chandan Pir Hill, Sahasram. The name of the saint after whom the hill 

 is called, does not occur in the biographical works on Muhammadan saints. 

 Vide Buchanan. 



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