6 H. Blochmann — BelmericJc's Inscriptions from BUM. [Jais", 



1. "When 'Ala uddin Muhammad left and hastened from the perishable 

 ahode towards paradise, 



2. All people searched for a chronogram, and my genius foimd one in the worda 

 * 'Alauddin went to paradise'. 



This gives 982 H., or A. D. 1574. 



YI. 



From a tomb witliiatlie courtyard (calm) of Amir Khusrau's Dargali, S. 

 1 ft. 2 in. by 6| in. 

 II e^ib ci>^l«-w 4^ i>yi _i^ ^ ^U^* y ci.wa^j <Xi*s \jy^^ jj) Ji> m^^ ji>\^. J^^ vlr* 

 Nawab Nazar Bahadur Khan was killed on the 'Ashtira day [lOth 

 Muharram] of the year 982. 



This would be the 2nd May, 1574. Nawab Nazar Bahadur was killed 

 in Orisa ; vide Km Translation, I, 374. Hence the memorial tablet ap- 

 pears to bear a wrong year ; for Nazar Bahadur was killed in 983. 



VII. 



From an old Masjid near the Dihli Jail, within the enclosure of certain 

 old walls, called ' Mahabat Khan ki Haweli' , on the road to Nizamuddin. 

 A beautiful inscription, 3 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. 4 in. The inscription was com- 

 posed by the renowned F ai z i, the brother of Abul Fazl, for a mosque built 

 by Shaikh 'Abdunnabi, the enemy of his father ; vide Abul Fazl's biography 

 in my Ain Translation, I, p. XV, and p. 546. Metre, Kliafif. 



clbii/l j_ji ^JJSo il l^i/o 4j, &*o cySiK &*sj ^J^i tii 

 cl^i^JIb *i*Ji>.A. J.A| i-i^ # ^^Kjs:^\ jS\j |*il«it i:i-« 

 c lis Jit jaI/o J.*}\ i^jdjLK * j^jU.*J ts^^ '^^ k^ 



j^^mOJ ^ , Axis 



1. In the time of the greatest [a/ciarl Sovereign — May God perpetuate — 



2. A sacred mosque, the Ukc of which will not be foimd in the coimtries, was 

 built 



3. By the Shaikh of Isl&m, the visitor of both pilgrimages, the Shaikh of the 

 people of the tradition by consent, 



4. Shaikh 'Abdunnabi, the bestower of benefits,* the mine of knowledge, 

 the source of advantages. 



5. F a 1 z i asked Genius for a chronogram for this building, and he answered, 

 " The best of religious edifices". Written by 



* Jia'mdi, from na'md, a benefit, in allusion to his office as ^"■dr, or bestower of 

 religious benefits and lands. 



