116 Blochmann — on Mr. BeaWs Agrali Inscriptions. [June, 



From the light of the coinage of the emperor Jahangir, son of the emperor Akbar, 

 Agrah money became in Farwardin as plentiful as the stars. A. H. 1030 [A. D. 1620]. 



The tomb of Sayyid Nundlali Shustari. 

 Sayyid Nurullah, a Shi'ah, was an inhabitant of Shustar in Persia, and 

 came to India in the time of Akbar, who appointed him Qazi of Labor. In 

 the reign of Jahangir he was summoned to A 'grab., where during a religious 

 discussion, it is rumoured, he made some unpleasant remarks about Shaikh 

 Salim Chishti of Fathpur Sikri, to whose prayers Jahangir believed to owe 

 his existence. The emperor, in a great passion, ordered that his tongue be 

 cut out from the back part of his neck, and his body be dragged by an 

 elephant through the streets of the city. His tomb, which is of white 

 marble, is on a high chabutra near the village of Nagla Padi, close to the 

 Roman Catholic burial ground in A'grah. The inscription is — 



Zijij.*- \j up i y^-J\ xy> • * — If I jy I — fta. j| y> <*JUS 

 LSJ^ I'M **"• 



The shining tomb of Sayyid Nurullah Shustari. 



1. He was a tyrant who cruelly beheaded Nurullah, the beloved of the Pro- 

 phet. 



2. Zamin 'Ali found the year in which the saint was murdered in the words 

 "Nurullah Sayyid has become a martyr". A. H. 1019 [A. D. 1610]. He obtained 

 the blessing of martyrdom in the reign of Jahangir, A. H. 1019. 



Nawab 'All Naqi Khan, the minister of the ex -king of Audh, came to 

 A'grah in the latter part of A. D. 1871, and ordered a ' Dalan ' to be erected 

 over the grave. He died at Lak'hnau in December of the same year ; but 

 the Dalan was finished in 1290, or A. D. 1873, as recorded on the following 

 inscription over the entrance (Hubai metre) — 



*!f U (J>i/ ajj^A JUS £l& * * — U| jy ^k^ ilj Bjljy 

 Mj+tb iJu\>±joj* ^^c^ImS # y+*> \J>j\y> tJ&iJ^ *y?j' 



(j^ys* | r i . &w 



1. Nurullah, a young sprout of the Prophet's garden, suffered martyrdom at 

 the hand of a cruel emperor. 



2. 'A 1 i N a q i ordered his tomb to be built up, and all the faithful joined him. 



3. The tdrikh of the erection of the sacred mausoleum lies in the words — " Sweet 

 Paradise is the resting-place of Nurullah." A. H. 1290. [A. D. 1873.] 



