3 66 Inscriptions from Sambhalherd. [Nov. 



Sayyid settlement to a period as early as, if not earlier, than that of Firuz 

 Shah." 



I. Inscription on a Tomh at Smiiblialherd. 



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There is no God hut God, Muhammad is the Prophet of God. 



1. The beginning of the huiMing of this tomh was on the Srd Jumdda I., 



2. After 777 years had passed away since the flight of the heloved prophet [30th 

 September, 1375, A. D.], 



3. {During) the reign of Fir uzshdh, (the Ung) of high fortune, whose throne is the 

 highest heaven, the victorious, the praiseworthy. 



4. Ihn Sdldr, son of Husain, ordered this tomb of heavenly grandeur (to he 

 huilt). 



5. May God Almighty in His Tcindness and mercy receive him in the eternal 

 mansion 1 



This Ibn Salar, son of Husain, is mentioned in Mr. Cadell's tables of 

 the Chatrauri clan as the eighth descendant from Abul Farah, and is stjded 

 ' Salar Aulia,' ' Salar the Saint.' It is noticeable that the inscription does 

 not call them Sayyids, but the omission may be oh metrum. 



II. Inscription on a J\Iosque in Samhlialherd. 



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There is no God but God, Muhammad is the Prophet of God. In the reign of Shdh- 

 jahdn, the Pddishdh victorious over infidels, Sayyid M dkhan, son of Bahduddin 

 built this mosque. The Architect is D as w and i. 1041,4.1?. [A. D. 1631-32]. 



The Padishahnamah mentions, it would appear, two Saj^ds of the 

 name of Makhan. One was the son of 'Abdullah, and was killed in the last 

 battle with Khan Jahan Lodi (A. H. 1040 ; vide Padishahnamah. 1, 351) ; the 

 second was a commander of Nine Hundred, 500 horse, and is said (loc. cit., 

 I, h., 312) to have died in the ninth year of Shahjahan, or A. H. 1045-46. The 

 architect's name also occurs, according to Mr. CadeU, in the inscription of 

 another mosque at Ghalibpur. 



3. From E. T. Atkinson, Esq., C. S., three inscriptions from Kol, near 

 'Aligarh. 



Mr. Blochmann remarked — 



These inscriptions refer to the building of the fort of Kol in 931, A. H., 

 or A. D. 1524-25, during the reign of Ibrahim Lodi, and to the building of 



