1G8 Inscriptions from Mi/ydn Mir, Sfc. [Nov. 



T/ie praise helongs to God ; let ^is praise Mtn without ceasing, and the thanks belong 

 to God, — Let us thank him vnthoxd end, that with sums for benevolent purposes for the 

 sake of Muhammad — mny God bles-' him ! — the servant of the throne of Him ivith whom all 

 creatures take refuge, 8 db it Khan Bahadur 8 dbitjang, son of Muhammad Beg, a 

 Turkman Mughul, living in Kol, built the Jdmi' masjid, and the well, commenced in 1 137 A.H., 

 and finished in 1141 A. H, or the 11th year of Muhammad 8hdh, Pddishdhi Ghdzi 

 [A. D. 1728]. Who can suficiently perform the duty of thanking God ? [Sa'di's Gulistan]. 



4. From Major F. W. Stubbs, some readings and rubbings of inscriptions 

 from Miyan Mir, Maisur swords, and Audh guns, &c. 



Mr. Blochmann said — 



Major Stubbs in sending the following inscription from Miyan Mir says : 

 " Between Labor and the cantonments of Miyan Mir are a number of tombs, 

 very many so much dilapidated that they might be removed with advantage. 

 Some, however, ought to be allowed to remain, and those with inscriptions 

 ought not to be distm-bed. One of the tombs, called the Pah Daman, contains 

 besides the grave of the mother of Shaikh Imam-uddin, once ruler of Kashmir 

 under the Sikh Darbar, the traditional remains of an adopted daughter of 

 Husain ibn i Hazrat 'All, and a daughter of one Muhammad Mushm. 



The first of Major Stubbs's inscriptions is taken from the tomb of the 

 renowned saint Shaikh Muhammad Pir, alias Miyan Mir Balapir, after whom 

 the cantonment of Miyan Mir is called. He was born in Siwistan in 957, and 

 went at the age of twenty-five to Labor, where he had the reputation of a 

 great ascetic. He died there on the 7th Rabi' I, 1045 [11th August, 1G35]. 

 His relation to Dara Shikoh was mentioned in Journal, A. S. Bengal, for 

 1870, p. 276. The tomb is north of the cantonment. 



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1. Miyan Mir, the first of the wise, the dust of whose door vies with the elixir of 

 life, 



2. Travelled to the city of eternity, when he was tired of this place of misery. 



3. Thought wrote down the year of his death {as follows) — ' Bafirdaus i wdld Miydn 

 Mir 8hud,' Miydn Mir has gone to Paradise. A. H. 1045. 



Inscription on a Sword (tahvdr). 



