1872,] LiscriiHions on a sword and a trophj gun, 1G9 



The first three lines of this Arabic inscription are used all over the East 

 as the most powerful amulet (vide A'in translation, p. 507). The last two 

 lines are half Persian half Arabic. 'Ali is 



• Tlie king of men, the lion of God, the strength of the Almighty, 

 No man is like 'All, no sivord like his Zidfaqdr. 



Zulfaqdr is the name of 'All's sword. The sword would appear to be 

 a Maisur sword, because the last two lines of the inscription often occur in 

 connection with Haidar 'Ali ; vide Hamlat i Haidari, p. 505. 



Inscrijption on the chase of one of the trophy guns formerly helonging to the 



Bengal Artillery. 



^la/o >A ^t >jjG O^ilki" ^^(31 C^ ylj^Aii^j^^ ti.:x| (JaAAj 



1. Well done, gun helonging to Naivdh Cafdar, victorious over the enemies of the 

 religion of Muhammad. 



2. As through the grace of the only God he ivas victorious, the djate of the gun. too, 

 is muzaffar, the 'victorious.' [A.H. 1168, or A.D. 1754-55] 



The tdrikh is here what is called *-Jt**3, or hidden, because it is muzaffar 

 minus (c;tjl) u ham, or 1220 — 52, i. e., 1168 A. H., when Nawab pafdar Jang 

 was Vazir of Audh. 



Mr. Blochmann also said that the members would be glad to hear that 

 Greneral Cunningham had sent to the Society a very large collection of Sans- 

 krit and Muhammadan inscriptions. They would be laid before the Society 

 at the next meeting. Only one inscription he would now lay before the 

 meeting, the inscription on the tomb-stone of Princess Jahanara, of which 

 General Cunningham had sent a beautiful facsimile. 



Princess Jahanara is the second daughter of Shahjahan by Mumtaz 

 Mahall (the ' Taj-bibi'), and was born on Wednesday, 21stpafar, 1023 [23rd 

 March, 1614]. She is called in Muhammadan histories Mustatab Begum, 

 or Begum pahib,* and died at Dihli on the 3rd Ramazan, 1092 [6th 

 September, 1681, A. D.], in her sixty-eighth year. Like many of the 

 imperial princesses she was not married. She disliked her younger brother 

 Aurangzib. Her numerous charities gained for her a good name. 



Regarding her death, the Madsir i ' Alamgiri says — " On the 7th Rama- 

 zan, His Majesty received a report that the angelic queen of the angels of 

 the world of good and pious deeds, Jahanara Banu Begum had died at Dihli 

 on the 3rd, She was bmied in the courtyard of the mausoleum of Shaikh 

 Nizamuddin Aulia, where she had before built a tomb for herself. His 



* So also Bernier in tlie beginning of his work. He gives a long chapter of on- 

 dits and court-scandal about her. 



