2874i.'] CunninffJiam's Inscriptions from Tricli. -69 



Coins. 

 The Hon'ble E. C. Bayley, C. S. I. Major F. W. Stubbs. 

 Babu Eajendralala Mitra. Eev. M. A. Sherring, 



General A. Cunningham, C. S. I. 



The Committee of Papers. 

 The Members of Council. 



Mr. Blochmann exhibited rubbings of ''the following inscriptions 

 received from Genl. Cunningham and Mr. Delmerick. 



I'rich or Erich. 



Trich lies N, E. of Jhansi, near the right bank of the Betma, N. W, 

 Provinces. 



Parganah Trich is mentioned in the Ain i Akbari as the chief 

 parganah of Sirkar Trich, fubah Agrah, and is said to have contained 

 625,597 big'has, assessed at 2,922,436 dams. Its inhabitants are 

 Kayasths. In the beginning of Shahjahan's reign, it belonged to Sirkar 

 Islamabad, to which also Bhander and Panwari belonged. The last two 

 parganahs are counted in the Ain to Sirkar Trich. 



I'rich was in the possession of Bundela chiefs. In the end of Akbar's 

 reign, Bir Singh Bundela, Abulfazl's murderer, was besieged in Irich (Ain 

 translation, p. 469). In the beginning of Shahjahan's reign, it was conquered 

 and wrested from Jhujhar Singh, Bir Singh's son ; and not long after, it was 

 the scene of one of the last engagements with Khan Jahan Lodi. In 1052 

 (A. D. 1642), I'rich and other places of Sirkar Islamabad were given asjagir 

 to Sayyld Shaja'at Khan, son of S. Jahangir, son of S. Mahmiid Barha (Ain 

 Translation, p. 392). Shaja'at Khan died at frich in Shav/wal of the 

 same year (end of 1642). During the reign of Aurangzib, we find that 

 Mirza Khan Manuchihr was Faujdar of Trich ; he died in the end of 1083 

 (beginning of 1673). In 1104 (A. D. 1692-93), Odat Singh, zamindar of 

 IJrchah, is mentioned as Faujdar of Trich. 



General Cunningham's rubbing refers to the building of a mosque 

 in Irich, which was completed during the reign of Mahmud Shah of Dihli 

 on the 4th Rajah, 815 A. H., or 10th October, 1412, A. D. The inscription 

 contains a short poem of ten lines (metre, long ramal) ; but three-fourths of 

 left portion of the stone are illegible. The builder of the mosque was Qazi 

 Ziyauddln, apparently a brother of Junaid, the imperial jagirdar of Irich. 



The following is all that I can decipher ; fortunately the date and the 

 name of the king are quite clear.* 



* The use of ke instead of Jcih is archaic. Regarding the form Mgad for 1ms7U<;ad, 

 vide Proceedings, Deer. 1873, p. 201, 



