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Blochmann — On Mr. Beales Agrali Inscript 



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1. This tablet, wliich is an ornament of the sun and the moon, is the mirror of the 

 hopes of the heart* that wishes to have its pious desires fulfilled. 



2. God has in His kindness bestowed favors on K h i d m a t Khan: this is the 

 figure of the real foot of God's Prophet. 



God is great, may His glory shine forth ! Ruler ! O Eternal ! O First one ! 

 Last one ! 



We see from the Tuzulc (pp. 268, 403, 404) that Khidmat Khan 

 was a eunuch. In the 14th year of Jahangir's reign, he held a command of 

 550, and 130 horse ; and he was present with the emperor, when Mahabat 

 Khan took Jahangir a prisoner. 



Khidmat Khan is not to he confounded with Khidmatgar Khan and a 

 Khidmat-parast Khan, two other nobles of Jahangir's reign ; nor with the 

 Khidmat Eai (A'in Translation, pp. 252). 



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At Nagla Jawahir, in the vicinity of the former office of the Sadr 

 Diwani and Sadr Board of Revenue, Agrah, is the tomb and mosque of 

 Mir 'Abdullah Tirmizi(of Tirmiz, on the Oxus), the poet and well- 

 known calligraphist of Jahangir's reign. He received from the emperor 

 the title oilTishkhi^Qalam, ' the musk-pen ;' as poet he is known under the 

 nom-de-plu7ne of Wacfi. His son Muhammad palihis also well known 

 as a poet ; his assumed name is Kashfi, and two lithographed editions 

 exist of his works. f 



Mir 'Abdullah died in 1035, or A. D. 1625-26. The Persian verses 

 on the walls of the largest tomb in the Khusrau Glardens in Allahabad are 

 by him and were written by him. 



The following inscriptions are inside the dome of his Mausoleum at 

 A'grali {metises, short Sazaj and Mtizdri') — 



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-a rare case. 



