187'i.] Bloclimann — On Mr. Beale's Ar/rah Inscriptions. 163 



1. I am not sorry that my Mir has left this perisluible world for Paradise. 

 9. Praise be to God that he acquired true knowledge ; hence do not believe that 

 he left the world in vain. 



3. In searching for the date of his death, the wailing cry of my heart rose up to 

 heaven, 



4. And my heart said in sorrow and with many an alas, ' A saint, the pole of the 

 period, has left the world.' A. H. ^035. 



dji^koj :^^,^ (X^j)!^ wf^:s^ j)^:L^A * ^J>xl:^j '^ifij dy J\j*^ ^^^^ 



1. The Shaikh of the age, the focus of the rays of eternity, who is unrivalled 

 among the saints of the Chishti order, 



2. The ocean of liberality, the mine of generosity, the pole of the period, is Mir 

 'Abdullah, who stood unsurpassed in all sciences. 



3. K a s h f 1 [his son] asked for the date of his departure, and answered his own 

 question by saying, " He was the Shaikh of the age.' A. H. 1035. 



On the outside of the mosque is the following inscription (metre, 

 lOmfif)- 



I *rb 



1. K a s h f I, place thy head upon His threshold ; for none returns hopeless from 

 His door. 



2. Day and night, the heavenly sphere with the stars, the moon, and the sun, re- 

 volve about this mausoleum. 



3. The date of the completion of this noble structure was expressed by a voice from 

 heaven in the words 'the everlasting Mausoleum.' A. H. 1035. 



6. 



In Mahallah Hathiapol, ^grah, there is a mosque built in 1068 A. H., 

 or 1657-58, by Khan Dauran Nu9rat Khan, the son of Khan 

 Dauran Nucrat-jang. The father, who at the time of his death was the 

 first noble of Shahjahan's court, was murdered near Labor on the 8th 

 Jumada 1, 1055, or 22nd June, 1645, by a Kashmir Brahman boy, whom 

 Khan Dauran had converted to Islam and put among his servants. 



Khan Dauran's name was Khwajah pabir ; he was the son of Khwajah 

 Higari Naqshbandi, who held a man9ab during Jahangir's reign. 



The 3Iq,asir ul-Umard has a lengthy biographical note on Khan 

 Dauran, at the end of which the following passage occurs : 



