1G4' Bloclimann — On 3fr. Bealcs Agrali In script ion f<. [August, 



" yiiabjahan gave each of his sons more than the will of the father 

 provided, and yet 60 lak'hs of rupees escheated to the Imperial treasmy. 

 Khan Dauran's ancestors being buried in Gwaliar, he, too, was buried 

 there. Khan Dauran was single-minded and zealous in the service of the 

 emperor, and not avaricious. He devoted three watches of the day 

 and one watch of the night to government. Jlis private affairs were looked 

 after by Mir Sayyid Imama, who treated the tenants with unusual harshness. 

 On the day when the news of Khan Dauran's death reached B u r h a n p u r, 

 neither sweetmeats nor sugar were left in the shops ; for all people 

 distributed sweets as a thankoffering. Most of the best buildings of 

 Burhanpiir* were erected during Khan Dauran's governorship. Thus 

 Z a i n a b a d on the Tapti was built by him ; he also erected the sarais 

 between Saronj and Burhanpur. 



His sons Sayyid Muhammad and Sayyid Mahmud were made 

 Commanders of One Thousand ; and the youngest son, 'Abd ul-Ghani, though 

 only twelve years old, received a mangab of 500. 



The second son, Sayyid Mahmud, received the title of Nu^rat 

 Klian, and afterwards that of Khan Dauran. In the first year of Aurang- 

 zib's reign, he held Allahabad, and was in the second year appointed 

 governor of Orisa, where he died in 1078 [A. D. 1667-68]. 



It is he who built the mosque in Hathiapol, Agrah. Mr. Beale 

 reads one of the two in scrip tionsf on it as follows (metre, mutaqdrib) — 



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1. During the reign of the emperor Shahjahan, the mosque was built (?) 



2. By the young and noble and fortunate Nu9rat Khan, son of the Khan 

 Dauran. 



3. When I searched fdr its date. Genius promptly said, " In this place dwell grace 

 and security.' A. H. 1068 [A. D. 1657-58]. 



7. 

 In the same place there is another mosque, which has the following 

 inscription on a marble slab (metre, short hazaj) — 



* The Central Provinces Gazetteer contains no allusion to Khan Dauran suh voce 

 Burhanpur. Vide also article Zaiuabad. The remark in the Gazetteer (p. 128, 1. 11) 

 that Shahnawaz Khan lived the life of a recluse at Burhanpur is unhistorical ; for 

 Shahnawaz died of excessive wine drinking. 



t 1 do not give the second inscription, as Mr. Bcale could not obtain a metrical 

 reading. 



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