1874.] Blochmann — On Mr. BeaWs Agrali Inscriptions. 165 



1. During the reign of Shah 'Alamgir, through whose justice the name of 

 heresy and oppression vanished from the world, 



2. This lofty mosque arose through K a f u r, and Genius said, ' The lustre of the 

 eye of Islam.' A. H. 1083 [A. D. 1672-73]. -r 



The Agliar Khan Inscription. 



The following interesting inscription is engraved on a stone at the 

 head of the tomb of Nawab Aghar Khan (I.) in Kachpura, Agrah, 

 close to Sarai Khvvajah. The tomb was erected by Nawab Aghar's son, 

 seventeen years after the death of his father. 



Aghar is the name of a tribe of Turkmans,* and A'ghar Khan seems to 

 have entered service during Shahjahan's reign. In the first year of 

 Aurangzib's reign, he accompanied Shaikh Mir and ^af-shikan Khan who 

 pursued Dara Shikoh to the Indus, and was appointed Faujdar of Bhakkar. 

 Soon after, he served in Bengal and Asam (Journal, A, S. Society, Bengal, 

 1872, Pt. I, p. 63). Later, we find him in Kabul, where as Faujdar of 

 Jalalabad he had repeatedly to suppress disturbances (A. H. 1085 and 

 1086). He especially distinguished himself in a battle fought near 

 Lamghan, where, according to Khafi Khan, he punished the Afghans so 

 severely, that he and his Mughul soldiers were feared, throughout Kabul, 

 and mothers used to frighten their children with Aghar Khan's name. No 

 less than 1700 heads were sent as trophies to court. The battle of Lamghan 

 itself was celebrated in a poem called the Agharndmah. Khafi Khan 

 gives extracts from the epic (Khafi Khan, II, p. 211). Near Nang Nihar, 

 Aghar Khan also built a fort, to which he gave the name of Aghai-abad. 



In 1102, or A. D. 1690-91, he was recalled from Kabul, and was 

 killed in the same year by the Jats near Agrah. The inscription, though in 

 several places illegible, gives fall particulars, and also shews how insecui-e 

 the roads then were. 



* The word ^if A'ghar is frequently written in MSS. j.cf without madd ; and the 

 editors of our Indian histories generally read V.pf, ^'«Z2;, instead of Aghar. Thus in the 

 Society's edition of the 'Alamgirnamah. The same work mentions also frequently a 

 villa near Dilhi, where Aurangzib often resided, of the name of A'azzabad ^^(.jf^^t^ 

 I cannot say whether this, too, is a mistake for ^l;f.^T Agharabad. 



