1874."] Blochmann — On Mr. JBeaWs Agrah Inscriptions. 167 



A'grah, lie heard that some Jats had attacked a caravan and plundered 

 some waggons in its rear, which they carried off together with the 

 women in them. Aghar Khan pursued them, came upon their fort, set 

 the women free, and sent them off, thus saving the honor of their husbands. 

 But his zeal impelled him to go further, and he surrounded the Garh and 

 besieged it. But he was struck by a bullet, and his son-in-law was also 

 killed. Some time before. Khan Jahan Bahadur Kokultash had been 

 ordered to punish the Jats ; and although he did everything in his power 

 in trying to destroy Garhl, Sasani, (?) and other places of these infidels, 

 the result did not correspond to his wishes. Hence his Majesty ordered 

 Prince Muhammad Bedarbakht to root out the Jats. Khan Jahan Bahadur 

 was sent as governor to Bengal ; but before he had reached Bengal, he was 

 deposed and sent to Labor, and from there he was sent to other provinces, 

 and was thus kept for three or four years running from one province to an- 

 other. Wherever he went to, he did not enjoy the income of his jagir, 

 and the whole revenue went into the treasury. At last, he was called back to 

 court. 



'About this time the order was given [by Aurangzib] that Hindus 

 without permission should not travel by palki or ride on Arab or 'Iraqi 

 horses.' 



Aghar Khan's son, Mughul Didah,* received the title of his father, 

 and is known as Nawab Aghar Khan II. He was still alive in 1133 

 (Khafi Khan, II, 936.) 



9. 



The following inscription (metre, Muzdri'') is taken from the tomb- 

 stone of one Agha 'Ali at the foot of the rampart of the Fort of Agrah, 

 close to the Amr Singh gate and the stone horse. 



cia^j ^i^xiL^ J'ij^ Ls^^'^ ciaaw^ J^il^ # '^^^ t^^-^ ^-^l '^^ •^■J-'j.i *-^ tJ>j^ 



IMS ^'^ ij'^^h ci-^iU^ 



1. Alas ! A'gha 'Ali died a martyr in the fight. The cup fell from the haud of 

 the cupbearer who drew from the nectar of paradise. 



2. When I asked for the date of his death, Genius said, * His mansion is for ever 

 in the highest paradise. 2nd Jumada II, 1199. [2nd April, 1785.] 



10. 

 TJie Walter Reinhardt (Samru or Sombre) Inscriptions. 

 The following Quatrain is found on the gate of a garden laid out by the 

 notorious Walter R e i n h a r d t Samru, in the vicinity of Shahganj in 

 Agrah. 



* J. e. either Mughul-eyed, or one who has a ' single' eye, because mughul means 

 simple, single-minded. 



