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3. He was the famous hero, who at Konbaluer* waged a religious war by God's order. 



4. At the time of the war, inasmuch as he planned stratagems (dastdn), he became 

 through his fame a second Rustam.f 



5. To fight the infidels was his intention, and the date of his death was " Abdurrah- 

 ' man is the martyr of God/' A. H. 988. 



6. Indeed, the Rana experienced through him what sword practice is : the Rana 

 ran a runaway from the terror of his sword. J 



7. When in the beginning the fate of men was settled, God's mercy fell to his 

 share, and he received the blessing of God's favor. 



8. But as his body was of earth, his pure frame lies now below the ground, like the 

 jewel of the mine. 



15. 



A rather poetical inscription in Tughra is found on a tombstone in the 

 old Burial-Ground, Agrah. One Abul Fattah^ son of B a b a r i 

 Sultan, died on the 13th Shawwal, 978 (A. D. 1571). The people of 

 Agrah say that Abul Fattah was the son of Akbar's father-in-law (?). 

 A rubbing of the inscription was received in 1871 from Mr, A. Carlleyle 

 (Proc, A. S. Bengal, June, 187J, p. 127). 



The words of the inscription are the words of the sorrowing father 

 (metre, Muhai) — 



1. Light of my eyes ! Thou once didst brighten the world. 



Thou art gone, and in thy absence my day has turned into night. 



2. We were once as if two lights, when I and thou were together ; 

 But Fate has extinguished thine, and I now burn in sorrow. 



Written by 'Abdul Hadi. On the 13th Shawwal, 978, Abul Fattah, sou of 

 Babari Sultan, now received in God's mercy and pardoned, left in the beginning 

 of his youth this perishable world, in order to join the mercy seat of God. 



* Mr. Beale gives •J^UaS' and says that he was doubtful what the word was. I have 

 substituted ^xilxk^ Konhalner. 



f An allusion to Dastan, the wily father of Rustam. 

 J I have tried to imitate the alliteration in the text. 



