212 Inscriptioiu^ from A'grali. [Nov. 



5. I was lost in thought searching for a tdrikh for it, seeking help from God, the 

 Judge, 



6. And it (my thought) said, ' As long as the heaven is the throne of the sun, the 

 throne of Shah Salim shall remain.' 



The tarikh lies in the words mdnad sarir i Shah SaUm, which give 

 1011, or 1602, A. D., when Salim was in Ilahabad. 



The above five distichs run round the whole four sides of the ihickness 

 of the stone ; but they are separated by two hemistichs in the Mujtass 

 metre, one in the centre of the north face and the other in the centre of the 

 south face — 



May the throne of his Majesty Sultan Salim, son of Akbar Shah, be for ever 

 illuminated by the light of God's sun. 



When the stone was subsequently brought to A'grah, Jahangir, per- 

 haps ashamed of his rebellion, put the following distichs on the right and 

 left pedestals (metre, MuzdrV) — 



ii^t:^^ iJ^4 '^•^■^ J «JU«*^ "^^ y. * U^^.■^ J *^^'* ^jh /♦i-^'^ JJ^^ c^^ 

 ^^Ji^. — i\j^ (Ji*-^^ oJl^^ JJ.J Jt # o'i ^-^^A^Jl^^ ^jL,^jixK ^^\ Cy^ 



1. When Shah Salim, as heir to the throne and the signet, sat on the throne 

 under the rejoicings of the world,* 



2. His name, auspicious like his nature, became J a h a n g f r, and his title from 

 the light of his justice became ' the light of the faith' [Nuruddfn]. 



Mr. Carlleyle (Arch. Keport IV, p. 135) says — " A hitherto unobserv- 

 ed portion of the inscription on this black ' marble' throne occurs in smaller 

 letters below the inscription on the eastern side facing the river. It appears 

 never to have been noticed hitherto, except by the Rev. Mr. Tribe, when 

 chaplain of Agra, and by myself, and is engraved in the stone, while the 

 rest of the inscription round the sides of the throne is in raised letters." 

 Mr. Carlleyle reads — 



The illustriousf name before the accession (was) Shah Salim, and after it 

 Nuruddin Muhammad Jahangir Padishah i Ghazi. 



Below it stands a distich, of which the second hemistich is in the Muj- 

 tass metre ; but Mr. Carlleyle's first hemistich makes no sense and has no' 

 metre — 



Jjl^^xi't ,^Jt^jX)l^:u ^[Ji^jjj^ * AJf J^s>^^^ (^ ) tSXlijtj^ *■^J;'<5 «>J^lj 



* Mr. Carlleyle and the Agra Transactions translate " sat on the throne and ad- 

 ministered laws to the world"; but dm hastan raesais, 'to adorn a town at the time of 

 public rejoicings.' 



f Ndmi, adj., illustrious. 



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