1874.] Ahlar's Tomh at Sikandrah. 213 



The Hauz i Jaha'ngi'ri' in A'grah. 



A description of Jahangir's Iiatcz, or circular cistern, will be found 

 in Arch. Report IV, p. 135. It is hewn out of one single stone, and is 

 nearly five feet high, and 25 feet in circumference at the top. Mr. Beale 

 writes regarding it as follows — " When I came to A'grah in 1843, this 

 basin, or cup, or bath, called Haii^z i Jalimigiri, lay inside the fort of A'grah, 

 and remained there till 1862, when it was removed to the Public Garden at 

 A'grah, where it still remains. The Persian inscription round the edge 

 consisted of five distichs, but most of the letters had fallen off. I only 

 made out two with the greatest difficulty, and fortunately took a copy of 

 them in 1848.* It appears from them that the Hauz was put up in 1019? 

 orA. D 1610, 



The tdrihli is very fine (metre, long Hazaj) — 



1. The refuge of the realm of faith, the world taking {jahdn-gir) king, son of Akbar 

 Shah, (is) a king, through whose wisdom all affairs are settled. 



2. When people asked the prophet Khizr for its date, genius said, ' Zamzam from 

 shame hid itself from the Hauz i Jahangiri.'f A. H. 1019. 



Akbar's Tomb at Sikandrah. 



Sikandrah, or B i h i s h t a b a d, where Akbar lies buried, is too 

 well known to need description {vide Mr. Keene's Agra Hand-book, p. 49). 

 The following passage from the Tuziik (p. 72), however, may be new to 

 many. Jahangir says — 



' On Monday, 17th Eajab 1017 [17th Octr. 1608], I went on foot on a 

 pilgrimage to the Mausoleum of his late majesty. If possible, I would walk 

 on my head and (sweep the road) with my eyebrows ; for my august father 

 "walked, in order to obtain an heir, viz., me, on foot from Fathpur to Ajmir, 

 a distance of 120 kos, in order to pray at the tomb of Khwajah Mu'in- 

 uddin i SijiziJ i Chishti. Hence, if I walk to my father's tomb, I shall 

 after all not have done much. When I entered, I saw no building over the 

 tomb such as I would approve of; for I had expected to see an edifice which 

 travellers would pronounce to be unrivalled in the world. But whilst the 



* Vide Miftah uttawarikh, pi 220. They are no longer legible now. 



t Zamzam is the name of the holy well near the Ka'bah in Makkah. 



To get the tdriJch, we have to subtract ' zamzam,' or 94, from hauz ijahdngiri, or 

 1113. The subtraction is cleverly indicated by the phrase ' hid itself from the Hauz.' 



The prophet Khizr (Elias) still lives, wandering about in the world and doing good, 

 and especially giving the thirsty water to drink. 



X I. e. from Sijistan, in which the village of Chisht lies. Sayyid Ahmad has 

 Sanjan for Sijizi. This reading — the shifting of a dot — is very common in inferior MSS. 



