1874.] Blochmann — Notes on Ndrnaul. 223 



The inscription does not seem to be complete, and in the fom'th line 

 the metre is violated. The histories do not mention the year in which 

 Ibrahim Khan Sur died ; but that he died at Narnaul is known from the 

 Hon'ble E. C. Bayley's translation of the TaW/i^A i Sher-SJidhi in Dowson, 

 IV, p. 309. 



I take the following remarks on Narnaul from my geographical note- 

 book : 



Narnaul belongs to the old district of Dhundhoti, * which corresponds 

 almost entirely to the tract which Muhammad an historians call Mewat. 

 The latter term has perhaps a wider extent, as it includes the old Sirkars of 

 Eewari, Alwar, and Tijarah, being bounded in the north-west by Bikanir, 

 in the south by Amber-Jaipur, and in the east by the Subahs of A'grah and 

 Dihli. Sirkar Narnaul itself consisted at Akbar's time of 16 mahalls, viz. 

 Babai, Barodah Ra'na, Chal Kalanah (Kalyanah), Jhujyun, Singhanah- 

 Udaipur, Kanaudha, Kot-Putli, Kanori, Khandela, Khodana, Lapoti, the 

 Daman i koh, Narnaul, and Narhar. The town of Narnaul itself, says 

 Abul Fazl, has a stone fort, and near it is an intermittent spring. South-west 

 of it lies Baghor, founded by Bach Deo.f The Sirkar had several copper- 

 mines, especially at Babai, Singhanah-Udaipur, Bhandarah in Kot-Putli, 

 and Eaipur in the Daman i Koh, with copper mints at Singhanah and 

 Eaipur.J The district contained numerous sayurghal, or rent-free, tenures. 

 Thus in Mahall Narnaul itself, the area of which is given by Abul Fazl at 

 214,218 big'hahs and the revenue at 147,830 Akbarshahi Rupees, the rent- 

 free lands are put down at Rs. 13,754. The Mews, or Mewatis, the inha- 

 bitants of Mewat, are frequently mentioned by early Muhammadan historians 

 as turbulent ; and the emperor Balban especially had continually to wage 

 war with them, often with doubtful success. The earliest settlement of the 

 ^Muhammadans at Narnaul itself, which legends ascribe to Shaikh Muham- 

 mad Turk, provoked hostilities, which culminated in A. H. 642, or A. D. 

 1245, in the massacre at the Td festival of all Muhammadans that lived 

 in the town. Shaikh Muhammad Turk, too, fell a victim, and his life and 

 miracles and meritorious death still attract pilgrims to the tomb of the 

 Narnaul martyr. 



But Narnaul is not mentioned by Dihli historians before 814 (A. D. 

 1411), when Khizr Khan plundered the country, and a few years later, in 

 838 (A. D. 1424-85), when Narnaul was given to Sidh Pal and Sadharan 

 K'hatri, the murderers of Mubarak Shah, as jagir. During the reign of 

 the Lodis, Ibrahim Khan Sur obtained a few villages as jagir for the 

 maintenance of forty horses. He died in Narnaul, as has been men- 



* Elliot, Races of the N. W., by Beames, I, 82. 

 t Cunningham, Arch. Report, I, 154. 

 J Thomas, ' Chronicles,' p. 416. 



