near a spacious tank and shady groves, where are many Maho- 

 medan tombs of less importance. But the grand mausoleum is 

 in the Saracenic, or Moorish style of architecture; where columns 

 and arches form corridores, and support several large domes and 

 smaller cupolas, richly ornamented, which cover the marble tombs. 

 This monument of Mahomedan splendour was erected seven hun- 

 dred years ago, and is still held in great veneration: its lofty terrace, 

 which was one of my usual evening excursions, commands an ex- 

 tensive prospect. 



In the year 1078 of the Christian aera, and 492 of the Maho- 

 medan hejira, while the government of the Hindoo rajahs remained 

 undisturbed in this part of Hindostan, a mussulman saint, called 

 Baba-Rahan, came into the Baroche country from Bagdad, ac- 

 companied by a number of fakeers and dervises, to convert the 

 Hindoos to Islamism; but the saint, like many other Mahomedan 

 champions, after a successful mission, no longer trusting to the per- 

 suasive powers of eloquence, drew the sword of intolerant zeal to 

 increase the number of true believers, and caused such disturb- 

 ances in the province, that the rajah of Baroche sent his son, Roy- 

 Currun, to oppose him with a considerable force. Baba-Rahan 

 not thinking it prudent to contend with so powerful an antagonist, 

 entered into a treaty with the young prince, and in a few days con- 

 verted him to the tenets of the Koran, and gave him the name of 

 Mullick Mahomed. By their united endeavours the princess 

 Bhaga, the rajah's daughter, embraced the new religion; and many 

 other Hindoos, following the example of the royal converts, left 

 the shrines of Brahma, and became disciples of Baba-Rahan. But 

 as the most pure and peaceable of all religions has been too often 



