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amounted to one lack of rupees per annum, were made wukf, and 

 appropriated to the. use of the maiuoleum. The produce of the 

 shops, bazars, and serais, arnounled to an equal sum, so that there 

 was a yearly revenue of two lacks of rupees allotted for the neces- 

 sary repairs of the building, for the salaries of the various offices 

 attached to it, and for charitable distributions; the surplus, if any 

 remained, was lodged in the treasury of the mausoleum." 



Agra, 1785. C. W. M. 



Annexed is an abstract of the expenses in building 'the magni- 

 ficent structure mentioned above, selected from a very full account 

 in the Asiatic Miscellany, which not only differs materially in the 

 total amount expended upon this immense undertaking, but also 

 of the time employed in its construction, which it expressly saj r s 

 was commenced in the fifth year of the reign of the emperor Shah 

 Jehan, and the whole completed in sixteen years, four months, and 

 twenty-one days. 



