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Captain W. N. Lees then read the following account of the in- 

 scription. 



" I have carefully examined the inscription on this stone. The great- 

 er portion is sufficiently clearly written to he legible ; but in conse- 

 quence of the engraver not having calculated on the length of his 

 inscription, the latter portion has been so crowded that, with the aid 

 of two of the Mawlavis of the Mohammadan College, I have not been 

 able to read it. It is as follows : — 



sJ <s± r ! ^jL )jcs:*" x ^ju ^ A M j &Ac i±\\ ^le> ^JsJJ) JUJ 

 al£ djt-zS' ^» *\£ lSjj\j j&]aj] ^1 sdl] 3 UijJ) Sj Jac.3l 



Trans. The Prophet of God (on whom be peace, &c.,) said — 

 " Whoso buildeth a Masjid, God shall build for him in Paradise seventy 

 palaces." This Masjid was built in the reign of the Soltan the 

 Mighty, the Pillar of the Church and State, Aboo al-Mozaffar 

 Barbak Shah, son of the Soltan Mahmood Shah, — by Khan Moazzam 

 Ojyal (?) Khan son of ***** * Anno Hajri, 870. 



I do not think the builder, or his Engraver, has given the Hadith 

 quoted correctly. I find none precisely similar in Moslim or JBokliari. 

 Both, however, give the following from Othman the Khalifah. 



* <Us: J | i AlLo <jJ , JUj <*JJ) 

 " Whoso buildeth a Masjid, to please, or for the sake of God, God 

 shall build for him a house in Paradise" — or as others give it " a house 

 like unto it." Tirmidzi again adds after the word Masjid the words 

 " great or small" \j#?j\ hj(£ \j±*-*° and in this same Hadith given, apud 

 Nasai, on the authority of 'Amr and Anbasah for the words " for 

 the sake of God" I find " in which God shall be praised ^JU3<xJJi| <r 5' < W 

 <*Jj*. The Prophet, it would appear, then, promised the builder of a 

 Mosque one house, not seventy houses in Paradise. 



According to Parishtah, Barbak Shah ascended the throne A. H. 

 862, and died A. H. 879. His father was commonly called Nacir 

 Shah, perhaps to distinguish him from his predecessor the slave and 



