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and omrahs to keep up various pleasiu'e-grounds 

 outside the cities, one of which was always chosen 

 as the owner's last resting-place. The central 

 baradari which had been used as the summer 

 palace during the owner's lifetime formed the 

 mausoleum at his death, when the garden was 

 made over to religious purposes and its fruit 

 usually distributed among the fakirs who tended 

 the tomb and the many beggars and wayfarers 

 who passed by its gates. A garden of this 

 description must have been acquired by purchase 

 or fair means, else its possession woiJd entail 

 misfortune — Babar alludes to this idea when he 

 mentions that he paid the full price of the Bagh- 

 i-Kilan and received a grant of it from its pro- 

 prietor. This was the beautiful garden in the 

 district of Istalif, in which he was finally buried. 

 " Istalif," he says, " is a district full of gardens, 

 green, gay, and beautiful," in which was a 

 garden " called Bagh-i-Kilan, or the Great 

 Garden, which Mugh Beg Mirza seized upon. I 

 paid the price of the garden to the proprietors, 

 and received from them a grant of it. A peren- 

 nial stream, large enough to turn a mill, runs 

 through the garden ; and on its banks are 

 planted planes and other trees. Formerly this 



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