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On the Language of the Si-ah-joos'h K&firs. [No. 3, 



1 

 English. 



Si-ah-pos'/i. 



Kds7?,-kari. 



Kohistani. 





Sword 



tar- wali 



kongur 







Iron 







cfoamun 





Axe 



c-fea-wi 





wait! 





Shield 



karai 



huri 







Soldier 



as-tah 





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Chief 



sal-manasfo 









Troop 



kat-kai 









Wall 



bar-kan 









Matchlock 







to-bafe/z. 





Some Persian Inscriptions found in Srinagar, Kashmir. — By the late 



Rev. I. L0EWE1S T THAL. 



I. The Mosque of Shahi Hamadak. 



As the traveller glides up the placid Jelum from Baramula, and 

 passes under the cedarn bridges of Srinagar, wondering at the tall, 

 gable-roofed, many-storied houses on the banks, with their unoriental 

 profusion of windows, his attention is arrested by a curious building 

 on the right bank between the Pateh Kadal and the Zaina Kadal 

 (bridges), which, if he enters Kashmir from the west, he will not 

 readily guess to be a mosque, having probably passed by unnoticed 

 similar buildings at Shadarra and Baramula. The pyramidal roof, 

 broken into three equal portions, ending in a most curious steeple 

 resembling a belfry, with gilt bell and heart-shaped ornaments at the 

 top, the four corners of the roof adorned by wood tassels, the projec- 

 tion of the roof beyond the walls of the building ; — all this reminds 

 one more of a Chinese pagoda than of a Mohamedan place of prayer. 

 The impression one receives from the structure leads to the idea that 

 the period of the erection of the building may have been one in which 

 an older form of building, that of the Hindu temple peculiar to the 

 valley, was still influencing the architects to whom Mohamedanism 

 was as yet comparatively new. 



