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Translation of the Arabic Epitaph. 

 In the name of the most merciful God, ' God. ! there is no God but he ; 

 the living, the self-subsisting ; neither slumber nor sleep overtaketh him ; 

 to him belongeth whatsoever is in heaven and on earth. Who is he that 

 can intercede with him, but through his good pleasure ? He knoweth 

 that which is past and that which is to come unto them, and they shall 

 not comprehend any thing of his knowledge, but so far as he pleaseth. 

 His throne is extended over heaven and earth, and the preservation of 

 both is ho burthen unto him. He is the high, the mighty* Y The tomb 

 of Mahomed, the son ofAsHAPi wad Haida (?) deceased on Monday, 

 the 18th day, being past of the month ofJumadi uldkhir in the year (of the 

 Hijira) four hundred and thirty-sevent. May God have compassion 

 upon him and unite him with his prophet, Muhammad, on whom be the 

 blessing of God. 



Inscriptions from Hund, near Attock. 



In M. Court's ' Conjectures on the march of Alexander/ pub- 

 lished in the July number of last year's Journal %, occurred the follow- 

 ing passage : " On the western bank of the Indus ruins may be observed 

 at Pever Toppi, Hound, and Mahamadpur. Those of Hound are all 

 striking, and there may be found blocks of marble containing inscrip- 

 tions traced in characters quite unknown to its inhabitants." 



This intimation was not of a nature to be lost sight of, on the 

 occasion of a second visit to the country, by so enterprising a traveller 



* Sale's Koran, vol. I. page 48. This passage, which is justly admired as con- 

 taining a noble description of the Divine Majesty and Providence, is often recit- 

 ed by Muhammadans in their prayers ; and some wear it about them engraved on 

 an agate or other precious stone (Reland de gemmis, Arab.) It is called the &yat 

 ul kursi from the mention of the throne of God toward the conclusion. 



t Equivalent to the 30th December, 1045, Monday. (See useful Tables.) 



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