310 Pullic Inscriptions at Lahore. [No. 4. 



No. 2. — Hatipahr Gate oe the Palace. 



(Persian Inscription.) 



Translation. — The Hug, a Juinsheed in dignity, a Solomon in 

 reputation, whose court is in the seventh heaven, whose nohle 

 standard waves above the region of the sun, a second Sahib Kiran, 

 "Shah Jehan," who injustice and liberality surpasses Nousheerwan 

 and Fureedoon, 



Ordered a (Royal?) tower to be erected, which in height should 

 be beyond measurement and conception, like unto the highest heaven. 



In brightness, loftiness, and excellence such a tower never has 

 been, and never will be seen under the sky. After its completion 

 his sincere slave and pious disciple Abdool-Kareem, comprised the 

 year of its erection in the following couplet : — 



Like the empire of this all-powerful monarch who has an army 

 equal to that of Jumsheed, 



May this propitious and lofty tower ever remain free from injury. 



(The date thus illuminated is the 1041st year of the Hijra, cor- 

 responding with A. D. 1631). 



It would appear, from the above, that Shah Jehan added a tower 

 at the north-west angle of the palace, which, unless the " sincere 

 slave" wrote in an unusually hyperbolic style even for a servant 

 of the "king of kings" has entirely disappeared. The inscription, 

 may, however, allude to the Sheesh Muhul with which the gate 

 communicated by a tramp constructed for the use of the elephants 

 who conveyed the ladies of the Harem to and from their apartments. 

 The Sheesh Muhul is in the Sumun Bourj (Jasmine tower) cer- 

 tainly the most conspicuous part of the palace, and its decorations 

 partake more of the style prevalent in the time of Shah Jehan than 

 those introduced by Akbar or Jehangeer. 



No. 3. — The Imperial or Badshahee Mosque. 

 (Persian Inscription.) 



Translation. — -This mosque of Ab-ool-zuiFur Mohee-ood-deen 

 Mahomed Alumgeer Padshah, was finished in the year of the Hijra 

 1084, under the superintendence of the humblest of his slaves 

 Fiddee Khan, Kokah. 



Tradition ascribes a much older date to this edifice, built by tha 

 emperor Auruugzeb in A. D. 1673, during one of the few visits 



