1867.] Notes on Sirdjuddaidali and the town of Mursliiddldd. 97 



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j Js^ib e;Vb ^ A j<b f^'l &&£& jl^ • CU&fa "J" {£$}+> «-*^ <j5^>U 



I5^bjdj ♦ l>^a> u^ 5 ./*>> cr^'j 1 ^-lr- y&fy*J &i ^ J j^jltf* 



.. ( r ) ^ * « 



L^U^J J l*-^ J ^H^*-£ lA«yoj ail&jj*' i^moj Ijh j ^^ iSj*£> 

 f ** ij^i ^^-^ j 8**» w*£J l*j**» cif^-Ll j& v^Cp J ^J"*^ V^** J&^/o 



« CUwf <SUa*3 ^(j^ ^A ^.^J 



" Among the old buildings was the Imanibarah built by Sirajud- 

 daulah, the grandson of 'Ali Vardi Khan. It had been built with 

 care and reverence, Muhammadan workmen alone having been employed 

 in the work, and Hindoos excluded. The Nawab laid the first brick 

 with his own hand and put lime over it, after which the workmen 

 commenced. In the midst of the Imanibarah, a piece of ground, 

 called MadinaJi, was dug, to the depth of a man, which was filled 

 with holy earth i. e. earth from Karbala. The author of the Riyasz 



* An adjective of ^.AJ Thus of ^4^ &x>y^ &c. the adjectives are written 

 1^4^ &sOj»» Vullers (Pers. Diet. I. p. 605) spells l-g.^ without a hamzah, 

 &s he does not understand the words of the Bahar i ' Ajam. 



f The word is &*+) and the is the ei>*>.2»} ^b. Johnson gives a word 



{£&}+> namudi which Vullers adopts, p. 1352 of his Dictionary. There is, 

 however, no such word. A similar mistake is the word ^Juk/o given by 

 Vullers, p. 1183. He says the ^ is suffix, but it is the o<>a.j ^i as in 

 ^jaxj and ^aAju ±.y and /*-=^«J 



$ The dictionaries give only ^Aa^s^xj, 



