Ox run Coorun Minar, : AS] 
Bose it dangerous-to venture on then: nor could I find that any person 
in Dehli was in possession of a copy. . With the assistance of a telescope 
of. great’ magnifying::power 1 was enabled to copy them. with the uimost 
facility, and to ascertain the general meaning of the contents of each, 
although some words remain undeciphered. on account of the imperfect 
state of the letters... _ | 
. No. I, reeords the repair-of:the- Minar by Secanper’ son of BatiLou 
in the year 909 Mijri, A. D. 1503, and No. 3, is'to the same effect with’ 
the addition that the damage was caused by lightning. Nos. 2 and 4 are 
much the same ia purport, the latter a: perfect fac-simile; and both state 
the Minaw to have.been built in the time of Sultan Suems-up-pin ALTEMSH. 
This. is again’ repeated in the first inscription im-red: stone which encir- 
ae 
cles the building above the lower: gallery. 
Tus abovementioned Sultan reigned: from A. D. 1210 to- 1231; corres- 
ponding with A. H. 607 and 629, and may be looked upon as the prince 
under, whose: auspices the Minar was compleated, and some progress made 
‘in the neighbouring mosque, on the subject.of.which-I shall now offer a. 
few remarks. 
Tur line of arches runs directly north and south, and consists at pre- 
sent of six compleat arches, and as many of which the pieces only remain: 
the total length is about 350 feet and the height of the center arch 55. 
There are fragments of inscriptions round the eastern front of each arch, 
_ by which. it appears;, that the southern portion of the intended mosque 
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