oN THE Cooturn Minar. A _a87 
of time, storms and earthquake, during more than 300 years, without being 
ever repaired. 
I wouxp recommend that copies be made of all -the inscriptions which 
surround the Cootub; for, I suspect, that they detail the’ circumstances 
which led to the building of it, instead of being extracts from the Koran, 
as is generally imagined. 
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Copies and Translations of the Tnseriptions.* 
No. I. 
alll has oI TAU Lar pL ye ph gaake alt ihe just J 3 
Cmts Eyal Mead Ly Uae Cynder y Une Cy Lye alie i di) 134 
sl giy dase! am go li Ub) gre eee Oy a oT 
Bae wy Haley CaS gd Od LD O 9 AS Con 
coh !g as Uadny AKIne shII se oy Wadow ) gyda en y Od Lew 5 Lin a 
le CRA NO ge Ogat (J le Mimo ips yl 2X5 S1sls Cols) vel 
Ae he sfle BELO Si yo Prrozeo yoo 8 Ly) LAr Gor gy ds 
as Lxmed 4 BBww0T BAns j= eee, 
* The originals of Nos. 1, 4 and 6; are in the Toghra character, No. 2, in a rough Nuskh, 
and Nos. 3 and 5, in Nastdiék, The translations have been made in Calcutta: the pasensts which are 
doubtful in the original have been under lined in the copies. H. H. W. 
