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THE ORIENTAL ANNUAL. 
A knowledge of the origin of this Musjid cannot fail 
to add greatly to the interest with which we regard it. 
I was myself the more charmed when put in possession 
of these facts, since I remembered having seen and 
greatly admired the tomb of this illustrious Begum 
Jehanari at Delhi not many months previously, and 
having listened to the enthusiastic strains of praise 
with which a native interlarded passages of her history. 
From the peculiar and very chaste style of her 
tomb, I should think it not improbable that this 
princess had designed it herself ; for it is a constant 
practice of Mohummedan chiefs to build their own 
mausoleums during their life time. It consists of a 
very elegant white marble sarcophagus, open at the top 
so as to form a receptacle for mould in which flowers 
might he planted ; it is delicately ornamented with 
sculptured flowers, and a border of inlaid gems, but all 
in a very simple style. Upon a polished tablet at the 
upper end is an elegant inscription in Persian cha- 
racters, very finely carved and inlaid in jet; — 

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which, being interpreted, signifies— 
