104 H. Blochmann — Notes on Arabic and Persian Inscriptions. [No. 1, 
may God prolong his life!— under the supervision (batwuliyat)* of Salah Jiwand of 
Multan. On tho 1st Muhnrram, 697, A. H. [19th October, 1297]. 
As mentioned above, this inscription is quoted by Mr. Thomas in his 
‘ Chronicles of the Pathan Kings,’ p. 140, where a “ rough” translation by 
Col. Nassau Lees is givon. The ‘ translation’ leaves out the name of the 
builder, and wrongly puts his titles in apposition to the words Khusrawe 
mm An. The absence of a facsimile has led Mr. Thomas to state that Kai 
Kaus confessed allegiance to ’Alauddin of Dihli, who is the Sikandar ussani 
par excellence ; but the grammatical construction of the sentence, and the 
idiom, shew that the words ‘ Sikandar ussani, Ulugh i A’zam 1 lumayun, and 
Zafar Khan’, are merely titles of Bahrain Ttgin. He must have been a 
Malik of high rank, as the titles are high ; but my Tribeni inscriptions 
(Journal, 1870) and Mr. Broadley’s Bihar inscriptions, (about to be publish- 
ed in this volume) give Maliks not only similar titles, but also the phrase 
‘ May God perpetuate his rule and kingdom,’ and even Julus names, if I may 
say so. ‘ Shihab ul Haq waddin’, therefore, is merely tho julus name of Malik 
Zafar Khan, and shews, moreover, that the ‘ Sikandar ussani,’ cannot be 
’Alauddin, whose full julus name, with the Tcunyah , was ’Alauddin Abulmu- 
zaffar Muhammad Shah. 
Observe also that when names and titles are given, the titles are gen- 
erally put first and then the name, and the idiom requires that the word 
htimdyun he taken to TJluyh i A’zam, not to Zafar Khan. 
It gin is Turkish and means ‘ proprietor.’ It also occurs as name ; e. g., 
in the list of the grandees of Balban’s Court ( Tarikh Barani, p. 24, last 
line). 
The Arabic style of the inscription is bad, as in all Bengal inscriptions. 
The words are gpgptly doubtful, the rubbing merely giving 
I am not satisfied with my reading of the name of the 
supervisor ; ‘ Jiwand’ is unusual ; but ‘ Jiwan,’ without the final d, is very 
common. 
II. The Inscription on the Dargah of the Mauldna ’ Ata . 
Buchanan calls him ’Atauddin, which is perhaps a mistake for ’Ataullah. 
The inscription is half poetry, half verse. 
L'tj k slA. jUb t.S j, j 
Ijlci — 5. 1 — ^ joAj # jib-s* U yi i s IjV^i 
» -j * / 
'' , c A'' ' f p', l ** . .iA » j 
* The same phrase occurs in the Arabic inscription on the wall of a Jain Temple 
near Ajmir, of A. H. 666; vide Journal for 1848, p. 653. 
