1872.] H. Blochmann — Notes on Arabic and Persian Inscriptions. 113 
IV. 
From inside a mosque at A’lapur — 
\JJ w >JJ *** I ww ^ 
jbib y\ * * U\ 
I) - -‘Mf j^ xi l ^jt*"b" J ) J_5" j c_ai| 
In the name of God, the merciful and the clement ! This mosque was built during 
the reign of Abu Zafar Muhxuddin Muhammad Aurangzib Bahadur, 
’A'lamgir Padishah, when Dindar Khan Kliweshagi was Jagirdar. A H. 1071, 
[A. D„ 1660.]. 
This Dindar Khan* belongs to a well known Afghan family, called the 
Khweshagis, or ‘ relatives,’ who settled at Qasur ( )y~>, or )}-^*) in the Bari 
Duab. He is twice mentioned in the Maasir i 'A'lamgm (pp. 213, 340). 
The Maasir ul TTrnara gives interesting biographical details of Nazar Baha- 
dur Kliweshagi and Husain Khan Kliweshagi. 
In the Proceedings for March of this year, I gave two other inscriptions 
received from Mr. Wilson. Maulavi Muhammad Karim suggests two altera- 
tions in the first inscription (Joe. cit., p. 48). For the unusual J'-iaU-, he 
reads J^K^, a 1 well-tank,’ which compound appears to me to he as curious 
as my old reading. The date he reads 898, instead of 798. The rubbing, it 
would appear, gives hi rad, instead of haft ad, which I chose, and the 
Maulavi says that in Persian stands for has head, not for 0 .- 011 *, I n 
giving the text of the inscription, I mentioned that it was, in point of grammar 
and sense, the worst that I had seen ; and if the writer did use higad, he used a 
form which no Persian knows, nor any dictionary records. Besides, there 
was no occasion for an artificial Head, as hashgad suits the metre as well. 
But the Maulavi gives a better reason for adopting 898, when he 
maintains that the second verse is an allusion to Sikandar Lodi, in whose 
reign a Khan Jahan [Lodi] lived. This Khan Jahan is mentioned in Badaoni 
and Firishtah. For the three asterisks in the first line, he reads ft line 
AhA ‘ Jagirdar of the District of Badaon,’ which I believe to be correct, 
although the form muqati’ should, according to usage, he muqti’ . However 
the author of the inscription knew as little of grammar as of poetry. 
* He is not to be confounded with the Dindar Khan i Bukhari, who served under 
Jahangir and Shahjahan. He was Faujdar of the Miyan Duab, and died in A. H. 
1045. Maasir ul Umard. 
In the julus name of Aurangzib we find, in MSS. and inscriptions, both Abul 
Muzaffar and Abu zafar. . 
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