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bead of Nasir Khan’s tomb, who bad once been Subahdar of Kabul. Nawab 
Muzaffar Jang (1771—1796) tried to propagate the tree by budding, but 
with the greatest difficulty the gardeners obtained one tree, which was put in 
the ’Ali Bagh, where it was known as the “ golah” mango. Nawab Shaukat 
Jang (1813—1823) once sent several of the mangoes from the tree in the 
Haiyat Bagh to Hakim Mahndi ’Ali Khan, chakladar of Muhamdi in 
Audh, who lived for many years in the Fatehgarh cantonment. Mahndi ’Ali 
Khan said he had eaten few mangoes equal to them, and he asked for 
some cuttings. Shaukat Jang gave permission, but from the day the cut- 
ings were taken, the original tree began to decay and in one year it dried up 
and died. 
Muhammad Khan's death and his character. 
The close of Nawab Muhammad Khan’s career was now at hand. He 
was more than eighty (lunar) years old when an abscess formed in his neck. 
The Emperor sent a letter of condolence and one of his private physicians, 
Alwi Khan. The Hakim’s treatment was of no avail, and on the 2nd Zil 
Ka’d 1156 H. (9th December 1743), Muhammad Khan breathed his last. 
When Muhammad Shah heard of his death, he wrote this chronogram— 
Sit un-i-bab-i-mullc-i-Kind uftdd . # 
About three hours before his death, the Nawab, to prove the strength 
with which God had endowed him, took up his bow and arrow from his bed, 
and aimed at the roof with such force that the arrow buried itself up to 
its head in the wood. 
He was interred in the Haiyat Bagh, in the village of Nekpur Khtird, 
pargana Pahara, half a mile or so west from the Mau gate of the city.f 
The tomb stands on an elevated platform and is surmounted with a high 
dome, which can be seen for some miles round. It was built by the 
Nawab in his own lifetime. Bound it he planted a garden in which was 
every fruit to be found at Delhi. There were forty wells for irrigation, and 
the income of twelve villages was spent on it. Koshan Khan, chela, had the 
care of it. While digging the foundations for the tomb, an iron u gaja"% 
weighing five maunds was found. The workmen proposed to fix it on the 
top of the dome, but Boshan Khan said he could get five maunds of iron easily 
enough, and he had another spike made. The iron rod thus disinterred was 
put down at the gate of the garden, and young men went daily to try their 
strength by lifting it. In Nasir Jang’s time (1796—1813) it somehow got 
* Another “Tarikh” is “ Dakhl-ul-jinnat wala.” 
f Kali Rae, p. 53. 
X See Kali Rae, p. 127, for a description of what is evidently the same Gaja as 
that referred to in the text. 
