1895.] Sayyad Ilahi BaJchsh al Husaini Angrezabadi. 221 
The Minar, 
In the neighbourhood it is also known by the name of the Tir Asa 
Mandlr, 1 it is north north-east of the Qadam Rasul and at a distance of 
about 25 rassies , and opposite Banglakot, and outside of the fort. It 
was built by Sultan Flroz Shah, the Abyssinian. The inscription and 
the lower stones have been dug up and stolen. The height of the 
Minar is about 50 cubits and its circumference about 54 cubits. On the 
east there is a tank which probably was also made by Flroz Shah, who 
was reigning in 893 (1487). 
The Gate of the Fort, or the Dakhil Gate. 
This is a large gateway north by west of the Qadam Rasul, and 
about a mile away. It appears from the Riyaz that this lofty gateway 
was made by Husain Shah. Near it, on the north, is a tank and from 
the latter an dbglr (aqueduct) comes out on the east side and goes 
south a long way, and above it there are battlements. And from this 
gate on the west side, at a distance of about twenty rassies, near the 
Bhaglrathi on the roadside, there is a large sarcophagus of black basalt, 
which is twisted to the west, and is in three fragments. There is no 
inscription. Some say that it is the tomb of Husain Shah, and the 
Khadim of the Qadam Rasul said that the tomb of Husain Shah had 
been brought here from Banglakot. South of it I saw another sarco¬ 
phagus of hard stone. 
The KotwalI Gate. 
Also called the Salami Gate. It is near Mahiu-d-dinpur or Mahdi- 
pur, to the east, or the high road. To the south of it, at a distance of 
about twenty rassies is Balwa Dighi 2 (tank). There are battlements, 
east and west of the gateway, and on each side there are apertures for 
firearms. North of this gateway, at a distance of about lialf-a-mile, 
close to the old bridge, on the east side of the road, I saw a large stone 
with an inscription in unknown (harf khafl) characters. Although it 
could not be clearly made out, so much I read that Sultan Mahmud in 
862 A.H. (1457) had built the gate of the fort. 
(This is the inscription which Cunningham says he found, p. 57, and 
which Blochmann has translated, J. A. 8. B., XLIV, 289. It refers to the 
building of the bridge. Francklin speaks of two pillars with Sanskrit 
inscriptions in this neighbourhood). 
1 Such is the reading in the MS., but probably Tir is a clerical error for Pir. 
I was told on the spot that the name of the column was Pir ‘Asa Minar. ‘Asa means 
a staff in Arabic and Persian, and perhaps is used here as equivalent to the Lath 
of Firoz Shah of Delhi. 
* The Ballo Digbi of Ravenshaw, p. 36. 
