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world, and especially the artificer of the shrine of Hind, that, in accor¬ 
dance with (the verse) : 
“ The world-upholder, the world to hold, doth know, one place to 
uproot, and then another sow ” : he should make resting-places for 
the glorious Imperial cavalcade, by graciously building at every stage, 
and on every clod of soil, where the air of the place was temperate, its 
fields extensive, its water sweet* and its plains were level—^-and what 
choice was there! for cool spots, and pleasant dwellings, and fragrant 
resting-places, and sweet waters, with a view to preservation of the 
gift of bodily health, and with a view to the possibility of an evenly* 
balanced condition of the soul, all of wilich may possibly be conducive 
to the knowledge and service of God, are of the number of the six 
necessaries of existence, and especially at a time when some of the royal 
occupations, such as exercise and hunting, were therein involved—for 
these reasons, in the year of happy augury, after his return from his 
journey to Malwn, when the friends of the empire were victorious, and 
the enemies of the kingdom had been disappointed, before the eyes of 
a genius lofty in its aims, and the decision of a mind world-adorning 
it befell, that, when he had made a place called Ghrawali (which is one 
farsang distant from Agra, and in respect of the excellence of its water, 
and the pleasantness of its air, has over a host of places a superiority 
and a perfect excellence) the camping-place of his Imperial host, and 
the encampment of his ever-enduring prosperity, and when he had 
gained repose for bis heavem-inspired mind from the annoyances inciden¬ 
tal to city-life, he spent his felicity-marked moments, sometimes in 
caugan- playing, sometimes in racing Arabian dogs, and sometimes in 
flying birds of various kinds; and accepting the building of that city 
of deep foundations as an omen of the duration of the edifice of the 
palace of his undecaying Sultanate, and as a presage of the increase of 
his pomp and state, his all-penetrating firman was so gloriously exe¬ 
cuted that all who obtained the favour of being near to his resting- 
place, and were deemed worthy of the sight of his benvolence, one and 
all built for themselves in that happy place lofty dwellings and spacious 
habitations, and in a short time the plain of that pleasant valley under 
the ray of the favour of His Highness, the adumbration of the Divinity, 
became the mole in the cheek of the new bride of the world, and 
received the name of Nagarchin which is the Hindustani for the 
Persian Amnabad, security-abode:—Praise be to God, that picture, 
which the heart desired issued from the invisible behind the curtain of 
felicity. 
It is one of the traditional wonders of the world that of that city 
and edifice not a trace now is left, so that its site is become a level 
