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C. E. Yate —Notes on the City of Hirat. 
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inwards, built apparently as a cool, breezy place in which to pass 
the heat of the summer days. Beyond this again is the main en¬ 
closure of. the Ziyarat, now a deserted and dilapidated-looking place ; 
everything bears a look of decay ; the uukept courtyard, the broken 
tile work on the archway and entrance to the shrine, and general want 
of repair everywhere visible, betoken a great falling off from former 
prosperity. 
There is a covered reservoir built, according to local tradition, by 
a daughter of Shah Rukh, but the following inscription, which was 
deciphered with some difficulty, proves that the reservoir was originally 
built by Shah Rukh himself, but fell into disrepair and was subsequently 
restored, 243 years after his death, by some lady of royal descent, whose 
name, as usual, is not given :— 
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