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The Amir Dost Muhammad’s tombstone is a plain simple but hand¬ 
some block of pure white marble, some 8 feet in length by about 1|- or 
2 feet in height and breadth, finely carved and surrounded by a marble 
balustrade. It lies just to the north of the saint’s tomb in the open 
enclosure. At the head and foot of the grave stand small blocks of 
white marble, carved in imitation, but a very bad imitation, of the head 
and foot stones of the Khaja’s tomb. They are dwarfed and quite 
lost in comparison with the original monuments. 
The Amir Dost Muhammad Khan died in 1863, a few days only 
after the capture of Hirat, and curiously enough there lies buried quite 
close to him his rebellious nephew Sultan Ahmad Khan, the son of 
Muhammad ’Azim Khan, brother of Dost Muhammad, the then ruler 
of Hirat, whom he was besieging and who died during the siege in the 
spring of the same year. 
The remainder of the enclosure is as full of graves as it can hold, 
not only of notable Af gh ans, but of members of the Safwian dynasty 
and also of the descendants of Jingiz Khan, the latter apparently 
predominating. 
Inside the portico also there are some 20 or 30 tombs mostly of the 
families of Jingiz Khan and Shah Rukh. One of the tombs of some 
member of the latter’s family is noticeable by the fine block of black 
marble of which it is composed, beautifully carved and inscribed in 
Arabic. It bears the date of A. H. 895 or about A. D. 1490. Another 
to Rustam Muhammad Khan, a descendant of Jingiz Khan, bears the 
date, according to the Abjad reckoning of tho following Persian verses 
inscribed in the Nast’aliq character, of A. H. 1053 or A. D. 1643 :— 
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Another marble tombstone lias an Arabic inscription in the Suls 
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