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character, recording the death of Muhammad Twaz Khan, simply de¬ 
scribed as the son of the third Khan in A. H. 1057 or A. D. 1657. 
A marble tomb to Muhammad Amin Khan, another descendant of 
Jingiz Khan, is dated, according to the Abjad reckoning of the following 
line, A. H. 1076 or A. D. 1666 :— 
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Another marble tomb to Shahzada Masa’ud is dated, according to 
the Abjad reckoning of the following verses, A. H. 1256 or A. D. 1840 
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Several other marble tombs have had the names and dates obliter¬ 
ated, and one of black marble, finely engraved in Arabic, bears no 
name but the date of A. H. 865 or A. D. 1461. 
In the rooms around the enclosure there are many notable tomb¬ 
stones. One of the finest of these is to the mother of some monarch, 
known as the “ Mahd-i-’ulya,” but the tombstone has no other name on 
it or anything to show who she was, as ic was apparently the custom at 
the time of her death not to inscribe a woman’s name on her tomb. 
The date of her death is fixed by the following hemistich :— 
■i-.l y ac J ] yl (9) 
literally, “the place of descent of the light of pardon from the kindness 
of the Incomparable and Eternal God.” It would appear that Mahbit 
has been purposely incorrectly spelt, having been inscribed Mahbit 
instead of Mahbit for the sake of the date. As it stands the date is 
A. H. 866 (A. I). 1462) corresponding more with the rest of the 
