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C. E. Yate —Notes on the City of Hirat. 
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gives the date of A. H. 1115 or A. D. 1704. 
Another black marble tomb, name unknown, bears the date of 
A. H. 902 (A. D. 1487) in the following couplet:— 
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There was formerly a Qadamgah, or stone bearing the mark of the 
footstep of Hazrat ’Ali, in an arched portico built by Shah Tahmasp 
Safawi on the north side of the court. The stone apparently was carried 
away, as shown by the following words at the end of the inscription over 
the arch:— 
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which gives the date, by the Abjad reckoning, of A. H. 949 or A. D. 1543. 
On the south side of the court the corresponding portico has fallen 
down and the tombs in it are buried under the debris. At the door on 
the right-hand side as one enters the inner court is a large circular 
font of white marble, used though, so far as I could learn, only as a 
bowl to mix sherbet in for the use of the pilgrims visiting the shrine. 
Between the Gazurgah and the Joe hTao or new canal is the tombstone 
of Amir Jalalu-d-din, dated A. H. 858 or A. D. 1454, but the name of 
his father is obliterated. Jalalu-d-din himself is named the Shahid, 
proving that he met a violent death. 
Of the other shrines around Hirat, the largest is the Ziyarat-i-Awal 
Wall as it is commonly pronounced, but in reality the tomb of Sultan 
Abu-l-Walid Ahmad, the son of Abu-r-Raza ’Abdu-llah Hanafi of Aza- 
dan of Hirat, who died in the year A. H. 232, or about A. D. 847. 
The tombstone over the grave has disappeared, but the following 
inscription taken from a slab, put up over the door of the shrine by 
Sultan Husain Mirza, gives the name and date of the death of the saint, 
though the date of the inscription on the slab is not mentioned. 
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