100 
[No. 2, 
C. E. Yate —Notes on the City of Hirdt. 
of the inscription thereon, has proved such a puzzle that no two of the 
experts to whom I have shown it could agree in the interpretation of it. 
The inscription is below, and the translation is something to the 
following effect: — “ Shaikh Zainu-d-din, Imam and leader of men of 
religion, the axis of the world, the threshold of forgiveness, the re¬ 
lation of truth, who rose from the earth below to the heaven above and 
on whose skirt there was no dust. His age was 81 and the time of his 
death was also that number with one year added to the calculation.” 
This inscription has been variously interpreted to me as A. H. 202, 621, 
741 and 832 or A. D. 818, 1222, 1341 and 1429 ; but which is correct 
I cannot say. 
• ^ij ziA (27) * 
# ^ iHffj j) * 
# oy J^*j j JU ; J * 
* ^y] JU« jAU- djL. * 
Translations of the preceding inscriptions prepared by Maulawi Abdul 
Hale Abid, Professor of Persian , Calcutta Madrasah. 
No. 1. 
When the just monarch Shah Rukh laid the foundation of an 
elegant building for the purpose of doing honour to the sepulchre of 
the master of the Ansar, 1 he found the open yard of Gazur-gah, 2 
like Quds-i-Khalil. 3 an object of jealousy to Baqi’u-l-Jannah, 4 owing 
to the blessings of the souls of godly men. 
1 Ansar— assistants, dofondors, applied particularly to the citizens of Madinah 
who assisted Muhammad when obliged to fly from Makkuh (Mecca) ; also, applied 
to the doHeondantH of thoso citizens who now form a tribe called Ansar. Hero tin' 
word is used in the latter sense. 
* (itizur-gilh—name of a place in limit, containing the remains of Khaja 
’Ahdu-lluh Ansari. 
3 Quds-i-Khalil—namo of a place in Jerusalem containing tho tombs of several 
religions persons, of whom the most famous was Imam Muhammad Taj i Faipli, 
whose descendant Makhdiim Shamtu d din Ahmad lived at Itiluir. 
1 Ihuji’u-I-Juunah commonly callod .lannatu I Ihup’ is the name of a place at 
Madinali, where are buried Imam IIumiii, Zaiuu I Abidin and some other members 
uf their family. 
