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Calcutta─concld.

Indian Museum. Slab in the Museum, No.22. From Lahore or Multan

….

Persian verse, Nasta‘līq.

Gives only a well-known quatrain on the futility of human life by ‘ Umar Khayyām.

Do. No.23. From Persia

A. H.174[?)]=790- 91 A.D.

Arabic, Kufic

Probably an epitaph. Could not be deciphered.

Do. No. 24. From Kosh Valley, East Persia.

…. Ramadān,

Arabic and Persian,‘ Thulth and Nasta līq.

Fragmentary. Records the death of Allāh Qulī  Baig, son of ‘Alī Qulī Baig of the Turkmān tribe. The portion bearing the date is lost.

Maner.—Jāmi‘ mosque. Slab fixed over the central entrance.

States that the mosque originally constructed by Maulavī ‘Abdu’sh Shakūr which had fallen in ruins, was during the reign of Aurangzeb rebuilt by Ibrāhīm Khān, a Quarish by birth and a descendant of Khān-i-Khānān, son of Kabīr.

Below No. 27 above

A. H.1283=1866-67 A.D.

States that Khādim ‘Alī, a landlord of Maner, carried out repairs to the mosque constructed by Maulavī ‘ Abdu ’ Shakūr and rebuilt by Ibrāhīm Khān. The name of the composer is Bashīr. The inscription slab is stated to have been carved at Madina and brought to Maner.

Chhotī Dargāh. Over the main gate

A. H.1022=1613-14 A.D.

Comprises the chronogram for the construction of the main gate of the Dargāh.

Slab to the left of the above

A. H.1032=1622

Damaged and obliterated. The contents are same as in the previous epigraph.

Inner side of the same gate

A. H.1028=1618. 19 A.D.

Persian verse, Nasta‘līq.

Damaged. After religious texts, gives a chronogram by ‘Āsī, stating that this lofty construction, Ka‘ba-like and world-decorating place of worship (mosque), was constructed by Ibrāhīm, Khān.

Entrance of the mortuary of Ḥaḍrat Makhdūm Shāh Daulat.

Arabic prose and

Persian verse, Thulth and Nasta ‘līq.

Mosque in the Barī Dargāh. Central gateway in the façade.

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