912 AH.-MAY 24th 1506 to MAY 13th 1507 AD. 305
Husain Mirza's Almshouse, not one famous spot, maybe, was left unseen in those 40 days.
, I saw the Gazur-gah,1 'All-sher's Baghcha (Little-garden), the Paper-mortars,2 Takht-astana (Royal-residence), Pul-i-gah, Kahad-stan,3 Nazar-gah-garden, Ni'matabad (Pleasure-place), Gazur-gah Avenue, SI. Ahmad Mirza's Hazirat,4 Takht-i-safar,5 Takht-i-nawa'I,Takht-i-barkar,Takht-i-Hajl Beg,Takht-i-Baha'u'd-dln 'Umar, Takht-i-Shaikh Zainu'd-dln, Maulana 'Abdu'rrahman /ami's honoured shrine and tomb,6 Namaz-gah-imukhtar,7 the Fish-pond,8 Saq-i-sulaiman,9 Bulurl (Crystal) which originally may have been Abu'l-walld,10 Imam Fakhr,11 Avenue-garden, Mirza's Colleges and tomb, Guhar-shad Beglm's College, tomb,12 and Congregational Mosque, the Ravens'-garden,
1 This, the tomb of Khwaja 'Abdu'1-lah Ansari (d. 481 AH.) stands some 2m. north of Herl. Babur mentions one of its numerous attendants of his day, Kamalu'ddin Husain Gazur-gahi. Mohan Lall describes it as he saw it in 1831 ; says the original name of the locality was Kar-zar-gah, place-of-battle ; and, as perhaps his most interesting detail, mentions that Jalalu'd-dm Jfiimi's Masnawi was recited every morning near the tomb and that people fainted during the invocation {Travels in the Panj-ab etc. p. 252). Colonel Yate has described the tomb as he saw it some 50 years later (JASB 1887) ; and explains the name Gazur-gah (lit. bleaching-place) by the following words of an inscription there found ; " His tomb (Ansari's) is a washingplace {gazur-gah) wherein the cloud of the Divine forgiveness washes white the blaclc records of men" (p. 88 and p. 102).
2 juaz-i-kaghazlar (f. 47^ and note).
3 The Habibu's-siydr and Hai. MS. write this name with medial " round ha " ; this allows it to be Kahad-stan, a running-place, race-course. Khwand-amir and Daulatshah call it a meadow (aulang) ; the latter speaks of a feast as held there ; it was Shaibani's head-quarters when he took Harat.
* var. Khatira ; either an enclosure (quruq ?) or a fine and lofty building.
5 This may have been a usual halting-place on a journey (safar) north. It was built by Husain Bal-qara, overlooked hills and fields covered with arghwan (f. 137^) and seems once to have been a_Paradise (Mohan Lall, p. 256).
6 Jami's tomb was in the 'Id-gah of Heri (H.S. ii, 337),Which appears 10 be the Musalla (Praying-place) demolished by Amir 'Abdu'r-rahman in the 19th century. Col. Yate was shewn a tomb in the Musalla said to be Jami's and agreeing in the age, 81, given on it, with Jami's at death, but he found a crux in the inscription (pp. 99, 106).
7 This may be the Musalla (Yate, p. 98).
8 This place is located by the H.S. at Sfarsakh from Herl (de Meynard at 25 kilomitres). It appears to be rather an abyss or fissure than a pond, a crack from the sides of which water trickles into a small bason in which dwells a mysterious fish, the beholding of which allows the attainment of desires. The story recalls Wordsworth's undying fish of Bow-scale Tarn. (Cf. H.S. Bomb. ed. ii, Khatmat p. 20 and de Meynard, Journal Asiatique xvi, 480 and note.)
9 This is on maps to the north of Heri.
10 d. 232 ah. (847 ad. ). See Yate, p. 93.
" Imam Fakhru'd-din Razl (de Meynard, Journal Asiatique xvi, 481). 12 d. 861 ah.-1457 AD. Guhar-shad was the wife of Timur's son Shahrukh. See Mohan Lall, p. 257 and Yate, p. 98.
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