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 168 MOHAMMAD TAGHLAK AND FIROZ SHAH ing carpets, lights, and furniture for the use of trav- ellers and pilgrims in the least of these places, I had villages assigned to them, the revenues of which would suffice in perpetuity for the expenditure necessary for their maintenance. The Jahan-panah, a foundation of the late Sul- tan Mohammad Shah, my kind patron, by whose bounty I was reared and educated, I restored. All the fortifica- tions which had been built by former sov- ereigns at Delhi I repaired. Furthermore, for the benefit of trav- ellers and pilgrims that resort to the tombs of illustrious kings and celebrated saints, and for pro- viding the things necessary in these holy places, I confirmed and gave effect to the grants of villages, lands, and other endowments which had been conferred upon them in olden times. In those cases where no endowment had been settled, I made provision that these establishments might for ever be secure of an income, to afford comfort to travellers and wayfarers, A MOHAMMEDAN TOMB.