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 The Kulb Miliar. 89 "The Bauz-i-Alai, or tank of Ala-ud-din (the Bauz-i-Khass) had qo water in it and was filled up. People carried on cultivation in it, and lia<l dug wells, of which they sold the water. After a generation (Earn] had passed [cleared it out, so thai this great tank might be filled from 3 ear to year. "The Madrasah (college) of Shams-ud-din Aitamsh had been destroyed. I buill it up and furnished ii with sandal wood doors. The columns of the tomb which had fallen down I restored betterthan they had been before. When the tomb was buill its court bad not been curved but I now made it so. I enlarged the hewn Btone Btaircase of the dome and I re-erected the fallen piers of the four towers. " Tomb of Sultan Moiz-ud-din, son of Sultan Shams-ud-din, which is situated in Malikpur. This had fallen into such ruin that the sepulchres were undistmguishabli I re-erected the dome, the terrace and the inclosure wall. Tomb of Sultan Rukn-ud-din, son of Shams-ud-din, in Malikpur. J repaired the inclosure wall, built a oew dome and erected a monastery (Khankah). Tomb of Sultan Jelal-ud-din. This I repaired and supplied with new doors. Tomb of Sultan Ala-ud-din. 1 repaired this and furnished it with sandal wood doors. J repaired the walls of the Abdar-Khanah and the west wall of the Mosque, which is within the College; and I also made good the tesselated pavement (farsh-i-tashib). Tomb of Sultan Kutb-ud-din and the (other) Bons of Sultan Ala-ud-din, Le. Khizr Khan, Shadi Khan, Farid Khan, Sultan Shahab-ud-din, Sikandar Khan, .Muhammad Khan, Osman Khan and his grandsons and the sons of his grandsons. The tombs of these I repaired and renovated. I also repaired the doors of the dome and the lattice work of the tomb of Shaikh-ul-Isldm, Nizam-ul-hakk-wa-ud-din, which were made of sandal wood. 1 hung up the golden chandeliers with chains of gold in the four n c -- - of the dome and I built a meeting room, for before this there was none. Tomb of Malik Tag-ul Mnllk Kafuri, the great wazdr of Sultan Ala-ud-din. lie was a most wise and intelligent minister, and acquired many countries on which the horses of former sovereigns had never placed their hoofs, and caused the Khutbah of Sultan Ala-ud-din to be repeated tier.. Be had oj.ono men. His grave had been levelled with the ground and his tomb laid low. Ica:. his tomb to be entirely rein wed. for he was a devoted and faithful servant. The Daru-1-aman, or 'house of rest.' This i> the bed and resting plac at nun. J had new sandal wood doors made for it and over the tombs of these distinguished men