Lawar, a large village . . . is distant
twelve miles north of the civil station. . . . There is a fine house
here called Mahal Sarai, built about A.D. 1700 by Jawahir Singh,
Mahajan, who constructed the Suraj kund near Meerut' (_N.W.P.
Gazetteer_, 1st ed., vol. iii, pp. 406,400). This information,
supplied by the local officials, is more to be depended on than the
author's statement.
4. 'The "dargah" [i.e. shrine] of Shah Pir is a fine structure of red
sandstone, erected about A.D. 1620 by Nur Jahan, the wife of the
Emperor Jahangir, in memory of a pious fakir named Shah Pir. An
"urs", or religions assembly, is held here every year in the month of
Ramazan. The "dargah" is supported from the proceeds of the revenue-
free village of Bhagwanpur' (ibid., vol. iii, p. 406). The text of
the original edition gives the pilgrim's name as 'Gungishun', which
has no meaning.
5. An interesting collection of modern cases of a similar kind is
given in Balfour, _Cyclopaedia_, 3rd ed., s.v. 'Samadhi'.
6. See _ante_, chapter 15, note l4. Dr. W. B. O'Shaughnessy
contributed many scientific papers to the _J.
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