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Mosque of Khan Bahadur
The gateway of the garden
is preserved. The picturesque mosque of Nawab Khan Bahadur, with
its beautiful minarets of kansi work, and arched entrances, can be seen
from a distance. On the top of the middle arch is inserted a slab
of marble on which is inscribed the kalima, or the Mahomedan contusion
of faith. On either side of it are the following inscriptions in
the Arabic character:-
Haste thou for prayers before death
Haste
to repent before thou ceasest to live.
Nothing can be more sublime or more awful and heart-rending than the sight
of these wrecks of departed glory ; they convey at once to the mind how
transitory and unstable worldly eminence is. The palaces, one the
residence of the reconciler of the fierce Nadir Shah and of his delicate
harem, where he, with all the pomp and pride of a viceroy sat giving orders
to his omerahs and officers on State affairs, are now in ruins, and beneath
the shattered domes which have survived the wreck of time, lives an old
woman working at her grinding mill, or a weaver busy with his loom.
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