Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 2) (London, 1832)

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in a prominent situation : one of these mukh-
burrahs was built by command, or in the reign
(I could not learn which), of Shah Allumgeer
over the remains of Bailee Peer; and the
second contains some of the peer's immediate
relatives.

From the expensive manner in which these
buildings are constructed, some idea may be
formed of the estimation this pious man was
held in by his countrymen. The mausoleums
are of stone, and elevated on a base of the same
material, with broad flights of steps to ascend
by. The stone must have been brought hither
from a great distance, as I do not find there is a
single quarry nearer than Delhi or Agra. There
are people in charge of this Durgah who volun-
tarily exile themselves from the society of the
world, in order to lead lives of strict devotion
and under the imagined presiding influence of
the saint's pure spirit; they keep the sanctuary
from pollution, burn lamps nightly on the tomb,
and subsist by the occasional contributions of
the charitable visitors and their neighbours.

Within the boundary of the Durgah, I re-