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)

168 TOMB OF SHAH ALLUM.

earthly sufferings ; a little masonry of brick and
plaster supports the mound of earth over his
remains, on which I observed the grass was
growing,, apparently cultured by some friendly
hand. At the period of my visit, the solitary
ornament to this last terrestrial abode of a King
was a luxuriant white jessamine tree, beauti-
fully studded with blossoms, which scented
the air around with a delightful fragrance, and
scattered many a flower over the grave which
it graced by its remarkable beauty, height,
and luxuriance. The sole canopy that adorns
Shah Allum's grave is the rich sky, with all its
resplendant orbs of day and night, or clouds
teeming with beneficent showers. Who then
could be ambitious, vain, or proud, after view-
ing this striking contrast to the grave of Shah
Nizaam? The vain-glorious humbled even in
the tomb ;—the humble minded exalted by the
veneration ever paid to the righteous.

I was persuaded to visit the ruins of antiquity
which are within a morning's drive of Delhi.
Nothing that I there witnessed gave me so much
pleasure as the far-famed Kootub, a monument