lt below. The marble tomb or cenotaph of the queen still exists in
the vault. A fine gateway formerly stood at the entrance to the
enclosure, and there was a small mosque to the west of the tomb
(_A.S.R._ vol. iv. (1874), p. 121: Muh. Latif, _Agra_, p. 192). It is
painful to be obliged to record so many instances of vandalism
committed by English officials. This tomb is the memorial of Jodh
Bai, daughter of Udai Singh, _alias_ Moth Raja, who was married to
Jahangir in A.D. 1585, and was the mother of Shah Jahan. Her personal
names were Jagat Goshaini and Balmati. She died in A.D. 1619. Akbar's
queen, Maryam-uz-Zamani, daughter of Raja Bihari Mall of Jaipur
(Amber), who died in A.D. 1623, is buried at Sikandra. (See Beale,
s.v. 'Jodh Bai' and 'Mariam Zamani'; Blochmann, transl. _Ain_, pp.
429, 619.) The tomb of Maryam-uz-Zamani has been purchased by
Government from the missionaries, who had used it as a school, and
has been restored. (_Ann. Rep. A.S., India_, 1910-11, pp. 92-6.)

5. Although it may be admitted that the Rajput strain of blood
improved the constitution of the royal family of Delhi, the decline
and fall of the Timuride dynasty cannot be truly ascribed to 'the
loss of the Rajput blood in the veins' of the ruling princes. The
empire was tottering to its fall long before the death of Aurangzeb,
who 'had himself married two Hindoo wives; and he wedded his son
Muazzam (afterwards the Emperor Bahadur) to a Hindoo princess, as his
forefathers had done before him'. (Lane-Poole, _The History of the
Moghul Emperors of Hindustan illustrated by their Coins_, p. xviii. )
The wonder is, not that the empire of Delhi fell, but that it lasted
so long.

6. When the author wrote the above remarks, Englishmen knew the
gallant Gurkhas as enemies only; they now know them as worthy and
equal brethren in arms. The recruitment of Gurkhas for the British
service began in 1838. The spelling 'Gorkha' is more accurate.

7. The 'kos' varies much in value, but in most parts of the United
Provinces it is reckoned as equal to two miles. According to the
_N.W.P. Gazetteer_ (p. 568), the nearest approximate value for the
Agra kos is 1 3/4 mile. Three kos would, therefore, be equal to about
5 1/4 miles. Muin-ud-din died in A.D. 1236. Sleeman, on I know not
what authority, represents Akbar as resorting to Salim Chishti,
Shaikh of Fathpur-Sikri, on the advice given by a vision accorded at
Ajmer. The _Tabaqat-i-Akbari_ simply records that Akb