Persian inscription of Jahāngīr dated AH 1027

This inscription is referred to in the Memoirs of Jahāngīr as follows:

In the middle of the garden of Khurram (Shah-Jahan’s) residence there is a bench and a reservoir. On one side [78] of that bench there is a Mulsari-tree (Mimusops elengi) against which to lean the back. As in one side of its trunk there was a hollow to the extent of three-fourths of a yard, it had an ugly look. I ordered them to cut a tablet of marble and fix it firmly in that place, so that one could lean one’s back on it and sit there. At this time an impromptu couplet came to my tongue, and I ordered the stone-cutters to engrave it on that stone, that it might remain as a memento on the page of time. This is the couplet: “The seat of the Shah of the seven worlds (kishwar), Jahangir, son of Akbar Shahinshah.”

Presently British Museum 1956,0519.4 placed with the British Museum by the Society of Antiquaries. The collection provenance is untraced and the possibility remains that the inscription was made by a forger who had read the Tuzuk-i Jahāngīrī.