Tash Rabat: a Moghul khan's stone caravanserai
Editorial contextMirza Haidar credits Muhammad Khan, the khan who pushed the Moghuls into Islam, with building a rabat (travellers' lodge) of huge stones north of the Chadir Kul pass, with a tall entrance hall, a dome, cells and a mosque. He had seen it himself. The editor's note matches it with the ruin now called Tash Rabat and rejects a later claim that it was a converted Hindu temple, since no manuscript says so.
In the construction of this building he employed stones of great size, the like of which are only to be seen in the temples … of Kashmir. The Rabat contains an entrance hall 20 gaz in height. … The whole building is of stone, and over the doors there are huge solid blocks of stone, which I thought very wonderful, before I had seen the temples in Kashmir.
About Muhammad Khan of the Moghuls
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The editor's note weighs the identification with the surviving ruin and rejects a later story that it was a converted Hindu temple.