text:  Among the objects of attraction in the environs of the city he particularly notices a famous footprint[8] upon stone called the _Kadmsherif_ or holy mark deposited in a mosque near the serai of Aurungabad and said to have been brought from Mekka by Sheik Mohammed Ali Hazin whom the translator of his interesting autobiography (published in 1830 by the Oriental Society) has made known to the British public up to the period when the tyranny of Nadir Shah drove him from Persia