242 Preyident — Facsiville of a Tuijlira inscriijt'wn at Maldah. [Dec. 



The President exhibited a facsimile, kindly lent by Mr. Samuells, 

 of an inscription in the Tughra character which was on a jiiece of black 

 basalt now in the Magistrate's compound at Maldah. 



The stone had been found in a jungle near Nawabganj on the Maha- 

 nanda about twenty miles S. E. from Gaur. This, and some other 

 stones and some Hindu carvings, had belonged to a faqir, and on his 

 death they were sent to the Magistrate as unclaimed property in Decem- 

 ber 1889. The king referred to in the inscription was an Abyssinian and 

 "was known by the name of Sidhi Badr diwanah (mad). He killed 

 the king of Gaur and then usurped the throne and called himself 

 Shamsuddaniya Abul N'a9r Muzaifar Shah. He was a great tyrant and 

 was apparently killed in 899 A. H. (Blochmann' Contributions, p. 81 and 

 the Riyaz-us-Salatin, pp. 167-169.) The Riyaz says he built a mosque in 

 Gaur and probably this inscription belonged to it. The Hiyaz makes 

 him reign till 903 A. H. 



Translation. 



The Prophet (God's blessing on him,) says " He who builds a 

 mosque for God, it will be the reason of purchasing a house like it in para- 

 dise.' It was built in the reign of the great king Shamsuddunya waddin 

 Abunnasr Muzuffar Shah, may God perpetuate his rule and kingdom. 

 This Jarai mosque was built by Majlisul-moazzam walmakarram Majlis 

 Ulugh. Khurshid — May his elevation be everlasting ! on the 10th Rabi- 

 al-awal 898. (30th December, 1492). 



The President exhibited a cop]ier-plate inscription found at Ashraf- 

 pur in the Dacca district, and read a translation of it by Raja Rajen- 

 dralala Mitra. 



The copper-plate was found in 1884 or 1885 by a i^yot named Mir 

 Khan while levelling a mound in Ashrafpur about 30m. S. E. of Dacca and 

 about 5m. from the Sital Lakhya. It was 6 or 7 ft. underground. 

 Another plate was found at the same time and was desciibed and figured 

 in our Proceedings for March 1885. The existence of the copper- 

 plate was brought to notice in the Statesman by Tarak Nath Roy, a 

 Brahman residing at Lakarshi, and it was through him that the plate 

 was acquired by the Society. The plate was in very good preservaLion, 



