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pital with a fingle eunnch and his favorite concubine. In the 

 article Rajahmabel, I have mentioned his fad but deferved fate. 

 He fell in only the twentieth year of his age, by the particular 

 orders of Meera^n, the fon of Jaffier, a youth not exceeding 

 feventeen, but fierce and cruel as the falling tyrant. It is not 

 ftrange, that the fame fun which heightens the fury of the 

 beafts of prey, fhould infedt the human kind with congenial 

 rage and barbarity. 



At Moo7'JJoedabad is a religious building of great fingularity ^^o^^ elegant 

 and extetit, a Cuttera (Hodges^ vol. ii. tab. XVII.) erecfted for 

 the reception of pious or learned perfons, invited from all parts 

 by its founder Jaffier Khan. He maintained above two thou- 

 fand readers, beadfmen, and chanters, who were conftantly em- 

 ]')loyed in reading the Korati, and in other a6ls of devotion. 

 He was greatly celebrated for the mildnefs of his manners^ 

 love of learned men, and rigid obfervance of juftice. The 

 front is extenfive, finifhing at each end with a lofty poly- 

 gonal tower, with a multitude of little domes, each covering 

 the cell of fome pious or fcientific inmate. Beyond ap- 

 pears large domes, probably over the mofque. Thefe were 

 erected at the expenfe of the defl:ru<5tion of feveral neighbor- 

 ing Hindoo temples, which he pulled down for the fake of the 

 materials, and even compelled the poor Hindoos to affift in the 

 abominable tafk. of building the mofques*. 



The branch of the Ganges which waflies the city of Moorjje- 

 dal>adf becomes a channel of great importance, and a much frer 



• Narrative of the Government of Bengal, tranflated from the Perfian, by Fr. Gladwin, Efij. . 

 p. 121. 



quented. 



