150 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [May, 1909. 
— Shams-ud-din Abmad lie buried.' It is a brick-basalt 
mb showing already the curved roof of the Bengali hut, and 
ne carved brick tiles. Similar carved tiles and curved roofs 
became the peculiar characteristics of the later Musalman 
buildings in Bengal, e.g., Hemtabad mosque, Dinajpur (906 H.), 
the Kutb-Shahi or golden mosque of Pa. pdua (990 H.) and in 
Gaur, Kadam Rasul mosque (937 H.), Janjan Miyan’s mosque 
(941H.), Fath Khan’s tomb (date Ela ra and the small 
golden mosque of Firozpur (time of Husain Shah 899—924H.), 
alsoin the mosque at Bagha, Rajshahi (930 H.), and in the tomb 
of Khan bee oe died on 26th Zil-hijjah 863 H. ), Bagerhat, 
way was thus paved for the present Hindu 
style in og RY which, receiving a great impetus from the 
religious ferment of the sixteenth centur ry, spread ultimately 
from the edifices of Radha-Krsna faith to those of the Saiva 
and Sakta faiths. 
As the architectural ai a cannot be well understood 
wi t the help of illustrations, a few 
esas photographs are annexed. The 
undermentioned memo. may facilitate reference to the plates :— 
A. Hut-roof. | (6) ‘tie nine towers on the 
(1) With simple een oof—Raghunath, Baxa, 
District Bardw 
Illustrations of Types 
ric ug 
(2) With one tower on n the roof (7) With 25 towers on the roof 
—Madanm 
ohan, Visnu- wee Kalna, Bard- 
pur, Bankura 
(3) Do. eastern gat venaty (0) With 0 one duplicate on the 
Ramcandra, Guptipara, oof—Syameand, Santi- 
pai id. 
| 
(4) With five towers on the roof. 
—Syamraya, Visnupur. | B. Bungalow-roof. 
(5) Do. details of carvings, o | (9) Double-r Ae dae with 
tases ene dig 
1 Riyazu-s-salitin, bps 100, DP. LIS? (of, AS yn SV) pp. 88- 
For the remark of Cunningham stout Eklakhi tomb, see A.S.R. iii, p. il. 
See figure 12 for the tom 
2 See figure 13. Fath Khan’s tomb in Gaur Fort has lost its inscrip- 
tion, it any. According toa ere napee recorded in Khurshid Jahin Numa 
of Sayyad Hihi pokhsh, Fath Khan was son of one Diller Khan, who was 
deputed by the Empero: 5 eremoe to put to death Shah Ni’ mat-ullah 
suspected to have iestigubed Shah Shujah t ar. But he 
could carry out the orders, his son Fath Khan died in Gaur from blood 
pit was b in this tomb (J.A.S. 1895, ). Ni’mat- 
ullah died in 1 : ac ing to another account 10 (Do., 
224) ; and therefore Fath Khan had died before this year probably at 
the time of Diller Khan’s pursuit of Shih Sujahin1 H. (Riyaz, trans., 
oe appear m inscription found a 
ur, p. 90, inscription No. ne ate 
ich fits in in with the date of ra adjoining Kadam Rasul mosque 
