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Ata,! in whose honour a mb was built by Sultan ‘grseggenet in 
765 H. Another Bengal saint, Shaikh Akhi Siraju-d-din,. 
disciple of the famous saint of Delhi, Nizamu-d-din Auliya ss 
died on 18th Rabi ii, 725 H. (3rd April, 1325 A.D.). Shaikh 
- Akhi, who had wandered on to Lakhnauti, died there on Ist 
Shawwal, 743 H. (27th February, 1343 A.D.),” just afterits aban- 
donment as capital. Two gateways to his tomb were erected 
by Sultan Husen Shih himself in 916 H. Riyaz mentions that 
when Ilyas was being besieged in fort Ekdala in 755 H., died a 
saint named Raja Biyabana; and he was so highly honotred 
by Ilyas, that the latter in the aiagu ise of a mendicant joined 
the saint’s funeral, and after paying a visit to the camp of Sul- 
tan Firoz came back to the fort in safety. 
From the residence of these saints Pandua came to be 
x : ecially called fhazrat. The earliest 
fapstudetie Seapets @ mer ‘ was Shaikh Jalalu-d-din Tabrizi 
who, driven from Delhi, wandered on to this town, where he 
is said to have brought from Makka the sacred ‘foot-prints 
(Kadam Rasil), which was removed later ontoGaur. This tradi- 
tion must be pretty old, for it appears in a coin-legend of Fath 
Shah, dated 890 H., or 1485 AD. (‘* The Shaikh who waits on 
the Kadam Rasil). 8 Is he the same saint Jalalu-d-din who was 
visited by Ibn Batiitah in Silhat in 745 H.? Riyaz says that 
he appeared in a dream to ’ Ali Shah and promised him the king- 
dom of Bengal, and that ’Ali Shah built in his honor a shrine, 
the traces of which existed up to his time. he Swe shrine 
1337 A.D 
Equally well known ban the two saints ’Ala-ul-hak and 
on Nir Kutb-ul-‘ Alam. ‘Ala-ul-hak 
oeabaher ey was a 4 disci le of the Delhi saint Nizamu- 
d-din * and also of the Lakhnauti saint Shaikh Akhi Safad. 
din, and though coming from Lahore (or Radanti in Oudh 
work in this province. He died on 25th Raj ab 786 H. 3th 
September, 1384 A. D.), and = buried in a tomb to the ‘ries 
1 This seems a title and - a name, Ata being a Turkish word si sig- 
Toe father Eide Bagi ; ef. Ata Yasawi, Ain, iii, p. 358. 
Lote 3 J.A8.B., 1890, p. 173. 
Raney "Bast we ii, p. 645. 
‘ Ain, transl., iii, 363. 6 J.A.8.B., 1895, p. 207. 
