228 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July, 1909. 
His son Nir Kutb-ul-‘Alam was even morefamous. Accord- 
Nar Kutb-ul Alam, 28 to the Murat-al-Asrar written in 1045 
‘ * —H. (1635 A.D.),! his name was originally 
Shaikh Ahmad and was subsequently changed to Makhdim 
Shaikh N dru-l-hak. He is mentioned therein as a contemporary 
of Ghiyasu-d-din of Bengal and Ibrahim Sharki of Jaunpur, and 
as having been visited by A’zim Khan, the vizier (of Bengal). 
The saint is said to have died on 10th Zil-ka’da 818 H. (11th 
. January, 1416 A.D.), the chronogram of the year being Nur ba 
Nur Shud. The Ain also devotes a special para. to this saint in 
grandson Zahid. The enclosure is called chotidargah (che-hazari 
or six-thousanded).. None of the tombs has any dates. But 
over the cook-room of Nir’s Cilla-khind (dwelling-house) is 
fixed an Ege dated Monday, 28th Zil-hijja, 863 H. (26th 
October, 1 .D.), recording the construction of a tomb 
ia ing Nir’s) by Latif Khan in the reign of Mahmid 
Shah.? North of the enclosure is the Kutb-Shahi mosque, so 
que of Pandua. It was built in 990 H. (1582 A.D.) by one 
Makhdiim Shaikh (? a title adopted from the saint). 
t will be seen that the older remains, such as the bath, 
The city. ane and Eklakhi, lis in the northern 
while the more recent structures are 
spread in the southern rile probably built when the river re- 
ceded more and more off the town. The following nearly con- 
temporaneous description of Pandua and its palace appears in 
a Chinese encyclopedia, Yuen-chien-lei-han :— 
eyond which [Sunargion] there is the city of Pan-tu- 
wa in which the king of the country resides. It is a walled 
city and is very large. The king’s palace is very extensive, and 
the ‘Pillars supporting it are of brass, on which are engrave 
1 Mr. Beveridge has icindly looked ¥ the Sema nog um MS. 0 
this work and has supplied me with these facts. He writes that eon 
the life given is a Hie one, it is singolacty oe of calieesallae, and 
is made up of fabulous miracles wrou ught b 
Ai. iii, 371; cf. J.A.S.B., 1895, p- 307, for other dates of his 
death 9th Zul-ka’da, 818 H., and in its footnote 2, 19th Zai-ka’da, 818 
H. from RiyGzu-l-auliya. This work is said to have been written in 
1019 H. or 1679 (2); but if Aba. eee copied the accounts of his saints 
Seeetons, os gorge have crept in the ae ted serena ares 
Rabi t 
mu EL. 2A 
Bede: Sr a if it was a Friday, as Pnifeged in Wikaya’-i Asad 
873, pp. ats 2,270 (for the date). In 863 H., how- 
ee ath Bai-hijjah eee Hales ida ay and not Tsctava a milarly in 
Il akhsh’s reading (J, -» 1895, p. mods 18th ZiLhijjah, 833 H. 
(7th September, 1430 A.D. ) tele on a Thursday 
