374 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, [October, 1909. 
for Allah who believes in Allah and the last day.’’ Saith the 
Prophet,—Peace be on him! ‘' He who builds a mosque, Allah 
will build for him sixty houses in Paradise.’? 
‘‘The completion of the building (is) by the help of God 
the Holy and Almighty. [This mosque was erected] through the 
exertion of Sa‘di son of Shaikh Shira in the reign of the Crown 
of the Glory of Sultans, the second [Sahib-i-]Qiran , Padshah Ghazi 
Shah Jahan, in the month Rabi ‘u-l-Awwal, in the year 1062 A.H.” 
The few words that are missing are those which fall at the 
measures 1 ft. 6 inches by 1 ft. 10} inches. The local people 
Can say nothing about the builder of the mosque, but his grave 
is found a few paces off to the south-east. 
river Brahmaputra. A little to the N .-W. is the brick mauso- 
= containing the tombs of Sharif Khan and his nameless 
wife 
The inscription, which measures 2’ 6” by 1’ 1’, runs as 
follows :— 
CHL al yy come WII JY lb 
Hiy® lye Says peli cis cass gas 
Wb yas} 5 sif wae L— dle ome 
go oy) jt Walle |_ ine, Ubu Sle 
ABI) me 5) LAS 9 cranat gy WSs 4 15S 
€ > a | s } : 
O Opener!’’ The Kalimah “0 Opener! ”’ (evoke ) 
Shartf, ( 
Sg the sky). Hatif [i.e., the angel of the unseen world] spoke 
© year of its date from calculation, Eleven Hundred and 
"twenty-six of the holy Hijra,”? 
From page 17 of the Masnad Ali Itihae (the history of the 
