274 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
He was a respectable man, whose family are now in distress, 
after his death. The deceased was in receipt of 150 silver ( Ba) ) 
tankas! and two meals from the monastery of Shaykb-1- 
Shuyukhil Islam, Nizimu’d-Din—which may be continued by 
Shaykh Hasan and Shaykh-zada Harin. 
9. Letter addressed to Maliku’l-Mashaykh Qudwatu'l- 
Auliyaé Raziu’d-Din. Maulana Hajji Behari severely deals with 
Muslims of Uchh at the time of evening prayer, beating and 
abusing them, and sometime sending them to dungeon, when 
they come to him for any business. He imposes fines, from 
one to two thousand fankas or more on them. The advice of 
‘Ulama and Mashaykh had little effect.? 
The letter contains a few lines to the fie/-holder of Uchh, 
Khwaja Kamalu’d-Din. 
. In another letter to the same Maliku’l-Mashaykh, 
Ragiu’d-Din, ‘Ayn-i-Mahra, tries to exonerate himself from 
the charge of interference, for which he was accused, with the 
decisions of that high divine. When the Iman, in the weekly 
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Friday prayer says %%.— a alt te (May God accept the praise 
of him who praiseth Him) the Mugtadis (followers or congre- 
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gation) should say seat! SO (oy eal! (O God! praise is due to 
we 
Thee). The word ow! was an innovation introduced by the 
Shaykh Raziu’d-Din. : 
. There are other letters to the same authority, in one 
of which complaint is made against certain innovations Intro- 
duced by Badru’d-Din Qimaz and Kamal-Taj, two new arrivals 
from Multan. 
. In a letter ‘Aynu’l-Mulk asks the book “ Maqamat 
En Maulana Sharafu’d-Din Tuwaman” from Sayyad Nasiru a 
| Was the silver tanka the same, as the taka, or rupee, of Bengal ? 
In upper India a copper coin, equivalent to two pice is called a taka, but 
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mosque. In every mosque, therefore, a whip is hung for this purpose. 
~ Ibn Batuta’s travels by Rev. Samuel Lee, B. D., p. 86. 
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