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boat was miraculously saved; in gratitude the merchant 

 caused this mosque to be built close to the saint's dargah. The 

 saint is said to have been the son of a padshah, and to have 

 wandered on to the place as a fakir. Two of his resting-places, 

 nazargahs, are still pointed out, one at Burigan, two and a 

 half miles west, and the other at Titagarh on the other side of 

 the Hugll river. Various quaint legends are told of his power. 

 Cocoanut trees bowed their heads before him and offered him 

 fruit as tribute. A Hindu barber used to shave him. One day 

 he noticed the right hand of the saint all of a sudden became 

 wet He asked the saint, who told him that just then he had 

 heard a merchant's prayer for saving his sinking boat, and 

 had raised the boat up. One day the saint picked up some 

 earth, and putting it into the barber's hand, 6rderedhim not to 

 open the list until he reached his home. When half-way, the 

 barber s curiosity overcame his prudence. He opened the palm 

 and found half the earth had been turned into gold. 



The many-domed parallelopiped is the more common 

 Peculiarities of Paral- variety, and contains the best specimens 



lelopipeds. f Bengali mosques. In this group : 



(1) The halls are oblong (not square) ; 



(2) They are divided into aisles by free pillars which 



support the dome arches ; 



(3) The back-wall is cut into several prayer-niches, three, 



five or eleven in number corresponding to as 

 many front openings, or subdivided into a 

 central nave and two wings, the nave being 

 ... separated from the wings by thicker pillars ; 



(4) ihe roof-domes are many, corresponding to the 



inter-spaces between the internal pillars. 

 Their brief descrip- According to the number of the bays 



tlon - ? r Prayer-niches, this group may be 



further subdivided. 



(a) Those with three bays 



(1) Baba Adam's mosque, Vikrampur. Middle of 



Kajab, 888 H. (August 1483 A.D.). Hall 34' x 22F 

 (externally 43' x 36') ; two aisles formed by one 

 row of two octagonal stone pillars ; two rectan- 

 gular niches on each side wall ; three openings all 

 m tront ; four octagonal corner towers ; six domes, 

 in two rows of three each. 



( 2) Jalal-ud-din 's mosque at Satgaon, Hugll. Ramazan, 



•36 H. (May 1529 A.D.). In ruins ; the north 



r«i m ! ay cf- n , la P? than the other two ; si x domes. 



(3) Majhs Sahebs mosque at Kama, Bardwan. Inscrip- 



tion lost. Hall, internally 75'9"x 25 , -3 // - four (') 

 stone pillars ; the two side bays provided with 



