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of five each. 



rows 



(4) Masjidkur mosque, Khulna. Inscription lost (10th 



century H. ?). Hall, four pillars in two rows; 

 three domes. 



(5) Kasba mosque, Bakharganj. Inscription lost. Hall, 



four pillars in two rows ; openings five (3 + 1 + 1) ; 

 four corner towers of which three are fallen ; nin- 

 domes in three rows of each. 



(6) Kusumbha mosque, Rajshahi. Inscription not yet 



published. Hall, two (?) pillars in one row: 

 openings five (3 + 1 + 1 ) ; a platform in the north 

 bay (for zenana ?) ; six domes in two equal rows. 



(7) Salik mosque at Bashirhat, 24-Parganas. Date of 



inscription over the central mihrab not legible 

 Said to have been built by one 'Ala-ud-din in 1305 

 A.D., but architecturally much later. Hall, 

 36' x 24'; two stone pillars in a row 8 feet high, 

 carved ; three mihrabs ; three front openings ; two 

 windows in each side wall with a niche between ; 

 six domes in two equal rows. 1 



(b) Those with five bays 



(8) Tantipara mosque, Gaur. Inscription lost, 885 H.(?) 



1480 A.D. Hall, 78' x 31' (externally 91' x 43J') ; 

 four square pillars in one row ; openings nine 

 (5 + 2 + 2) ; four octagonal corner towers ; ten 

 domes in two equal rows; outer wall-face orna- 

 mented with large panels flower-bordered and con- 

 taining pointed arches under which is a bell hung 

 by a chain ; towers similarly ornamented. u The 

 finest of all the buildings now remaining in 



% Gaur n (Cunningham). 



(9) Chota Son a mosque, Firozpur suburb, Gaur. In- 



scription of Husen Shah's time (899-925 H.), the 



1 Since writing this article, Moulvie Hamidul Huk, a matwalli of 

 the mosque, has sent me a rubbing of the inscription taken by Babu 

 B. D. Banerjea (see fig. 5). This Arabic inscription is in two lines, writ- 

 ten in Tughra characters, and reads as follows: — 



1. La ilaha illilla MuJiam?nada-r-ra8vl-Alla. Bane hazal masjid-ul- 



Majlis — 



2. -ul-muazzam-wal-mulcarram Majlis-i-A'zam damut azimatho. San 



ahada +subina samanamayata. 

 Translation: — "No God there is but He; and Muhammad is His 

 prophet ' ' (creed). This mosque built by the great and the liberal Majlis, 

 MajJis-i-A'zam— May his greatness be perpetuated I — in the year eight 

 hundred seventv one rl46(>-7 A.D.). "The great and liberal Ma„"" 



mentioned in the inscription of the 



Hugll, dated 1st Maharram. 



cubical mosque (No. 2), of Chota Pandua, 

 882H.,J.A.S.B.;i873; P .276, ' 



