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year being lost. Hall, 70'-4" x 40'-9" (externally 

 82 J' x 52') ; eight square pillars in two rows of 

 four each ; openings eleven (5 + 3 + 3) ; the bay 

 in the N.W. corner in two storeys, the upper room 

 screened with trellis-work for ladies ; four octa- 

 gonal corner towers ; on the roof fourteen domes 

 in three rows (besides the upper story room), the 

 domes being of different heights diminishing 

 from the centre to the end ; interior covered 

 with carvings and gilded ; doorways and inter- 

 doorway niches bordered with broad bands of or- 

 naments ; wall of bricks with outside facings of 

 stones up to the springing of arches. 

 (10) Bagha mosque, Rajshahi. 930 H. (1523— 4 A.D.). 



Dimensions nearly the same as those of Tanti- 

 para (No. 8). Hall, four square pillars in a row ; 

 openings nine (5 + 2 + 2) ; the fourth bay occupied 

 by the pulpit and the fifth bay in the N.W. 

 corner has a smaller mihrab with a platform (for 

 zenana?) ; ten domes in two equal rows, more 

 or less broken; brick wall, adorned inside and 

 outside with many ornamentations. 



(11) Hemtabad mosque, Dinajpur. 906H. (1500-1 A.D.). 



Hall, eight pillars in two rows ; openings eleven 

 (5 + 3 + 3) ; the central bay largest ; domes 15 (? ). 



(c) Those with eleven bays 



(12) Satgumbaz mosque, near Bagerhat, Khulna. In- 



scription lost, 9th century H. (?). Hall, 144' x 96' 

 (externally 160' x 105') ; twelve square stone 

 pillars in two rows of six each, 8 ft. high ; open- 

 ings twenty-five (11 + 7 + 7); one door let 

 through the bay to the right of the central, and 

 in the central aisle two small brick platforms of 

 which one near the prayer niche being probably 

 for pulpit and the other for zenana (?) ; four 

 corner towers; seventy domes in tea rows of 

 seven each, besides one row of seven vaults over 

 the central aisle. 



(13) Bara Sona mosque, Gaur. 932 H. (1526 A.D.). 



Hall with a corridor in front, externally 168' x 76'. 

 Hall divided into three long aisles by twenty 

 square pillars in two rows of ten each, and sepa- 

 rated from a long corridor by another row of ten 

 thicker pillars. Main hall openings seventeen 

 (11+3 + 3), and the corridor openings thirteen 

 (11 + 1 + 1). The three bays in the N.W. corner 

 occupied by a two-storeyed structure, the 

 upper room of which is screened off for ladies. 



