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^yo jia*.*, O.JJO c^xu gl+~/o 



The Basmalah. The Kalimah. 



1 ■ Adorned by the sound of Hayya Falah l 

 At night and morning is the mosque of this humble person : 

 (Erected by) Musammat Bakht Blnat, daughter of Mar- 

 ham at. 

 In the year 861 ( - 1457 A.D.)." 



(Length of the stone 1' Of'; height 8j"). 



The inscription is somewhat curious as being in Persian, 

 and for its omission of any reference to the reigning king. 

 As pointed out by Khan Bahadur Saiyid Aulad Hasan (whose 

 reading of the inscription in his Notes on the Antiquities of 

 Dacca first drew my attention to it — vide p. 28) , the name of 

 the lady shows that she belonged to the lower class of 

 society. 



The second inscription, two years later in date is the one 

 referred to at the beginning of this paper. As noted by _ 

 Bahadur Saiyid Aulad Hasan (op. cit. f p. 34) this inscription, 

 which is now in the Record room of the Dacca (.'ollectorate, 

 came from an old mosque in Xaswalla Gully, a street in the 



adj 



as Gird-i Q 



Wise. Owing to a defective rubbing, Dr. Blochmann was un- 

 able to give a full reading in his Notes on Arabic and Persian 

 Inscriptions, (J.A.S.B., 1872, page 107), but from a recent 

 photo, reproduced in Plate XXIV, it will be seen that this im- 



m. a &. ^b * -at 



as 





^^v-—, , — ^^ ^ 



<— ii* 



fji (Jt ^1 % W** • ot?K ; Wo *£3\ ±*> ^ ^U^^t *stfy u x *>U 



i 



i More properly ^^ ^^b ^^ (Come to Safety), a sentence in the 



Azan (call to prayer). 



^ I am indebted to Dr. Rose, Philological Se^rotary of the Society, 

 for the reading of this word. 



