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digging a moat round the Mosque, which he built or rebuilt, and 

 the hujra or retreat for prayer which he constructed close to it. 

 The passage from his retreat to the riverside was through a 

 gate, which I found was half shut up by the wall of a neigh- 

 bour. A Persian inscription was carved very beautifully in 

 bold nasta'liq character over the gate in white raised letters. 

 The first half of the inscribed verse is now invisible. The east 



ern 



Kh 



The 



I am not aware who the brothers 'Alain Khan and Zulfi- 



qar Khan might be. They cannot possibly be the two noble- 

 men, whose history is recorded in the Ma'asiru'l-Umara and 

 other books. Hafiz 'Abdu's-Sattar admitted_ that they should 

 not be confounded with the two noblemen — ' Alam Kb. 

 and Zulfiqar Khan Nusrat-Jang. 



The marriage of Hafiz ' Abdu's-Sattar with his wife is won- 

 derfully dramatic. He was born at Dehli and is sixth in descent 

 from Zulfiqar Khan. She was bom at Katwa and is also sixth 

 in descent from 'Alam Khan. Abdu's-Sattar came to Bengal, 

 as he told me, on board a trading boat which moored at Katwa 

 to dispose of its cargoes. Arrived at the Baganiapara mosque 

 to say his Jum'a namaz. his eye caught sight of the name of 

 'Alam Khan in the inscription in front of the Mosque. At last 

 they became surprised to know t hat the would-be couple were 

 the two branches of the same tree. After some years both 

 were united in the happy bond of Islamic wedlock. On account 

 of Hafiz Sayyid Abdu's-Sattar making Katwa his home, the 

 Muslim population of the place have become more regular in 

 their observances of prayer and Islamic ceremonies. 



The following are the texts of the inscriptions. The one 

 m the interior of the Mosque above the pulpit has been marked A. 

 The two on the outside of the Mosque, close to each other, are 

 marked B and C, the former on the right side and the latter on 

 the left of it. 



A 

 B 



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1 The fatha or zabar on » is incorrect, it should be on 'am of W«. . 



