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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIII, 



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of Murshid Quli Khan, conferred the Viceroyalty of Bengal on 

 Amirirl Umara Khan-i-Pauran (who was the uncle of Khwaja 

 Anwar-i-Shahid, whose Mausoleum is in Burdwan 1 ), and 

 Shuja/u'd-Daula was appointed to be the Deputy Governor of 

 Bengal. When Shuja'u'd-Daula reached this side of Mednipur, 

 or, as I believe, had crossed Madaran and reached within 

 Bengal and halted at the aforesaid place, the Patent and Robe 

 of Honour arrived. 2 Shuja'u'd-Daula considered this as a good 

 omen and ordered the place to be named the " Mubarak- 

 Manzil" and a Katra and a Caravansarai to be built. The 

 Gateways with inscribed inscriptions in Persian verses still 

 exist, but the Katra and market etc. which existed between the 

 two Gateways have long since disappeared. 



I have procured correct copies of the inscribed verses and 

 find some material difference in one of them from what has 

 been published in this Journal. The QaVa on the Northern 

 Gateway, with the exception of the first hemistich of second 

 distich, is correctly published, as also the last hemistich ( <j\j 



U *Udx> v^Ut ^V° ) (the Rest-house of Mu'taminul-Mulk, 



the Refuge of the World) which gives 1143 h. (1730-31 a.d) 

 as the date of its construction. The inscription on the South- 

 ern Gateway consists of another QaVa of 9 distiches, of which 

 Blochmann has left out the sixth distich entirely ; and the second 

 hemistich of the last distich has been incorrectly copied, with 

 the result that the date of the construction of the Gateway is 

 deduced to be 1136 h. = 1723-24 a.d. instead of 1142 h. = 1729- 

 30 a.d. The date given by Professor Blochmann is some four 

 years before Shuja Vd-Daula was appointed as Naib-i-Nazim of 

 "" " 'It will now be seen from the inscription I publish that 

 while the Southern Gateway was built in 1142 h . the Northern 

 Gateway was built in the following year, in 1143 H. and not 

 after an interval of seven vears. The mistake has been con- 

 tinued in the Bengal District Gazetteer of Hooghlv (1912), pp. 

 291-92. 6 ' 



I give below correct Persian texts of both the inscriptions 

 with the translation of the first. 



Bengal. 



i 



(*E*\ 



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t 



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Southern Gateway. 



Text. 



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*aU> g 



+XK* 



XX &> »L-**V *~* l 



V&, 



> fj* u 



a-osf y S-* 



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2 



xr i ! Vid f ^ P aper on the " Antiquities of Burden " in the p«* ent 

 volume of this Journal. 



2 Having received information that Mur.4iid Quli could not survive 



Khan 



