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name, to give him the land where he lived. Miracles were 

 demanded and worked. The JogI being convinced of Plr 

 Bahrain's sanctity, at once complied with what turned out to 

 be the last request of the Saint. The JogI who became his 

 disciple, wanted to go away, but the Saint bade him stay on. 

 After three days Plr Bahram 'Saqqa' died, and was buried on 

 this land — his own land. 



The late Munshi Muhammad! of Burdwan noted in a bayaz 

 certain biographical notes about Haji Bahram Saqqa's life from 

 Nudrat and Khushgo ' in Persian." His son, Maulavi Ikramu'l- 

 Haq. whom I met, recopied them in a separate paper, which I 

 discovered among the documents in the custody of theMutawalli. 

 The notes were rendered by him, as he told me, into Urdu, from 

 which the interesting particulars published in the " Gazetteer of 

 the Burdwan District" (1910 a.d.) are compiled. So far as I 

 am aware, the author of the Sohof-i-Ibrahlm, and N udrat, alluded 

 m their accounts of the Saint, as to his death at Burdwan. 



According to these, Haji Bahram ' Saqqa/ who had made 

 pilgrimages to Makka, Madlna and Najaf, enjoyed the good 

 graces of Emperor Akbar, who placed implicit confidence in him. 

 He was accused of being a Rafigl. He therefore left Agra 

 in disgust, and died, as I have mentioned, at Burdwan. On 

 the news of Saqqa's death reaching Akbar, he allotted the reve- 

 nue of Bahram Bazar, now Puratan Qhauk (a part of the town, 

 where the Maharaja's College is situated), and Mirzapur, for the 

 maintenance of the Shrine. I could get no information about 

 iaqirpura, situated close to Burdwan, which was, too. given aa 

 a Madad-i-M'aash, according to. one of the inscribed basalts. 

 1 he Government settled the Mauza's with the Maharaja of 

 Kurdwan as a part of his Zamlndart. and in lieu thereof, they 

 pay Ks. 41-2-4 a month to the Mutwallis of the place : the 

 maintenance charge is met from the fixed grant. 



1 was shown the place where the JogI, Jaipal, was buried. 2 

 jt is m a corner of the garden on the roadside. The devotees, 

 i was told, formerly used to place their chelam, or earthen pipe, 

 with ganja into a masonry hole of the tomb on the roadside. 



Tif g rV^ a used t0 be li ^ hted miraculonsly. 



ine Dargah is an object of archaeological interest. The 



t iTwi.1 1S P ed mside a Mausoleum, covered bv one dome, 

 the battlement of the walls is curved. The entrance is from 

 ine south, with a portico in front. The original brick-carvings 

 nave now been hidden in plaster and whitewash. The sur- 



1 Nudrat's book is scarce. Khushgo was 

 a Bania of Benares. His Tazkira entitled 

 jL»jL was completed in 1147 H. (1734 A.D.). 





— vv. ul ,i OTOU lu 114/ j^ ^734 A.D.). 



o 3Ut Auc^I A ^!? n * M ^amentB in Bengal, Revised and Corrected 

 6ist August, 1895 : Calcutta, Bengal Secretariat Press, 1896. 



