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roundings of the Dargah are very pretty, covered with fine 

 shady trees with a large tank to the north. 1 



There have been buried in the garden prominent men of 

 Burdwan. including the good JogI, Jaipal. Close to the shrine 

 there are one or two masonry cottages where the faqlrs used to 

 go into Chilla or retreat for forty days, and in one of which, 

 across the road, the water-skin, bowl and the leathern wallet of 

 the Saint used to be kept and shown to the devotees. The 

 leathern zambil or wallet to carry the bowl of water, etc., is 

 the only article of the holy water-distributer still left to us, and 

 is kept inside the tomb. AH other things, but this one, have 

 long disappeared, being worm-eaten and deteriorated. 



The Inscriptions. 



There are two inscribed stone slabs as mentioned above. 

 The native carvers., to whom I think the work was entrust- 

 ed, were no experts, and the letters are so defective and 

 badly inscribed that I, too, like Blochmann would have been 

 unable to decipher them but for some fortunate circumstances. 



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Works (Dlwan) preserved at the Astana. The verse has the 

 following headings : — 



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" Bate of the union (death) of the pilgrim of both the 

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