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The recently -repaired tombs of Qutbu'd-Dln Kb 



Shu Afgan at the courtyard of the Astana of Pir Bahrain 

 were pointed out to me. Attached to these tombs there is a 

 petty Mosque, 4 where the people of the Astana say their 

 daily prayers. The tragic death of Shir Afgan and Qutbfi ' 



l)in 



" of 



Aur-Jahans early life told so graphically by Stewart and 

 copied in the Gazetteer of Burdwan, i- not quite accurate. 

 «ow the question is whether the tombs ascribed to Shi.' Afgan 



'And Onf Kn'/i _TVt« T7L-.. 11 ...-.--. . 1- . ~ 



Qutbu 



According 



to theMaasu-uldniara (Vol. II!. p. 68) and the Memoirs of 

 Janangir. Qutbiid-Din s body was transferred to Fathpur- 



SS\ i- thmk is that attor ,,ieir sudden death their 



vlw r* ^ tem P°rarily interred at I'lr Bahrain, with a 



«ntoki° 1 eil f" later on - removed for burial to some other 

 suitable place, and this may be the identical sn, ,t where Qufcbud- 



e^'l ) 



Afka 



The 



mahal and H,»™7 *• , irom ^©anipur through Burdwan to x*»r 

 ' un The I!! T n nU ? *° Mon ghyr. At every 8 miles a mosque was 

 p6 mav bffcW?fi ^ ir -T an "^niing to the -Burdwan Gazetteer." 

 P. wt>. may be ident.fied w lt h that still attached to Pir Bahram Shrine. 



