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



quotes from the "List of Monuments in Bengal" gives 1127 h. 

 (1715 A.n.) as the date of the building of the Mausoleum. The 

 Chronogram of Khwaja Anwar's death as 1 heard at Burdwan, 

 is contained in the following Persian hemistich : — 



^ jS\ ^ „.\ tf (Ah Anwar Shahid-i-Akbar Shud). 

 Anwar became the chief martyr.] 

 This gives 1109-1698 a.d.' 



Alas! 



IV. The Jam i' Mosqi k. 



. After his narrow escape, as mentioned above, Sultan 'Azim- 

 ujh-bjjan offered his devotion to Almighty God. and went to 

 the shrine of Bahram \Saqqa ' to pray. He distributed monev 

 to the poor and the pious. Having then entered the town he 

 resided tor three years in the Citadel of Burdwan. the residence 

 • ol the b aujdar. Among other things he erected a .la mi' Mosque, 

 which I inspected on the 25th June 1916. for the prayer of the 



Muslim public. I found it surrounded bv low buildings and 



fu o t \ T ai ) d - a _ narr f °^ r0ad which P*»«» ^ng the south side of 

 the Maharaja of Burdwan's stately Palace The Jami" Masjid 

 has three domes in the centre and four smnllpr on«« one on 



and four smaller ones, one on 



m - 



_ i n mi *» , — «v*,_ tl(llu> 1UU1 feinaiifi one*, one uii 



slTb in f ^ 7?u e £ Uowin * ^ription is .arvcd on a stone 



slab m front of the Mosque : 



Text of the Inscription. 



Mi v£ <3ji *U| J«^ , * ^.j, uj, ^ y, 4 



j* * o'y ^* r^' » y*'i ± r^*'* 5 





•I J — . 

 J fUi^J ^jy ^apjt i^jtj ^ ^^ 3 ^ ^j g 



The letters are badly cut. one line is rannmc into another 



»ne. Ihe sentence commencing from the words 0«M and end- 



StewartT Othw n?rt;,, «? ls # ven » the Riyazu»-SalS tin and by ( harle* 



the Astana rKl S 8 £ * fr0m the Mutawa,1Ts and ^ l5dimS °i 

 Corrected up to ?l,t a,. / ^' ent Mo ™ments in Bengal. Revised and 

 1896. P ,8t Aueust - l895: Calcutta. Bengal Secretariat Press. 



