100 Notes on Sirdjuddaulah and the town of Murshiddvdd. [No 2, 



engaged in these works of charity. At the " thresholds" of the 

 Nazim and his relations, there is something more. They have among 

 their attendants reciters of elegies, describers of the grave of Husain, 

 couplet singers, Khutbah readers and historians." 



The imambarah presents a grand spectacle during the Muharram. 

 Food is daily distributed to the believers. In the evening there are 

 fireworks and illuminations. On one day the Nawab also comes. After 

 alighting from his palki at the southern gate, he is conducted inside, 

 and takes his seat on a black carpet, over which a white embroidered 

 coverlet is spread ; for a black carpet is used on this particular 

 occasion instead of a bolster. Elegies are again recited, after which 

 sherbat and spices are handed round. Thousands of people are 

 admitted, but only such as come with either a turban or a pagri.* 



g^ (jj^ i^iji j o^s-V j ixy &S ^^k o^L^ & i{?"> vis* b&c i 



lylwkUuo ^jJ-^. j i-jlws-'i ^1-s (ji-wjj; ^ u*jbf * ^ir^ C5* U^ fj^|*k°l j<i j 



* Iq the original jU^O lj *^U-c 



t So according to the MS. But the author means the Hindustani .^x^o 

 I may remark here that the Arabic j-'X.as [the name of the 12th imam] is 

 pronounced^^ij^o all overBengal,especially in proper nouns as ic&y (*^ & c « 



