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This is, however, impossible, as the inscription on the mosque shews 

 that Jamaluddin lived as late as A. H. 936. The walls of the mosque 

 are built of small bricks, and are handsomely adorned, inside and 

 out-side, with arabesques. The central mihrdb, or niche, looks very 

 hue ; but the upper part of the west wall having fallen down, half 

 the mosque is filled with stones and rubbish, so that it is im- 

 possible to see the whole of the niche. The arches and domes are 

 in the later Pat'han style. Over each entrance, inside, there 

 is a crescent. Near the S. E. angle of the mosque, is an en- 

 closing with three tombs, where Sayyid Fakkruddin, his wife, 

 and his eunuch, are said to be buried. The wall forming the en- 

 closure is in many places broken down. I found two long basalt 

 tablets placed slantingly against the inner side of the north wall. 

 A third square basalt tablet is fixed into the wall ; unfortunately, 

 it is broken in the middle, and the wall is half pierced, to allow 

 the customary lamp to be put into the cavity. These three in- 

 scriptions should be removed to a museum. It is impossible to say 

 how they came into the enclosure. When the public buildings in 

 Satganw and Tribeni decayed, pious hands, probably, rescued the 

 inscriptions, and stored them up in holy places as Fakhruddin's 

 enclosure and Zafar Khan's mosque and tomb, or even fixed them 

 into the walls at the time of repairs, thus turning each of these 

 astanahs into a sort of museum. 



There is also an inscription on Fakruddin's tomb ; but it is ille- 

 gible, though it could perhaps be deciphered, if the letters were 

 carefully painted. 



A short distance higher up the Grand Trunk Road lie the eleven 

 huts, which form the modern Satganw. The ground between them 

 and the Saraswati, towards a small village of the name of Lai 

 Jkapah, which lies W. of it, is very uneven, and looks as if it had 

 been the site of an extensive settlement. At one place, not far 

 from the road, the capital of a large pillar merges from the 

 ground. The people called it padishdhi j %lp di. 



From Satganw, a narrow footpath leads to Tribeni along the 



old right bank of the Saraswati. The river itself appears to be 



nothing else but an arm of the Ganges (Bhagiruttee), though on 



the maps of the Hiigli district, it looks like a river which takes 



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