1852.] Nooks and Corners of Bengal. 149 



is the village of Mungunpara, situated on the banks of the river 

 and buried in trees. To the northern end of this village rises a 

 tall Fan Palm, visible far away along the dreary road between Miria 

 and Daoudpore. This Palm indicates the Durgah of Faqeer Shah 

 Fareed Shukr Gunge,* a Durvesh of much note and sanctity who tra- 

 velled throughout the continent of India, marking his various resting 

 places, by the erection of holy shrines of worship. The Durvesh died 

 and was buried in the Punjab, where his memory is held in much esteem. 



Ferishtah, who wrote his history, the Tarikh-i-Ferishta, about the year 

 A. D. 1593, mentions that in the year 472 H. (A. D. 1055,) the 

 Sultan Ibrahim marched in person to India and conquered several new 

 cities ; amongst them, Ajudhan, now called Puttun Sheik Fureed Shukr 

 Gunge, which is in all probability the burial place of the Durvesh. It 

 lies between the rivers Jhelurn and Indus, and is supposed by Wilford 

 to be the same as the Hud of the Book of Esther. On the Allahabad 

 Lat or Column it is mentioned under the name of Yaudheya and 

 occurs also on many Bactro-Pehlevi coins. f 



The Durgah at Mungunpara is a simple square brick building on a 

 raised chubootra or terrace, surmounted by a bell-shaped cupola, all 

 brightly white-washed and cleanly swept, and surrounded by trees, 

 within an enclosure having entrances to the east and west. 



On the western side of the building, uncared for and neglected, a few 

 feet above the level of the damp green earth and shaded by over-hang- 

 ing branches, stands a small unpretending brick grave, showing the 

 last resting place of a brave and faithful soldier, Meer Muddan Khan, 

 Commander-in-chief of the army of the Nuwab Sooraj-ood-Dowlah 

 at the Battle of Plassy, who was killed by a cannon shot which carried 

 off both legs, about 12 o'clock on the day of action. 



I can find no mention of Meer Muddan earlier than the year 1756, J 

 when he appears to have been selected, although a man of mean origin, 



* His name was according to Dara-Shikoh's Safynat alawliyd, Mas'ud 'azyzaldyn 

 b. Mo^mud. He was born at Kbolwal t\\J>'y$ which is not far from Multan 

 and was a pupil of Qotfbaldyn Bakhtyar. The name of Ganjyshakr, i. e. treasury of 

 Sugar, was given to him by his spiritual guide because one day, having fasted a 

 whole week, he fainted in the street and some mud which had fallen on his mouth, 

 during the swoon was miraculously converted into sugar. He died at an age of 95 

 years in A. H. 664, (A. D. 1265, 17th Oct.) He was buried at a place between 

 Lahore and Multan. — Ed. 



t Journal A. S. of Bengal, Vol. VI. p. 973. 



% Stewart's Hist. Beng. p. 309. 



