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from Panduah. Shah pafi was a man of illustrious descent. His 

 father, Barkhurdar, was a noble of the Court of Dihli, and had 

 married a Bister of the Emperor Firuz Shah. Once a feast was given 

 in Panduah, to celebrate the circumcision of a boy, and a cow had 

 been killed on the occasion. This sacrilege was reported to the 

 Pandub Rajah, who had the child killed, f afi then went to Dilhf, 

 complained to his uncle, the emperor, and asked him to give him a 

 sufficient number of troops to punish the Rajah. His request was 

 granted ; but as the expedition was a religious war, fafi before set- 

 ting out for Bengal, went to Panipat-Karnal, to ask the blessing 

 of Bii 'All Qalandar, a renowned saint. The blessing was not with- 

 held, and the saint assured Qafi that he had. received the glad 

 tidings of victory from heaven, f afi now moved to Panduah. In his 

 army there were also two other men of renown, Zafar Khan i Grhazi, 

 whose .shrine is at Tribeni, north of Hugli, and Bahrain Saqqa, 

 who had imposed upon himself the task of serving as Bhishti {saq- 

 qa) in a war against infidels. His shrine is at Bardwan. But it 

 was a difficult matter to crush the power of the Rajah ; for near 

 his residence at Mahanath he had a tank, the waters of which 

 possessed miraculous powers ; and whenever a Hindu had been killed, 

 the Pandub Rajah threw the dead body into the tank, and life and 

 health were immediately restored, f afi soon saw that his efforts 

 would be fruitless, unless the restorative power of the tank was first 

 broken. This was at last accomplished by some faqirs who had at- 

 tached themselves to his expedition. They killed a cow, and ma- 

 naged to throw the liver into the tank, when all at once the Devs, 

 upon whoso presence the virtue of the water depended, went away. 

 The Rajah was now easily defeated, and his power completely 

 broken. The old temple in Panduah was also destroyed, and the 

 present mosque built with its materials. The large tower was used 

 as Manarah for the call to prayer, and every Hindu was driven out 

 of the town. 



* pafi soon after continued his wars with the infidels, and was at 

 last killed in a fight. His children buried him at Panduah, and 

 erected the vault, which, together with his mosque, still exists. His 

 descendants increased so rapidly, that Panduah soon became a large 

 place. The fame also of the nobility of its inhabitants, who all 



