mo.] 



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same place. There is no one's tomb near the rnosqne of Qazi Qasbah. 

 As for the inscription, no one can say what it contained. The other 

 mosque, of course, is called after Baba Adam or Adam Shahid and is 

 situated in Durgabayi, which is close to Rampal or Ballalbari, at a 

 distance of about half a mile. And Ballalbari and Durgabari both stand 

 at a distance of a mile from Qazi Qasbah. The tomb and the mosque 

 are lying unrepaired. Some religious man has the charge of the mosque, 

 and prayers are said therein. The mosque has two domes between 

 which there are two stone pillars one on each side. There is no court- 

 yard outside the mosque. The mosque of Qazi Qasbah [No. Ill] also 

 has two domes but no courtyard and pillars. There are stones at the 

 threshold carved into images and placed overturned." 



I have numbered the mosques in the above quoted extracts by 

 corresponding numerals. 



No. I. Mosque of Rikabi Bazar ; a beautiful structure, similar to 

 the mosque of Adam Shahid at Rampal (No. IV) ; with only one 

 dome ; its inscription, dated in the month Zi-l-Qa'dah 976 A. H., 

 removed to mosque No. II. It is the mosque referred to in Mr. Gupta's 

 footnote (p. 17), as situated " in Qazi Qasbah, two miles from Ram- 

 pal;" it is also apparently the mosque, said by Dr. "White to be 

 " within two miles of Ballalbari at a village called Qazi Qasbah " and 

 erroneously called by him the Adam Shahid mosque (No. IV). 



No. II. A mosque recently built near mosque No. I ; contains tho 

 inscription belonging to No. I. 



No. III. An ordinary plain mosque, with domes, but with no 

 pillars, also with Hindu carved images in tho floor of the verandah ; its 

 inscription removed to Dacca ; referred to by Mr. Gupta towards the end 

 of his paper (p. 22). 



No. IV. Mosque of Adam Shahid, close to Rampal, at the dis- 

 tance of about half a mile ; a highly ornamental structure, resembling 

 the Rikabi Bazar mosque (No. I) ; with the inscription (Plate V) dated 

 " in the middle of Rajab, 888 A. H., in the reign of Jalalu-d-dm Path 

 Shah ; " described by Dr. White (quoted by Blochmann) in Journal 

 A. S. B., Vol. XLII; p. 285, General Sir A. Cunningham in Arch. 

 Survey Reports, Vol. XV, p. 135, and Maulawi Abul Khair, as possessing 

 six domes, of which, according to Dr. White, three, but according to Maulawi 

 Abul Khair only two have fallen in, while General Sir A. Cunningham 

 does not notice the destruction of any of them. On the other hand, 

 Mr. Gupta, who describes it as a " brick built mosque with a high arched 

 dome," would seem to allow it only one dome. In that ease, he would 

 seem to have confused it with the mosque (No. I) at Rikabi Bazar, 

 which Maulawi Abul Khair stales to have only one dome.] 



