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of the engraver, who seems to havo forgotten to incise it. Possibly the 

 wrong reading of the date as 880 may have been caused by this faulty 

 legend. He also reads whereas in the inscription the word is 



really spelt &U*J (without the first alif). Again Mr. Blochinanu reads 

 ls> alio &l whereas the inscription really has up I/O* <*' But 

 there can be no doubt that these three divergences are the mere result 

 of an oversight. As may be seen by referring to the numerous similar 

 inscriptions, published by Blochmanu iu vol. XLII of the Journal, it is 

 the word l^ai (not that is uniformly used in them ; and there is 



no difficulty in recognising it on the facsimile of the present inscription. 



Mr. Gupta, iu his footnote (pp. 17, 18) says: "There is a similar 

 mosque with a somewhat similar inscription in Qazi Qasbah, two miles 

 from Rampal," and he is disposed to identify this inscription with that 

 published by Blochmann. This identification is quite wit enable. 1 

 have obtained four impressions of this second inscription, three through 

 Mr. Gupta, and one through Maulawi Abul Khair Muhammad Siddiq, 

 the Superintendent of the Dacca Madrasah. Unfortunately the inscrip- 

 tion is too badly preserved to be wholly read, but luckily the date is 

 sufficiently legible to show that the mouth is Zi-l-Qa'dah, and and that 

 the year is expressed in figures as well as in words. The figures are 976. 

 This is quite sufficient to preclude the identification of this inscription 

 with that published by Blochmann. Moreover this inscription is incised 

 in three lines, while that of the Adam Shahid mosque, published by 

 Blochmann and now republished by Mr. Gupta, occupies only two lines. 

 In fact, Mr. Gupta was misled by an error iu Blochmann's account, or 

 rather by an error of Dr. Wise, whose account Blochmann quotes. Dr. 

 Wise says that " the Masjid of Adam Shahid is in Iiikrampur, at a 

 village, called Qiizi Qasbah, within two miles of Balalbari, the residence 

 of Ballal Sen." But this is quite wrong ; the mosque is not " two miles 

 from the Balalbari," but only " about half a mile to the north of it," 

 as General Sir A. Cunningham, from whom Blochmann received the 

 inscription, distinctly states (see his Arch. Surv. Mep., Vol. XV, p. I'M). 

 It, therefore, occupies the precise position described by Mr. Gupta. 

 Dr. Wise, in his account, — it is clear, — confused two mosques, one of 

 Adam Shahid at Rampal, and another placed by him and Mr. Gupta 

 at Qazi Qasbah. The exact locality of the latter mosque, however, 

 would seom to be the Rikabi Bazar, to judge from Maulawi Abul Khair' s 

 letter, quoted below. There are four mosques in or near Qazi Qasbah, 

 and these four mosques seem to have been more or less confused by 

 the several writers on the subject : and the confusion probably arose 

 from the circumstance that Qazi Qasbah is a name applied to a large 

 area, apparently including the localities of all four mosques. 



