1894.] H. Beveridge —Major Francklins description of Gaur. 89 
by Persian words indicating that it is a copy of an inscription from the 
Golden Mosque of Pandua. But I think that Francklin or the Munshl 
must have made some mistake. An inscription bearing the date 885, 
and referring to Yusuf Shah, can have nothing to do with the Pandua 
mosque, and in fact no such inscription now appears there. Two in¬ 
scriptions belonging to this mosque are given in Ravenshaw, p. 56, and 
their dates are 990 and 993, i. e., more than a hundred years after the 
date of Francklin’s inscription. The inscription, too, comes into Franck - 
lin’s Journal at an odd place, if it belongs to Pandua, for it occurs in 
his account of Gaur, and not in the subsequent account of Pandua. 
After describing the Golden Mosque at Gaur (pp. 4 and 15 of Raven- 
shaw’s Gaur), and giving its inscription, which is of the year 932, or 1526 
A. D., Francklin proceeds as follows (p. 25 of Journal): “There is 
another Golden Mosque at the village of Cliandy, near the south-eastern 
entrance of the city, and a third at Purrooali once the capital of the 
kings of Bengal. They are of similar architecture, but those of Chandy 
and Purrooali are much smaller in size to the one above described.” 
“ The following inscription appears in front of the Golden Mosque at 
Purrooah.” He then gives the insciiption and translation, which Mr. 
Grote has quoted at p. 56, l. c. 
On referring to the map in Creighton’s Gaur it appears that the 
Chandy Golden Mosque must be the small golden mosque described at 
p. 38 of Ravensliaw’s Gaur. Francklin’s inscription then cannot belong 
to it, for the small golden mosque was erected in the reign of Husain 
Shah, i. e., in the early part of the 10th century, A. H. Nor can it, as 
we have just seen, belong to the Pandua golden mosque. Most proba¬ 
bly the inscription belonged to the (Jantipara mosque at Gaur. We 
have it from Creighton (quoted by Mr. Grote, p. 30, l. c.), that an 
inscription was found near the Qantipara mosque which gave the date 
of Francklin’s inscription, viz., 885. Mr. Grote conjectures that the 
inscription, referred to by Creighton is that now at the Qadam Rasul 
mosque, and published at p. 22 of Ravenshaw’s book. But Mr. Raven- 
shaw says that this inscription is supposed to have belonged to a mosque 
not far distant, and now in entire ruins. The latter part of this descrip¬ 
tion, at least, does not apply to the Qantipara mosque, vide Ravenshaw, 
p. 30. It is also mentioned there that an inscription said to have been 
taken from the Cautipara mosque contains the name of Yusuf Shah, 
This is just what Francklin’s inscription does. Of course the inscrip¬ 
tion alluded to by Ravenshaw at p. 30, may be that given by him at 
p. 22 ; but if so, one would have expected at the latter passage an ex¬ 
press mention of Qantipara. As Mr. Grote has remarked, Francklin 
nowhere mentions the Q antipara mosque by that name, and it is probable 
