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H. Beveridge — The Khurshtd Jahan Numa of 
The inscription is an important one, for according to the usual chrono¬ 
logy Yusuf did not succeed his father Barbak till 879. Ilahi Bakhsh 
remarks that his date of 876 1 disagrees with the chronology of Yusuf’s reign. 
Blochmann suggests that Yusuf built it when he was prince. 
The author now proceeds to Pandua. This is an important part of his 
book. His account of the two shrines there—that of Jalalu-d-din Tabriz!, 
The Twenty-two Thousand, and that of Nur Qutb, or the Six Thousand, is 
very full, and has some interesting features. I have, therefore, translated 
nearly the whole of it. 
Pandua was a large city in old times, and is situated twelve miles 
north of Angrezabad (English Bazar). It used to be well peopled, 
and from the beginning of the reign of Shamsu-d-din Ilyas Shah to the 
end of the reign of Rajah Kans six kings ruled there for the period of 
fifty-two years. 2 In 795 A.H. (1392) Jalalu-d-din, the son of Rajah 
Kans, removed the seat of sovereignty to Gaur. It appears that in his 
father’s time many idol-temples were erected, and that these fell into 
decay on Jalalu-d-din’s 3 accession. Yet the city was still populous 
during his reign. Now it is full of jungle and the abode of wild 
animals All that is left are the houses occupied by the keepers of the 
shrines of the saints Shah Jalal of Tabriz and Nur Qutb ‘Alam. The 
climate too of the city is now very bad. Although there are remains of 
many old buildings in the jungle, the following are the most important 
and those which are in a state of preservation. 
I. 
The buildings of the Bari Dargah or Great Shrine. 
These consist of the Arba‘in Khana 4 * or Quadragesimal House and 
other buildings of Hazrat 6 Shah Jalal Tabriz!. The original shrine 
1 Though the copy of the inscription gives 870, the author states the date to 
be 876. 
8 From 743-795, but the author might perhaps have included ‘All Mubarak, the 
predecessor of Shamsu-d-din, and who reigned according to one account for a year 
and five months, and according to another for five years. His reign is supposed to 
have begun in 741 (1340) and from the tenor of Ghulam Husain’s narrative, viz., 
the story about the building of the shrine of Jalalu-d-din, and the statement that 
Shamsu-d-din Ilyas arrived at Pandua, it would appear that ‘All Mubarak had his 
capital at Pandua. Mr. Blochmann also calls Pandua ‘All Shah’s capital, J. A. S. B., 
XLII, 254. 
8 Jalalu-d-din received this name from Nur Qutb, his original name having 
been Jadu. Probably he was called Jalalu-d-din in allusion to the saint. It is inter¬ 
esting to find that there is a village in Maldah near Bholanath, called Jadunagar. 
See M. S., p. 181. 
4 Arb £ ain Khana and Makan Arb‘ain are synonyms for Cillakliana and 
mean the house or cell occupied by Muhammadan saints during their Lent. 
8 I suspect that Pandua is called Hazrat on account of the saints and not of 
the Sultans. 
