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hand one had belonged to a mosque built in 915 (1509) in the regn of 
Husain Shah. The one on the left hand had belonged to a mosque 
built in the time of Nasru-d-dln Muhammad Shah, Neither of these 
inscriptions is very legible. 
The middle inscription belonged to the Sufi Khana of the saint, 
and is in small letters. The wording is as follows r — (See Ravenshaw’s 
Gaur, p. 77). 1 It appears from this inscription that the Sufi IQiaiia 
was built in 898 (1493). The Muhammad Ghaus mentioned in it 
was a descendant of Hazrat Nur Qutb. 2 
IT.—The Sijda Gall, or Praying Station. This is a wall close to 
the Makan Arba‘in on the north side. On the top of this wall I saw 
the following long inscription. (Ravenshaw, pp. 50 and 74) . 3 It is 
clear that this inscription originally belonged to a mosque built in 884 
(1479) in the reign of Yusuf Shah. 
III. —Masjid Qazl Nur. This is a brick mosque with three cupolas 
near the tomb of Makhdum Alau-l-haqq. The length from north to 
south is 36 cubits, and its breadth 16 cubits. There is no inscription. 
The people of Pandua say Qazl Nur is a different person from Nur Qutb. 
IV. —The Mitha Talao or Sweet Tank. 4 Near the terrace of Nur 
Qutb’s tomb, on the east side, there is an old masonry tank, that was 
dug in the time of Alau-l-haqq. On the east ghat of this tank, at the 
right hand side, I saw an inscription that had formerly belonged to 
some mosque. It is as follows : — 
ijkjf jt> e/f 
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1 The inscription is also given in J. A. 8. B., XLIT, 289, and in Cunningham. 
Arch. R., XY, 84. In Ravenshaw, and in J. A. 8. B., the inscription is wrongly 
described as coming from Gaur. 
2 His name appears in the genealogical tree in Ilahi Bakhsh’s MS., p. 161. 
Apparently he was the grandson of Nur Qntb’s eldest son Rafi‘u-d-din. 
3 See also Cunningham, 1. c., 85 and J. A. S. B., LII, 276. The mosque was 
erected by an officer called the Majlisu-l-majalis. The same person built a mosque 
at Pandua in Hooghly, in 882, and another at Sylhet. He perhaps also built the 
Maldah mosque of 876. 
4 I am not sure, if Mitha here means sweet. It is curious that there is a tank 
of this name in Yikrampur, Dacca, in the centre of Balal Bari. See Taylor’s Topo¬ 
graphy of Dacca, 102. There is a tank too of that name in Rangpur. It was the 
scene of the last prank of Rajah Bhava candra, and the explanation of the name 
given to me was, that it was the tank of the final settlement or conclusion. May 
not the word be connected with Mithila, the old name of Tirhoot ? 
