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1895.] Sayyad Ildhl Ba Wish al Husainl Avgr&zabadt. 
Cand, the son of Darya Khan who was a subordinate of the King 
built a moon-like mosque. Grenius whispered for the date, ‘ Say publicly 
Makan Ma‘zam Jah, (1170=1756). 1 
I have heal’d that Cand Khan and his father Darya Khan held 
high offices, in Bengal, in the reign of Aurangzeb, and I also heard 
that Cand Khan had come to Pandua on behalf of the Nazim of Dacca. 
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Besides the Bhandar Khana connected with the shrine of Hazrat Shah 
Jalal Tabriz! at Pandua, Cand Khan built a mosque there in 1170 A.H., 
as is evident from the former inscription. At present this mosque has 
been destroyed. It is also probable that it is his father Darya Khan is 
the same whose tomb is in the jungle east of Shah pur and who wrote 
the book called Kitab Sariri. ‘ The Book of the Thrones.’ (See p. 178 
of MS., where the author describes the grave as a large tomb made of 
Sangmahak, i.e touchstone or black basalt, and says that the Kitgb 
Sariri is a translation of the Simliasan BattlsI, or 82 Tales of a Throne). 2 
V.—The Copper Drums. In the shrine of Hazrat Nur Qutb there 
are two large copper drums which apparently were presented by Nawab 
Qasim Khan Nazim of Bengal, as his name appears on their edge. 
It appears that one of the descendants of Nur Qutb, was Sharif 
Sarifu-d-din, the son of Nizamu-d-din, and that some Sultan, probably 
Husain Shah, presented him with 47 villages rent-free for the support 
of the endowment. In course of time the documents became decayed 
and were shown by Shaikh Kabir, the Superintendent for the time 
being, to Sultan Shujak The latter made a fresh grant to Shaikh 
Kabir, dated 25th Sha‘ban in the 22nd year of the reign (of Shah 
Jahan) corresponding to 1058 (1648). This grant with Sultan Shuja‘’s 
signature on it is still in the possession of the descendants of Nur Qutb. 
The older one has disappeared.” 
Ilahl Ba khsh then gives details about Alau-l-haqq, the father of Niir 
Qutb, and about the saint himself, These seem to be taken from books, and 
not from local traditions, and contain little of importance in addition to the 
biographies given by Mr. Blochmann, J. A. S. B., XLII, 261 and 262. How¬ 
ever, I subjoin his account of Alau-l-haqq. 
1 The inscription is not given iu Ravenshaw, &c. The date must be wrong, if 
Cand Khan belonged to Aurangzeb’s reign, and Ilahi Bakhsh seems to have for¬ 
gotten that the date of the Bhandar Khana in the Bari Dargah is 1084 or nearly a 
hundred years earlier. Perhaps the chronogram should only begin with Ma‘zam. 
If so, the date would be 1059 (1649). 
2 Darya Kh an’s translation is in our Library. See Catalogue of Persian MSS. 
p. 34, No. of Fasciculus I. It does not contain any notice of the author. The 
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date given in the preface is 1084 (1674). 
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