1895.] 
Sayyad IlUhl Ba Jchsh al Husainl Angrezfibadt. 231 
The EklakkhI Mosque. 
“ This is a brick building and has one lofty dome. Its length from 
nortli to south is 50 cubits and its breadth 46 cubits, the height of the 
wall is 17 cubits, and of the dome 27 cubits. There are four small 
doors on each side of the building, and at the top of the south door 
there is a small idol of stone, the face, &c., of which has been broken. 
There is no writing. It appears from this that the lintel must have 
belonged to some idol-temple. There are three graves inside and the 
Riyazu-s-salatin says that one tomb is that of Jalalu-d-din, the son of 
Rajah Kans, and that the other two belong to his wife and son. This 
mosque is north-east of the Qutb Shahi mosque, and by the side of 
the high road. I imagine that the western tomb, which is the highest, 
is that of Sultan Jalalu-d-din, that the one to the east is that of his 
son Sultan Ahmad Shah, and that the middle one is the tomb of his 
wife.” 
The Adina Mosque. 
The author describes this mosque at some length, but I do not think 
that his measurements, &c., need be given after the elaborate descriptions by 
Ravenshaw and Cunningham, and in Yol. YII of the Historical Account of 
Bengal. He notices a masonry tomb near the pulpit, at the fourth dome 
and close to the well, which the Pandua people say, is that of a faqir who 
lived in the mosque long ago. 
He also describes the tomb 1 2 of Sikandar Shah, the builder of the 
mosque, and observes that the tomb proper, or sarcophagus, which is inside 
of a square chamber, is 9 cubits long from north to south, and 7^ cubits 
broad. 
Ancient men of Maldah and Pandua say that Sikandar Shall was 
of lofty stature, and that he measured four cubits according to the mea¬ 
surement of his own arm. Certainly they call him Iskandar Chota. 3 
It is worth observing that in front of the chaukatli (lintel) of the Adina 
mosque, there was a broken and polished idol, and that under the steps, 
near the pulpit, there was another broken idol, and that there were 
other idols lying about. So it appears that, in fact, this mosque was 
originally an idol-temple. Certainly Sikandar Shah, the son of Sharn- 
su-d-din Ilyas Shah made a beautiful mosque. He built it in the month 
of Rajab 776 (1374), and the building was not completed before the 
founder was struck down by the spade of death. On the east side of 
the high road, over the false (naqli) door, and behind the pulpit, there is 
1 According to Dr. Taylor, Sikandar was buried in Goalpara, in the vicinity of 
Jafarganj, 1. c., 109. 
2 Perhaps this means Alexander the Younger, and not Alexander the Less. 
