1895 .] Sayijcid Ilahl Balchsh al Husainl Angrezalacli. 213 
Arabic inscriptions. They often consist, he says,i of “ wrong constructions 
of the Arabic numerals.” He does not say that they mis-spell them. 
Sataisghaba.s 
* 
This is also described at some length, but the author has not been able 
to add much to our knowledge of the origin of the place, &c. It was sur¬ 
rounded with jungle in his time. 
He describes the remains of Baths at the place, and suggests that these 
may be the Baths, or Hauz, which, according to the Riyaz, Shamsu-d-din 
Ilyas constructed in imitation of the Hauz-i-ShamsI of Delhi.** 
He also notices the beautiful tank at Sataisghara, and says it is known 
by the name of Haslr Shah’s tank. 1 2 * 4 This, I suppose, must be the Hasiru- 
d-din Abu-l-muzaffar Muhammad Shah, who reigned from about 846-864, 
and in whose time the inscription now in the kitchen of Hur Qutb’s shrine 
was put up. He succeeded to the dynasty of Rajah Kans, and restored that 
of Shamsu-d-din Ilyas Shah. If it was he who made the tank, then the 
probability is increased that the Baths were made by his ancestor, for he 
would naturally revert to the palace of his forefathers. 
In connection with Sataisghar, Ilahi Bakhsh notices Makhdum Shaikh 
Raja Biyaban! (King of the Wilds), 5 who was a saint of great fame in the 
time of Ilyas Shah. He says he died in 754 (1353), while the king was being 
besieged by the Emperor Elroz Shah, and then, following the Riyaz, p. 97, 6 7 
he tells how Ilyas Shah came out of his fort, disguised as a faqir, and paid 
the last honours to the saint, and returned without the Emperor being 
aware of it. 
Ilahl Bakhsh throws no light on the situation of Ekdala,7 only remark¬ 
ing at p. 256, and apparently without authority, that Ekdala was near Gaur. 
See note, Appendix A., pp. 227 and ff. He intended to give particulars of 
the site of Makhdum Shaikh’s tomb, but has left them blank in his MS. He 
notices Devtola, but gives less information about it than Cunningham, 1. c., 94. 
He only says that many saints-are buried there, and that a Cillakhana of 
Jalalu-d-dln Tabriz! is there. 
Among places of minor importance, are noticed, Kandarun, where is 
the shrine of the saint Hur Jahan, Katlgaon, the original home of the 
1 J. A. S. B., 1. c., 257 note. 
2 The name is perhaps Sataish gliar, the 27 houses. 
5 See the Riyazu-s-salatTn. Persian text. Bib. Ind , p. 96, and J. A. S. B., 
XLII, 255. 
4 According to Ravenshaw, p. 67, the local tradition is that the tank was made 
by Arjuna Pandava. 
6 Such may be the meaning of the title, but more probably the name is con¬ 
nected with Rani Bahani, the foundress of Ekdala. See Taylor’s Topography of 
Dacca, p. 115. 
6 See Appendix A. Note on the site of Ekdfda. 
7 It may be noted that the FIrdzpur mentioned in the Riyaz, p. 96, as the 
place where the Emperor encamped, is a ward in Old Maldah, 
