3895.] 8ayyad lldlu Bakhsh al Husainl Angrezabadl. 215 
able to God, and wlio is commonly known as ‘Abd Shall and ‘Abdu-1- 
badr (May God preserve his throne). Date 943 A. H. 
The inscription is of the time of Ghiyasu-d-dm Abu-l-muzaffar Muham¬ 
mad Shah, and so far as I know has never been published before. The date 
is 943 (1536), and it will be seen from BlochmamTs table, J. A. S. B., XLII, 
310, that no inscriptions of this king of later date than 941 have been 
published. 
At page 180 the Golabari inscription of 910 (1503-4) published, J. A. S. 
B., XLIII, 304, is given. 
Under the head of Goamaltl, 1 page 183, a place about six miles south 
of English Bazar, and which was the residence of Mr. Creighton, a very 
early inscription is referred to, which, I believe, has never been noticed 
before. It belongs to the year 711 (1311). Unfortunately, Ilahl Bakhsh 
does not give a copy of the inscription. His words are— 
“Hear the (abandoned) indigo factory of Goamaltl, and to the 
east of it, there is a minar 2 * * in good order, and a ruined mosque. 
The mosque was built in the time of Saltan Bahadur Khan as the 
inscription shows, which is now lying at the factory. 
Near the same mosque, at the east side there Avas a Kliairat Khana 
(Poor-house) of Avhich the remains still exist. North of the Factory at 
the distance of ten or twelve rassies (5 or 600 yards) on the west side of 
the high road there is a stone sarcophagus. Probably this belonged to* 
some saint or king, and the English, who dig up tombs Avith large 
stones, may have thrown it here. There is nothing written. In that 
neighbourhood there are also many other remains of old buildings and 
marks of former populousness. 
At Lakhipur, on the west bank of the Pagla, there is a tomb of 
Sayyad Ahmad of Maltipur, Avho was a great saint, and of whom 
many Avonderful tales are told. His wife is buried beside him, and near 
at hand is the tomb of his barber. 
Khaspiir, otherwise Tanda, was a toAvn in old times. In 972 (1564) 
Sulalman Kararani abandoned Gaur on account of its climate, and 
1 The only Gdamalti insci’iption hitherto knoAvn appears to he one of 894, 
(1489), and belonging to the reign of Firdz Shah II. It was discovered by Mr. 
Westmacott, J. A. S. B., XLIII, 299. It is just possible that the inscription to 
which Ilahl Bakhsh refers is that upon bricks now in the Indian Museum, described 
by Cunningham, 1. c., 72. Bahadur Shah was called Ghiyasu-d-dm as well as was 
the son of Sikandar. But Ilahl Bakhsh speaks of the inscription as being on a 
stone. 
2 I suppose that this is the minaret mentioned by Francklin, and the 
“ pinnacle 5 ’ of Mr. Westmacott’s description. Bahadur Khan, or Shah, reigned for 
3S years, according to the Riyaz, p. 90. According to Mr. Blochmann, J. A. S. B. 
XLIII, pp. 288-290, he reigned from 13LI (711), if not earlier, till about 731 (1331), 
and was called Ghiyasu-d-dln. 
