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The Gumbaz Ghusal Gah (the dome op the bath). 
It is a small square building with a lofty dome. It is on the west 
side of the tomb. It probably was a women’s bath. 
Banglakot. 
It is about 5 rassies from the Treasury and north-east of it, and 
about 15 rassies north-west from the Qadam Rasiil. The people of 
Mahiu-d-dinpur alias Mahdlpur call it Banglakot. There is a tank 
there under the fort, and I saw fallen pillars and signs of stones having 
been dug up, &c. South-east of it there is a large tamarind tree, 
and about eight cubits from it, on the south, there are two masonry 
graves which have been excavated. From old people of Mahdlpur 
and from the Khadim of Qadam Rasul, I heard that these were the 
graves of Husain Shah and his wife. They also said that the large 
sarcophagus which is lying near the village of Khari, was inside of 
the tomb of Husain Shah, and had been lifted and thrown where it 
now is. About eight cubits south of the tombs there was a square 
enclosure, the walls of which were of variously coloured bricks. Inside 
of the enclosure, which was about 16 cubits square, there were several 
masonry tombs composed of coloured bricks, and about two spans in 
height. In my childhood I saw these tombs and the enclosure, and 
though somewhat decayed they were in a manner entire. In about 
1263 (1816) these tombs and the enclosure were destroyed, and now 
hardly a trace of them is to be seen. This illustrious Banglakot, 
with its trees and bamboos, &c., was from of old in the possession of 
the ancestors of Mir Doman, an inhabitant of Mahdlpur, who gave 
himself out to be a descendant of Husain Shah. He (shame on him) 
and his sons dug up the inscribed stones, and the coloured bricks and 
sold them, and thereby displayed their baseness. 
u A good daughter is better than a bad son.” 
In 1281 (1863) I saw in the possession of Mir Hansa, the grandson 
of Mir Doman, a paper signed by the Nawab Mu‘zam Khan, dated 1070 
(1659) whereby 50 bighas rent-free in the village of Banglakot were by 
order of Aurangzeb granted to Sayyad Ambla, the grandson of Sayyad 
Sultan, for the purpose of lighting the tombs of the kings of Gaur. 
And the lands are still in the possession of the family under this grant. 
Mir Hansa also pointed out a place north of Husain Shah’s tomb and 
said that in Banglakot, in that place, there were more than a hundred 
tombs of kings and their relations, but which were now in disrepair. 
Only here and there were holes marking where the graves had been. 
