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216 G. H. Damant— Notes on Shah Ismail Ghazi, 
is said to have invaded Orisa with success, and to have been falsely accused 
by a Hindu of attempting to set up an independent kingdom at Madaran, 
and on this false charge to have been beheaded by order of the king. We 
may, I think, on this double authority take these two statements to be 
established facts. 
The MS. further goes on to say, that Isma’il successfully invaded 
Ivamrup, and this seems probable by the number of memorials of him which 
still exist, and which are situate, if not actually within the boundaiies of 
Kamrup, at all events on the extreme eastern limit of the territory which 
was subject to the kings of Bengal in the fifteenth century. And finally, 
the date is thirty years earlier than the reign of Husain Shah, who is men¬ 
tioned in Mr. Blochmann’s legend; but it must be remembered that Ben¬ 
galis almost invariably attribute any important event of which they do not 
know the date, to the time of that king ; for he is the only king who is 
still remembered by name among the common people. 
Extracts from a Persian J\IS. found in the possession of the Paqir in 
charge of Ismail Ghazi s tomb at Hunt a Duur , Pangpur. 
Pir Muhammad Shattari, the meanest of the servants of God, and the 
son of ’Aqil Muhammad Farkhari,* relates that at four g’haris on the morn- 
* Plr Muhammad Shattari, son of Aqil Muhammad Farkliarl, the author of this 
treatise. The Shattarls form a sub-division of the Taifuriyahs , an order of religious men, 
so called after Taifur-bin Tsa-bin A'dam-bin Saroslian (or Sharwasan). Taifur, whose 
grandfather had originally been a fire-worshipper, is better known in history under the 
name of Bayazld (the Persian form of the Arabic Abu-Yazld) of Bistam. Bistam is a 
little town in Kumis, or Qumis, a tract in the hills of Tabaristan, between the ancient 
city of Rai and Nlshapur. The chief town of Kumis is Dumghan, from which Bistam 
lies at the distance of two stages. Bayazld is one of the most famous saints of Islam. 
He is said to have been born in A. H. 136 [A. D. 753-54], and died at Bistam in A. H. 
231, or 234, or 261, (which Jam! in his Nafliat ul-Uns says is the correct year), or 262, 
or 269. Numerous imitation tombs of Bayazld exist, notably one at Cliatgaon (Chitta¬ 
gong) ; vide Journal, A. S. Bengal, for 1872, Part I, p. 336. 
The order of religious men and Sufis, of which Bayazld is the head, is called after 
him Taifuriyah. But the Taifurl, avIio first assumed the name of Shattari, was Shaikh 
Abdullah Shattari, author of the Risdlah i Aslighdl i Shattdriyah and founder of the 
sub-division. The name of Shattari is derived from the Arabic A, walking quickly ; 
and in the language of the sect, ’Urn i shatarah signifies ‘ the working and aspirations of 
the soul/ which end in fand filldti, ‘merging into God/ and baqa billdh, ‘resting in 
God.’ As Shaikh Abdullah reached the highest degree in this respect, he was called 
‘ Shat tar.’ Abdullah lived for some time in Manikpur and Jauupur during the reign of 
Sultan Ibrahim Sharql, and emigrated at last to Maudu, the then capital of Malwa, 
where he died in 832 [A. D. 1428-29]. When Jahangir visited Maudu, he builc at the 
request of Shaikh Plr i Mlrat’hl, who was a Shattari, a mausoleum over Abdullah’s tomb 
in Fort Mandu. Vide Khazlnat ul-Asfia, p. 947. 
