254 Notes on several Arabic and Persian Inscriptions. [No. 3, 
Dr. Sprenger also mentions him in his Catalogue of Outlli MSS. 
(p. 559). He calls him ‘ Darwish Saqqa of Bukhara, and says he 
died in A. H. 962, quoting in support a chronogram from the 
Nafaisul Maasir (metre, twice mafulu faJilatun ), of which the last 
line is— 
j cR) ^ 
1x3 £> 31/0 clj i CU —H>0 
When this rose left the rosebed, it asked for a chronogram, 
And Saqqa replied weeping—“ This garden is now left without water.” 
Dr. Sprenger finds the chronogram by subtracting ma (i. e. 41) 
from b&gh (1003), and thus gets A. H. 962. But this is against the 
rules of tdnlchs, and we should, no doubt, read 
H/o A»tx3 ^L) 
and subtract be ma (with the hamzah , as it means 1 water’ in allu¬ 
sion to Saqqa’s employment), i. e. 54, from an (not in) bdgh , i. e 
1054, which would give A. H. 1000, the date of the Mir-at. But 
whether this be correct or not, Sprenger’s date of Bahrain’s death 
(962) is impossible, as Bahrain Saqqa lived^under Akbar, who only 
commenced to reign in 963. 
Stewart in his History of Bengal (p. 216) calls him wrong ‘ Shah 
Ibrahim Saqqa;’ but he has the following interesting remark— 
“ After this unexpected victory [over Rahim Shah, in A. D. 1698] 
the prince ’Aziin ushshan proceeded to the tomb of Shah Ibrahim 
Sukka in the vicinity of Burdwan, and having returned thanks to 
the Almighty for his success, he ordered a large sum of money to 
be distributed, in alms, to the poor and religious persons who at¬ 
tended on the shrine of the saint,”—adding in a footnote, “ Shah 
Ibrahim Sukka was originally a water-carrier ; but having asso¬ 
ciated with the Soofies, he became a celebrated author of poems 
and religious works. After his death he was canonized, and his 
tomb is still resorted to by pilgrims.” 
According to legends which I heard in Bardwan, Bahrain died at 
Bardwan after a stay of three days. His tomb is on a plot of ground 
which is said to have belonged to a Jogi of the name of Jaipal, 
who on seeing Bahrain’s miracles, turned Muhammadan. 
