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[No. 1, 
L. A. Waddell— On the site of Buddlia s death. 
Translation,* 
[la the time of the Governorship of the just Sultan, the monarch 
of the world and the prince of religion, 
Abu-l-Ghazi Shuja’u-d-din Muhammad, the sovereign and son of a 
sovereign, an auspicious ruler, 
When Lutfullah of Shiraz founded a sacred Masjid, beautiful like 
Paradise, 
In the peaceful town of Shuja’-abad well known in all countries, ... 
At the time when the standards were marching towards Bengal with 
glory and grandeur. 
May this house of religion be ever crowded (with worshippers ) for 
the sake of the sanctity of . 
May this august foundation in stone be ever firm by the blessings 
of Ni’amatullali. 
When Reason sought for the year of the date of that foundation, a 
voice came :—“ Jail Shud Khanah-i-din ” (the house of religion became 
resplendent). 
Be it not concealed to the minds of the seekers of information 
that Lutfullah, the humblest devotee of the threshold, the disciple and 
believer of Shah Ni’amatullah, brought this grand Masjid to completion, 
in the reign of His Majesty the Second Sahibqiran, Shahjahan, the 
victorious emperor, in the month of the blessed Ramazan, in the year 
1067 Hijrah.] 
A detached conical hillock, about 300 feet above the plain, lying about 
half a mile to the north-east of the hill, and now crowned by the Hindu 
temple of Madliavaf, is identified with the great chaitya or Ghhoten 
chhen-boX , which was erected over the cremated relics of the Tatha- 
gatha’s body. 
The present shrine of the temple seems to be the original shrine of 
an older Buddhist temple, which, according to both Buddhist and 
Asamese tradition, formerly existed here—the upper portion only is 
modern. Col. Dalton has described§ the general details of this build¬ 
ing, and he states, “ The Brahmans call the object of worship Madhab, 
“ the Buddhists call it Mahamuni, the great sage. It is in fact simply a 
“ colossal image of Buddha in stone. Its modern votaries have, to conceal 
[* The translation has been supplied by Maulvi Abdul Hak Abid, B. A., of the 
Calcutta Madrasah. Ed.] 
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