454 Proceedings of the Asiatic Societg. [No. 4, 
another form. A reference to Mr. Bayley regarding the probable 
age of the inscriptions in which the earlier forms of these letters are 
found, will at once satisfy you that I am right in assigning the occu¬ 
pation of the Sultanganj Vihar to an early date. 
I am, &c., 
(Sd.) A. Cunningham. 
5. A letter from Babu Guru Churn Doss, containing an account 
of an old mosque situated in Pergunnah Habibe, with specimens of 
bricks of the mosque forwarded through Babu Gour Doss Bysack. 
The Secretary read the above. The letter is subjoined :— 
To the Secretary oe the Asiatic Society, Calcutta. 
Jderhampore, 22 nd September, 1862. 
Sir, —During one of my official tours in the district of Jessore, I 
visited a very old and curious mosque about two miles to the east of 
a small bazar called Bunghat, in Pergunnah Habibe, and although 
not surrounded with very great interest, yet the fact of its having 
been built in the time of the great Akber in such an out-of-the-way 
place is not quite unworthy of notice. 
The mosque is said to have been built by one Khwajah Ally Khan, 
who came down from Delhi and took up his residence, it is impossible 
to say for what length of time, in that part of Jessore, where it now 
stands. Besides this mosque, there are other buildings about a 
mile’s distance from it, but they are all either overgrown with jungles, 
or are in too great ruins to admit of my determining their exact 
nature and form ; one of which, however, I was told, goes under the 
name of Satgoomhuz, meaning sixty pyramidal roofs, which was the 
palace of Khwajah Ally Khan, In the neighbourhood of this there 
are several other buildings apparently in ruins, but the general aspect 
of which leads one to imagine that this locality was once, no doubt, 
a scene of magnificence. Traces of broad and strongly metalled 
roads are yet to be seen in almost every direction of the mosque from 
the Satgoomhuz, thereby affording grounds for believing that the 
S underbuns shroud the ruins of once populous and flourishing towns. 
Although the mosque and two other small buildings in its close 
vicinage were not very seriously damaged when I visited them, they 
were much out of condition. The entrance door of the mosque is 
towards the west. The material consisted of small but very strong 
bricks nicely cut and beautifully put together with mortar. The 
