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Emperor, filled with curiosity, went forth and visited the fakeer 
and found him as has been reported. Then the Emperor waited on the 
fakeer whose name was Shah' Mahamed Doolla [Shah Muhammad 
Daula] and besought him saying, “ O man of God, shall thy servant 
advance to Dacca or wait here.” Then the Fakeer answered and 
said, “ Wait thou here one day.” So the Emperor waited. And it 
came to pass the very same day that there came messengers to him 
from Dacca saying, “ Behold, the fighting is over, and the victory 
is thine.” Then was the Emperor greatly pleased and ssid, “ Behold 
here is a great man,” and he offered unto him many lands, free of rent, 
but these the man of God would not accept, saying, “ Nay, my lord; but 
thy servant cannot hear of this thing. For he that once hath turned 
his back upon the world, how shall he not be averse to the vanities 
thereof. But let thy favour be showed unto thy servant’s son.” And 
the name of his son was Hazrut Moulana Danesh-Mund [ETazrat Mau- 
lana Danishmand], To him, therefore, did the Emperor give a royal 
grant of two and twenty mauzahs of rent-free land. This Maulana 
Danesh-Mund was the father of Abdool Waheb who, according to an- 
other account, was the person to whom the Emperor of Delhi, Shah 
Jahan on a tour in this district awarded the rent-free tenures round the 
xnusjid, as a reward for his great learning, in the year 1033. It is said 
that in the Sunnud [ Sanad] no other provision was made and that the 
lands were given solely for the support of himself and his descendants, 
that the descendants considering that the Lakhraj, as assigned, might be 
liable to resumption, altered the grant, so as to make it appear that 
half was to be devoted to religious services, and that it was to be en¬ 
joyed only by men of learning and religion in the family. Abdool Wa- 
hib’s [‘Abdu-l-Wahhab’s] son Mahamed Ruffik [Muhammad Rafiq] 
was the first Roish [Rais] or Sebait of the musjid. 
“ At the north end of the building are 3 tombs, said to be those of 
the Darogahs who took part in building the masjid, and in the neigh¬ 
bourhood are cemeteries in which all the members of the Bagha family 
when they die are buried, but there is nothing architecturally striking 
about their tombs. 
“ The chief representatives of the family are now minors and their 
properties are under the management of the Civil Court. Near the 
mosque is a large tank in a very dirty state and over-grown all over 
with weeds„” 
Notes. 
Long before the present territorial aristocracy of the District of 
Rajshahi—the Thakurs of Putiya, the Rajas of Nator and Digha- 
patiya—had acquired their Zamindaris, the part of the country in 
