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Westmacott —The Bindjpur Barbak Shah Inscription. 
The building of this mosque (took place) in the reign of the king, the son of a 
king, lluknuddunya waddin Abul M u j a h i d Barbak Shah, the king, son 
of M ah m u d Shah, the king,—may God continue his kingdom and rule !—by the 
direction of the great Khan, the noble chief, the hero of the age and the period, Ulugh 
Iqrar (?) Khan, commander and wazir, builder of this religious edifice, the said 
mosque. And the repairer of the tomb (is) the great Khan and noble chief Ulugh 
Nuqrat Khan, the jangdar and shiqdar of the affairs of Jor and Barur and of 
other Mahallahs. Dated, the 16th day of the month of Safar,—may God bring it to 
a happy and successful end!—of the year 865. (1st December, 1460, A. D.) # 
JTote on a Barhak Shah Inscription from Binajpur.—By E. Vesey 
Westmacott, Esq., C. S. 
‘ I send a rubbing of an inscription of tlie reign of Barbak Sliah, A. H. 
8G5. It states him to have been the son of Mahmood Shah, a point upon 
which a bit of additional evidence is not without value. It is very clearly 
cut on the usual black stone, which is commonly called basalt, but which is 
more like a slate. In one place I found the surface flaking off, and so brittle, 
that I was afraid to clear it of the whitewash, with which it was clogged, as 
thoroughly as I should have liked. The slab is about twenty-two inches by 
ten, and the inscription is in five lines. 
‘ It is let into the eastern front of a little brick-built mosque adjoining 
the grave of Cliihil Grhazee, the Peer, mentioned by Dr. Buchanan in his 
report on Dinagepore, p. 29. The grave, surrounded by an iron railing, is 
54 feet long, and is supposed to correspond to the stature of the saint. It 
is on the north side of the path up to the mosque, some hundred yards to 
the west of the Darjeeling road, four miles north of Dinagepore, and not far 
from the Gopalgunge temples. The Mootawallee is a very ignorant fellow, 
and I have found out nothing of the Peer beyond his name. 
‘ The founder of the mosque was “ Shikdar of the affairs of Baroor,” 
and of another place. Baroor I fake to be the parganah of that name, 
now in Poorniah, outside the western border of Dinagepore. 
i On each side of the inscription has been let into the wall a stud, or 
circular piece, of the same stone, which have on the right side of each a 
groove, as if for a clamp, which makes me think they were not originally 
cut for their present position. They are about eight inches in diameter. 
The centre of each bears in Tughra the muhr i nuhuwwat or c seal of prophet- 
ship,’ surrounding this is an inscription of which I send rubbings, but 
which neither the Moulawi nor I can decipher. In an outer ring, half an 
inch lower, the northern stone bears the inscription—• 
# I take this opportunity to correct the wrong- reading of a title in the Barbak 
Shall Inscription published by mo in this Journal, lor 18/0, It. I., p. ..90, Iuscr. VII,, 
where for I should have read jdmaddr i cjhair i 
mahallt, as explained in Journal for 187li, Dt. I., p. 106 
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