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1873.] H. Blochmann —Geography and History of Bengal. 
Taylor, in Iris “ Topography of Dacca” states that Adam Shahid, or Baba 
Adam, was a Qazi, who ruled over Eastern Bengal. He gives no authori¬ 
ty for this statement, and, at the present day, the residents of the village 
are ignorant of this fact. They relate that Baba Adam was a very powerful 
Darwlsh, who came to this part of the country with an army during the 
reign of Ballal Sen. Having encamped his army near ’Abdullahpur, a 
village about three miles to the N. E., he caused pieces of cow’s flesh to be 
thrown within the walls of the Hindu prince’s fortress. Ballal Sen was very 
irate, and sent messengers throughout the country to find out by whom the 
cow had been slaughtered. One of the messengers shortly returned and 
informed him that a foreign army was at hand, and that the leader was then 
praying within a few miles of the palace. Ballal Sen at once gallopped to 
the spot, found Baba Adam still praying, and at one blow cut off his head. 
‘ Such is the story told by the Muhammadans of the present day, 
regardless of dates and well-authenticated facts. 
‘ The Masjid of Baba Adam has been a very beautiful structure, but it 
is now fast falling to pieces. Originally, there were six domes, hut three 
have fallen in. The walls are ornamented with bricks beautifully cut in the 
form of flowers and of intricate patterns. The arches of the domes spring 
from two sandstone pillars, 20 inches in diameter, evidently of Hindu work¬ 
manship. These pillars are eight-sided at the base, hut about four feet from 
the ground they become sixteen-sided. The mihrabs are nicely ornamented 
with varied patterns of flowers, and in the centre of each is the representation 
of a chain supporting an oblong frame, in which a flower is cut. 
‘ The style of this Masjid is very similar to that of the old Goaldih 
Masjid at Sunnargaon and to that of ’Isa Khan’s Masjid at Khizrpur.’* 
No. 21. The Bath Shah Inscription of Sunnargaon. A. H. 8S9. 
General Cunningham has sent a rubbing of the following inscription— 
jj ^ ^ ^ 
gHJ) j * )<AsJ Hi! Hi Hi j <sil) 
Jj VA> 
UjjJ) J1U. ^i JtU * £W) 
* Dr. Wise, in one of his letters addressed to the Society, makes the following 
remark on Slier Shah’s road from the Brahmaputra to the Indus. 
“ I gee in the last volume of Elliot’s * History of India’ that doubts are expressed 
of there ever having been a road made from Sunnargaon to the Indus by Slier Shaly 
as mentioned by Firishtah and others. In this district there are two very old bridges, 
which local tradition states were constructed by that monarch, and which lie exactly 
where such a road would have been. One is still used, the otlior has fallen in.” 
