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MUHAMMADAN INSCRIPTIONS FROM BENGAL.
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13. From the Jami' masjid in the Firozpur suburb, evidently a fragmentary inscription (size 1' 4" by 2 in.), which contains Qorán, Sur. lxii, 5 (it begins in the middle of the verse with the words [kamisli'l himári).
IV.- MAADIPUR (VILLAGE). 13 14. The following inscription is now fixed in the modern mosque at Mahdipar, it is arranged in four squares and measures 4' 4' by 10 in.
قال الله تعالی انما يعمر مساجد الله من آمن بالله ر اليوم الآخر واقام الصلوة واتي الزكرة ولم يخش الا الله فعسی اولئك أن يكونوا من المهتدين
وقال الله تعالى ان المساجد لله فلا تدعوا مع الله أحدا ر قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم من بنی مسجدا لله تعالی بنی الله تعالی له بيتا في الجنة
بني هذ المسجد في عهد السلطان ابن السلطان جلال الدنيا والدین ابوالمظفر فتخشاه السلطان ابن محمود شاه السلطان
رقد بنا السيد الأعظم سید دستور بن سید راحت بالحسنة ثمر جعله سر کنبد مولانا برخوردار ابن خانمعظم ياسر حملن في شهر المبارک رمضان سنه احدی رسعدن و نمایمانه
TRANSLATION. God Almighty has said "He only shall repair," etc. (Qorán Sur ix, 18).
God Almighty has also said " verily, the mosques," etc. (Qoran, Sur. lxxii, 18). The Prophet-on whom may rest God's blessing ! has said "He who builds a mosque,"
etc.
This mosque was built in the time of the king, son of a king, Jalal addunya wad. din Abu'l Muzaffar Path shah, the king, son of Mahmad shah, the king. Its builder was the exalted Sayyid, Sayyid Dastür, son of Sayyid Rahat-through good deeds he has collected fruits for himself—at the head of the vault of Maulana Barkhur. dar, son of the exalted Khân Taj Khân. In the blessed month of Ramazan of the year 891' (legan the 31st August 1486).
The letters being very closely written it is not easy to decipher the names. This is the sixth inscription of Fath Shah, who reigned from 886 till 893; the others fall in the years 886 from Bandar near Dhaka, (Jour. 48. Soe. Beng., vol. XLII, p. 282), 887 from Dhamrai, north of Dhaka, (ib., vol. XLI, p. 109); 888 from Bikrampur, Dhaka District (ib., vol. XLII, p. 284), 889 from Sunargaon, (ib., vol. XLII, p. 285), and 892 from Satgan w, (db., Vol. XXXIX, p. 293).
15. The following inscription of the same king has lost the date; it is from the Challa masjid (size 5' 7" by 4 in.), one line
جلال الدنيا والدین ابوالمظفر فتحشاه سلطان ابن محمود شاه السلطان خلد الله ملکه ر سلطانه راعلی امره
خانمعظم دولتخان وزیر لشکر تقبل الله منه خان الأعظم , خاقان المعظم الرائق بالملك المنان وشانه بسعي في سنه اربع ۰۰۰۰۰۰
See facsimile No 2.
