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GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN. 293
pital with a fingle eunnch and his favorite concubine. In the
article Rajabmahel, I have mentioned his fad but deferved fate.
He feil in only the twentieth year of his age, by the particular
orders of Meeram, the fon of Jaßer, a youth not exceeding
feventeen, but fierce and cruel as the falling tyrant. It is not
ftrange, that the fame fnn which heightens the fury of the
beafts of prey, fliould infecl: the human kind with congenial
rage and barbarity.
At Moorßedabad is a religious building of great fingularity MosT elegant
and extent, a Cuttera (Hodges, vol. ii. tab. XVII.) erected for
the reception of pious or learned perfons, invited from all parts
by its founder Jaffier Khan. He maintained above two thou-
fand readers, beadfmen, and chanters, who were conftantly em-
ployed in reading the Koran, and in other a£ts of devotion.
He was greatly celebrated for the miklnefs of his manners*
love of learned men, and rigid obfervance of juftice. The
front is exteniive, finifhing at each end with a löfty poly-
gonal tower, with a rrmltitude of little domes, each covering
the cell of fome pious or fcientific inmate. Beyond, ap-
pears large domes, probably oyer the mofque- Thefe were
eredted at the expenfe of the deftruction^of feveral neighbor-
ing Hindoo temples, which he pulled down for the fake of'the
materials, and even compelled the poor Hindoos to affift in the
abominable tafk of building the mofques*.
The branch of the Ganges which wallies the -city of'Moorße-
dabad, becomes a Channel of great importance, and a much fre-
* Narrative of the Government of Bengal, tranflated from the Perfian, by Fr. Gladwin, E(q.
p. 121.
quented.
pital with a fingle eunnch and his favorite concubine. In the
article Rajabmahel, I have mentioned his fad but deferved fate.
He feil in only the twentieth year of his age, by the particular
orders of Meeram, the fon of Jaßer, a youth not exceeding
feventeen, but fierce and cruel as the falling tyrant. It is not
ftrange, that the fame fnn which heightens the fury of the
beafts of prey, fliould infecl: the human kind with congenial
rage and barbarity.
At Moorßedabad is a religious building of great fingularity MosT elegant
and extent, a Cuttera (Hodges, vol. ii. tab. XVII.) erected for
the reception of pious or learned perfons, invited from all parts
by its founder Jaffier Khan. He maintained above two thou-
fand readers, beadfmen, and chanters, who were conftantly em-
ployed in reading the Koran, and in other a£ts of devotion.
He was greatly celebrated for the miklnefs of his manners*
love of learned men, and rigid obfervance of juftice. The
front is exteniive, finifhing at each end with a löfty poly-
gonal tower, with a rrmltitude of little domes, each covering
the cell of fome pious or fcientific inmate. Beyond, ap-
pears large domes, probably oyer the mofque- Thefe were
eredted at the expenfe of the deftruction^of feveral neighbor-
ing Hindoo temples, which he pulled down for the fake of'the
materials, and even compelled the poor Hindoos to affift in the
abominable tafk of building the mofques*.
The branch of the Ganges which wallies the -city of'Moorße-
dabad, becomes a Channel of great importance, and a much fre-
* Narrative of the Government of Bengal, tranflated from the Perfian, by Fr. Gladwin, E(q.
p. 121.
quented.