!Maner Sharif Maner Sharif is in Patna district of Bihar in India. It is situated at Maner, a large village of historical antiquities in the extreme north west of Danapur subdivision at about 32 km west of Patna on Patna-Arrah Highway. In ancient days, Maner was a centre of learning and it is said that grammarian Panini, and also Bararuchi, lived and studied here. There are two well-known Mohammedan tombs, that of Shah Daulat or Makhdum Daulat, known as Chhoti Dargah, and the other that of Sheikh Yahia Maneri or Makhdum Yahia, called the Bari Dargah. It is worth mentioning here that Makhdum Daulat died at Maner in 1608, and Ibrahim Khan, Governor of Bihar and one of the saint's disciples completed the erection of his mausoleum in 1616. The building walls have carvings of great delicacy. A great dome crowns it, and the ceiling is covered with carved inscriptions from the Holy Quran. Every detail of it is characteristic of the architecture of Jehangir's reign, and it is by far the finest monument of the Mughals in Eastern India. Inside the compound there is also a mosque which was built by Ibrahim Khan in 1619. Its fine gateway bears an older inscription corresponding to 1603-01, and affords access to the north. The tomb of Yahia Maneri lies in a mosque walls and ghats, and pillared porticoes jutting out into it, which is connected with the old bed of the River Sone by a tunnel 400-ft long.