52 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [{February, 1909. 
it must be earlier than 631 H., when he died (pp. 782, 736) ; 
and its anterior limit is fixed by the statement that his place in 
Bihar was taken by ‘Izz-ud-din Tughril-i-Tughan Khan, who 
had been appointed the feudatory of Badain in 630 H. Saif-ud- 
din’s accession as Malik of Lakhanawati thus falls either in the 
latter part of 630 H. or in the beginning of 631 H. (initial date, 
ith October, 1233 A.D.), which would still allow him a rule “< for 
some time ’’ (p. 732). 
(V) Matix Izz-up-piIn TUGHRIL-I TUGHAN KHAN. 
= 1233-1244 A.D ime is in- 
teresting for the earliest existing coins 
and inscriptions of the Delhi Sultans 
in Bengal. The oldest Musalman inscription in Bengal as yet 
found is at Gaur and is dated 633 H. (beginning on 16th 
He ruled somewhat long for that troublous time (631-642 H. 
‘i 2 is ti 
Earliest Musaiman In- 
(Arch. Surv. Ind., vol. xv, p. 45). The oldest known Musalman 
inscription in Bihar is of Maharram 640 H. (beginning Ist 
July, 1242 A.D.). It was found in the great Dargah of Bihar 
Own, and states that the building was erected during the rule of 
‘* Abul Fath Tughril-us-sultani ” (J.A.S.B., 1873, Vol. 42, pt. I, 
PP. “ip The date and the name thus point to the above 
Mali 
With reference to coins, the mint name on a coin of I-yal- 
; ie timish dated 633 H. was read as Lakh- 
1 mae 
“Mere cada (J-A.8.B., Vol. 50, pt. I, 1881, 
8 Bengal mint. But 
the reading is very doubtful (Ind. Mus. Cat., ii, p- 21, No. 38, and 
d., p. 6). Their earliest known coins with Lakhnauti mint 
ae in the rule of the female sovereign Jalalat-ud-din Raziya 
S.B.. : ). They belong 
to two years, 634 and 635 H., in 634 after 18th Rabi-ul-awwal 
(19th November, 1236), the date of her predecessor’s death 
(Tab., pp. 636-7) 
connection with the above Bihar inscri 
Connecti f Bihar ‘e™mark that ‘‘ South Bihar was under 
with ee eller the Lak‘hnauti governors from Bakh- 
irs 
_vakhanawati, if at all; it was not 
Iwaz’s time 
that Bihar was again brought 
