208 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (July, 1909. 
The eunuch’s rule, therefore, lasted only for a very few 
months. Riyaz credits Firoz Shah with the construction of a 
mosque, a tower, and a reservoir. The mosque has not yet 
inscriptions, nothing definite can be said; and the minar has 
been ascribed to various other sultans, e.g., to Firoz Shah I by 
Fergusson, to the time of Mabmid I by Cunningham, and to 
Husen Shah by Dr. Bloch.! Fergusson is probably right in 
considering it to be a jaya-stambha or a ‘ pillar of victory.’ 
Firoz was aan by Nasira-d-din Mahmud Shah (II), 
but the histories do not agree as to the 
nature of Firoz’s death and the relation- 
ship with him of Mabmid.  Firishta 
says that he died a natural death; the Ain says that he 
was killed by the palace-guards (paiks). Both Firishta and Aim 
declare Mahmud to be the son of the Habshi Firoz Shah; but 
Firishta quotes from the history by Haji Muhammad Kanda- 
hari a statement that Mahmid II was a son of Fath Shah. 
Firoz’s coins go down to 896 H., and in one doubtfully to 897 H. ; 
‘ and_ his latest inscription at Chunakhali, 
geet Hr, Mursidabad, to 2nd Maharram 896 H. (?), 
1 November, 1490 A.D.2 Mahmid 
Shah (II) could not have, thus, ruled more than a few months. 
He was murdered by an Abyssinian who made himself king 
=e. sha ah II, 
896 H 
coins begin from 896 H.; and the earliest known inscription 
of his reign at Devi-kot, Dinajpur, is dated 896 H. (1491 A.D.).’ 
In the Riyaz Muzaffar is said to have built in Gaur a mosque 
Shah. The latest coins of Muzaffar is dated 898 H. ; and the 
latest inscription of his reign in the Chotidargah of Pandua is 
dated 17th Ramazan 898 H. (2nd July, 1493 A.D.),> while 
Husen’s coins and inscriptions begin from 899 H. 
1 Hist. Ind. and East. free 550 ; R., xv, 57-8; Arch. 
Sur. Bote ‘Gir., 1902-3, p “i — pi nk 
or Firoz’s coin 896 H., P.A.S.B., 1893, p. 145, and of 
897 H. au J.A.S.B., 1846, . 330 ; for inscription, P.A.S.B., 1893, p. 55. 
uzaffar’s coin of 896 H., J.A.S.B., 1873, pp. 311-3, P.A.S.B., 
oO. 3 
1898, oe i » ii, 171, No. 163; his inscription H 
J.AS8.B., 1873, pp. 289-290, A.S.R., xv, 9 The illegible year of 
the inserip ahmiid Shah II in the Choti andua 
must therefore be 896 H dif Cunningham be right as to the month, 
then the es to 23rd Rabi I, 896H., or 3rd February 
J.A.8.B., 1873, p. 289, Gaur p-. 76-7, A 
ee lliot, iv 
, . oe 
Muzaffars coins of 898 H., J.A.S. B., 1893, 238-9, I.M.C., ii, 
pp- 171, 172, Nos. 164 and 165; Raion of 898 Pigs oc: pp- oat. 
