210 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July, 1909. 
shah ki kabr north of the palace, if it really age 3 the tomb, 
of Husen Shah, would have been built by Nas o was also 
buried there according to tradition.! In his. ee n a Jami 
mosque was erected by one Majlis Sa’d (inscription dated 
933 H., 1527 A.D.). 
The latest inscription of Nasrat is dated 938 H., and the 
atest coins 939 H. (1532 A.D.).? In the 
latter year his son ’ Alau-d-din Firoz Shah 
(I1I) succeeded him, his coins being of 
939 H., and the only existing inscription of his reign at Kalna, 
Bardwan, being dated Ist Ramazan 939 H. (27th March, 
1533 A.D.).2 After a few months’ rule he 
was murdered by his uncle who ascended 
the throne under the name Ghiyasu-d- 
din Majmud Shah (III). Mahmid’s ordinary coins are from 
939 H. to 945 H. (1533—1538 A.D.) ; but a few have been found 
dated 933 H. (1527 A.D.), with mints Khalifabad, Fathabad, 
and Nasratabad.* They were the very same mints from which 
Nasrat had issued coins during his father’s coin-period, and 
presumably the same remarks will apply to these rupees of 
sree i 
Firoz Shah III, 
939 H 
Mahmid shah III, 
939—945 H 
ordinate Sher Khan, whose general Khawas Khan besieged Gaur 
and captured it. Mara ud escaped and went to Humayun to 
ask for help, but being coldly received died soon after in 1538 - 
A. ses sea ob rains. The Janjan Miyan’s mosque in the 
northern suburb was built by a lad inscription, 
porary ss er Vv y during his reign (inscrip 
During the rule of Huseni dynasty, the city attained its 
greatest splendour. The Portuguese visited the city first in the 
reigns of eer III. Their accounts, as reproduced by De 
os (iv. i p- 1), inet a tailcichins and magnificence 
traly remarkable for the age :— 
! Creighton, The Ruins of Gaur, No. VIIL (with a sketch of the 
front); Francklin, Gaur, p- 24, note, and J.A.S.B., 1894, pp. 90-1; 
uchanan, Eastern India, iii, p. 76. 
or inscription of 938 H., J.A.S.B., 1874, 08; for coins of 
sie P.A.S.B., 1898, p. 171. bela ’ 
F 
p. 179, Nos. 220-1; for inscription, J.A.8.B., 1872, p 
+ Fe es nas coins of 933 H., P.A.S.B., 1895, Pp é, 1898, p. 172, 
1M.C., 179, No. 222; of 939 H., J.A.S.B., 1874, as 309, P.A.S.B., 
1898, p. “Vp, No. 224; of 945 H., P.A'S.B,. 1898, p. 172. 
