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coins, nowever” the date years had been put in = pa so far 
back as the reign of ’Alau-d-din Muhammad Shah (I I), one 
billion coin of his showing in Nagri numerals 700, and another 
showing in Arabic numerals 701 (H.).! 
II. Tue Dynasty or GAnESsa. 
No event in ee a is more remarkable than the 
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Islamic domination, one is truly surprised to find a Hindu Raja 
ain in Gaur ; and nothing would have been more welcome —. 
a narration of the facts leading up to this revolution. But a 
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contemporary account, either Hindu or Musalman, exists. 
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Tabakat-i and Firishta say that on the death of Shamsu-d- 
din, Kans usurped the throne; the Ain remarks that a native 
of Bengal by name Kansi fraudfully a ca Shamsu-d- 
din; while according to Riyaz the true account is that Raja 
Kans who was zamindar of Bathuriah aftaoking Shamsu-d-din, 
slew him and usurped the throne. The last version seems to 
be from local traditions, and practically agrees with the only 
Hindu account known, viz., in the Advaita- prakasa, a life of 
the Vaisnava saint Advaita, the well-known colleague of Caita- 
that following the counsel of Advaita s grandfather, Narasimha 
Narial of Laur (Silhat), Raja Ganef$a killed the Badsah of Gaur 
(name not given), or became king therein.’ I have called the 
ing Ganega, and not Kans, because the Bengali book would 
know the Hindu “King's name more correctly than the later 
Musalman annals 
: I.M.C., ii, p. 42, No. 227, and p. 41, No. 219. 
2 This Hindu revival was a far-reac hing movement, see my article 
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Printed edition, Adhyaya i, p. 3. The date of composition of the 
work, 1490 Saka, ap given in ‘4dhyaya xxii, p. 2 
