224 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July, 1909. 
We have seen that Shihabu-d-din and Saifu-d-din were liv- 
ing in 817 H., while from that year also 
begin coins with the name of Jalalu-d-din 
Muhammad Shah, who is recognised as the son of Raja Ganesa. 
Where then should GaneSa’s rule be placed? Blochmann sug- 
gested that Kans probably ruled from 810 to 817 H. through 
Shihabu d-din alias Shamsu-d-din as a puppet king, coining 
money in the latter’s name.! is does not agree with the 
histories in which Kans is said to have usurped the throne after 
His time. . 
the latter invaded it with a powerful army. Kans besought the 
saint for help, and under his order brought to him his son 
Jadu, then 12 years old. The saint converted Jadu to Islam, 
had him proclaimed as Sultan under the name Jalalu-d-din, and 
interceding with Ibrahim made him withdraw. Kans, hearing 
of Ibrahim’s death(?), displaced Jalalu-d-din and began to 
oppress Musalmans. He imprisoned the saint’s son and nephew 
Shaikhs Anwar and Zahid, banished them to Sunargion and 
there had Anwar killed.» Though it is not expressly stated, the 
indirect inference seems to be that these events occurred after 
the death of the saint in Zil-ka’d4 818 H. Therefore so far 
as these traditions go, it would appear that Raja Ganesa ruled 
through his minor son Jalalu-d-din, that he lived for some time 
after 818 H., and that therefore the earlier coins of Jalalu-d- 
in, and not those of Shihabu-d-din, might have been issued 
1 
Meee i oe Shah, Firozabad, Satgaon, Fathabad, Mu’azza- 
fot ibad and Catgion.’ The mint places 
make it clear that the whole of Bengal even up to Catgaon 
had come under his rule, probably the result of his father’s 
vigorous activity. The coins declare him to be a zealous 
Musalman, for the kalimah that had disappeared from Bengal 
coins for nearly two centuries, was re-introduced, while the 
names of the four Khalifs (car-yars) begun from the time of 
Sikandar were continued. Tughra characters on the reverse 
or on both sides appear in several of the coins. Sanskrit 
1 J.A.8.B., 1873, pp. 262-3. 
2 Riyaz, pp. 114-117. 
8 Jalalu-d-din’s coins of 817 H., P.A.S.B., 1893, p. 142; of 818 H., 
J.A.8.B., 1873, p. 267, P.AS.B., 1874, p. 157, IM. p. 161, 
No. 93, p. 162, No. 102; of 834 H. (Catgaon), J.A.8.B., 1893, p- 230, 
I.M.C., ii, p. 163, Nos. 110, 108 (Firozabad). 
