Vol. V, No. 7.] Saptagrama or Satganw. 2 
[N.S.] 
etc., during the reign of Shamsuddin Firaz Shah in A.H. 713.1 
The next mention of Satganw is to be found in the Tarikh-i- 
Firaiz-Shahi during the reign of Ghiausddin Tughlag, when he 
marched to chastise Bahadur Shah, the last Balbani Sultan of 
Bengal.? 
After this Satganw was placed under the military Governor- 
a of *Izzuddin Yahya A’zam-ul-Mulk, who held that post from 
724 to 740.8 Satganw appears as a mint town during the reign 
of Muliiconied Tughlaq, the second King of the Tughlaq dynasty of 
Delhi, and the earliest coin is dated A.H. 729. Sa atganw con- 
tinues to be a mint town up to the reign of Islam Shah, son of 
Sher Shah, and the latest coin is dated A. H. 957.4 
Nothing further is known about Satganw during the first 
lliyas Shahi dynasty and the dynasty of 
eo is fen Ra - ans. The sext notice 3 t afta 
found in the Triveni inscription of Ru- 
biudain a bak Shah, incised debeab the lifetime of his father 
Nasiruddin’ Mahmud Shah, the first King of the resusciated 
been styled Malik. It records the erection of a masjid by Ulugh 
jmal Khan, the Commander o the army of the noble me Khan, 
tions. Both of them are dated in eile year 865 d were 
discovered in the Dinajpur District. Both of thera record the 
erection of mosques by Khan Ulugh Iqra an, during the 
repairer of a tomb is the Ulugh Nusrat Kban a Jangdar and 
comet (both of them subordinate officers 
he next notice of Satganw is in iat inscription of Nasi- 
bie aes — M d Sh rr - : 
coe a few hundred yards from the ‘lrish- 
e 
bigha ae It records the seerrve ris of a mosque by* Tarbiyat 
Khan in 861 A.H, This inscription proves that Iqrar ae 
S. » ps 287: 
rikh i =e sg Shahi . Barni aga Ind.), p. 451. 
- pp. 190 
4 hit Ison P WHOLe, ‘Catalogne ot Coins in the Indian Museum, Vol. ii, 
pt. = » pp. 155-62, and +3 i.; pp 58 to 118. 
5 J.A A.8.B., 1873, pt. i., p 290 i. this inscription the reading Be is to 
be preferred ie the celal a proposed by Dr. Blochmann in J.A.8.B., 1873, 
pt. 23 ~~ ey te. 
., 1873, pt.i -y pp- 272-78, and also J. A. % ‘e Bats, pt i., pp. 290-91. 
: TAS, B. 1870, pt. i., p. 292, and 1873, pt. i 
