154 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [ April, 1908. 
by the title of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-din” (p.581). Unfortunately, 
abakat-c is silent as to when and under what circumstances these 
important steps of complete independence were taken. is prede- 
cessor, ’Ali-i Mar ae had done all these things, excepting coining 
the money (p. 578).! 
Luckily a number of silver coins, discovered in 1872 in 
a hoard at Bihar, throw some light. The earliest of these 
Bengal coins is dated 614 H., with the name of I-yal-timish, 
the slave freedman, as the suzerain, A gold half-mohur, 70°6 grs 
(not of this hoard, but of Kuchbihar), “gives the earliest mint- 
name of Bengal “struck at Gaur” with the year 616 H., while 
name of Ghiyas-ud-din, with the title N. oer Amirul Miaminin, de- 
fender of the Commander of the Faithful. In four coins of 617 H., 
Al Muazzam, the great, is superseded by the superlative te "Azam, 
the highest. Furthermore, in seven specimens of 620 H., he calls 
himself Sultan of Sultans, by direct ay egeceoel of the Khalif, and 

the result of latter’s invasion. 
His territory extended from Diw- kot to Lakhan-or, a distance 
of about 150 miles or “ ten days’ journey,” 
and —— a part of Rarh and Varen- 
dra. s in possession of Bihar also 
for oe years. He was not in icin sesion of Vanga or Tirhut 
(or apparently Satgaon too) ; but in the usual way they, with Jaj- 
nagar and Kamriip, are said to have sent him tribute (pp. 587-8 eh 
een of his terri- 
(did) Ikhtiyar-ud-din Daulat Shah-i Balka Khalji. 
This name does not appear in ei ares History of Bengal 
Stew. ut his existence is proved 
Daulat Shah, ie the Tabakat-¢ and a coin. y ieee 
ing to Tabakat-1 he was son of Husim-ud-din ’Iwaz (pp. 617, 626) ; 
but the coin gives a different name of his father, and according to 
his Other histories, he was only a kinsman of 
Husam-ud-din. On the death of the lat- 
successor, Nasir-ud-din, the eldest 
son of I-yal-timish, Daulat took possession of Lakhanawati and 
The events of 
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1 Tabakat-i Akbari and Buddoni speak of his coining money, but: no 
coin <4 sind — has a ee found. 
S39. 1 = hi ae S.), 348 et seq., coms 1 to 7aa 
Kasim? Amirul Muminin, the Lord or a Faithfal’s 
ibateoms foe, a >. p. 770 (772) and p. 
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