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[V.S.] 
the tenth century a.p.!_ Copper coins continued to be issued 
for a long time after the conquest so as to make the currency 
acceptable to the masses of the subjects, and in the Joint 
Cabinet of the Indian Museum and the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal, the last coin is that of Sultan Muhammad ibn Tughlaq 
. Shah.? Later on the Nagari legend was renewed under the 
Suris, during the reigns of Farid-ud-din Sher Shah, Islam 
Shah and Muhammad Bahadur Shah.’ 
The object of the Belkhara inscription was to record the 
erection of the very pillar on which it was incised by a man 
named Raiita Sakaruka, son of Raiita Ananda, when the 
Vindhya ranges. 
but continued to acknowledge the supremacy of the Gahadavala 
rounded by Muhammadan Fe-offees, and had lost touch with 
the centre of his Government at Kanauj. The subjugation of 
Taj-ul-Ma’asir. As for the Taj-ul-Ma’asir, Elliot’s summar 
does not contain anything about the reduction of the city of 
Kanauj. The principal incidents of the war with the king of 
Kanauj are :— 
(1) The battle of Chandawar and the death of Jaichand, 
(2) the capture of the fort of Asni, 
3) the sack of Benares, 
and (4) the reduction of the stronghold of Koil or Kol. 
There is no mention of the city of Kanauj, nor of the 
kingdom. In fact the King Jayacandra is called throughout 
the work, ‘‘the Rai Benares.’’® The account of the 
Tabaqat-i-Nasiri is very meagre. It consists of three parts :—. 
1 Lane-Poole, Brit. Mus. Cat. of Oriental Coins, vol. ii, pp. 150-51, 
pl. vi. 
2 Cat. of Coins, Ind. Mus., vol. ii, pt. i, p. 49. 
8 Ibid., pp. 84-123. : 
4 Tabagqat-i-Nasiri (Bib. Ind.), pp. 549-550 
6 Elliot, vol. ii, pp. 222-225. 
