410 Jcurnal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {N.S8., XVIII, 
is that Mahmid’s son, Kaikaiis, by using on his coins (as well 
as in one of the mosque inscriptions of 697 A.H. noted below) 
the title Al Sultan ibn Sultan ibn Sultan implicitly claims 
independent rule for his father. Ibn Batiitah states! that 
Nasiruddin died in Bengal ‘‘ some years after” his visit to his 
son Mu‘izzuddin in 686 or 687. We may therefore reasonably 
assume the minting of coins by Kaikais in 690 shows that the 
deuth of Nasiruddin occurred either in the same or the preced- 
ing year. 
Ruknuddin Kaikatis (690-701 A.H.). 
The first coins known to have been struck by a member of 
the Balbani line of Kings in Bengal appear with the accession 
of Ruknuddin Kaikaiis, possibly in 690 A.H. This date is to 
be found on Bengal coin No. 8 of the Indian Museum Cabinet, 
the marginal inscription of which has been completely misread. 
The inscription (vide Pl. X, fig. 1) runs as follows :-— 


on one inscription as his father (vide infra), it is certain that he 
! Defrémery and Sanguinetti’s translation, III, p. 179. 
2 Other examples of the phrase min kharaj (and some place name) 
on coi inscriptions may be-seen in I.M.C. Vol II, Part I, N: 
uo en ee A.H.; Qanauj and Mint Biladu-l-Hind); and 
-m.C. VO ‘ n 
u ned (c/.,e.g., th ; 
Ruknuddin, and that of Jalaluddin (709) mentioned later). It is impos: 
sible also to agree with his reading of Bardan as the name following Gar 
i 
so Ss ft : 
ginw in Akbar’s time included Bikrampur and much land to the south 
vide *Ain-i-Akbari, Blochmann’s trans., Bk. IfT, pp. 138 and 139); and 
a iv : : 
n) vory probably a descendant of the Sen Kings. Minhaj records that 
anga, up to the date he brought his history—the Tabagqat-i-Nasiri—to a 
close (658 -) was still under the descendants of Rai Lakhmaniah 
p- 558. 
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