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was a son of Nasiruddin. Coins of Ruknuddin struck at 
Lakhnauti in 69[3?], 697, 698 and 69[9%}, which were un- 
earthed in 1910 at Purinda, Dacca District. are preserved in the 
Shillong Cabinet!: and the Indian Museum Cabinet also 
includes coins of 691 and 697 from the same mint. The only two 
mosque inscriptions that bear the name of Kaikais are both 
dated 697 A.H. In the one at Gangarampur, Dinajpur (the old 
Hindu stronghold of Dev-Kot?) he is described as Kaikaiis 
Shah, son of Mahmiad, son of the Sultan (i.e. Balban). In 
that from Khagol* the titles run “ Shah, the Sultan, son of a 
Sultan, son of a Sultan.” 
Shamsuddin Firtiz (701-722 A.H.). 
Ruknuddin Kaikaiis was succeeded—probably in 701— 
by his brother Shamsuddin Firiiz. The latter’s relationship to 
Nasiruddin is given by Ibn Batittah* but in contrast to 
the more elaborate title adopted by Ruknuddin, Shamsuddin 
contented himself on his coins with the simple Al Sulian. 
is son Hatim Khan, Governor of Bihar in 709 and 715, 
also uses this title in referring to his father on inscriptions. 
The Shillong Cabinet include Lakhnauti coins of 701,’ 702 
(Purinda find) 703 (from Enayetpur, Mymensingh), 704, 706, 
[70]7, [70]9, 710, 71[12], 712, 713, 714, 715, and also 720 
(Purinda). Sunarganw coins of 705 and 710, also occurred 
in the Purinda find, and a new mint Banga is found on a coin 
in the Shillong cabinet from Rupaibari in Nowgong (Assam).® 
Only the mint figure [- -]5 is legible on this coin, but as 
the position of the unit seems to leave no space for a decimal 
the date is almost certainly 705. 
The period was one of active expansion of Musalman 
dominion in Bengal and the adjacent countries. The clearest 
picture of this is seen in the conquest of the previously inde- 
pendent territory of Satganw by the Turk, Khan Muhammad, 
Zafar Khan Ghazi, as described in 1847 by Mr. Money’ from 
the ‘Khurseenamah’ of Zafar Khan’s descendants at Triveni — 
near Hughli. Zafar Khan, accompanied by his sister's son 
Shah Sifi, or Safi, (who appears to have been also the nephew 
Sec 




| The reading 7{--] on S.C 1/5 is so extremely doubtful that I 
have omitted to mention it. The. coins of 697 and 698 are the latest cer- 
tain dates up to now known. Thumas, (op. cit. p. 46) only records coins 
of 691-695. 
2 Blochmann J.A.S.B., 1872, p. 103. : ; : 
~ 3 Idem, J.A.S.B. 1873, pp. 247-8. This place is near Lakhiseral 
in Bihar. (Idem, J.4.S.B., 1874, p. 288). 
10. 
x. fig. <, 
® Vide Pl. X, figs. 3and 4. 
1D. Mone LSB. 47, p. 395; (vide also Blochmann’s 
*“ccount of the Triveni inscriptions in the J.A.S.B. for 1870). 
