414 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
(3) The date is in agreement with a local tradition that 
when Sikandar Ghaziat first failed to defeat Raja Gour Govinda, 
Saiyid Nasiruddin Sipahsalar, accompanied by Shah Jalal and 
other warrior saints, came to assist him and that the former 
was a General of Firtiz Shah Dehlawi. 
(4) In 703 the Sultan of Dehli was ‘Alauddin Khilji, which 
agrees with another tradition mentioned in Nasiruddin Hydar’s 
History of Sylhet (the Suhail-i-Yemen) that he was the Dehli 
Emperor when Sylhet was conquered. 
A village of the name Sekandarnagar in south-eastern 
Mymensingh may possibly owe its name to Sekandar Ghazi, but 
he is apparently buried at Bishganw (alias Ghaziptr) in the 
extreme south-east of the Habiganj Sub-Division of Sylhet 
(in the Tipperah Hills), where his shrine is venerated by 
uhammadans and Hindus alike. Before coming to Sylhet he 
is said to have warred successfully against a Hindu Raja of 
the Sunderbans called Matuk, and it is curious that the present 
Magistrate of Mymensingh (Mr. H. C. French, I.C.S.) possesses 
a coin of Shamsuddin Firiz Shah dated 710 (or 720) which was 
found in a village in the extreme south of the Satkhira Sub- 
Division of Khulna District. 
The Ruknuddin of the inscription wasa well-known Genera! 
of Sultan Husain Shah of Bengal (899-925 A.H.), and his name 
occurs on two other inscriptions deciphered by Blochmann, 
who wrongly makes him an inhabitant of Sarhat in Birbhum, 
ns 
: J.A S B., 1870, pp. 284 and 295; idem, 1872, p. 106. 
Loe. cit,, pp. 152 and 165. 


