416 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
as that already noted for 1.M.C. No. 8, except that the date 
is either 709 or 707. The translation of the margin runs: 
“‘This silver (coin was) struck at Hazrat Lakhnauti from 
the land-tax of Banga in the vear 709 (or 707).”’ This third 
mention of Banea on a coin legend furnishes additional evi- 
dence to that supplied by Firiiz’s coins of Sunarganw struck 
in 705 and 710 of the complete subjugation of Eastern Bengal 
either during, or before, the reign of Firaz Shah. 
Jalaluddin’s success in inducing his father to share the 
kingly prerogative of striking coins with a son must have 
roused jealousy amongst Mahmiid’s other brothers, and it is 
Shah. The absence of any other coin of Jalaluddin and the 
continuance after 710 of Lakhnauti coins of Bahadur suggests 
the possibility of Bahadur having succeeded in arranging for 
the assassination of his presumptuous brother or, at least, of 
achieving his permanent exile from Lakhnauti. 
The Shillong Cabinet includes coins struck in Bahadur’s 
name of 710, 720, and 72[22], from Enayetpur, Mymensingh; 
714,717, 720 and 721 from the Purinda find ; 721 from Rupaibari, 
Assam ; and 721, 722 (or 723: S.C. 2), 72 [29] (S. C. A-vs 
and 723 (S.C. .2,) found at Kastabir Mahallah, Sylhet, in 1913. 
All the above, where mints can be read, are from Lakhnautt; 
except in the case of the 717 coin from Purinda (S. C. 2) which 
was found on re-examination to have been struck at Sunarganw. 
were bought in the vicinity of Enayetpur. The only other 
Ghiyaguddin coin with fairly complete margin in my cabinet 
that was obtained from this part of Mymensingh bears the 
ae portion of the mint name Sunarganw and was struck in 
a There remains to be considered the extremely interesting 
Shillong Cabinet coin 2, from Enayetpur, (vide Pl. A, 


' Ibn Batiétah, loc. cit., p. 210; Blochmann, J.A.S.B., 1874, P- 
289, notes that this is evidently the Hindustani Iy9¢? «‘ brownish.” 
Mr. R. Burn, C.S., informs me, however, that in the United Provinces 
bhira is used to refer to a man who is markedly fairer than the ordi- 
nary Indian, with brown moustache, blue eyes, and a wheat-coloured 
complexion, : se a 
' 2 Thomas, Chronicles of the than Ken ad 201; an 
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