420 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., X VEL, 
Governor of Sunarganw, who was rebellious, he brought witha 
halter round his neck into the presence of the King; and all 
the elephants that were in those parts were gathered together 
into the King’s elephant-stable. and there was collected to the 
army of Islim much treasure because of that expedition. 
Then Sultan Ghiyasuddin Tughlag Shah made Sultan Nasir- 
uddin, Governor of Lakhnauti, and entrusted to him the kingly 
power, because he had hastened to do obeisance, and sent him 
to his government. But of Satganw and Sunarganw he took 
possession. And Bahadur Shah he sent with a halter round 
his neck to Dehli, and Sultan Tughlaq Shah returned in 
triumph and with victory towards Tughlagabad. In Delhi 
also the news of the victory in Bengal was read in all the pul- 
pits, and canopies were erected, and the drums were beaten 
and there was much rejoicing.”’ 
On comparing these two accounts with the numismatic 
evidence at our disposal various facts emerge. In 
place it is clear that Shamsuddin Firaiz Shah could not have 
died before 722, so that the doubts cast by Blochmann on 
Thomas’ reading, 722, on a coin of Shamsuddin, and his limi- 
tation of the latter’s reign to 717 or 718,! cannot be upheld. 
Secondly, the existence of the series of Ghiyasuddin Bahadur’s 
coins from 720-723, and the absence of coins of Shihabuddin 
after 718 tend to show that the eviction of Shibabuddin from 
Lakhnauti by his brother took place in 719 or 720 (i.e. before 
their father’s death) and that it was probably only the usual 
general massacre of brothers that was attempted by Ghiyaguddin 
on the death of Shamsuddin in 722 or 723 that led to the 
1 J.A.S.B., 1874, p. 289. : 
? So Blochmann (idem) paraphrases Barani’s words kih dar ict 
bandagi sabgat namiidah bid, 



