422 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
Account of the beginning of Muhammad ibn Tughlaq’s 
reign and his clemency to Bahadur Birah. 
“When the Sultan was invested with power on the death 
of his father, and the people had taken the oath of allegiance 
im, he summoned Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Birah, whom 
Sultan Tughlagq had captured. He pardoned him, and removed 
his fetters, and gave him many gifts of money, horses, and 
elephants, and sent him back to his kingdom (Bengal). He sent 
with him his brother’s son, Ibrahim Khan,' and arranged with 
Bahadur that they should share that kingdom equally, and 
that their name should appear together on the coinage, and 
that the Khutba should be in their common name, and also 
that Ghiyasuddin should send his son, Muhammad, known as 
Barbat, as a hostage with the Sultan (of India). 
“Then Ghiyasuddin returned to his kingdom, and ful- 
filled what he had agreed to do, save that he did not send his son, 
as he pretended that the latter was unwilling (to go). 
also impolite in his correspondence. On this, the Sultan sent 
his armies to (the assistance of) his brother’s son Ibrahim 
Khan, underthe command of Dulji At-Tatari. They fought 
against Ghiyaguddin and slew him, and stripped off his skin. 
The skin was then filled with straw, and sent round the 
Provinces.” 
Ibn Batutah’s account is sufficiently clear except that it 
makes out Ibrahim to be a brother’s son of Muhammad ibn 
Tughlaa instead of Ghiyaguddin’s brother: but this may pos- 
sibly be due to the mistaken insertion by a copyist o i 
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in 
the manuscript before #as!. It also implies that Nasiruddin 


Blochmann’s suggestion (J.A.S.B., 1874, p. 290) that here _ 
| ur’s confinement at Dehli. us, Barani speaks later 4s if 
Kakbruddin, the next independent King of Bengal, revolt ‘i 
Mvhammad ibn Tughlaq at Sunarganw, after Bahram Khan’s death, an 
