1922.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXXVI... N. ll 
among the many histories of the central kingdom of Dehli and 
the items referring to the Jaunpur dynasty when extracted and 
compared are not always consistent ; sometimes the disore- 
pancies are practically irreconcilable. The many_ histories, 
translated either in full or in part, in ‘‘The H istory of India 
as told by its own Historians” of Sir H. M. Elliot, area source 
of help in the search for information of the history of the 
Sharqi dynasty, but unfortunately the best contemporary his. 
‘tory of the period, that of Yahya bin Ahmad—the Tarikh-i- 
Mubarak Shahi—closes abruptly at a very interesting period. 
Among the works of other more or less contemporary his- 
torians which afford help towards the elucidation of the history 
of the Shargi dynasty are, the T'abaqat-i-Akbart of Nizimu-d- 
din Ahmad, the Tartkh-i-Firoz Shahi of Shams Siraj Afif, the. 
Muntakhabu-t-Tawarikh of ‘ Abdu-l-Qadir ibn-i-Mulik Shah, 
known as al-Badaoni, the Tarikh-i-Firishta of Muhammad Qasim 
Shah Firishta, the Tartkh-i-Daudi. the Tarikh-i-Khan Jahan 
Lodi and the Tarikh-i-Salatin-i-A/ghania of Ahmad Yadgar. 
The above are all to be found in * Elliot and Dowson ”’ and 
in addition we have Dorn’s translation of the Makhzan Afghani ; 
Maulavi ‘ Abdu-s-Salam’s translation of the Riyazu-s-Salatin, 
Colonel Ranking’s and Professor Lowe’s translation of the 
Muntakhabu-t-Tawarikh, Brigg’s ‘‘ Ferishta” and the portion 
of the Tabagat-i-Akbari translated by Mr. Dé: all of which help 
to contribute to our knowledge of the history of the period of 
Muhammadan rule at Jaunpir. The information is however 
scattered and I have no doubt but that a close search in other 
Jaunpur wa Sultan Hindustan” (sic). Colonel H. R. 2 gon 
was able to consult a manuscript ‘ Manaqib Serweabia. . ni 
Sayyad Darwesh when compiling his volume on J en Re 
series of District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of agra 
and Oudh, published in 1908. 



1 Of Risn's Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts 
Museum, Voll. 1, Pp. 3ll. 
