1867.] The Initial Coinage of Bengal. 47 



date when he was absorbed with an associate fugitive brother (Ntisir- 

 nd-din) under the a3gis of the Emperor of Dehli. 



Sliahdb-ud-dhi. Bughrah Shah. 

 No. 6. 

 Mint, ? 

 Silver. Size, vii. Weight, 168.5 grs. Two coins only, Col. 

 Guthrie. Plate I., fig. 4. 



both the text and Dr. Mills' translation of the brief passages which may chance 

 to illustrate the general subject. 

 Verse 5 : 



IfcTirT fir [f^ita*] raft tfwfa ?»qTfsrf^: n 



" By Muhammad, lord of the hostile Yavanas Shahab-ud-din and the rest, 

 though an enemy, was Sairaja, the treasure of benignity, employed as prime 

 minister." 



Verse 11 : 



ec Samvat 1390, in the month of Bhadra, fifth day of the waning moon, on 

 Thursday, was the kingdom set free from Malik Shahab-ud-din, acting under 

 the protecting favour of Sairaja Deva aforesaid." 

 — See Journal As. Soc. Bengal, vol. v., 1836, p. 341). 



A subordinate but still more open inquiry also suggests itself in connexion with 

 the mention of Shahab-ud-din in 734 A. H., as to whether, amid the strange con- 

 fusion of names and titles, the " Kadr Khan," who is noticed by Ferishtah under 

 the oi'iginal designation of Malik Bidar Khilji, may not, perchance, have been the 

 identical Shahab-ud-din Bughrah, reinstated as simple governor in Lakhnauti, as 

 his brother Bahadur was restored to power in Sonargaon. I am aware that this is 

 treacherous ground to venture upon ; but such a supposition is not without other 

 incidental support, especially in Ibn Batutah's passage (original, hi. 214, quoted 

 at p 48), where Kadr Khan is spoken of as if he had been in effect the last scion 

 of the family of Nasir-ud-din Mahmud Bughrah. 



The original passages in Ferishtah are as follows (i. p. 237) : — 



J<$ C)^ (*[?■& CS^S J! »>*J ^liJl&t ^Jl}J]jS£? c£A-Lj \jj\ AS" yjla-J^i 



&"» o^^A/o ^Jj.i^xJ (j-Jlj.^ Ax^lS" \j &[=*. j&3 j *j)jj ^J AJI^ij 



See also Briggs' Translation, i. pp. 412, 423. 



The TankhMubarak Shahi has the name in manifest mistranscription asBanddr. 



A difficulty necessarily suggests itself in regard to the tribe of Khilji, but the 

 use of the name in its non-ethnic sense might readily be explained by the old 

 subordination of the Bengal family to the Khilji dynasty of Firuz, or the 

 specially Khilji serial succession of the earlier governors of Bengal. 



