344 Facsimiles of various Ancient Inscriptions. [June, 



Shahab ud-din* and the rest, though an enemy, was SairajaI, the 

 treasure of benignity, employed as prime minister. 



VI. (By him) from a (far) country (was an army sent to the bank 

 of the) Ganges. (The king) on hearing of this, (believed) that an 

 angry and invincible (enemy was approaching.) 



VII. Upon this (Sva'mi Raja and other brave men), went with 

 horses and men, and sound (of arms, &c.) to defend from the assaults 

 of the (foe, their fort) [Chunar.] 



VIII. Then did all the inhabitants sleep secure, for those (waves 

 of terror) had passed by : (and then the army of Yavanas entered 

 their fort by surprise or stratagem.) 



IX. And since pacification^ was not expedient, he [Svami Ra'ja] 



Chinese border, his attempt to remove the seat of empire from Dehli to Doula- 

 tabad, his application for investiture from the Khaliph of Mecca, and many ex- 

 travagancies which caused his sanity to be suspected. [The name Yavana, as 

 is well known, is generally applied by the Brahmins to their Mahometan con- 

 querors ; though arising from a misconception of the term as occurring in their 

 own ancient books, where it undoubtedly refers to the Greeks, whom Persians, 

 Phoenicians and Hebrews always designated by the same name.] 



* The Shahab ud-din here meant is not the emperor Omar Shahab ud-din, 

 who succeeded his father Ala ud-din, A. H. 716, and was murdered after a short 

 reign of three months ; but must be one to whom, as Ferishta tells us, Muham- 

 med Sha'h gave the title of Malic (by which he is called at the close of this 

 inscription) and a place called Nusari as a jaghir. Ferishta's words are 



^J Jj S ^ C Further on in the life of the same Emperor Mahammed Ibn Tugh- 

 lek, and nine years after the date of our inscription, that at the close of a suc- 

 cessful expedition to the Dekhan he gave to Sultan Shahab, who is most 

 probably the same person, the title of Nasaket Kha'n, and the government of 

 Baider on the Iodus, yielding annually the revenue of a crore of rupees i_<L,„t« 



*«j)«5 J*> &xk\sL< &XJO (^JliiXOJ U _^|y J] All this is confirmatory 



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 of what is apparent from the inscription, viz. that this Shaha b ud-din was 



the general of the army which Muhammed Sha'h or his Hindu minister sent 



against the R&ja of Benares. 



[A celebrated Cazi named Shahab ud-din is commemorated by Abul Fazl, 

 who was flourishing at the time of Timur's invasion at the close of the 14th 

 century. But this is somewhat too late.] 



f This Saira'ja I do not find mentioned by any historian of the time. 



% The allusion is here to the several modes of dealing with an enemy enu- 

 merated in Menu VII. 198, viz. TjfjjcT pacification, ^T*T presents ^^ sow- 

 ing dissensions ; either of which three the Hindu legislator prefers in respect of 



