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God who is blessed and great says [Qor. II, 149], ' Do not say that those who are 

 killed on the way of God are dead : they live, but yon do not know.' And God who is 

 honored and glorious, says [Qor. IV, 101], ' He who fleeth on the path of God, will find 

 on earth many (similarly) compelled and plenty of provisions. And he who leaves his 

 house fleeing to God and His Prophet, and death overtake him, his reward becomes the 



duty of God.' as to his understanding, the tongues of the eloquent are 



unfit to express it, and the pens of the learned of the age wither away in attempting a 

 description, the exalted Q,azi, who exalted dignity is manifest, the illustrious witness, the 

 proof of the learned, Ibrahim Khan Ghazi, son of Aminullah, who was in 



a teacher, who in the beginning of his youth and the beginning of his faith 



fought with the infidels and repelled mischief and rebellion, was admitted in 964, on 

 the 8th day of Sawan, a Friday, when two and a half watches had passed, to the honor 

 of martyrdom and the road of guidance, and joined, through the society of the Mullas 

 in the guidance of the Prophet, that throne of wishes. ...... 



XXIX. Ghiya'suddi'n Abul Muzaffar Jalal Shall. 



(968 to 971 H. ; A. D. 1561 to 1563.) 

 I take liis full name from Mr. Westmacott's Sherpur Inscription given 

 above, as there is no doubt that he is the same prince. Of his coins, Air. 

 Thomas (' Chronicles,' p. 417) has published a fine specimen, on which he 

 appears with the shortened name of Jalaldin.* Mr. Thomas makes the mint- 

 town to be Jajpur ; I believe that the correct reading is Hajipur (oppo- 

 site Patnah). Already under Nucrat Shah, Hajipur had risen to importance 

 as the seat of the Bengal governor of Bihar. The southern part of Bihar, with 

 the town of Bihar as capital, was in the hands of the Afghans. This state 

 of things continued during the reigns of Islam Shah and the Afghan dynas- 

 ty of Gaur, South Bihar being in the hands of Miyan Sulaiman i Kararani. 

 Some time after Akbar's conquest of Bihar, Hajipur gradually sank in import- 

 ance, and Patnahf became the seat of the Mughul (Chaghtai) government. 

 Jalal Shah is said to have died in 971 at Gaur. For the events after 

 his death, the murder of his son, and the short-lived government of the 

 usurper Ghiyasuddin, we have no other source but the modern Biydz ussa- 

 Idtzn, the author of which has not mentioned the source of his information. 

 He has, however, been occasionally found possessed of special and correct 

 information, and we may follow Stewart in accepting his statement. 

 With Jalal Shah and his son ended the Sur dynasty. 



* Just as 'Jamaldfn' in the Satgaon inscription of 936, published by me in 

 J. A. S. B., 1870, Pt. I, p. 298. 



| Sher Shah built the Fort of Patnah. In Todar Mall's rentroll, Patnah belongs 

 to Shkar Bihar. 



