304 H. Blochmami — History and Geography of Bengal. — No. III. [No. 3, 



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1. The door of honor of the world, and the pole of poles , the cynosure of 



devotees ; 



2. He who conies to this door, will indeed ohtain from God his desires ; for he 

 who wishes, finds. 



3. The leather carpet of his retiring room is the green ground ; and forthis reason 

 he is the treasurer of the world and the faith. 



4. In the reign of the just king, in whom heavenly light is revealed, through 

 whose terror oppression and heresy disappeared, 



5. Wherever he raised his exalted standards, he estahlished the law of Muetafa, 



6. S u 1 a i m a n, of the world, a second Sulaiman, whose beauty lies in the per- 

 fection of his justice and bounty. 



7. When 900 had been exceeded by 77 years, Hassu, the son of Daud, 

 wrote it. 



At the side of this inscription, the poetry and prosody of which is as 

 wretched as those of the Bihar inscriptions formerly published, stands the 

 256th verse of the second chapter of the Qoran. 



XXXI. Ba'yazi'd Sha'h (II). 

 (980 H, or A. D. 1572.) 

 Regarding the death of Sulaiman and the accession of Bayazid Sh ah, 

 Badaoni (II, 163) says — 



" In this year (980) Sulaiman i Kararam, the ruler of Bengal, who styled himself 

 Hazrat i A'la, died. He had conquered the town of Katak-Banaras, 'the mine of un- 

 belief, and had made Jagannath [Puri] a dar-ul Islam. He ruled from Kamrup to 

 Orisa, and now went to God. 



" His son Bayazid took his place ; but after Jive or six months the Afghans 

 killed him, and his younger brother Daud seized on the kingdom." 



The Sawanih i AJcbari has the following — 

 Sulaiman during his lifetime had constantly sent presents to the emperor Akbar, 

 and had thus secured himself against an invasion. When he died, the Afghans thought 

 it proper to make his eldest son Bayazid his successor. He, in his youthful folly, 

 read the Jchutbah in his own [not in Akbar' s] name, and neglected all the forms of polite- 

 ness which his father had always strictly observed. Even the chief nobles of his 

 father were ill-treated by him, and commenced to hate him. Hansu f^—jUkl also, son 

 of his uncle 'Imad [brother of Taj Khan and Sulaiman], who was his son-in-law, got 

 offended with him, and was instigated to seize the kingdom, till at last he killed Bayazid. 



