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which lasted seven years. He died in a. h. 794, and was succeeded 

 by his son Junmul, or Cheitmal. This prince avoided the perplexities 

 of his father's anomalous position by summoning the nobles on the 

 death of Raja Kanis, and publicly professing his conversion to Islam, 

 which he artfully insinuated had taken place in his early youth, but had 

 remained unavowed in deference to his father. He assumed with the 

 emblems of sovereignty, the title of Jellal ud-din Muhammad Shah. 

 There are, I believe, many of his coins bearing dates, according to Mars- 

 den, from 819 to 823, although the commencement of his reign is 

 fixed by historians in 795 and its termination in 812. The specimens 

 Nos. 7, 8, and 9, are very much defaced, and bear no date. The first 

 two are taken from impressions presented to me by the late James 

 Prinsep. The inscription upon the obverse seems the same in all — 



and on the reverse in Nos. 7 and 9 ^j ^* &c. In No. 8, apparently 

 the Kalmeh. This prince took much pains to improve and adorn the 

 city of Gour, and there may be still some few remains of public build- 

 ings erected at his expence. 



No. 10, is a coin of his son and successor, Ahmed Shah, who died 

 according to Ferishteh and Nizam ud-din, in a. h. 830 ; but this coin 

 does him the good service of prolonging his life to 836, which date it 

 bears. His reign, however, must as to its earlier part be curtailed. by the 

 evidence of the dates on those of Jellal ud-din — 



Obverse. 

 ^ifcLs* 5 ! y\ ^dJfj Li*!) ^♦A * * * W UJUJ 



On the reverse, the Kalmeh and date : — At*"1 



After an interregnum of a few days, during which, a slave of the royal 

 household having usurped the throne, caused the sons of Ahmed Shah 

 to be murdered, and was afterwards destroyed himself. Nasir Shah, a 

 remote descendant of Iliyas Shah, the first of our series, was summoned 

 by the nobles from the plough, to which the adverse circumstances of his 

 family had driven him, to sit on the throne of his ancestors. Being 



