1867.] The Initial Coinage of Bengal 47 



date when lie was absorbed with an associate fugitive brother (Nasir- 

 ud-din) under the icgis of the Emperor of Dehli. 



Shahdb-ud-dm. Bughrah Shah. 

 No. 6. 

 Mint, ? 

 Silver. Size, vii. Weight, 1G8.5 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 : 



IjTTiTT fa[f%m$*TJTHjT tpr^tifq- ^qTfsrfq: It 



"By Muhammad, lord of the hostile Favanas SHAHAB-UD-nfN and the rest, 

 though an enemy, was Saiu.ua, the treasure of benignity, employed as prime 



minister." 

 Verse 11 : 



u Samvat 1390, in the month of Bhatlra, fifth clay of the waning moon, on 

 Thursday, was the kingdom sot free from Malik SHAHAB-UD-DfN, acting under 

 the protecting favour of Sairaja Dev.v 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 original designation of Malik Bidar Khilji, may not, perchance, have been the 

 identical Shahab-ud-din Bugh/rah, reinstated as simple governor in Lakhnauti, as 

 his brother Bahadur w r as 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 iu lbn Batutah's passage (original, iii. 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) : — 



&& 0^^2X0 ^^A^xJ ^.jl^a. &iZ£ \j ^Is^j^J j Cvjjj ^XJ dJl^ij 



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



The Tarjkh Mubarak 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. 



