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1. Dilawar of Ghor, 804 to 808. 



2. Hoshang, son of Dilawar, 808 to 838 (Zi Qa'dali). 



3. Muhammad Shah, son of Hoshang,* 838 to 839 (Shawwal.) 



4. Mahmud ibn i Malik Mughis i Khilji (an Amir of Sultan 

 Hoshang), 839 tof 873 (Zi Qa'dah). 



5. Ghiasuddin, his son, 873f to 906 (9th Ramazan). 



6. NaQiruddin 'Abdul Qadir, % his son, 906 to 916 (2nd 9afar). 



7. Mahmud his son, 916 to 937 (15th Sha'ban). 



The goldmuhur therefore belongs to the fifth king. If the coin 

 did not contain the year, and the word Khilji, one might take it for 

 a Kulbargah muhur ; for among the Bahmans also there is a king 

 Ghiasuddin, son of Mahmud, who reigned for about two months. 



The inscription on the coin presents an interesting feature. At 

 the last meeting whilst exhibiting a Rupee struck by Jahangir, I 

 drew the attention of the members to the curious fact that the legends 

 on the coins of the Moghuls and those of the later Cafawis of Persia 

 were for the most part metrical, a circumstance which, as far as is 

 known to me, has not been observed onMuhammadan coins struck before 

 the end of the tenth century of the Hijrah. The inscription on this 

 Malwah goldmuhur, which belongs to the very end of the ninth 

 century, stands intermediate between the metrical legends on modern 

 coins and the prose inscriptions on the coins of earlier centuries, 

 inasmuch as the legends of the two areas, though not metrical, have 

 a rhyme falmultaji and Khilji). i 



Before the meeting broke up, the President Mr. E. C. Bayley, 

 exhibited the copper-plate — an account of which was given in the Pro- 

 ceedings for May (p. 143) of the current year, — and gave several ex- 

 planatory notes relating to the discovery of the plate and the inscrip- 

 tion on the same, which will be published in the first number of 

 the Journal for the next year. 



* In Elphinstone' s Hist, of India, (Fifth Edition, p. 768), 835 ? 



f Elphinstone, 887 ? I do not know what sources Elphinstone used. The 

 years, as given above, are taken from the Lucknow Edition of Firishtah, and 

 agree with a historical MS. in my possession, entitled Tabaqdt us Saldtm. 



% Elphinstone calls him Nasiruddin. When kings have several names, the 

 last name is the real name; hence this king should be called 'Abdul Qddir. 



