108 II. Bloclimann — Notes on Arabic and 'Persian Inscriptions. [No. 1, 
I) all j txL &1J| ^U> 
God says, • Surely the mosques belong to God. Worship no one elso besides God 
[Qoran, LXXII, 18], 
This entrance was firmly erected* during the days of the reign of the Khalifah of 
God, Naijiruddunya waddin Abnl MuzaffarMahmddShah, the king, 
by the Khan whose title is KhwajahJaha n — may the Merciful proteot him from all 
misfortunes on earth, * * * to the day of resurrection ! Dated, 20th Sha’ban, 863, [13th 
June, 1459, A. D.] of the era of the Prophet,— may God bless him and all his family ! 
This inscription is, I believe, the first of Mahmud Shah that has been 
published. It is, therefore, of particular value. The year 803 is remark- 
able, and it looks as if during the long reign of Nafir Shah, or Husain Shah I., 
as he ought to be called, Mahmud Shah had reigned as opposition king. 
Mahmud’s reign must have been of precarious tenure, as he was opposed by 
his son Barbak Shah, whom my Tribend inscriptions mention as reigning 
king in 860. 
Dr. Wise’s inscription give Mahmud’s full name NAgiruddm Abut Mw- 
zaffar Mahmud Shah. This may explain the fact that Bengal Histories call 
Barbak Shah ‘ the son of Na^ir Shah’ ; for confusions of names and julus 
names are common in Bengal History ; vide Journal, 1870, p. 296. 
It may be that the Khan Khwajah Jahan mentioned in this inscription, 
is the same as the Klnin Jahan, whose tomb is at Bagerh.lt. f A description 
of his tomb was given by Balm Gaur Das Baisak, in the Journal of this 
Society, for 1807, pp. 130, 131. On p. 135, loc. cit., the Babu gives the 
inscriptions J attached to the tomb, from which it appears that Khan Jahan 
died in the end of Zil Hajjali, 863 [end of October, 1459, A. D.] — the same 
year, which is mentioned in the above inscription. The Bagherhat inscrip- 
tions mention, unfortunately, no king. 
* The writor uses as a transitive verb, for which construction there seems 
to be no authority. 
t Babu Gaur Das Baisak derives the name of Bagerhat from the Persian 
^b, and explains Bdjher~hd( by * garden fair.’ I cannot say whether this is correct ; 
Muhammadans pronounce Bdqvr-hdt, from some Muhammadan of the name 
of Bdqyr. 
$ The Arabic inscription (A.) given by the Babu contains several misprints. 
His inscription E. is a curious specimen in point of metre, as it is eight times 
although the Bajaz i musamman i salim ( vide my Prosody of the Persian, p. 34) is 
not used in Persian. 
