1872.] 
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H. Blochmann — On a new "king of Bengal. 
In order to explain the discrepancies between the above tree and the 
years given in Prinsep and all other histories, I shall take the kings singly. 
1. ’ Alauddin .Husain Shah. I have fixed 899 A. H. as the first year 
of his reign, on the testimony of Marsden’s coin (Marsden, p. 576), and I 
extend it to the beginning of 929. The year 903, given by Prinsep, has 
been obtained by adding the years assigned by the Tabaqat i Akbarz and 
Firishtah to Firuz Shah Habshi’s successors, of whom Mahmud Shah is 
said to have reigned 1 year, and Muza (far Shah 3 years 5 months. 
Firishtah says, Husain Shah died in 927, after a reign of 27 years, — 
so at least in the Lucknow edition, and in the Society's MS. of the Biyaz- 
ussalafm, from which Stewart compiled his ‘ History of Bengal.’ The 
Biyaz adds that the length of Husain Shah's reign is variously given at 24, 
27, and 29 years 5 months. Of these three statements, Stewart and Prinsep 
have taken the first (24 years, from 903 to 927). Firishtah counts 27 years, 
i. e. from 900 to 927. The Tabaqat seems to take the last (29 years 5 
months) ; for it says that Husain Shah died in 929 A. FI. # I do not know 
from which source the Biyaz has taken the “ 29 years 5 months.” 
Of several unpublished inscriptions of this king, I select the following, 
which General Cunningham found in Sunnargaon — 
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- aJ aUi lj.jisJifia.s~** j aj.JLc alb 
Ljo.l| fe i£j.l*.l| £.Jj ( S j C ) (Ja.1 — f fj 
ajLi j ^Li j ajiLl -vo 3 aO-x all| o.1a jSila+'Iji] ^joJi j 
) |*Jkc i ffi G* j 
AXw^A U| ^iLl| ^3 (j-Jjloil ^3 all) dALwa 2 
) | aj 1 ^ ^ ~3 
God Almighty sayg, ‘ Surely he will build the mosques of God who believes in God 
and the last day, and who establishes prayer and gives the legal aims, and fears no 
one except God. Such perhaps shall belong to those that are guided’ [Qoran, lxi, 
13], The prophet— may God bless him I — has said, ‘ He who builds a mosque in this 
woi-ld, shall have seventy castles built for him by God in paradise.’ 
This mosque was built in the reign of the Sultan of the age, the heir of the 
kingdom of Solomon, ’Alfiuddunya waddin Abul Muzaffar Husain 
Shah— May God perpetuate his kingdom and rule, and elevate his condition and 
dignity, and render, in every minute, his proof victorious ! — by the great and noble 
* MS. 87 of the Asiatic Society’s Library, p. 1164. There are two misprints on 
this very point in the quarto and octavo editions of Stewart's History of Beno-al. In 
the Tables prefixed to the work, 905 is mentioned as the year of Husain Shah’s 
accession ; and in Sect, iv, (pp. 109 and 71, resp.), the margin gives A. D. 1489 
for 1498. 
