1895.] 
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Sctyyad Ilahl Bu khsh al Husciini Angrezabddl. 
XY, 45, and described as a small village south of Maldali. General Cun¬ 
ningham found there an inscription dated 647 (1249) ), 
The rest of the volume from pages 226 to 495 is occupied with a history 
of Bengal, but I do not think that it contains anything new or valuable. 
It seems to be in great measure compiled from the Biya^u-s-salatTn, the 
Siyaru-1-mutakhkharin, and Marshman’s History of India. The only things 
I noticed in it was a reference at page 246 to rupis of Taghral Shah being 
occasionally picked up in Gaur, an account and representation at pages 285, 
and 286 of Sikkas of Mahmud Shah which the author had seen, and which 
bore the date 944 (1537), and a copy at page 327, of Sultan Shuja‘’s seal. 
Conclusion. 
I have now finished my analysis of the Bengal portion of the 
IOiurshld Jalian Numa. It will be seen that, so far as publication is 
concerned, Ilahi Bakhsh has been anticipated with regard to most of the 
inscriptions. Apparently the only entirely new inscriptions are five in 
number, viz ., one of 913 at page 133 of MS., one of 1170 (qr. 1059) at 
page 153, one of 1000 at page 158, one of 943 at page 179, and one of 
711 at page 183. At page 206 we have an inscription which is not new, 
but of which the date is given as 870 instead of 970, as in Ravenshaw. 
The dates of the saints’ deaths, &c., viz., 738 for Jalalu-d-din 
Tabriz!, 786 for £ Alau-l-haqq, and 818 for Nuru-l-haqq are new, and so 
are the chronograms which express them. Much of the information too 
about the saints and their shrines is new. At page 246 we have a 
reference to coins of Ta gh ral Shah, and at page 286 we have a descrip¬ 
tion of a coin of Muhammad Shall, dated 944, which seems to be new. 
On the whole, I think, we must say that Ilahl Bakhsh has done 
well, and that he deserves to be held in remembrance along with 
Ghulam Husain, Creighton, Francklin, Ravenshaw and Blochmann. 
APPENDIX A. 
Note on the Site op Ekdala. 
In J. A. S. B., XLIIT, 244, there is a note by Mr. Westmacott, 
accompanied by a map, in which he endeavours to show that the 
Ekdala of Bengal history was a place of that name in Dinajpur. But 
Mr. Westmacott did not actually see the spot, and after weighing the 
evidence it seems to me that there can be no reasonable doubt that the 
Ekdala of history is the well-known place of that name in the district of 
Dacca. This Ekdala is marked in Rennell’s map, No. 6, of the Low 
Countries beyond the Ganges, under the name of Ekdala, as lying about 
25 miles north-north-east of Dacca, on the west side of the Banar, near 
its confluence with the Laksmia. The situation of this Ekdala corre- 
