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perhaps the words ‘aim roya may merely mean that ‘All Mubarak had 
an interview with the saint, or Grhulara Husain may have made a 
mistake, or used an incorrect expression, for the Bibliotheca Indica text 
shows that there is a grammatical error in the passage. The subsequent 
vision is intelligible, for by that time ( 741), the saint had left Pandua. 
Mr. Blochmann translates here “one night Jalalu-d-din again appeared 
to him,” but the word again is not in the original. If we suppose 
that there was an actual interview, and that the Shaikhu-l-islam. who 
turned Jalalu-d-din out of Delhi was Nizamu-d-din Auliya, the whole 
story might hang very well together. 1 For it was in the first year 
of his reign that Muhammad Shah appointed Malik Firoz as his Naib, 
and this was just after Nizamu-d-din’s death, viz., 725. 
Mr. Blochmann has represented the Riyaz as saying that ‘All 
Mubarak killed his benefactor Qadr Khan and then killed Fakhrn-d-din 
in revenge for this. But whatever the sentence may mean grammati¬ 
cally, I think that Ghulam Husain meant to say that it was Fakhru-d- 
din, who killed Qadr Khan, and this is how Ilahi Bakhsh has understood 
the passage. 
The statement in Abu-1-fazl that Jalalu-d-din’s tomb was in the 
port of Dev Mahal puzzled me for a good while. Then I found in 
Ravenshaw’s Gaur, p. 46, a statement that according to some people, the 
saint died on one of the Maldives. And I also found Blochmann, J. A. 
S- B., XLIL, 260, referring to the passage and saying that Bandar Din 
Mahall was either the Maldives or Din in Gujarat. Ilahi Bakhsh’s 
statement that Dev Mehal is in Bengal is evidently merely a guess, and 
there can be no doubt that the Maldives are the place meant, Dev Mehal 
being merely a corruption of Mahaldiv, or Mahaldib, which is the native 
name for the islands. The Maldives lie south south-west of India and 
not far from Cape Comorin. 
Though we do not find that the name of Jalalu-d-din is known there, 
yet we find that the name of his country is known, and that the natives 
ascribe their conversion to a saint who came from Tabriz in Persia. 
This seems strong confirmation of the story that Jalalu-d-din’s tomb is 
in the Maldives. 
The following extract from Messrs. Young and Christopher’s 
account of the Maidive islands will be fotond interesting. I give it the 
more readily because the early volumes of the transactions of the 
1 But of course this is opposed to the authorities, and if Jalalu-d-din was excep¬ 
tionally long-lived, as Ibn Batutah says, there is no difficulty in the chronology, and 
the Shaikhu-l-islam may have been Najmu-d-din Saghra. We do not know when 
this man died, but he is said to have been deposed by Shamsu-d-din Altamsh. 
Apparently then Jalalu-d-din left Delhi for Badaon and Bengal not later than 633, 
(1236 for Altamsh died in that year). 
