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Note on a new gold coin of Mahmud Shah bin Muhammad Shah bin 
Tughlug Shah, of Dihli.—Bg J. G-. Delmerick, Esq.. Dihli. 
(With a woodcut.) 
Muhammad bin Tughluq Shah died, according to Zia i Barani, near 
Tattali, on the 21st Muharram, A. H. 752 ; and three days after his death, 
Shams i Siraj relates that Firuz Shah assumed the robes of sovereignty in 
camp, and shortly after marched via Dipalpur and Sirsa to Dihli. 
In the meanwhile, at Dihli, Khwajah Jahan, a relation of the late king 
and Governor of the Capital, on hearing of the death of Sultan Muhammad, 
placed a boy, aged six years, a son of the late king, upon the throne. The 
name of this son is not given by either Ziauddin Barani or Shams i Siraj, 
who both write of him as a pretended or supposititious son. Several other 
Historians whose works I have consulted, are also silent as regards his 
name or title, but both are correctly given in the Khulagat ut-Tawarfkh of 
Sujan Bai K’hatri, a comparatively modern compilation. My edition of 
Firishtah erroneously calls him Muhammad, the same as his father. 
Firishtah, however, thought that there was strong reason for believing that 
the child set up at Dihli by Khwajah Jahan was actually a son of Muham¬ 
mad bin Tughluq. * 
Firuz Shall marched to Dihli, and on his approaching the city, 
Khwajah Jahan finding that nearly all the adherents of the young king 
had forsaken him, and joined the popular aspirant, went out himself to 
Fathabad to meet Firuz Shah and to obtain forgiveness.* 
Firuz Shah personally wished to forgive him, for he was a very old 
man ; but it was deemed impolitic to do so by the royal advisers, and he 
was therefore decapitated. 
The fate of the child, the hapless pageant of royalty, is unknown and 
has not been recorded ; but it is not improbable that he, too, like his aged 
relative, Khwajah Jahan, met with a tragic end. 
Firuz Shah entered Dihli on the 22nd Bajab, 752. 
* Vide page 285, Vol. Ill, of Elliot’s Muhammadan Historians, by Dowsou. 
