1S7U] H. Bloclimann —Geography and History of Bengal. —No. II. 297 
dunya wacldin Abul Muzaffar* Barbak Shall, the king, son of Mahmud 
Shah, the king—may God perpetuate &c.,!—on the 5tli Rajab (may its honor increase !) 
of the year 868 [4th March, 1464]. 
On the mosque itself is a smaller inscription in four compartments. I 
have not deciphered the whole. 
Aj budJ! , J )osr' u ^ /, ° -AJ ,sc Aw . aU! c aa!) /Jli 
• •• L_p • L_5 ‘ Cv i J L-5 > * v -' 
.. « *• « ~ 
u2J;UdJ AA-oM) ^ . . # Axs^) ^3 aI All) 
♦♦ •* 
wK> sjJ 
_Jx) ^ iAiyc &JUI aIA. xXaS * * * # Kyf *_ syi 
OJ 
•jj \jj 
IaI) ^ f aUI aM*« •.., &.‘Aw j ^j./<) 
The Prophet (blessings on him !) says, ‘ He who builds, &c., [as above]. This mosque 
(was built) in the blessed town of T i r u a b a d, generally known (’urf) as D e o t a 1 a o, in the 
reign of.k Shall,—may God perpetuate his kingdom and rule and elevate his condition 
and dignity !—by [Ulugli Murabit Khan]..., may God protect him in both worlds!. 
The wanting portions seem to contain the name of Ulugh Murabit 
Khan, and at the end the words— 
AjUjuJ ^jJl up to the year 978 (?) 
1 Murabit’ means ‘ guarding the frontiers.’ The name ‘ Tiruabad’ ap¬ 
pears to be no longer known. 
Shamsuddi'n Abul Muzaffar Yu'suf Sha'h. 
(Fourteenth king.) 
According to the histories, Barbak Shah died in 879 A. IT. The latest 
hitherto ascertained date is 873 ; but the Persian MS. on Shall Isma’il Glia- 
* This seems to be a mistake for Abul Mujahid. The old Persian Dictionary, 
entitled ‘ Sharafnamah i Ibrahimi,’ which is dedicated to Barbak Shall, lias also ‘Abul 
Muzaffar’; but as we know nothing regarding the author or his native town, and nothing 
definite regarding the year in which he completed liis dictionary, it is possible that the 
Barbak Shall, to whom he dedicated his dictionary, is the Barbak Shah of Jaunpur, who 
ruled in Jaunpur from 879 (the year when the Bengal Barbak Shall is said to have died) 
to 881. Later, lie was restored by Sikandar Lodi. Mr. Thomas (Chronicles, p. 877) has 
coins of 892 and 894; but they contain no julus- name. Vide Journal, A. S. Bengal, 
1868, p. 8. 
The kunyah of Muzaffar Shah of Bengal, I believe, to be Abul-Na^r, as given 
on inscriptions ; and I believe the coin published in Journal, 1873, p. 312, gives this 
name likewise. 
A. similar confusion may be noticed in the Jcunyah of Aurangzib, which is Alul-Za- 
far, as given in the histories and on coins; but many inscriptions of his reign 
have the more common Abul Muzaffar. 
The most common kunyahs of Indian kings are Abul-Muzaffar, Abul-Mujahid, Abul- 
Fatli, Abul-Zafar, Abul-Na^r, Abu Na 9 r, Abul-Mahamid, Abul-Ma’ali, and Abul-Barakat; 
but there are not many more. 
