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A. H. 
781 
761 
748 
746 
743 
direction of Dehli and part of the plunder was given as a present to 
Shahab-ud-Din. Little Tibet also sent a message desiring peace. 
On liis return to his capital he made his younger brother Hindal his 
heir to the exclusion of his sons Hasan Klian and All Khan whom he 
sent away in the direction of Delili. He reigned, in all, 20 years. In 
his reign Musalmans were few in the land, but as this king built a city 
which he called by his own name, he created in it a mosque, probably 
the first built in the valley. 
Kutuh-ud-Din. —Hindal succeeded him under the title of Kutub- 
ud-Din. His reign was disturbed by troubles at the bottom of which 
was his nephew Hasan Khan. He is said to have reigned fifteen years 
five months and to have died in 795 A. H. 
Working back from this date with the data which our historian 
has supplied us with, we shall find that Kutub-ud-Din 
ascended the throne in ... ... 
Shahab-ud-Din ... 
Ala-ud-Din ... 
Jamshed 
Shams-ud-Din ... 
We have seen before that it was in 747 Shams-ud Din came to the 
throne. 
The “ Nama-i-Shahan-i-Kashmir” gives 796 A. H. as the year of 
Kutub-ud-Din’s death and the Tawarikh-i-Kashmir” gives 795. Litho¬ 
graphed editions of Farishtah give 796 A. H. Prinsep’s Tables give 
799 A. H. General Cunningham makes it in 138t3 A. D. = 788 A. H. 
The five authorities bring it within a compass of eight years, so that no 
one of them is very much out. The Muhammadan historian concludes 
his account of the above reign with an Arabic question *IpI <xlj| j 
and God knows what is right. This is his way of getting out of the 
difficulty. With our present knowledge it must be ours too. 
Sikandar. —It was somewhere about the end of the reign of 
Richard II, that Sikandar the son of Kutub-ud-Din ascended the throne 
of Kashmir. He was young having been born in his father’s later years. 
His mother Surah looked after his interests. She drove away Sikan- 
dar’s father-in-law. Rai Madari, a noble of the court poisoned Sikan- 
dar’s younger brother Haibat Khan and thus relieved him of this 
source of anxiety. But the poisoner fearing the king obtained permis¬ 
sion to conquer Little Tibet. This he accomplished and then revolted. 
Sikandar in person moved against him and Rai Madari was defeated and 
being taken prisoner he poisoned himself. Sikandar then looked after 
Tibet on his own account. 
It was at this time that Taimur made his descent upon India. 
