114 C. J. Rodgers— The Square Silver Coins of [No. 2, 
it is not known what became of Ibrahim Shah : he disappeared no one 
knows where or how or in what direction. He had reigned 8 months 
and 5 days. (For a coin of our Ibrahim Shah, see No. 16, PI. II.) 
Ndzu/c Shah (Nadir ?).—Nazuk Shah (I retain this word because 
all the MSS. seem to have it, but all the coins have Nadir) on ascend¬ 
ing the throne of his forefathers, set himself -to encourage the natives 
of Kashmir, who were uneasy about the Mughals. The natives were 
pleased with him and took him to Naoshera the old capital of the Sul¬ 
tans of Kashmir. Abdal Makari became his prime minister. He 
pursued Malik Gaji Chakk to the confines of Jahalnagari, but could not 
take him prisoner. He then returned and busied himself in the settle¬ 
ment of Kashmir. He divided the country into four parts, one he kept 
himself, one he gave to Shaikh Mir Ali, and one was given to the 
soldiers. (A MS. in the British Museum adds, one was given to Lanhar 
Makari and one to Malik Zangi Chakk.) To the allies he had obtained 
obtained from Babar he gave many presents and dismissed them in 
the direction of India. Then he sent a letter of harsh rebuke to Malik 
Gaji Chakk, but Muhammad Shah he again recalled from his prison of 
Lanharkot and the two entered Kashmir as friends and thus Muhammad 
Shah was agnin set upon the throne. 
Muhammad Shah. 4 th Time .—Muhammad Shall as a tribute of grati¬ 
tude to Nazuk Shah who had reigned 20 years and 20 months (?) made 
him the heir-apparent. In this year died Babar the first Mughal Emperor 
of Dehli and he was succeeded by Nasir-ud-Din Muhammad Humayun. 
This we know was in the year 937 A. H. Here we get therefore to land 
at last. The whole of the reigns of Muhammad Shah and his rivals is 
one tangled mass of confusion. There is no reliance‘whatever to be 
placed in a historian when he makes a man reign exactly the same num¬ 
ber of years, months and days. We read 11 years and 11 months and 
11 days and 20 years and 20 months ! No two histories agree. One 
MS. in the British Museum omits Nazuk Shall altogether. Many men 
undoubtedly ascended the throne in this time of confusion. The date of 
Abdal Makarl’s invasion of Kashmir with the aid of the Mughals is placed 
in a MS. in the British Museum at 935 A. H. This would make the reign 
of Nazuk Shah more like 20 months in length. We may I think take the 
above date 937 A. H. as correct. After a year Malik Gaji Chakk, who had 
taken refuge in the mountains returned and beseiged Kahrar, Abdal 
Makari went to meet him and defeating him pursued him to Bliir. At 
this time the Panjab was governed by Kamran, the brother of Humayun, 
Shaikh A'li Beg and Muhammad Khan the leaders of the allies who had 
helped Abdal Makari, and who had left him without permission, went 
to Kamran and represented to him how easy it would be to conquer 
