1873.] 
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H. Blochmann— Geography and History of Bengal. 
The reading of the name c Aitigin’ or 11 beautiful moon,’ in this 
inscription was suggested by Mr. Redhouse, and I gladly correct my reading 
rt gin in the Kai Kalis inscription, published by me in the Journal for 1872, 
p. 103, where the correct name of the builder is Zafar Khan Bahrain Aitigin, 
the Royal ( sultani ). # 
The date of this inscription is the latest yet discovered of Kai Kaus’s 
reign. 
Kai Kaus seems to have been succeeded by bis brother Shamsuddin 
Firuz Shah (I). Mr. Thomas quotes coins of this king, dated 702, 715, 720, 
722, and the cabinet of the Asiatic Society of Bengal has three specimens, 
struck at Lak’hnauti, with clear dates 706 and 715, and (slightly doubtful) 
710. 
Three inscriptions of Finiz Shall have hitherto been found, of which 
one, dated 1st Muharram, 713, or 28th April, 1313, was published by me in 
this Journal, for 1870, Part I, p. 287.f The other two inscriptions are from 
Bihar, and are dated 709 and 715. They reveal that Firuz Shah had a son 
Hatim Khan,! who in those two years, and probably in the interval, was 
governor of Bihar. 
No. 5. The Firuz Shah (I) Inscription of Bihar. [B.C.] 
UjjJ) ( S ) S'U*JI SJJt 
w ^ ^ 
Aihd Ljf j AjUal*^ aH*. ^Ual, II sti J 3j yi yOi J) ^j] ^jjJI _, 
aXU ak. J.LLJI ^U. ^U. * # ^UJI JjU) JaUI| d U ! l 
This (additional ?) building was erected in the reign of the great Sultan 
Shamsuddunya waddin Abul M u z a ff a r Firuz Shah, the king, (may God 
perpetuate his kingdom and his rule!) and during the governorship of the just and 
liberal Khan, the champion of God, ## H a t i m Khan, the son of the king, may God 
perpetuate his rule ! The weak slave Muhammad Husain Tak’harori. During the 
months of the year 709. [A. D., 1309.] 
A plate of this inscription was published in this Journal, for 1871, 
Part I, PI. viii. The inscription itself is attached to a lofty gateway, 
which together with an arched hall, fast falling to decay, and a roolless 
mosque, forms the remains of what tradition calls Hatim Khan’s palace. 
It stands on a gentle eminence, due east of the Bihar mountain. 
* Or, we might at onco translate, ‘ the Sultan for sultani, as abs: act noun, 
occurs on numerous coins ; vide Proceedings A. S. Bongal, for Juno, 1870, p. 152. 
The translation of the other portions of the inscription is here confirmed. 
■f Wliero in the third line for read fjM- 
t Besides the four sons mentioned by Mr. Thomas, Clmmicles, p. 148. 
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