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This mosque was built in the reign of the great Sultan Stamsuddunya 
w a cl cl l n Abul Muz affar Piruz Shah, the king, and during the govern or ship 
of the Khaqan of the age, known as Hatim Khan, may God cause their shadows 
to last! The slave, who trusts in God and hopes for His mercy, the meanest of 
mankind, Bahrain, son of Haji, may God turn to him and may He pardon his parents ! 
On the first day of the month of Rajab of the year 715. [1st October, 1315.] 
This inscription, a fine slab of basalt, leans against the wall of the 
Chhota Dargah in Bihar. 
Two other sons of Firuz Shah, Shihabuddin Buglidali Shall and the 
well known Gfhiyasuddfn Bahadur Shah, struck coins as £ kings of Bengal’ 
during the lifetime of their father. Of the former, Mr. Thomas says 
(Chronicles, p. 194)— C£ Neither history, incidental biography, nor numis¬ 
matic remains avail to do more than prove the elevation, as they seem to 
indicate the brief and uneventful rule, of Shihabuddin Bughdah Shah. No 
date or place of mintage is preserved.” However, the cabinet of the Asiatic 
Society possesses two specimens, # one of the same kind as published by Mr. 
Thomas (Chronicles, PI. YI, No. 4), and a new variety, containing the same 
legend, but with the letters, on the obverse, close together, and with a 
instead of the star on the reverse. The former fortunately contains a 
complete margin, with the clear legend— 
This silver coin was struck at LaTdhnauti in the year 718. 
Mr. Thomas looks upon the cl in the name of this king as the Hindi 5, 
which is so often interchanged with J re. This maybe the case, inasmuch as 
Shiliab, according to Muhammadan custom, would assume the name of his 
grandfather fy*?, hughra ;f but in India, people seem early to have substituted 
a clal for the re ; hence we find in the Ain the form huglidi.% 
Grhiyasuddin Bahadur Shah was the last of the Balbani kings of Bengal. 
<£ In A.FI. 733, Muhammad ibn i Tughluq is found issuing his own coin in 
* Evidently Babu Rajendralala Mitra’s selections from the Kocfi Bihar board, 
f Which signifies a male ‘ Bactrian camel’ (with two humps). The spellings 
given in dictionaries are Ij-fj - \j*\ - j*.i - . 
1 Vide my Ain translation, p. 143. 
