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1873.] H. Blochmann —Geography and History of Bengal. 
Bengal, and Bahadur, defeated and put to death, contributed an example to 
insurgent governors in his own skin, which was stuffed and paraded 
through the province and the empire.” # And already the year before, we 
find that a palace had been built, or renovated, in Bihar for the Imperial 
JSTdib, which tradition still calls the ‘ sukunat,’ or residency. 
No. 7. The Sukunat Inscription of Bihar. [B.C.] 
(Al <3 L b j cshV u ^ jU ^ ^ 
J.J| ^U-xLo t-fBo J &‘ /C ^ iS& 
Ai*o ^LAcj j-^Jl {Jj ' 0 $ 4 ^ 1 c_s^ J cKiGi^ (jUal^Jl ^LdtUj 
This high and world-adorning gate, and this lofty, heaven-touching portico, 
were renewed in the reign of the Khalffah, the asylum of the world, whose court is 
the heaven the Lord of the kings of the universe, the ruler of mankind who gives 
security and safety to the people of the Faith, the heir of the kingdom of Solomon, 
AbulMuiahid Muhammad, son of Tughluq Shah, the Sultan, (may his 
kingdom and rule be perpetuated!). On the first day of the blessed month of 
Ramazan, 732, A. H. [27th May, 1332]. 
From this time till the beginning of the 10th century, Southern Bihar 
as remarked above, remained detached from Bengal, and followed the fortunes 
of the empires of Dihli and of Jaunpur. , , , 1q . 
Muhammad Tughluq’s governors of Lak hnauti, Satgaon, and Sunnai- 
f n did not long remain undisturbed, and the death of Bahrain Khan, 
Governor of the last province, was the commencement of new revolutions, 
which led to the establishment of a lme of independent kings. 
n 
II. 
The Second Period, or the period op the Independent kings op 
Bengal (1338 to 1538, A.D.) 
For this period I shall take the kings singly, and collect for each reig 
• I have been able to gather from the rubbings 
!>, -T. Wise, and Mr. E. V. West macott, 
a \ an d from unpublished Bengal coins m the Society s cabinet. 
i h .„e also compared the corresponding chapter 
with the' statements given in the Tabaqtt i Akhari and m 1 mshtah. 
The line of the independent kings commences with 
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* Thomas, Chronicles, p. 200. 
