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II. Blochmann —Geography and History of Bengal. [No. 3, 
in Panduah, ’All Shah’s capital, in 740 ancl 744, and in uninterupted 
succession from 746 (probably the correct year when ’All Shah was overcome 
by him) to 758. 
III. Ikhtiya'mddi'n Abul MusafFar Gha'zi' Sha'li. 
Fakhruddin Mubarak Shall was succeeded in Eastern Bengal by Ikhti- 
yaruddin, who styles himself “ son of the Sultan.” We may, therefore, ac¬ 
cept Mr. Thomas’s hypothesis that he was the son of Mubarak Shah. Coins 
are the only testimony on which the name of this king of Eastern Bengal 
has found a place in the list of kings. The figure of one of the coins given 
by Mr. Thomas, as also the specimen in the cabinet of the Bengal Asiatic 
Society, shew the year 753.^ 
IV. Shanxsuddi'n Abul MusafFar Ilya's Sha'h. 
The relation of this king to ’Alauddin ’All Shah and Firuz Shah III. 
of Dihli has been mentioned above. Having in 746 become master of West¬ 
ern Bengal, he established himself, in 753, in Sunnargaon (Thomas, p. 269), 
and thus founded a dynasty, which, with an interruption of about forty 
years in the beginning of the 9th century of the Hijrah, continued to rule 
over Bengal till 896 A.H. 
Ilyas Shah’s successes in Eastern Bengal were followed by an attempt 
to extend the western boundaries of the kingdom, and according to the 
Biydz he pushed as far as the Banaras district. In order to punish him, 
Firuz Shah, in 754, after marching through Tirhut and Purniah, invaded 
Bengal and besieged Ekdalah. The defeat of Ilyas Shah is almost humor¬ 
ously described by Ziya i Barani. But “ the invasion only resulted in the 
confession of weakness, conveniently attributed to the periodical flooding of 
the country,” and Firuz Shah withdrew,f appointing collectors, apparently 
# Thomas, Chronicles, PL VI, fig. 9. The margin clearly gives A figure 
with would he desirable, so that the reign of this king might be fixed from 751 
to 753. 
f It is said in the Tabaqdt i Akbari , under Ilyas Shah, that Firuz Shah’s expedition 
lasted from the 10th Shawwal, 754, till 11th Kabi’ I, 755. As the latter date corresponds 
to the 5th April 1353, it could only have been prospect of the rains, not the setting in 
of that season, that drove Firuz Shah back to Dihli. The army, according to Barani, 
complained of mosquitos in the vicinity of Panduah. 
The ‘ Firuzpurabad,’ mentioned by Stewart and quoted by Mr. Thomas (p. 264, note 
2), where Firuz Shall pitched his camp, should be c Firuzpur.’ The Riydz says —“ At 
a place where now Firuzpur lies (bajde kill alyaum Frnlzpur dbddast, not Firuzpurabad 
astj, Firuz Shah pitched his camp, and starting from that place on horseback laid siege 
to the fort of Panduah. In the fort Sultan Shamsuddin had left his son, whilst ho 
himself had retreated to Fort Ekdalah, which is very strong.” The maps shew 
several Firuzpurs round about Gaur ; thus two are south of the fort of Gaur. 
