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’Ala-ulhaq died on the 1st Rajab, 800, or 20th March, 1398, and his 
tomb is at Hazrat Panduah. 
4. SJiaiJch Nuruddin JVur Qutb ’ A'lam . 
He is the son and spiritual successor of ’Ala-ulhaq. In order early 
<to practise the virtue of humility, he washed the clothes of beggars and 
wanderers, and kept the water constantly hot for ceremonial ablutions; nay, 
he even swept the cell of his father and cleaned the privies attached to the 
house. One day, whilst thus engaged, his pure body was polluted, and 
his father allowed him to proceed to other work, as woodcutting. He refused 
the invitation of his worldly brother A’zam Khan, who was the Yazir at 
the court of Muhammad Tughluq.* 
Qutb ’Alam died in 851, or A. D. 1447, and lies buried at Panduah. 
The words shams ul hiddyat , ‘ lamp of guidance,’ are the tarilch of his death. 
He was succeeded by his sons Ruf’atuddin and Shaikh Anwar. 
IX. Ra'jah Ka'ns. 
We saw above that Shamsuddm (II.)—a king whose existence and royal 
titles have not yet been verified by medallic or mural evidence—was 
dethroned by Kajali Kans. This Rajah, at the present stage of research, 
belongs to legends and traditions rather than to authenticated history, there 
being little else known of him besides the fact that through him the 
succession of kings of the house of Ilyas Shah, which had successfully ruled 
over Bengal for more than fifty years, was broken, and that his son became 
a Muhammadan. 
The remark of the Riyaz regarding Shamsuddm and the probability 
that he did not belong to the old dynasty, but was an adopted son and was 
called Shihabuddin, receives a particular importance from the following 
coins of a new king, whom I shall now assign, for the first time, I believe, 
a place in the list of the kings of Bengal. Their manner of execution, which 
follows closely on that of the coins of preceding kings, and the mint towns 
mentioned proclaim them to be Bengal coins. The name of the new kina’ 
is— 
Shiha'buddi'n Abul Muzaffar Ba'yazi'd Sha'h. 
His coins do not mention the name of his father, and the absence of 
the usual phrase ibn ussultan, ‘ son of the king,’ indicates that he was either 
a usurper, in which case ‘ Bayazid ’ might represent the Muhammadan 
name of Rajah Kans after conversion, or a puppet king, in whose name 
Rajah Kans reigned and coined in the ‘ Darul Islam’ of Bengal. 
If we take the first alternative, we have against it the clear statement 
of the historians that Kans remained a Hindu, and also the circumstance 
* This is rather early, considering that 752 is Tughluq’s last year. 
