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1873.] H. Blochmann— Geography and History of Bengal. 
that his son does not mention the name of his father on his coins, which he 
would scarcely have omitted, if Ivans had turned Muhammadan. And if 
we look upon this Bayazid Shall as a successful rival of Rajah Kans, we 
have history and legends against us. Hence the theory of a puppet king—a 
bendmi transaction—is perhaps the least objectionable. 
1. Vide PI. VIII, No. 2. Silver. Weight, 163*94 grains. A.H. 812. 
Circular areas. (Asiatic Society of Bengal, one specimen.) 
Obverse.— ski y \ j kWf 
Margin. —Cut away. 
Reverse.— ^ 
Margin .— A | t .. . . <&w| 
Assisted by the assistance of the Merciful, Shihabuddunyd wad din 
Abul Muzaffar Bayazid Shah, the king. 
The helper of the Commander of the Faithful, the aid of Islam and the Muslims, 
may God perpetuate his reign! This coin was struck ***** year 812. 
2 Vide PL VIII, No. 3. # New variety. Silver. Weight, 165*76 
grains. Firuzabad, A. H. 816. (Asiatic Society of Bengal, two specimens.) 
Rare. The obverse has sixteen convex scollops, and the reverse eight 
concave ones. 
Obverse. —As in No. 1. 
Margin. —Cut away. 
Reverse .—^ 
Margin. — a | *| ( ^ ebf ) 
In the Margin —(Abu Bakr) struck at (’Umar) Fjruz-(’Usman) abad_ w in the year 
(’Ali) 816. 
Rajah Kans has been identified by Mr. E. V. Westmacottf with 
Ganesh, Rajah of‘Dynwaj,’ or Dinajpur. The Riyaz, who appears to have 
compiled his chapter on this usurper from local traditions, calls him ‘ Rajali 
of Bhaturiah.’ Whether this name is an ancient one, I cannot say ; it does 
not occur in the Ain, nor have I seen it before the time of Rennell’s Atlas 
(1778), in which the name of Bhaturiah is given to a large District east of 
Maldah, hounded in the west by the Mahananda River and the Purna- 
* In the figure of tbis coin, there is a wrong stroke between the a and f in the 
year. 
f Vide Calcutta Review, No CX, October, 1872. Col. Dalton suggests a compa¬ 
rison of the name ‘ Kans’ with ‘ Rons,’ or ‘ Konch,’ the same as Koch (Koch Bihar), 
Koch is often pronounced with a nasal twang, as if it were spelt Rons. 
It is also curious that a Parganah near Dinajpur (south-west of it) has the name 
of ‘ B a j i t p u r,’ a well known Bangali corruption of Bayazidpur, which at once 
reminds us of Bayazid Shah. We may attach some significance to this, as the name is 
evidently old ; for the name of this very parganah occurs in the Ain i Akbari (my 
text edition, p. 403, in Sirkar Panjrah). 
