275 
1873.] H. Blochmann— Geography and History of Bengal. 
Some traditions say that the seal was of light, and others, that it vanished 
from the skin when the Prophet expired, so much so that people knew 
by its disappearance that the prophet was really dead. Several authorities 
compare the seal to the egg of a pigeon: some call it a ^ ‘ a red 
fleshknot,’ and others say that it was a wart covered with hair. 
Marsden gives a Barbak coin which clearly shews the year 873. # 
The cabinet of the Asiatic Society of Bengal contains the following :— 
1. Vide PI. IX, No. 7. New variety. Silver. Weight 16P025 
grains. (Asiatic Society’s Cabinet.) A specimen in the possession of Babu 
Bajendralala Mitra weighs 164335 grains. 
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BEVERSE.— • # JkLJt 
Neither of these coins give Barbak’s full name. 
XIV. Shamsuddi'n Abul Muzafifar Yu'suf Sha'h, son of Barbak Shah. 
Firishtah represents him as a learned man, who, after his accession 
charged the ’Ulama to see the law of the Prophet carried out. ‘ No one 
dared drink wine.’ 
The histories assign him a reign of seven years and six months, and 
say that he died in 887. If so, the end of his reign was marked by a suc¬ 
cessful rebellion of his uncle Fatli Shall; but it is just as likely that Yusuf 
died early in 886. 
Marsden has a coin of this king without year, and Laidley gives a new 
variety of 881.f General Cunningham’s inscriptions give the following 
dates— 
1. Panduah, 1st Muharram, 8S2, or 15th April, 1477. 
2. Hazrat Panduah, 20th Bajab, 884, or 8th October, 1479. 
3. Gaur, 10th Bamazan, 885, or 13th November, 1480. 
No. 12. The Yusuf Shah Inscription of Panduah, Hugli District. % 
(PI. YI, No. 1.) A. H. 882. 
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* Vide also Journal, As. Soc. Bengal, 1870, Part I., p. 299, note, 
f Babu Bajendralala Mitra has a specimen (like Laidley’s) of 883 The 
margin, similarly to Fatli Shah’s coins, contains shamrocks separated by dots. 
Weight 163 - G5 grains. 
+ Vide, Journal, As. Socy., Bengal, 1870, Pt. I., p. 300. 
