1873.] H. Blochmann —Geography and History of Bengal. 
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No. 22. The Mahmud Shah (II) Inscription of Gaur. (A. H. 896 ?) 
(PI. VII, No. 3.) 
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^UaRJ) AJi UidJ) jAS ^1UJ5| 
£j| ^**1) jJarVI ^sr*) Js-^l ^XJ AillaJU j *XJLo Hi) HA 
<Ua« J, ] 51 ^ (*^Jlf) %^UfJ *** 
II [S XjUjUj _j j 
The Prophet (may God bless him !) says, ‘He who builds, &c., [as before]. This 
mosque was built iu the reign of the king of the time, (who' is endowed) with justice 
and liberality, the help of Islfcn and the Muslims, Nagiruddunya wad din 
Abul Mujahid Mahmud Shah, the king—may God perpetuate his kingdom 
and rule!—by the great and exalted Khan Ulugh Majlis Khan.(illegible). Dated, 
23rd Rabi’. 
Marsden has published a silver coin of this king, which has likewise 
no date ( vide Numism., PI. XXXVI, No. DCCXXIV); but, as Laidley 
correctly observes, he ascribes it wrongly to Mahmud Shah of Dihli. The 
legend of the coin is— 
Reverse.—( ? ) j <xiu.U> 
Obverse.—• sb* jp • UWf j.A jaWf ^(LJLJi 
The words hiVadl wal-ihsan are not clear, they may also he ojbo yjf l j 
as elsewhere suggested by me ; but the former coincides with the phrase used 
in the inscription. I cannot see the word which Laidley gives. 
According to the chronological remarks made by me regarding the 
reign of Firiiz Shah, we have to place Mahmud Shah’s reign in 896, A. H. 
XX. ShamsuddiTi Abul-Nasr MuzafFar ShaTi. 
(SIdi Badr Diwanah.) 
The reign of this king, who is represented to have been a blood-thirsty 
monster, is said in all histories to have lasted three years and five months • 
but his death at the hands of the next king cannot have taken place in 903, 
because his coins and inscriptions mention the years 896 and 898. He must, 
therefore, have been killed in 899, the first year in which Husain Shah struck 
coins. 
A MuzafFar Shah inscription was published by me in the Journal for 
1872, p. 107, from an imperfect rubbing. Since then Mr. W. M. Bourke 
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