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1. I praise God a hundred times, and abundantly glorify Ahmad, the elect. 
2. This heaven-touching portico was erected . 
3. The world-adorning M u h a m m a d, who breaks through the ranks, the sha¬ 
dow of God in every realm, 
4. A b u 1 M u j a h i d, the Khalifah of high dignity,.. 
5. The builder of this desirable edifice is the slave Mubarak Mahmud, 
6. Of royal descent, the grandson of Shah. 
7. This dynasty, on account of its elevation, has obscured the memory of 
Subuktigin i Ghazl. 
When this...was erected, I said, it was 737, A. H. (A D., 1336-37.) 
If the name in the sixth line were not broken away, we might fix the 
name of the builder with the help of p. 451 of Barani’s history. 
Nos. 35 to 37. The Malik Ibrahim Bayyu Inscriptions of Bihar. 
The next three inscriptions belong to the Dargah of Ibrahim Abu 
Bakr Malik Bayyu, who is par excellence the saint of Bihar. The shrine 
lies on the hill to the north-west of the town. 
Malik Bayyu was first mentioned by Buchanan, who supposed him to 
be a purely mythological personage. Mr. T. W. Beale next published in his 
valuable Miftdh uttaivdrikh (p. 90) the first of the following inscriptions. 
Col. E. T. Dalton also mentions him in his ‘ Ethnology of Bengal’ (p. 211), 
and says that Jangra, a Santal Rajah, destroyed himself and his family in 
the Fort of Chai Champa, Hazaribagh District, when he heard of Malik 
Bayyu’s approach. 
The 4 Mujawirs’ or custodians, of the shrine claim to be descended from 
the Malik. According to traditions still preserved among them, Ibrahim 
Malik Bayyu was an inhabitant of Butnagar, and was sent by Muhammad 
Tughluq to chastise Hans Kumar, Rajah of Rohtasgarh. The Rajah 
frequently came to Bargaon, the great Buddhist monastery, to worship. He 
oppressed the poor Muhammadans of the country. Now it happened that 
an old woman, a Sayyidah, killed a cow, in order to celebrate the nuptials 
of her grandson, when a kite snatched up one of the bones, and let it fall 
near the place where the Rajah worshipped. The Rajah was, of course, 
enraged, and put the Muhammadan bridegroom to death. At the advice of 
her friends, the old woman complained to Muhammad Tughluq. Being 
uncertain as to whom he should intrust with the command of an expedition 
against Hans Kumar, he consulted the astrologers. They told him, “ This 
very night a storm will occur in the city, of such violence that all the lights 
will be extinguished. In whose house a lamp may be found burning, he is 
the man best fitted for the undertaking.” Ibrahim Malik Bayyu was found 
reading the Qoran by lamp-light, and next morning he was appointed to 
command the expedition, tie at once advanced to Bihar, and surprised 
Rajah Hans Kumar at the Suraj Pok’har, Bargaon. Although the 
