362 
E. Thomas —The Initial Coinage of Bengal. — Bl. II [No. 4, 
Such an authorized augmentation of the Prince’s state is rendered the 
more probable, as Altamsh in a measure shared with his favourite son the 
honours and dignities conferred by the Khalifah, and simultaneously extended 
to him the right to use an umbrella with the tint of Imperial red.* Na^ir- 
ud-din Mahmud, the contemporary biographer remarks, was from that time 
looked upon as the recognized successor to the throne of Hindustan. 
Equally, after Mahmud’s premature death, his father still so held him in 
honour that his body was brought to Dihli, and enshrined under one of the 
choicest domes that Eastern Saracenic art could achieve, which to this day, 
amid its now broken marbles, stands as a monument of the virtues of this 
prince, and preserves in its decaying walls the remains off the first royal 
tomb of the slave kings erected near the capital,f on the shattered entrance 
arch of which we can still trace the devotional prayer of the father for the 
soul of his son, whose mundane glories he briefly epitomizes as “ King of 
Kings of the East,” implying, in the conventional terms of the day, all 
India beyond the Ghagra. 
And still further to secure a contemporary memento of his lost heir, 
Altamsh conferred the same name and title upon a younger son, who, in his 
* The founder of the Gliaznawi dynasty, the Great Sabuktigin, assumed regal state 
under the shadow of a red umbrella. Altamsh’s ensigns are described as black for the 
right wing AX*a/o oihjjlj, and red for the left wing <Jl*J cnktp . Mu’izz* 
ud-din Muhammad bin Sam’s standards bore the same colours, but the discrimination is 
made that the black pertained to the Ghoris, ai I the red to the Turks, p. | TV. Ghiyas- 
ud-dxn Muhammad bin Sam used black and red for the two wings respectively, p. 83. 
f Inscription on the Tomb op Sulta'n Gha'zi [Na'sir-tjd-di'n Mahmtt'd] at 
Dihli', dated a.h. 629. 
jGj cAiJbc t< /cf 
* ^ j I ^ 1 
UioJf A/0(Nff <?]h (Jk frfiif 
^x/cf ^lkl~Jf yf ( yjjf j 
A.Uf f (jjy**-'| c.£.1/0 AyAj^.1 Afllx) AlJf <n!A. ^.XA/o^Jf 
• • i «• ^ « » A*'l •• * 
II AjU>^o j J L5 5 Ai£^f^ Aj^fljb 
This Tomb, which is known at the Maqbarah of Sultan Ghazi, stands amid the ruins 
of the village of Malikpur Koyi, about three miles due west of the celebrated Qutb Minar. 
Asar-us-Sanadid, Dihli, 1854, pp. 23, 30 (Nos. 12, 18, Facsimile), and 60 (modern 
transcript revised). See also Journal Asiatique, M. G. de Tassy’s translation of the Urdu 
text; also Journal Archaeological Society of Delili, p. 57, and Hand-book for Delili, 1863, 
p. 85. 
X Bukn-ud-dm Firuz Shah, another son of Altamsh, who for a brief period held the 
throne of Dihli, found a final resting-place on the chosen site of Malikpur; and his brother 
in deferred succession, entitled Mu’izz-ud-din Bahram Shah, followed him into the Tomb 
of the Kings in the same locality.—Asar-us-Sanadid, pp. 25, 26. Elliot’s Historians, iii, 
382. Chronicles of Patlian Kings, p. 290. 
