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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MAY, 1899.
coins of the period -- which are the most reliable evidence - corroborate the statement of our author, and negative that of Firishtah. Further evidence against Firishtah is to be found in the Taşkarat-ul-Mulak - from which I have given several extracts - and in extracts from Tarikh-i Jahan-Art and Siraj-ul-şulab. The latter written in A. H. €21. (British Lib.-Or. 1964, fol. 5 b. et seq. and fol. 34 - ride Dr. Rieu's Catalogue,p. 1039.) There may also be others which I have not yet seen.
The Burhan-i Ma,dair is essentially a history of the Nizam-Sbabi dynasty of Abmadnagar, and derives its title from Barhân Nizâm-Shah II. (A. H. 999-1003), the reigning sovereign, under whose auspices the work was written. The title is also & chronogram recording the year when the work was commenced, viz., A. H. 1000 (A. D. 1591), and the history is brought down to the latter part of A. H. 1004 (A.D. 1595-96).
As I have before remarked (ante, Sept, 1898, p. 233), only three copies of this work are known to exist; and its extreme rarity doubtless accounts for its not having previously been brought to notice. The style of the Burhán-i Ma,ásir is more ornate than Firisl.tah's history; and in general completeness is inferior to the latter; bat, at the same time, our author in many instances gives details not given by Firishtah, and relates the same occurrences in a different way; so the one work serves as a useful complement to the other. I bave pot thought it necessary to point out all the points of difference, as it would make the present work too elaborate. The reader can easily do that for himself; and with this and Briggs' Translation of Firishtah before him, he will have all the available raw material for a history of the Bahmant Dynasty, as far as it can be gathered from Persian historical MSS.
Sultans of the Bahmani Dynasty.
Dates of Accession.
Names.
A. H.
A. D.
1347 1358 1373 1378 1378
Assassinated.
Do.
Blinded and deposed. Deposed.
*Ald-ud-Din Haşan Muhammad I. ... Mujahid ... D&ûd ... ... Muhammad II. Gbiyes-ud-Din Shams-ud-Din ... Firdz ... ... Ahmad ... ... *Ald-ud-Din II. Humayun .. Nizam .. .. Muḥammad II. Afaḥmad
Do.
1397 1397 1422 1435 1457
1461 1463 1482
Died 24th Zl-ul-Hijjah, 924 (26th December 1518), } when the Dynasty became practically extinct.
