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THÉ INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JULY, 1899.
During his reign Sultan Muhammad promoted Khwajah Jahan - who was one of the amirs of his illustrious grandfather to the rank of Vakil and Amir-ul-Umrå; and Saiyid Taj-adDin Jakajût, son of Saiyid Rapi-ad-Din Kutb-ul-Mulk, after his father, obtained from the Sultan the title of Kutb-ul-Mulk.
After a reign of nineteen years and nine months, or -- according to another account -- nineteen years and six months, this just king died.
This event occurred on the 26th of the month Rajab, A. H. 799 (25th April, A. D. 1397).0
Sultan Muhammad Shah had two RODE — Sultan Ghiys-ud-Din Muhammad Shah and Sultan Shams-ud-Din Dâ, ad Shah, both of whom reigned in their torn.
CHAPTER VI. Reign of Abu-l-Muzaffar Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din wa ud-Dunya Bahman Shah,
son of Sultan Muhammad Shah,
son of Mahmud,
son of 'All-ud-Din Hasan Shah Bahmani. After the death of Sultan Muhammad Shâb, the generals, the amirs and wazirs, the learned men and the suite and servants of the court having consented to the accession of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, who had travelled but twelve stages of his life, they raised the regal umbrella over his head, and all joined in the honour of pledging their loyalty and tendering their congratulations. The Sultan, notwithstanding his tender age, distinguished the nobles and grandees by royal courtesy, and presented them with robes of honour and varions gifts; and hay. ing renewed for the nobles the farmáns under which they held their feudal lands, and bestowed on them countless dignities, confirmed them in their former possessions in the country. He then busied himself in the arrangement of various important affairs of the country and nation.
Sultan Ghiyâs-ud-Din busied himself in improving the position of his father's slaves, and gave them too loose a rein. One of these, named Turhalbab b1,be exalted above all the nobles; consequently he turned the reins from the side of rectitude; and as the Sultan had removed some of his father's nobles, it occurred to this man that the Sultan might do the same to the slaves; he therefore took steps to remedy the eventuality before its occurrence. Under the pretext of an entertainment he took the Sultan to his own house, and there with a red hot skewer deprived him of his sight. He then deposed the Sultan, and raised to the throne the younger brother of the latter, named Sultan Shams-ud-Din.
This event happened on the 17th of the month Ramațân, A. H. 799 (14th June, A. D. 1396), and the duration of the Sultan's reign was one month and eight days ; but God Almighty alone knows the truth of things!
CHAPTER VII. Reign of Sultan Sh&ms-ud-Din Da,ad Shah,
son of Sultan Mujahid Shah
son of Maḥmad Shah, son of Sultan 'Ald-ud-Din Đasan Shah Bahmani.“ When the faithless Toghalbakhi, with the concurrence of the nobles, deprived Sultan Chiyås-ad-Din of his sight by means of a skewer, he - with the approval of the nobles and
According to the Ta karat-ul-Mulak he died in A. H. 801 after a reign of nineteen years, six months and fiv, days.
41. I cannot understand the name Da, ad being added to Shame-ud-Dhu's name. 41 I. e., he was twelve years old. According to Firishtah he was in his seventeenth year at his accession. 45 It is difficult to say what is the correct spelling of this name. In some places it looks like Baghalji.
+ This heading is evidently wrong. It should be, - "Reign of Shams-ud-Din Shah, son of Muhammad II., aon of Mahmud Khan, son of Sultan 'All-ud-Din Hasan ShAh Babinant." Mujahid does not appear to have had any son.
