Riyaz al-salatin 65.2

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291) that "of the reign of no king of Bengal — perhaps of all Upper India before the middle of the 10th century — do we possess so many inscriptions. Whilst the names of other Bengal kings scarcely ever occur in legends, and remain even unrecognized in the geographical names of the country, the name of 'Husain Shah the Good' is still remembered from the frontiers of Orissa to the Brahmaputra." This great and good king extended his empire into Orissa, into Assam, into Chittagong, and reigned over all north Behar, and all south Behar up to the western limits of Sarkar Monghyr, where his son Danyal erected a vault over the shrine of Peer Nafa. (See Tabaqat-i-Akbari and also Badaoni, Vol. I, p. 371). A cathedral mosque amongst his other edifices was erected by this king, in 907 A.H. at Machain, opposite to Faridpur in Dhakah; the inscription of this mosque appears in J.A.S. for 1873, p. 293. The Husain Shahi dynasty consisted of four sovereigns: (1) Alauddin Husain Shah who reigned from 899 to 929 A.H. (2) Alau-d-din's son, Nasiru-d-din Abul Muzaffar Nasrat Shah (929 to 939). (3) Alau-d-din Firuz Shah (939), a son of No. 2, and (4) Ghiasu-d-din Mahmud Shah, (940-945 A.H.) the last independent king of Bengal, who was defeated by Sher Shah's army at Gaur under Jalal Khan and Khwas Khan in 944 A.H. or 1538 A.D. That is, for forty-four years, this Husaini dynasty consisting of four kings, reigned over Bengal. (See J.A.S.B. for 1872, p. 332).