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The Nāṣirī Generations 201: Titles and Names of the Sultan.

Tabakat-i-Nasiri 201

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201

Offspring: Malik Rukn-ud-Din, Firuz Shah, the late. Malik Taj-ud-Din, Ibrahim Shah, the late. Malik Mu’izz-ud-Din, Bahram Shah, the late. Malik Shihab-ud-Din, Muhammad Shah, the late.
Length of his reign: Twenty-two years.
Motto on the Royal Signet: "Greatness belongeth unto God alone."
Standards: On the right, Black. On the left, Red.
The following is given as the inscription on two of his first coins, a dirham and dinar:—
Obverse— Reverse—
which may be thus translated:— Obverse— "This diram [is] stamped with the name of the Just and Beneficent Sultan, Nasir-ud-Din, Mahmud Shah." Reverse— "Struck at the city of Dihli, in the year 644 H., the first of the reign."
The other runs thus:—
Obverse— Reverse—
which may be rendered thus: Obverse— "The defender of the ordinances of the Law for the sake of the true [faith], Sultan Nasir-ud-Din. The first year of the reign." Reverse— "This coin, a dinar, [was struck] at the capital, Dihli, in the year six hundred and forty-four."