The Nāṣirī Generations 237.13

237.13

in two copies of the text, I-ran Shah-i-Balka; in one, his title is Abu-l-Ma’ali, and by others he is styled Nasir-ud-Din-i-’Iwaz [See pages 617—618]; in the Calcutta “Official Text,” at page 177, Malik Gazlak Khan Daulat Shah, Khalji, with two names jumbled into one; and, the next page, I-ran Shah, Balka, Khalji. Balka is not peculiar to the Ghaznawi rulers: it is a purely Turkish name. There is another Balka—Saif-ud-Din, I-bak-i-Balka Khan—in the List of Nasir-ud-Din, Mahmud Shah's Maliks at page 673, and, from what is said in the account of Malik Kashli Khan [No. XXIV.], there were many Khalj Amirs in the time of Nasir-ud-Din, Mahmud Shah. From the coin given by Thomas [“Initial Coinage of Bengal,” page 367], his titles and name—plate, fig. 9—are Abu-l-Ma’ali [Thomas, himself, as mentioned at page 367, was in doubt about being correct, and thought it ended in—i-Daulat Shah, bin Mau-dud [and there is nothing in the titular name of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, who, before he came to the throne was entitled Husam-ud-Din-i-’Iwaz, to show that his name was not Mau-dud], and, although he acknowledges the suzerainty of I-yal-timish, and styles him Sultan-ul-A’zam, he calls himself Shahan-Shah, and also inserts on his coin the name of the Khalifah, and, doubtless, had received a patent conveying the titles from Baghdad. The date on this coin, the only one that has come to light, I believe, is which may be either 627 or 629 H., the stubborn occurring again.