The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.1667

c5.1667

1481 H. 886. Sikandar Shāh II, Ilyās Shāhī, succeeds his father Yūsuf Shāh of Bengal. Reigns two days and a half, when he is succeeded by his grand-uncle Jalālu-d-Dīn Fatḥ Shāh, who reigns till A.D. 1487 (coin and inscriptional dates H. 886-92).—BMC., Muhammad States, 6, Int. xii, xliii. 5th April, H. 886, 5th Ṣafar. Maḥmūd Gāwān, Maliku-t-Tajjār, Khwājah Jahān, falsely accused of a plot against his master, the Bahmanī Sultan Muḥammad Shāh II, is executed by the latter. Maḥmūd Gāwān had been wazīr to Niẓām Shāh, Bahmanī, and under Muḥammad held the office of Wakilu-s-Sulṭānat. He was the author of the Rauzatu-l-Inshā and other poems.—BF. ii, 505 ff. BOD. 231. BG. 217. H. 886. ‘Abdu-l-Karīm, Sindhī, flourished. He served under Maḥmūd Gāwān and wrote the Tārīkh-i-Maḥmūd-Shāhī, a history of Maḥmūd Shāh II, Bahmanī.—BOD. 5.