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⁸ *Khazāin* Habib Trs. p. 46. The author of T.M.S. gives the date of the conquest of Malwa as 700 A.H. (1300-01 A.D.) but he is incorrect. The contemporary Khusrau gives the above date. An inscription incised on a soft white stone refers to the construction of a mosque during the reign of Muhammad Shah ‘Alāūddīn in the country of Koka (Koka Desa) in 711 A.H. (1311 A.D.). This inscription which belongs presumably to Chanderi shows that Koka was either very popular or a very powerful minister and the country was known by his name and not by that of its ruler Mahlak Deva. See *Indian Historical Quarterly* vol. I 1925 pp. 653-56.