History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c10.61

c10.61

It is difficult to assign a definite date to Fakhr-al-Din's death. That he lived up to 750 A.H. is established beyond doubt by numismatic evidence and up to 754 by the testimony of Shams-i-Siraj ‘Afif who is a contemporary writer. In the coins of the Shillong cabinet there are two coins of Mubarak Shah issued from Sonargaon and are clearly dated 750 A.H. ‘Afif writes in his *Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi* that after Firuz's expedition to Bengal (754 A.H. = 1354) Shams-al-Din seized Fakhr-al-Din who was commonly called Fakhrā and killed him.⁵¹ Badaoni's statement that in 741 A.H. Sultan Muhammad marched against Sonargaon, seized Fakhr-al-Din, and brought him a prisoner to Lakhnauti, where he put him to death and returned is incorrect.⁵² The author of the *Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi* whom Badaoni faithfully copies writes that in 741 A.H. Haji Ilyas who had