History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c7.30.3

c7.30.3

To Malik Sanjar Badakhshāni were given eighty lakhs of *tankahs* and Bahadur Shah, the dispossessed ruler of Bengal, was restored to his former dignity, and received a large treasure, a dexterous move, as Edward Thomas points out, to show clearly that Bahadur was nothing more than an ordinary provincial governor transferable at will, though his claims to imperial succession rested on a surer and legal basis. To signify his esteem for Bahadur, the Sultan agreed that the names of both should appear together on the coins struck at Sonargaon, and there are coins of the years 725-31 A.H. bearing the names of both.¹⁴ Ibn Batūtah also distinctly states that Bahadur acknowledged the supremacy of Muhammad Tughluq over Eastern Bengal, and was given wealth, elephants and horses and admitted to royal favour.¹⁵ Malik-al-mulk ‘Imādal-Din obtained seventy lakhs of *tankahs* and Sayyid ‘Azd-al-Dowlah, a tutor of the Sultan became the recipient of forty lakhs and a pension of one hundred lakhs of *tankahs* per annum was granted to Malik Bahram Ghaznīn. The bounty of the new monarch was lavishly extended to other functionaries of the state and learned men, and Maulana Nasir Tawil, Qazi-Kasmah, Khudāwandzadah Ghiyas-al-Din, Qiwām-al-Din and Nāsir Kafi received several lakhs from the exchequer of the state.