The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c11.173.1

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As to the extent of the period over which they ruled our authorities differ. The *Ta’rīkh-i-Ṭāhirī* gives them only 143 years, from 700 to 843 A. H. but Abu’l-Faẓl, Firishta, and Shāh Qāsim Khān (author of *Beg-lār-nāma*) give them a period of 500 or 505 years. ‘Alī Shīr Qāni‘, though he estimates the ‘term of their authority’ at 550 years, yet places the accession of Sumra, the founder of the dynasty, in about 720 A.H. (1320 A.D.), shortly after the accession of Ghiyāth ud-Dīn Tughluq Shāh. According to this source the last prince of the dynasty was Armīl, who was slain by the Sammas in A.H. 752 (1351 A.D.) But he admits that the history of the family is very discordantly narrated, and repeats the statements of Muḥammad Yūsuf, which place the date of the first Sumra prince in 445 A.H. (1053 A.D.). Elliot has shown that the dynasty certainly came to an end in *c.* A.H. 764 because in about that year Sulṭān Fīrūz Tughluq invaded Sind and was opposed by a prince whose title was Jām,² a title borne by Sammas only.