[416] Shāh Rukh’s authority, to judge by the coins which have come down to us, extended nearly as far as his more celebrated father’s. We have his superscription on the issues of mints as widely distant as Shīrāz, Kaswīn, Sabzawār, Herāt, Kum, Shuster, and Astarābād.
[417] Vambéry’s Bokhara, p. 223.
[418] Ibid. p. 244.
[419] The young prince was born in 1483, the son of `Omar Shaykh Mīrzā, whom he succeeded in the sovereignty of the eastern portion of Tīmūr’s dominions. His conquest of India, and foundation of the Moghul dynasty of Delhi, do not come within the scope of this work. He was equally great in war, administration, and literature: perhaps the most remarkable figure of his age.
[420] A.H. 903 (1497).
[421] An excellent table, showing the ramifications of the Tīmūrides, will be found in vol. vii. of the Mohammedan Coins of the British Museum.
[422] In the case of possessive pronouns and verbal inflexions, for example, we find direct and obvious imitations of the Turkish grammar.
[423] The “Great Caan” of Marco Polo.
[424] Cf. Bretschneider, op. cit. ii. pp. 139, 140.
[425] Cf. Bretschneider, loc. cit.