Sultán Fíroz Sháh was crowned King on the

March 23,
1351.

24th of Muharram, in the seven hundred and fifty-second year of the Hijra A.D. 1351, having been elected successor to Sultán Mohammed, by the unanimous voice of the Moham­medans, on account of his natural merit. He engaged himself in regulating the important affairs of State, and in protecting religion; and also obtained many victories. After the capture of Nágrakót, he visited Gujarát, when, having displaced Nizámu-l-Mulk, he appointed Zafir Khán* to the government. At the death of the latter, in A. Hij. 773, A.D. 1371,* his elder son, with the same title,* was elevated to this dig­nity. At this time, Shamsu-d-dín Damghání represented to the Sultán, that he would give forty laks of tankchas, one hundred head of ele­phants, twenty-two hundred Arabian horses, and four hundred slaves, above the usual collec­tion received from Gujarát. It was then settled that, if Shamsu-d-dín Anwar Khán, the deputy of Zafir Khán (Daria Khán), would consent to such a payment, he would be preferred to another. But, as he would not consent to do so, Shamsu-d-dín Damghání was appointed; and the latter, when not able to fulfil his agreement, went into rebellion. The Sultán, having sent an army against him, caused him to be slain, and committed the government of Gujarát to Malik Mofarrah, who afterwards obtained the title of Farhatu-l-Mulk Rastí Khán. Sultán Fíroz Sháh III., who died A. Hij. 790, A.D. 1387, reigned thirty-eight years and nine months.