Person · r. 1326 – 1349
Shams-ud-din (Shah Mir)
شمس الدین شاہ میر
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A Persian-descended Mahomedan who rose to be minister to two Hindu rajas of Kashmir, married Raja Anand Dev's widow Rani Kota Devi after defeating her army, and two days after the marriage imprisoned her and proclaimed himself king; he abdicated in favour of his two elder sons and died the same year.
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- vol. IV, p. 451 · read as page image
Bramha, until the year 715, during the reign of Raja Sena Dew, when a person called Shah Meer, coming to Kashmeer, was admitted into the service of that prince.
- vol. IV, p. 453 · read as ocr text
- vol. IV, p. 454 · read as page image
he abdicated his throne in favour of his two elder sons, Jumsheed and Ally Sheer, and in the same year died, after a reign of twenty-three years, A. H. 750.