172 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
“In the beginning of this incomparable reign, gold was 
coined to the glory of his Majesty’s name in many places of 
the empire. At this time [ jy! |, gold coins are not struck at 
following] ten places ; [Names]; in twenty-eight towns, copper 
coins only are struck ; [Names|,.”’ 
It will perhaps appear strange but it is nevertheless 
leading word, and not the clause relating to gold only, as 
Blochmann’s pointing would lead one and_ has actually led 
many to suppose. Jt applies to silver and to copper just as 
much as to gold, and it was clearly the intention of the author 
to say that the statement (the whole and not an y particular 
part of it) was true only of the time at which he was writing. 
_ The question which then arises is, when was the passage 
written ? To such an inquiry concerning a few lines in so 
voluminous a work it is obviously not easy to give an exact 
7 hmann, <A . 
12). Now if Abul Fazl had before him, when he composed the 
us, in 42nd year, it is fairly clear th t 
have indited the stateme ; wrested ae 
before or many months 
year. 
parchus in Egypt, from Whose time to the prese 
Egypt, s nt, the 40th 
year of the Divine Era, 1,769 years have elapsed.” (Jarrett. Ain, 
