188 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
side of the account, eight or nine aieliers which are apparently 
ignored inthe Ain. But, then, the readings of names and dates 
on which the question of fhe inclusion of most of them in the 
Middle Period of Akbar’s reign depends, are themselves not 
. free from doubt and uncertainty. My submission, therefore, 
is that in view of our own inadequate equiy t and inf tion, 
we are searcely justified in assuming an attitude of superiority 
and delivering judgment against him. Far from i 
stripped him, we are still lagging very much behind, and our 
own knowledge of the Akbari mints is neither so exact nor so 
complete as to entitle us to brand him with ignorance of the 
facts of his own day. a 
his does not mean that the Ain list is absolutely perfect. 
Iam no believer in the infallibility of Abil-Fazl or of any other 
author, living or dead. I have no doubt myself, that when 
we are 
Fazl himself. I know from my own study of his Summary 
Accounts of Todar Mal’s Rent-roll that he was occasionally 
unable to decipher the place-names properly, and made mis- 
takes in transferring them to his pages. 
1en all these allowances—allowances for the defects in- 
herent in the Persian script, for the illegibility of the written 
records on which he had to rely, and also for human error, are 
numismatic chart of the Akbari region has been thoroughly 
8 saa it will peobebly be found that this much-abused in- 
ventory 1s not so hopelessly ‘ imperfect’ or ‘ inaccurate’ as it 
has been thought. : fap Bie 
a S. H. Hoprvaua. 
Junagadh, 10th Jan. 1918. 
Postcripr. 
© preparation of an absolutely complete list’ of all the 
coins of any ruler, who issued money of all denominations 
_ profusely as Akbar, for nearly half a century, must be an 
almost impossible achievement. It would be, therefore, pre- 
sumptuous to imagine that no errors or omissions will be 
