194 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
coins of all the regular emperors from Rafi‘u-d-darajat to Shah 
‘Alam II, the terminal letter is an ‘ alzj.’ 
S. H. Hopivani. 
Junagadh, 20th December, 1917. 
IsLAMABAD. 
The difficulty of fixing the site of the Islamabad mint has 
been felt by all serious students of Mughal Numismatics. 
Chakna, Chittagong, Rairi and Mathura are all said (by Mr. 
Whitehead) to have borne that name in the days of Aurangzeb. 
But this does not exhaust the list of towns called Islamabad 
whose pretensions it is not easy to determine, 
. There is an Islamabad in Kashmir also. We are told 
that it “was once a large and prosperous place,’’ and that the 
well-known spring called the Anant-nag flows from its foot. 
(Imp. Gaz. XITI, 371). We learn from the Badishahnama that 
it was Shah Jahan who ordered the pargana or township of 
Incha (&41 or asd), the ‘ Anyech’ of Stein (Geography of 
Kashmir, J.A.8.B., 1899, p. 178), to be called Islamabad. 
(Bibl. Ind. text, I, ii, 49-50. ) The town is referred to under 
one or other of these names in several other places also. (Ibid. 
II, 209, 428, 433; Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri, Rogers and Beveridge, 
Trans., If, 174; ‘ Alamoiradina, Bibl. Ind. text, 835 ; Thornton, 
Garettecr, New Edition, p. 430). 
as me emperor appears to have given the very same 
name to Seas town called Chhatra (3;%>) in ee 
(Badishahnama, a 122 ; see also Madasiru-l-Umara, 1, 427). 
This is probably identical with Jatara, now the largest abst in 
the feudatory state of Orchha. (Imp. Gaz. XIX, 246). 
Supposing that any claims which the last two coin 
may appear to have are rejected on the ground of obscurity or 
remoteness from the highways of politics and commerce, those 
of the other four still remain to be discu 
: regard to them, I beg to invite sees to some points 
of interest, which have escaped notice. The first is that the 
real Mughal name of Rairi was not Islamabad, but sissies 
| Thornton Gene New Edition, p. 430) mentions an Islamabad 
or Islamnagar or Islamghar, five miles north of Bhopal (Lat. 23° 20’, 
- Long. 77° 25’). It is however quite modern. ‘It was o originally called 
Jugdispir, and received its present name from Dost Muhammad Khan, 
prev ious holder.” Tieffenthaler calls it ‘ Esslamnagar’ 
(Desorption de I’ Inde, I, 355) and that appears to be the real name. Ac- 
cording to the Imperial Gazett teer, Dost Muhammad founded the towns 
ioe Te er of that province. Briggs’ Translation, Calcutta Reprint. 
