196 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
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Bib. Ind. Text, 95-6. 
** And in this same blessed month [Ramazan, XIII R.Y., 
1080 A.H.] peremptory commands (lit, commands sent lik 
those of Fate or Destinv) were issued for the destruction of 
the idol-temple known as the Dehra of Keshavrai in Mathura, 
from the portico of the God-knowing Emperor’s love of justice 
and hatred (lit. desire to overthrow) of oppression. The sub- 
version and extirpation of that strong edifice of Error was 
carried out in a short time by the efforts of a large number of 
workmen, and a mosque of noble proportions (Jit. foundations) 
was erected in its place and cost a large (lit. heavy) sum..... 
All the idols and images, small and large, and adorned with 
precious gems which had been placed in that shrine of polytheists 
and gathering-spot of infidels were brought to Akbarabad and 
buried under the steps of the mosque of the Nawab-i-Qudsiya 
Begam Saheb, so that they might be trodden under people’s 
feet till eternity. And the name of Mathura was written in 
official records and uttered by the tongues and lips (Jit. mouths) 
of men as Islamabad.” 
It is clear that if the order for the destruction of the tem- 
ple was issued only in Ramazan 1080, it must have taken 
some time to execute it and to build the great mosque which 
still stands in its place. (Keene, Guide to Agra, Ed. 1888, p 
oO I f the new name was given in commemoration of that event, 
it is difficult to see how the coins of 1074 and 1079 can be 
attributed to Mathura at all. And if they cannot, it is a 
gong than either at Mathura or Chakna”’ is not without weight. 
It seems to me, however, that the argument against Chakna is 
much more substantially reinforced by the fact that we have 
Islamabad gold muhrs of all the regular Emperors from Aurang- 
