236 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
apeld yo stosd y We yb oT Gy soils Led ules fis Wl, ol” 
* diab ais) ic Sy" aS: d5o9,3 sll Syr2m 2J yo oid osbl., Jb: y 
Muntakhabu-l-Lubah, Bibl. Ind. Text, I, 402, Il. 10-16. 
“May it be evident to critical and discerning persons that 
in former times Sahrind [ 53), ] was written Sarhind [ ey | 
and, as a matter of fact, the empire of the Ghaznavides ex- 
tended only as far as Sahrind, and so much only was in their 
possession. Therefore the name Sarhind [Jit. end or head or 
frontier of Hind] was an appropriate designation (it. ‘a name 
expressive of its qualities, Sfeingass). Afterwards, when the 
rulers of all the territories comprised (Jit. guarded, protected) 
in Hindustan set the foreheads of submissiveness and obedience 
on the Celestial Court [of the Mughal Emperors], nay, when 
the name and fame of no other sovereign remained, and Kabul 
and even Qandahar in the north (lit. in that direction, or ou 
the other side of Sarhind) were included in the eternal Empire 
of Hindustan, Hazrat-i-A‘ala (i.e. Shah Jahan) issud orders 
that the name should be written Sahrind [ S,y J.” 
In other words, oda means in Persian ‘head, end or 
frontier of Hind,’ and so long as the dominions of the Dehli 
Sultans did not extend much further, the name was. not 
inappropriate. But when, asin the days of Akbar and Jahangir. 
the Empire of Dehli stretched so far beyond that city as to 
include not only the districts now constituting the North-West 
Frontier Province, but even Afghanistan, Sar-hind became a 
palpable misnomer, and the Emperor issued instructions for 
spelling the name in such a way that any such ‘ striving after 
meaning ’ would become impossible.! : 
No coins of Shah Jahan from this mint have been yet found, 
and we have no means of verifying Khafi Khan’s statement so 
far as his reign is concerned.* But the coins of Aurangzeb, etc., 
1 Ri The name Sarhind, or ‘frontier of Hind’ is popularly said,” writes 
Cunningham, ‘‘ to have been given to the city........ when it was the 
undary town between the Hindus and the later Muhammadan Kingdom 
of Ghazni and &hor. But the name is probably much older, as the 
astronomer, Varaha Mihira, mentions the Sairindhas The 
hat the two names are the same.” Ancient Geo hy of 
1 ty ; graphy 0 
India, 145-6. The * ib eae country is also mentioned in Alberini’s 
teer, * 
its foundation to Sahir Rao 
Daas Phe a juke of “pe 166th in descent Fe 
a implies that it was the eastern limit o ing- 
dom of Jaipal, the Brahman King of Ohind,” Ed. |! Til, 
r.H.A has published some letters addressed by 
e - HLA. as Jahan 
Ara Begam, Shah Jahan’s favourite daughter, to Budh Prakash, the 
r. In one of these dated 2lst Rabi II, 18th Julius, 
