1920.} Numismatic Supplement No. XXXIV. 241 
Wright, “of the exact locality of this mint-town. Dr. Codring- 
ton in his ‘ Musalman Numismatics’ identifies it with Fathabad 
in the province of Agra.! The references to the place, how- 
ever, in the chronicles of Jahangir’s, Shahjahan’s and Aurang- 
Ahmadnagar.”’ (I.M.C., III, Introd., Ixxxii.) The reason given 
for ruling out Fathabad is good, if not absolutely conclusive, 
but i 
relied upon, that there is nothing whatever in them to warrant 
the statement that Zafarnagar was situated to the south of 
Ahmadnagar. 
Where then are we to look for this town which the 
(P.M.C., No. 1034.) An examination of the original Persian 
authorities shows that there is no lack of references in them to 
a town of that name in the Dekkan, but there is, in by far 
the greatest number of them, little or nothing that is useful in 
- determining its exact situation. The earliest direct mention 
ith which 
where in the Balaghat. (Sayyad Ahmad Khan’s Edit., p. 381, 
1.24; Rogers and Beveridge’s Trans., II, 296; XIX R.Y., 1033 
) 
but it adds nothing to our knowledge (p._ 217, |. 8). The name 
occurs no less than eight times in the Badishahnama of ‘Abdul 
ages is that the place was somewhere near Daulatabad (I, i, 
501 and 505), as well as Rohankhera (I, 1, 517) and Ahmad- 
nagar (I, ii, 36), and that when the prince Shuja‘a resolved 
upon investing Parenda, he placed thanas or military garrisons 
| Fathabad is a very common place name, but there can be little 
doubt that the town meant is the ‘Fattihabad’” of which 5 a t 
says that it was ‘‘ known also by the name of Zafarnagar,”’ and ‘* was 
1067 A.H. in commemoration a the victory obtained by him over his 
brother, Dara Shikoh.” (Memoirs of the Races of the North-Western 
s, II, 8 eo 
i se al angi han 
he coins are of the rei of Jahangir (undated) and Shah Ja 
(3 R, 5 R, and 1043 A.H.), kaa not possibly have been struck at 
the Zafarnagar or Fathabad ‘ founded by Aurangzeb. 
