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town near the north-west frontier towards the British District 
of Ahmednugger. It is situated on the river Gurk-poornah, a 
tributary of the Godavery, and here a large stream. The 
town is of considerable size...... Distance from Hyderabad, 
bay, N.E., 220 miles. Lat. 20° 14’, Long. 76° 5’.”’ (Thornton, 
Gazetteer of the Territories under the Government of the East 
India Company, New Edition, p. 482. 
This settles the matter. According to the ‘Amal-i-Salih 
45 miles from Aurangabad. There is besides the evidence of 
‘the inscriptions in the mosque and cistern still existing in 
‘Jafarabad.’ They are said to have been built under Imperial 
orders in 1040 A.H. and 1076 A.H. by the local Governors, 
Mustafa Khan Turkman! and Iradat Khan respectively. We 
Thanadar of Zafarnagar in the sixth year of Shah Jahan 
(1042 A.H.), and that the latter was first appointed Qil‘adar 
of Zafarnagar on the 17th of Ziqa‘ad 1070 A.H. There would 
then seem to be no reasonable doubt that the Jafarabad of 
the historians. 
But it may be still asked “ Why then is the place now 
called Jafarabad’”’ 2 Of this difficulty also, I have found the 
solution in a very rare work, * Gladwin’s History of Hindostan 
during the Reign of Jahangir, etc.’ We there read that in 
1030 A.H. “Shah Jehan left a garrison at Kehrkee and then 
marched to the relief of Ahmednagur. mber, alarmed at 
which remained unconquered at the conclusion of the last war ; 
and that Adil Khan, Nizam-ul-Mulk and Koteb-ul-Mulk should 
.; es. Amber 
rram or Shah Jahan in the 
as Turkm&n Khan at the 
Badishahnama, I, i, 121. He is 
in the sixth year of the reign of 
3 death in the seventh year (1042 
in the Madgiru-l-Umara also (III, 384-5). 
