1921.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXXV. I 
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214. Firoz Suan Zarar, Ipn Firoz SHAun. 
The late Mr. Rodgers, puzzled as other numismatists have 
been, was the first to throw doubts on the ready assumption 
adopted by Edward Thomas that Zafar, the second son of Firoz 
ah, was associated by his father in the kingship immediately 
afi the sane of Fath Khan, the heir apparent, in 763 H. 
Mr. Rodgers, however, does not controvert the statement of 
the death of Firoz Shah in the beginning of 790. His theory 
was based on the obvious fact that all the dated coins of Zafar 
belong to the single vear 791, a date by which, acc cording to 
Thomas, Zafar, the second son of Firoz, “ must obviously have 
been in A grave 
y Thomas states accurately enough that whereas the 
coins cof Fath Khan “show signs of provincial treatment, the 
oins of Zafar coincide Revers in their general aspect with 
ce t ge. 
Delhi, while those of Fath Khan may be attributed with almost 
equal certainty to the eastern viceroyalty, the [glim-ush-sharg, 
which appears on the marginal legend of his id pieces, and 
which afterwards became the independent kingdom of the 
Sharqgi Sultans of Jaunptr. Fath Khan, the favoured heir, 
the ‘‘ beloved of the east and the west,” exercised kingship as 
the deputy of his father in the eastern portion of the Empire, 
attained equal honours to those of his elder brother. Possibly 
the reason was that Zafar held the Eastern Provinces for a 
very short time, as we hear of him afterwards as the warden 
of the western marches 
The inference is that Zafar after leaving Jaunpur settled 
down to the adiinistention ‘of the Punjab and Multan for the 
rest of the long reign of Firoz. No actual record of his death 
is traceable. It may exist in some history of which I am 
unaware; but in the absence of definite proof there is no reason 
to reject the sane testimony of coins which show that Zafar 
survived his 
The Scan that Zafar followed Fath Khan as joint 
ruler with his father apparently rests on the fact that in 789 
the Shahzada Muhammad, the third son of Firoz, unquestion- 
ably was made deputy to the Sultan, owing to the advanced 
mind had become infirm. The ascendancy of the Wazir was 
