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BAHADUR SHAH II. 
caddis Shahjahanabad.! 
It will be seen from these tables, etaeers the last, that 
a very small beginning was made by Babur with only two or 
three epithets for a single town, je In the reign of his son, 
the number rises to seven, of which four SIs}y1o0, BF GyA!yle, 
wke¥iylo and Jostyts are prefixed to the name of the same city 
(Agra). Another place (Lahor) is also called wsllsJiypo. This 
disregard for anything like rule or method in the distribution of 
these appellations is carried to much greater length during the 
first half of Akbar’s reign. We can now reckon so many 
as twenty separate titles, but the confusion also is proportion- 
ately increased, se! no less than thirteen different towns 
of all degrees of eminence are attended by the high sound- 
ing designation, ‘ Seat of the Khilajat.’ At the same time, two 
different places are called sol, two more are characterised as 
you, three others are styled |,4l!o, four are distinguished 
as “ibl.J})19, and each of six other cities (Ahmadabad, Awadh, 
Dehli, Kalpi, Gwaliar and Lakhnau) is ‘honoured by two differ- 
ent attributives. 
1 It might be as well to say that on the coins we have dao 
&sdsJ} pmo - ~ Ab Led} yio and ol, and Mr. Lane Poole’s transcriptions 
are Dar Bain ba pares ciao a as-Saltanah, and Baldat 
(B.M.C. Introd. lix.) Thi ecordan with the rules 
Arabic grammar Be pronunci ciation: . ahh do ox a apply 
Persian. In Persian as well as Hindustani, we say Khilafat, Selbenat 
and Baldah. Mr. Nelson Wright and Mr. Whitehead have ass - dibli 
and ol) in Persian, but write eee and Salfanat in English. In the 
historical works from which these notes and illustrations are ssiiteer 
be drawn, there is ouaaeeeble diversity in the manner of spe 
these words. Inthe Bibliotheca Indica Editions of Badaoni (Vol. Th), ae 
I am and Khafi Khan (Vol. 11), es&& and 2ibl~ only arrest atten- 
tion, and the other forms are not at all found or are exceedingly rare. 
In the first volume of the Badish@hnama in the same series, the words 
are written in both ways, but esis and ciblw are overwhelmingly pre- 
ponderant. In the Akbarnama, ‘Alamgirnama and the Maasir-i-‘ Alam- 
giri, Xs and &ibh. are decidedly in favour, and in the second volume 
of the wc nition they sar! seem to be tolera 
In 
ese circumstances may be safely ary that neither of these 
forms is “wren sali and that beth = parwragmagt hs almost equally correct. 
It is not easy to make a pe and it i sen some hesitation 
that I have amaoned the w in “full, cea pm has been done only 
because seems to be se more in accordance ae the Persian 
system of Fi eadueties: 
