44 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {N.S., XVII, 
Then all this jumble of names and titles comes sharply to 
an end, and the [ahi issues of the last two decades of the 
reign exhibit no epithets at all. They continue to be generally 
eschewed on the artistic and interesting issues of Jahangir,! 
for a specified town, or to restrict a particular town to a 
characteristic epithet. Thus, Fathpir and Lahor are both 
Styled sibld|yt9, and first Agra, then Akbarabad, then Shah- 
jahanabid and lastly Akbarabad again are successively en- 
titled csdedyts, At the same time, Ujjain and Burhanpir 
siderable vogue, and the number mounts up to thirteen, of 
which no less than nine are so far new that they had never 
house. Auran also introduced for the first time and main- 
tained throughout his long reign a commendable uniformity in 
their application of these thirteen sobriquets was 
were added by Bahadur Shah Shah ‘Alam I, and one or two 
other changes also were made by him which were responsible 
for some temporary confusion. This was however eliminated 
by Farrukhsiyar who consigned his grandfather’s innovations 
to oblivion and reverted to the o arrangements of Aurangzeb. 
He transferred Sle) ,ti.© to his own favourite city ’Azimabad, 
but the title itself perished with him and ‘Azimabad also lost 
its preferment. The epithets had now been systematised, and 
become more or less matters of mere form. The single new 
feature of Raf‘iu-d-darajat’s mintages was the application of 
stat =i} to Ahmadabad. The two innovations of Muhammad 
Shah were the conjunction of the title (¢tp~ with the name of 
. Jaipar and the use of the epithet Ip) oy fora place still un- 
' The exceptions are not important, but may be noted here. ells} s 
is prefixed to the name of Agra ona nis&r of 1028 A.H. in the Panjab 
rod 
Museum (No. 1186), and aka to that of Kashmir on an undated nisar 
ich was in the White King collection (Catalogue, Part III, No. 3746): 
‘here is also a unique rupee of *‘ Urdi dar rah-i- n,’ but this descrip- 
tive suffix has, strictly speaking, nothing honorific about it, 
