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determined, of Ahmad Shah the prefixing of wW,Jiy'o to the 
name of Nagor and of j@ieito to that of Jodhpur. In the 
reign of ‘Alamgir II, Bikaner is for the first time styled sob. 
The appropriation of the distinctive appellations of old Musal- 
man cities by the Rajpit and Maratha rulers of the day 
reached a climax under the second Shah ‘Aiam. The Dogra 
chief of Jammin took a fancy to wl¥yto, Sindhia thought 
ety would be ‘ just the thing’ for Mandisor, the Maratha 
(2) masters of Daulatabad ! would have nothing less high-sound- 
ing than ©4isJiy13, and Saharanpir must be called yy.~J!y!0. 
Three new titles also were devised, 33 for Hardwar, debs for 
Bareli, and ue/M11y for Banaras. Nothing could be more 
is possible in the circumstances, on the origin and signiiicance 
of the most remarkablé or distinctive titles with a view to 
passages in the published works of contemporary historians in 
which honorifie epithets are associated with the names of 
the towns. 
Part [. 
s,a19 fol (Sumptuous, rich or resplendent town) is the 
country, and its wealth and grandeur are often extolled by 
contemporary travellers and historians. Abil Fazl speaks of it 
as ‘‘a large city three kos distant from the Tapti.” It was 
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Daulat&bad was for about four years in the possession of the rattas. 
I propose to discuss the point more fully on another occasion. 
