46 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIT, 
adorned by many gardens in which the sandal wood grew, 
was inhabited by people of all countries, and handicraftsmen 
of all sorts drove there a thriving trade. Jarrett, Ain. I, 
223. It is said to have been “‘ greatly embellished”’ under 
Akbar and Jahangir (Imp. Gaz., IX, 104), and Tavernier thus 
writes of it: “‘ The government of this province is so import- 
ant that it is conferred only upon a son or uncle of the king, 
and Aurangzeb, who now reigns. was for a long time governor 
of Burhanpur during the reign of his father. .. ere is a 
large trade in this town, and both at Burhanpir itself and in 
nasty,” Mr 40 aif ylaldsly esisly (Text, I, 272, 1. 7, E.D., 
that one of them, Bahadarpir, had so many merchants an 
bankers in it that jewels, money and goods from all parts of 
the world were found there. (E.D., VII, 306.) 
sly 3} 9 se i 9 Soy, 2 (RT 9 G9 Gale otlsiy WViye 
a # Oy? 
Text II. 272-3. 
ave not found in the histories any example of the 
association of the name of Burhanpir with this title, but then 
‘we have to remember that it occurs only on a rupee of which 
no duplicate has been discovered.! 
' Bukhara is styled 4,410 ysl on the coins of the Chaghatai 
Sig pie. J.A.8.B., 1891, p. 10 (No. 1). 
, n the Rauzatu-s-Safa (Bombay Lithograph, History of Sultan Husain 
Baigra, Book VII, 8,25, 89) and the Habibu-s-siyar poate Lithograph, 
History of Timir and his Descendants, III, iii, 109, 116, 128, 134), the 
‘ is prefixed to the name of Herat, which w t the time 
(latter half of the 15th century), ‘‘ the most magnificent city of the East. 
and celebrated not merely for the splendour and dignity of its court, 
but the architectural beauty of its mosques, tombs, colleges and palaces.’’ 
rskine, History of Babar and Humayun, I, 77. Bukhara and Herat 
were both great commercial and industrial centres also. _ 
