48 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIT, 
in the Maasir-i-‘Alamgiri and but once in Khafi Khan. Even 
on the coins, its vogue is limited to about two years, and it is 
dropped in the 3rd year of the reign. 
wsl®s wy2> appears frequently on the early issues of 
Akbar, and (jts wyas S11) which is found on the copper 
coins of Humayiin also figures, sometimes, on the mintages of 
his son. “The first part of this double title was extensively 
second part on those in silver and gold.” (P.M.C. Introd., 
Ixxv.). But there does not seem to have been any fixe 
rule or usage in the matter. ,2= alone is found occasionally 
throughout the ‘Pathan’ series on Copper and Billon Coins 
also. (Cf. I.M.C., II, Nos. 80-1, 87-8, 160, 168-9, 185-6, 241, 
2578, 414-447, 457-8, 478, 495, 501-4, 526-8, 535, 546-571.) 
Again, Sly19, though less frequently, arrests attention on the 
issues in silver (Ibid., Nos. 245-6). yes is prefixed to the 
names of Deogir and Daulatabad on the coins of the ‘Great 
Moneyer,’ Muhammad Tughlaq (Ibid., 307-8, 396), and the 
combination waa osisJiy»s is characteristic of the mintages 
of Qutbuddin Mubarak (Jd., 243, 247, 249 and 269). On the 
coins of the Sultans of Bengal, their capitals Firtizabad and 
Lakhnauti are styled ya, and Sunargaon is called Jie wyam 
(Ibid., p. 142). Similarly, Ahsanabad (Gulbarga) is called wyda 
on the coins of the Bahmanis and Shadiabad (Mandi) bears 
the same epithet on those of the Khilji rulers of Malwa. 
({bid., Bahmani Coins, Nos. 1, 5-13: Malwa Coins, Nos. 15-17, 
23-25, 34-36.) But this Shadiabad is, at the same time, quali- 
fied as leh also (Ibid., 2-14, 30-33, 37, 39-40). 
In all these cases, ‘Hazrat’ refers to whale wyéa, ie. the 
August or Royal Presence or His Majesty. We even now 
speak of the chief town of a district as the Huzir Tahsil, 
the Tahsil which is “in the 394 or presence of the Collector 
and other government officials’’. Beames in Elliot, Supple- 
mental Glossary, II, 86 note. See also Hobson-Jobson, ed. 
Crooke, s.v. Huzoor; Thomas, Chronicles, p. 150. 
shi aheeS ‘Of auspicious foundation,’ makes its ap- 
pearance on the coins of Aurangzeb for the first time in the 
33rd year of his reign (1100 A.H.). The city founded by him 
during his second viceroyalty of the Southern provinces in the 
neighbourhood of the somewhat older town built by Malik 
Ambar was, Khaft Khan tells us, first called Aurangabad. 
(Bibl. Ind. Text, I, 489.) The earliest known coins of this 
