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Emperor—the gold muhr of 1070 A.H. (1.M.C. III, No. 1123) 
and the rupee of 1071 A.H. (B.M.C., No. 730)—both bear that 
name only. The epithet sais @immd is not found in the 
‘Alamgirnama, a voluminous contemporary chronicle of the 
first ten years of the reign which was completed and dedicated 
to the Emperor in the 32nd year. (E.D. VII, 174.) Its author 
uses several synonymous expressions, e.g. 
Shing! sly Qa9 abd, ob 65,4! glade Kaas Foy) ole Gard olyst 
sk Bing! olais eyo &bs., but the specific adjective is never prefixed 
to the name of the town the Maasir-i-‘Alamgiri as well 
wn. In 
as the Muntakhabu-l-Lubab of Khafi Khan, the new name 
occurs frequently, but both those works were compiled after 
gzeb 
Neither of these writers gives the reason of the appella- 
tion, of which there is a tacit recognition in their pages, but 
it is not difficult to understand it. It is common knowledge 
that it was during his stay in Aurangabad that Aurangzeb 
accumulated those resources in men, money and munitions 
which afterwards enabled him to defeat his brothers in the 
struggle for the throne.' It was from Aurangabad that he 
had started on Friday, the 12th of Jumad I, 1068 A.H. “ata 
of persons of wisdom and foresight, and the ornament of the 
ephemeris in the almanacs of Creation, ‘ with a whole world of 
majesty and power and glory and dignity,’ and in the com- 
pany of victory and good luck and good fortune.” 
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¥ wines JL5t 3 wb 
‘Alamgirnama, Bibl. Ind. Text, 43, ll. 20-22. 
With all his austerity and ‘ puritanism,’ Aurangzeb was 
not free from superstition, and it would seem as if he had 
e to look upon this city as associat in no uncertain 
manner with the rise and culmination of his greatness.” It is, 
Me Oa j 6. 
2 So Jahangir says: ‘‘My revered father considering the village of 
Sikri, which was the place of my birth, /ucky for him [Bimify Syl oye » 
