54 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
re- 
vented the effects of this cruel mandate.” (Briggs, Rise of 
the Mahommedan Power, Calcutta Reprint, I, 421.) 
Briefly, the city would seem to have twice received quarter 
(y'«!, quarter, pardon, indemnity, grace) through the interces- 
sion of these Saints, and might have been called wlxY} jfs in conse- 
quence. The difficulty is that there is no trace of this parti- 
cular epithet in historical literature before the time of Aurang- 
It is found in the ‘Alamgirnama and occurs also in the 
Maasir-i- Alamgiri, though not in Khafi Khan. There is no 
example of its use, however, in any earlier writer, though 
Firishta speaks of Multan as eds ) a3, ‘The Cupola of Islam,’ 
in an untranslated chapter of his History. (Lakhnau Litho- 
graph, II, 404, 1. 17). 
It may be also not unworthy of notice that Multan is 
called aL Sol) ‘Excellent City’ in the ‘Alamgirnama, (210, 
217) and jy aly 4% (bid., 209). cviS is “a miracle per- 
formed by holy men as opposed to %s*~, a miracle wrought by 
God through His Prophets in proof of their mission.” (Hughes, 
Dictionary of Islam, s.v.) ‘It is generally believed among the 
Mahamm s,” writers Dr. Lee, “‘ that every sai it i 
office of a prophet.” ‘Travels of Ibn Batuta.’ Trans. 1829, 
p. 7 note. 
During the dissolution of the Mughal Empire, the title 
wleyiy's is prefixed to the name of Jammin on the coins of 
the Dogra prince Ranjit Dev. It looks at first sight, like a 
pretentious or meaningless transference by the Hindi chief 
- 1 Ine Farman said to have been issued by Akbar in the 37th year of his 
reign, granting to Hir Vijaya Siri, tho Jain places of pilgrimage at Girnar, 
Abi, Parasnath, etc. obT pi esd) yy - yey iblSt s-wlile wlo¥ty's 
and he! Alyy are all distinctly mentioned, but the document itself is, 
on several grounds, open to suspicion. The Farman has been published 
with a photographic facsimile and translations into English and Hindi by 
Muni J inavijayaji in the Introduction to a Sanskrit poem on Akbar called 
Kriparas Kosh. (loc. cit, pp. 35, 40). 
