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of the title borne by Multan to his own capital. There are, 
it must be said, several other examples of the annexation by 
the rebellious vassals of the empire of the epithets, originally 
devised with some show of reason, by the Musalman Padishahs. 
Thus Sindhia pleased himself with calling Mandisor pilediyis. 
The Rathor of Jodhpar laid hands upon <4. Some 
Daulatabid rupees struck, apparently, by the Mahrattas 
bear the incongruous prefix Daru-l-Khilafat and the person 
in authority at Nagor (or Nagpir) took a fancy to odio, an 
old epithet of Ajmer. , 
It is true that Rodgers was of a different opinion. His 
of the rhyme than the reason” provokes the obvious com- 
ment that Daru-l-Aman-i-Jammiin seems to have neither 
‘rhyme nor reason.’ Our knowledge of the political history 
of Jammin is really very small, but he seems to have felt no 
e assures us that ‘the time in which he [scil. Ranjit Deo] 
lived was one of utter lawlessness, yet his little state was the 
abode of peace and safety ( wleiyts ).” Ibid. 63. Lastly, he 
asks his readers to notice “how the title of ‘ Dar-ul-Aman,’ 
the ‘Gate of Safety’ agrees with the description of its condi- 
tion under Ranjit Deo as given above by Rai Kanhiya Lal. 
to be unsupported by contemporary or other evidence of 
a reliable kind. But I find that the statement really rests on 
much better authority than Rai Kanhya Lal’s. Forster who 
passed through Jammu about April 1783. writes: ‘‘ Runzeed 
Deve, the father of the present chief of Jumbo, who de- 
servedly acquired the character of a just and wise ruler, 
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tected and indulged his people, particularly the Mahometans, 
