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need for an auxiliary force. And he would not keep more 
than 12,000 horse etaeher to his own person.” APC ridge, 
Akbarnama, Trans. I, 642; Bibl. Ind. Text I, 356 
The unhappy accident which befell him soon after his 
restoration put an end to this, and many other magnificent 
projects so far as he was concerned, but it is not impossible 
that the idea of having ‘“‘ several seats of government ”’ [the 
word in the original is ~*5 (sly ] at “ Dehli, Agra, Jaunpir, 
Mandi, Lahore, Qanauj and other suitable places’’ was Aga 
with avidity by the highly receptive mind of his son who 
appears from the very first, to have been Cos as Mr. 
Lane Poole puts it, with “a perpetual restless yearning after 
innovation.”” (B.M.C. Introd Ixvi 
It is true that after the introduction of the Iahi types, all 
these Daru-l- Khilafats, Daru-s-Saltanats, and the rest were 
swept off the board, and are rarely found on the coins before the 
accession of Shah Jahan, but while they were in vogue, there 
appears to have been no ‘small diversity and caprice in their 
Saat 
ist Abode of goodness, felicity, grace, is observed on 
re completed about the twentieth year of Shah Jahan (Bibl. 
Ind. Text. I, pt.i. 165, 174).! Several other synonymous titles 
are bestowed upon the town by the historians, e. 
2S} to, Abode of blessing ; 
colwiigaass &BS, District of gracious foundation ; 
walatyis, Abode of felicity or bliss ; 
Syla0 dex, Blessed district, territory or place ; 
in all of which there are clear pigs to the spiritual benefits 
accruing from pilgrimages to the tombs of Shaikh Mu‘inu-d- 
din Chishti and other holy persons reposin g there. The tomb 
of the aang Khwaja of Ajmer,’ as he is generally called 
—is spoken o 
dave J ‘ Tabaqat-i-Akbari ’ (Lakhnau Lith.), 291. 
&edive £6), ‘ Badaont,’ II, 185. 
aSjaic a80 « Badaont,’ IT, 49. 
1 ** Muhammad Salih in his ‘Amal-i-Salih informs us that ‘Abdul 
Hamid was celebrated for the beauty ot his style, and that he died in 
1085 H. (1654 A.D.).” Elliot and Dowson, Vito 3: 
