68 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
need of no explanation, but it is not easy to say why Jaunpir is 
styled S,ic0 abd ‘blessed district.2 T can only suggest that 
the reference is to the men of piety and learning who have 
QZ ; emol treks 4D. 
Beveridge, p. 218). The author of the Provincial History of 
Gujarat, called M irat-t-Ahmadi, devotes a long chapter to the 
“tombs [ 150] of the great men of the Faith who repose ” 
in the towns of Ahmadabad, Pattan-Nahrwala, Broach, ete. 
(Bombay Lith., Part IT. 15-85). It may be fairly conjectured 
that the honorific Ss Sie has reference to the numerous places 
of sepulture (tj or 854; ) which are described at length 
in the Jaunpurnama of Faqit Khairu-d-din Muhammad. 
(Elliot and Dowson. VIII, 237 ). 
I may also add that the compiler of the Madsiru-l-Umara 
speaks of the town in one place as 39339 y9:3J))s—a collocation 
which at once puts one in mind of ra 2 Jy\0 (Op. Cit. I. 
179, 1. 11.) 
tration and government of Biiapir which [now] became the 
equal of the principal subas by the title of Daru-z-zafar.”’ 
whee bli Io ree es pleas es 5 feat ewoots lS all} tT 
* 2978 y203 wleys Yoo yma Yee 
Bib. Ind. Text, 282, Il. 8-9. 
do not know if it has struck others, but it has occurred 
to me that the epithet is really a sort of pun on the old name. 
Bijaptr is really Vijayapura, and would mean ‘ City of victory ’ 
in Sanskrit. Daru-z-zafar signifies exactly the same in Arabic, 
