72 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., AVI, 
But neither title reappears on the Dehli mintages of any of 
their successors. In the historical literature, however, wthediy!s 
gsi#o occurs not only in Nizamu-d-din Ahmad, Badaoni and 
Abil Fazl but in some of the later works, ¢.g. The Iqbalnaima-i- 
Jahangir, Badishahnama, etc. 
The epithet on a copper coin of Fathpir dated 979 A.H. 
(see P.M.C. Introd., xc) was read as wydyto by Rodgers. 
Mr. Nelson Wright has pronounced the reading to be “ not 
convincing.” The last word appears to him to be pda), J 
venture to offer, for what it is worth, the suggestion that it is 
“yam, with perhaps, Sdeltyts prefixed to it. 
desis wyd= is found once in the Tabagal-i-‘Akbari. In 
his account of the 14th year of the reign (976-7 A.H.) Nizamu- 
d-din tells us that the Emperor “resolved to make Hazrat-i- 
Fathpur his capital and‘gave orders for the construction of a 
strong fort round the town.” ! 
#27058 pe 399 71 ahi Kall sols WF OBS oly ty yyQld orn 
Lakhnau Lithograph, 288, Il. 14-15. 
It is quite possible that the old epithet of the imperial 
town of Dehli was transferred at this time to the new metro- 
polis. The last word of this epithet may, perhaps, be & ya! 
(victory). It is very difficult to say what precedes it, as so 
little of the latter has come on the coin. 
) 9244) )13—House of Victory (?). The tentative reading 
of the epithet on an Ajmer dim dated 979 A.H. is yy 2ie)})! 9, 
The coin was first published by Rodgers (Ind. Ant.,’ 1890, 
p. 223, Pl. TI, 28). He read the word in the second line 
of the obverse as ())»<40, but confessed his inability to make 
out “the meaning of manstr and the letters above that 
word.”’ 5; 
gy2ietyts is Mr. Nelson Wright’s suggestion (I.M.C. +r; 
No. 358), but he is not sure of having correctly deciphered 
significance. Mr. Whitehead also declares that the ‘ epithet 
has not been satisfactorily read.’’ (P.M.C. Introd. xxix.) 
eee ought perhaps to say that these words are susceptible of a very 
different interpretation. The sentence may be translated thus also :— 
‘* His Majesty (yaa) fixed on Fathpar as his capital, and gave 
orders for the construction of a strong fort round the town.” 
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