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of interest. It is not easy to say why the Rathors selected 
jp-aiet to as the distinctive appellation of their capital, or what 
peculiar affinity existed between it and ‘Victory. 1 
am not quite sure that the epithet is not susceptible of 
another interpretation. 
ed, 
394", according to Steingass, signifies, “ aided, defended, 
protected (by God), triumphant, victorious.” Thus, y24¢!ly!0 
may also mean ‘House or abode (or city) under Divine protec- 
tion,’ and it is scarcely necessary to say that, in that sense, 
it would be just the designation which we should expect to 
be chosen for Ajmer by Akbar. It may be also perhaps 
worthwhile to recall that Ajmer had belonged to the great 
Rathor prince Maldeo before it came into the possession 
of Akbar, It was jealously retained by the Mughals up to a4 
“ when Ajit Singh, son of Raja Jaswant Singh of Marwar, took 
advantage of the decline of the Mughal empire, killed the 
imperial governor, and seized Ajmer. Muhammad Shah re- 
e 
successful competitor, made over the fort and district of 
Ajmer as mund kati or ‘blood money’ for the murder of Jai 
Appa Sindhia, their general.’’ From this time until its ces- 
sion to the British in 1818, Ajmer was held by Sindhia, except 
for about three years 1787-90 A.C. (‘ Imp. Gaz.’ V. 142). See 
also Tod, Rajasthan, Calcutta Reprint, ‘ Annals of Marwar,’ 
Vol. II, Chap. XIII, pp. 950-965). 
The earliest coin of Jodhpir in the Panjab Museum is 
dated 1165 A.H., 5 R. (1752 A.C.). Can it be that the 
Rathors were familiar with the epithet on account of their 
connection with Ajmer, and that they transferred it to J odhpur ? 
Unfortunately, there is no evidence (except that of the still 
doubtful reading of the title on this Dam) of Ajmer having 
been generally known as Daru-l-mansir. 
The epithets (bf oa!) :yj} iy; and sdvien have been dis- 
eussed by Mr. A. Master in Num. Sup. XXJ, Art. 124, and I 
have nothing to add. Attention, however, may be invited to 
the following passage in which the historian Firishta bears his 
testimony to Ahmadabad’s title to be called the “ Beauty 
or Ornament of Cities.” 
