74 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
“The houses of Ahmudabad are in general built of brick . 
and mortar, and the roofs tiled. There are three hundred and 
sixty different mohullas, each mohulla having a wall surround- 
is, on the whole, the handsomest city in Hindoostan and per- 
haps in the world.” Briggs’ Translation, IV, 14. The last 
sentence is thus expressed in the original : 
# OGL 89h) Billo B25 syaye Coyd hot fy eebe ol whe JS 
(Lakhnau Lithograph, II, 183, Il. 18-19.) 
A Eur 
the city about 1611 A.C 3 
““ Amadabade or Amdavar is a goodly City, and scituate on 
a faire River, inclosed with strong walls and faire gates, with 
many beautifull Turrets, * * * *, The buildings comparable to 
the Merchants rich, the Artificers excellent for Carvings, 
Paintings, Inlayd Workes, imbroydery with Gold and Silver.” 
Parchas ‘ His Pilgrimes,’ MacLehose’s Reprint, 1905, IV, 68. 
The double epithet prbac yo ciblelits has been deciphered 
on some silver coins dated 981 A.H. which are most probably 
of the Ahmadabad Mint. “The title phase % has been read ” 
says Mr. Whitehead, “ on some copper coins struck by Muzaffar 
II of Gujarat in the years 977 and 978,” but does not occur 
on any Mughal coin.” (P.M.C. Introd. XXXv). 
the city by that Sultan. The phrase pas, also arrests 
attention in the verses composed in honour of the occasion 
bya contemporary poet named Halwi Shirazi ; 
HRS Jo y2ih ef yale galt afew ons ald a 
Mir p—tne » 1 wi ais Is® o99—© wt} yl yo af 
M irat-i-Sikandari, Bombay Lith., 1831, p. 25, ll. 5-6. The 
\ h 
honorific is prefixed to the name of Ahmadabad in the Mirat- 
t ‘Ahmadi also. 
