80 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
city. Aurangabad had been, by his predecessor, styled Khu- 
jista-buni yad. He would not be backward in aving a 
favourite of his own, and would call it Farkhunda-buniyad. 
t is perhaps worth noting that the original name of 
Haidarabad was Bhagnagar, and it is by that name only that 
it is spoken of by Tavernier (‘ Travels,’ ed. Ball. I, 150, 151, 
156, 162, 167), Fryer (‘A New Account of East India and 
Persia,’ ed. Crooke II, 44. 48), Manucci (‘ Storia do Mogor,’ tr. 
Irvine, II, 445 ; ITT, 506 ; IV, 98) and other European travellers 
of the 17th century. Firishta informs us that Muhammad 
Quli Qutb Shah “built a magnificent city at the distance of 
eight miles”? from Gulkanda, ‘ which he called Bhagnuggur 
after his favourite mistress,’’ a ‘‘ public singer of the name of 
Bhagmutty” (Briggs’ Pinecone, IIT, 335. See also ibid., 
3ibl. Ind. Text, p. 302) and ‘ Khafi Khan’ (Text IJ, 369 or 
Elliot and Dowson, VII, 336). Now, Bhag m means ‘Good 
Fortune,’ and Bhagmati ‘ Full of good fortune. ‘ Bhagnagar ’ 
itself would signify ‘City of good fortune,’ very much the 
same as ‘Farkhunda Buniyad.’ It may be not unreasonabiy 
supposed that this had some influence on the mind of the in- 
ventor of the new title of honour. 
n the coins of Panipat and Bareli there is an epithet 
which ‘las been read as 4ab5. Mr. C. J. Brown has recentlv 
suggested that this is erroneous so far at least as the Panipat 
issues are concerned, and that the word is really axes. Mr. 
Whitehead has accepted the emendation, and I m may be per- 
haps permitted to say that I had ventured to entertain the 
same opinion long before its publication in Num 
(p. 234). Ho éxa3 is a collocation which is not infiequently 
met with in the historians e. g. Tabagat-i-A kbart, 245, 301; Akbar- 
nama, 11,35, 37, 38,39: ; ‘Alamgirnama, 220, 849, but cegily hab 
I do not remember to have ever seen. 
éab3 means ‘a segment, section, portion, piece, slice, 
morsel ’ and has several other significations also according to the 
Dictionaries, but ‘a territorial division’ small or large, does 
not appear to be one of them. Its plural form gles i is exceed- 
ingly common in the sense of ‘ land assigned for military or 
other service,’ in other w words, a Ja * Se veral other t terms 
and Mughal petites 
= Byene - Slo - ce - 88,5 - adle - alfa 
- bos - ores - «ba - yho - wal, = Gyo - ye - Bgn0 - Ge - au0,6 
psi and cu, 
