84 Jourtal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
Part II. 
In the preceding pages, I have tabulated the descriptive or 
honorific epithets which arrest attention on the coins of the 
Mughal Emperors of India, and attempted to throw some light 
on the origin of the most characteristic and remarkable of those 
conflict with the historical. It is scarcely necessary to say 
that for the purposes of this investigation we can rely onl 
the contemporary chronicles of the Indian Mughals which have 
been published. 
I have already observed that the number of the prefixes” 
which figure on the mintages of the first two Emperors is very 
limited, and that they make their appearance only on the issues 
in copper. We naturally turn for light to Babur’s famous 
‘ Memoirs,’ but they are really written in Turki and to judge 
from Mrs. Beveridge’s excellent translation, the imperial 
autobiographer rarély makes use of these flourishes. The only 
exceptions would seem to be in reference to Dehli and Jaunpir, 
to both of which the desigriation ‘ Capital’ ( SlJtyto 2 ) is once 
