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[V.S 
(the Bride of the Realm). I have never met with the latter 
epithet. ; 
I have also been shown a Persian document, in which 
Ahmadabad is called <* Baldat-i-Mahfiza Zain-ul-bilad Ahmad- 
and I am told that it is a common thing for documents drawn 
up in Ahmadabad about this period to use the epithet, which 
is the subject of this note. 
A. Masrrr. 
Surat. 
