386 = Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [October, 1909. 
The arrangement here shown of the words on the Obverse 
is, I believe, unique for coins of this Emperor. 
us of the total nineteen specimens one is of the last year 
of Shah Jahan I, sixteen range in date from the Ist to the 
49th regnal year_of Aurangzéb, and two are of the 6th 
and 6th years of ‘Alamgir II. : 
€ now pass to our special enquiry. Where was this mint- 
town Zafarabad ? The town best known of that name—indeed 
So far as I can discover, Zafarabad, as distinct from Jaunpur, 
the 31st regnal year of Aurangzéb, and also a Zafarabiad rupee of 
his 30th year. That two mints situated within five miles 
of each other should be simultaneously producing silver coins, 
1s scarcely credible, and accordingly we shall do well to look for 
the home of the Zafarabad mint elsewhere than under the shadow 
caravans halt from Persia, Tarta , Balkh, Samargand, Bukhara, 
Kashgar, Kabul, and many othiog kingdoms.”’ f 
On this passage Mr. Irvine in his admirable translation of 
the Storia adds the following interesting note. 
Zafarabad must be, I think, another name for Atak, 
although that place is on the eastern bank of the Indus. There 
x & castle, Khairagarh, on the opposite (western) bank. MT 
M. L. Dames is inclined to the same opinion. There is no evr 
