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dence that Atak was ever renamed Zafarabad ; but there is an 
obscure, insufficiently identified mint-town of that name, which 
is usually placed at Zafarabad in the Jaunpur district, though 
I suggested long ago Zafarabad Bidar in the Dakhin. Mr. 
Dames says the shape of the letters on the coins suggests rather 
a northern than a Dakhini origin. If Atak was also called 
Zafarabad, a gap is filled ; for Atak, as a mint-town, disappears 
between Akbar’s reign (1556-1605) and that of Muhammad Shah 
(1719-1748), while Zafarabad appears in the interval (coins 
of Shah Jahan, 1627-1658; Aurangzéb, 1658-1707; and Bahadur 
Shah, 1707-1712).’’ 2 
Further, in his Additional Notes, Mr. Irvine states that this 
Zafarabad ‘‘may well have derived its name from Zafar 
Khan, son of Zain Khan, Kokah, who was appointed to the 
charge of Atak in Jahangir’s second year (1607).’’ (IV. 426). 
- Now this hypothesis that the Zafarabad coins issued from 
and to Mr. Dames, should receive careful consideration. If I 
mistake not, however, the numismatic evidence adduced in 
its support has been greatly overestimated. The facts, briefly 
stated, are as follow. 
e mint-town Atak—or to give it its fullname Atak Banaras 
notwithstanding, the gap still yawns. 1, however, the Atak 
Banaras rapes of womngisd be held to be correctly attributed 
to that mint, then, accepting the suggested identification, we 
shall have to admit that in the reign of Aurangzéb from one 
and the same mint some coins issued ing the mint-name 
peaks for them a northern rather than a southern origin 
should not, I think, be pressed. For what workmanship is 
