1916.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXVII. 137 



and promise to make up the arrears of past payments in two 

 years." (Cowell's ed. 1866, p. 589). -He was compelled," 

 says Grant Duff, "to give his daughter in marriage to 8ult«n 

 Muhammad, and to pay up all arrears of tribute fixed by 

 Aurangzeb at the annual sum of one crore of rupees, but 

 Shahjahan, in confirming these proceedings, remitted twenty 

 lacs of the amount." (Bombay Reprint, 1873, p. 69). There 

 is not a word in either of these authorities about the striking 

 of coin in Shahjahan's name, nor is there any in the verbose 

 account of the transactions of 1067 which is given in the con- 

 temporary " Shahjahan Nameh " of lnayat Khan, and which 

 can be read in Elliot and Dowson VII, pp. 115-116. But if no 

 such stipulation was made in 1067 a.h., when was it made, and 

 how did these coins come to be issued at all ? 



The fact is that when the Gulkanda ruler was brought to 

 his knees in 1045 a.h. he agreed not only " to pay tribute and 

 permit the Khutba to be read in the Emperor's name," bta 

 to strike coins also with the Imperial titles. The long and 

 minatory rescript addressed to 'Abdullah by Shahjahan and 

 the exceedingly submissive if not abject, reply are quoted with 

 evident pride and exultation by the official chronicler, 'Abdul 

 Hamid Lahori, in the Badshah Nameh. (Bibliotheca Indical 

 Text, pp. 130-133, 178-180). Both these letters are specimens of 

 the most florid and artificial style affected by cultured Persians- 

 in official correspondence, and have been left untranslated by 

 Dowson, whose summary of three lines is filled out with a- 

 meaningless, if not misleading 'etcetera 5 (E. D. VII, 51), and 

 who dismisses the 4; letter of homage from Kutb-ul-Mulk " in 

 six words, (ib. 57). Fortunately the original text is easily 

 available. Qutb-ul-Mulk first promises that he will have the 

 Khutba read in the Emperor's name and adds : 



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[Bibliotheca Indica Text, Vol. I, Part ii, p. 178.J 



" The red money and the white (gold and silver) will 

 always be stamped with the auspicious coin-legend, which has 

 been engraved and sent to me from the ^ — * % ' * " " 

 Asylum of the Universe.' ■ 



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n saying about Qutb-ul-Mulk. 





[Bib. Ind. Text, Vol. I, Part ii, pp. 210-211.] 



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And [Qutb-ul-Mulk] has promised that the faces of 



