276 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIV, 
Mogaffar Gujarati near Ahmadabad. It is to this deputation 
of Tahir that Abul Faz] refers in the Akbarnama, as has already 
been mentioned. Tahir on the same occasion incidentally men- 
tions that his son (?) Khwaja ‘Imadu-d-din Hasan was ap- 
pointed to be superintendent of the mart of Cambay. ‘ 
According to the B.M. copy Or. 168 and the extracts in 
Or. 1762 it was Tahir’s father who got this appointment, but 
my copy was walad and not walid. At p. 547° of B.M. copy 
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m— 
year of Akbar to procure the release of Khwaja Muaggam'* 
wite. Tahir calls ‘himself ‘in one assage the humblest ° 
inscription that he 
(Shah Jahan), and we know, as stated by Rieu, that Sultan 
