9. NUMISMATIC SUPPLEMENT No. XXXI. 
Note.—The numeration of the articles below is continued 
rom p. 267 of the ‘‘ Journal and Proceedings’’ 
for 1918. y 
194. Tur Manpt GoLp COUPLET. 
I crave permission to say a few words in reference to the 
Jahangir. The Muhr was first published by Mr. Rodgers in the 
paper on the “‘ Couplets or Baits on the Coins of Shah Nuruddin 
Jahangir,” which appeared in the Journal of the Asiatic Society 
of Bengal in 1888. That admirable builder-up of such verses 
arranged the words thus :— 
sls jake pl; yale kee 
srt ae: ie thy Se 
and translated them as under :— 
_ “May the Coin of Mandi, through the name of Jahangir, 
give light to the world like the sun and the moon”? (Joc. cit. 23). 
Mr. Rodgers was not sure that he had been able to hit upon 
the true order of the words, and he has said so. Mr. Whitehead 
has taken a line of his own. He has reversed the order of the 
lines and thinks they would read better thus :— 
tle 5 40 9% gyz O82 Se yo 
so ,—skile pl jhe &.. 
‘ (P.M.C. No. 918.) 
His rendering also differs considerably from his predecessor’s, 
and is as follows :— 
“With light of the world gave (sic) rays like the sun and 
moon, 
Coin of Mandi by the name of Jahangir Shah.” 
It must be obvious to every one having even a moderate acquaint- 
ance with Persian that Rodgers’ version is easily intelligible, but 
that it possesses that merit only on account of the translator 
having slurred over the difficulty of the phrase ike ys). It 
awe be said that Mr. Whitehead has adhered much more faith- 
ully to his text, but Iam afraid that that fidelity has been pur- 
chased somewhat dearly at the expense of sense and meaning 
