340 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {N.S., XIV, 
I must confess my own incapacity to understand how any coin 
“can give rays with light of the world.’’ At the same time, I 
must say that repeated attempts to construe the verse differ- 
ently ended only in bringing home to my mind the conviction, 
that so long as i= ys was taken in the usual sense, it was — 
impossible to make the lines yield anything like a rational 
statement. 
It may be therefore permissible to propose, for the considera- 
tion of those who take any interest in these somewhat indiffer- 
ent specimens of Persian versification, a new interpretation of 
the distich which has recently occurred to me. It is based on ~ 
the following passage from the Taizuk-i-Jahangiri which I quote 
from the excellent version made by Mr. Alexander Rogers and 
revised and edited by Mr. Beveridge, 
peaking of the mandates on various subjects, which he 
took care to issue soon after his accession, the Imperial autobio- 
grapher informs us :— 
Nur-Mihr and to that of 1 tola Nar-jahani. The half a 
a : called Nurant and the quarter, Rawajs.” Op. ctl. Me 
t seems to me that the word Nur-jahans is used in the 
couplet in this peculiar sense, and must be understood as such. 
I would therefore translate the ‘ Bait’? thus :-— es 
an stamp on the coin of Mandi gives through the name — 
of Jahangir Shah lustre like the Sun and Moon to the Nar 
hané (i.e. the one-tola gold muhr’’). a 
If this interpretation is correct, the Manda gold-piet 
must command additional interest on account of being one © — 
that small number of Mughal issues which bear on their gs 
the official or popular designation borne by them. The Ti — 
of = coins bearing the word Bad 9) or als OF coy? OF 3 bt 
we > 5) or tS is well known, and the fact that the ‘poet 
epithet by which the Muhr of this particular weight was off 
cially known, is deserving of noti , 
y the all-powerful inmate of the Imp™ - 
narem. That beautiful lady vik at the time still the wie 
Sher Afgan. She was married to the Emperor only in eae 
regnal year, and it was not till the eleventh that, from P®™* 
