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merely the ‘ Light of the Harem’ (Nir-Mahal), she was exalted to 
the dignity of ‘ Light of the World.’ (Tazuk, I. 319.) Indeed, 
all these fanciful epithets appear to have been intended as com- 
pliments to the Emperor himself, and to have had reference to 
the laqab of Niru-d-din which he had adopted on his accession. 
pears to have lost no time in consigning to oblivion the neolo- 
gisms of his father and introducing his own. Like some other 
Oriental princes, he seems to have been fatuously solicitous to 
“make a name”’ by paltry or fanciful changes in style, nomen- 
clature, and other matters of no importance. 
Junagadh, S. H. Hopiva.a. 
15th October, 1916. 
195. Tue Karak Rupers oF AHMAD SHAH. 
_ One of the hitherto unsolved puzzles of Mughal Numisma- 
tics is connected with some rupees which were struck at 
Katak in the name of the Emperor Ahmad Shah. So many as 
Seventeen specimens are registered in the Indian Museum 
by certain « figures or symbols over the div on the 
reverse” of which Mr. Nelson Wright candidly declares that 
he is “ unable to say to what they refer.” ( ) 
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during the years 1742-1751 a.c., Bengal, Bihar and Orissa 
Were so incessantly invaded and plundered by the hordes 
of Raghiji Bhonslay and the Subahdar ‘Alivardi Khan reduced 
of their sparing the rest of his territories (1165 4.H., 1751 
4C.). It is true that for some time afterwards, the osten- 
was done away with, and the province became and remained an 
integral part of the dominions of the Bhonslay Rajas of Nagpur 
until 1803 4.c. (1218 a.m.). I venture to suggest that the prob- 
tl merals is by no 
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