412 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1912. 
city has been besieged. In 1350 Muhmmad (III) ibn wig 
plundered the place, and took away as prisoner the 
Khengar. Then in 1414 the Gujarat, Sultan, Ahmad shah, 
** power of the infidels was broken, and they were changed from 
‘*the quality of harbis (7.e. ee) to the condition of zimmis 
** (i.e. tributaries or subjects). 
It was, however, Mahmud Begada Case of the two 
forts’ —J finagadh and Champanir) who finally annexed the 
province to the Saltanat of Gujarat. On three several 
occasions he led his armies against the infidels of Girnar, and 
ultimately in 1472 Rao Mandalik V not only surrendered his 
kingdom but accepted the bitter condition imposed upon him 
of conversion to Islam. Thereafter known as Khan Jahan, he 
resided in Ahmadabad, where his grave, enclosed by a shabby 
wooden railing. can be seen to-day on the ground floor of a 
tiny shop in the Manek Chok. Mahmid, elated by his victory, 
changed the name of Jiinagadh to Mustafa-abad, and at his 
ae desire several of his nobles built themselves residences 
"Becuauie now for the first time in its history a mint was 
opened in this city. Silver and copper coins bearing the mint 
name Shahr a‘zam Mustafa-abad were struck between the years 
879 and 892 Hijri, possibly also in 894, 905, and 906. These 
have been described in an article on ‘‘ the Coins of the Gujarat 
Saltanat”’ in the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal 
Asiatic Society (vol. xxi, No. lviii). 
Right on to the close of the Ahmad Shahi Dynasty Juna- 
gadh remained tributary to the Sultans of Ahmadabad, though 
the allegiance was often little more than nominal. By the time 
that Akbar effected his first conquest of Gujarat in 1572-73, 
Tatar Khan Ghori had established himself as virtually the 
independent ruler of J Unagadh, and it was not till some 
twenty years later that the city was besieged and captured by 
the Imperial troops. The iad art oe thereupon annexed 
to the Empire, passed under the immediate authority of the 
Mughal papeied of Gujarat, while ite direct administration was 
deputed to Faujdars resident at Jiinagadh. ve s system con- 
tinued in force till 1738 when, in consequence of the waning 
power of the Mughal Emperors, a soldier of arte of Afghan 
descent named Sher Khan Babi, the last of the Faujdars, 
quietly—or, as the Tarikh-i-Sorath puts it, ‘‘ without any 
further ado’’—disclaimed allegiance to Dehli, ‘and assumed the 
1 Ibid., p. 98. 
