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unchanged or in a slightly varied form. The nine Emperors 



are 



Shah Jahan I, Shah Shuja', Murad Bakhsh, 

 Shah 'Alam Bahadur I, Jahandar, Farrukh-siyar, 

 Muhammad Shah, Shah 'Alam II, and Akbar II ; 



and the variant titles are the following four : 



Sahib Qirani, Sahib Qiran Tkani. Than! Sahib Qiran, 

 and Tialith Sahib Qiran. 



I. Sahib Qiran, cjV v **^ 



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the coins of Murad Bakhsh and Jahandar. 

 (a) Murad Bakhsh caused rupees of two different types to 



be struck at Surat in A.H. 1068. Of the rarer type 

 the legend on the Obverse reads : 



•li *U> ±\jo 



U s£.t£*c ^suc 



c^^ c>y ^ u 3 



aw 



Muhammad Murad, the victorious King, the Second 



Alexander 



Took the heritage from (Shah) Jahan, Lord of the 

 Conjunction. 

 (b) Jahandar approved two distichs for his coins, of which 



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^y *^U j*. (or ; ) ) **j. ^- & 



^l_ t _^ &l_^L> g l£ ; t^_il_ v ^ 



This legend, with occasional slight variation, is present 

 on both muhrs and rupees struck at Khujista Bunyad, 

 and on the rupees that issued from Etawa, Daru-1- 

 Fath Ujjain, Daru-s-Sarur Burhanpur, Bareli, 

 Surat, Daru-1-Khilafat Shahjahanabad, and Lakh- 



nau. 



[Nadir Shah is not included among the Emperors of 

 India, but it may here be noted that, during his 

 sanguinary invasion of the country in AH. 1152, he 

 caused coins to be struck in his name at Dehll and 

 Ahmadabad, on which he too is styled Sahib 

 Qiran. They bear the legend : 



