Vol. VI, No. 10.] Numismatic Supplement. 577 



[N.S.] 



II. Sahib QiranI, <^L^ v=^. 



The title ■ Lord of Conjunction ' with the mere change 



adjectival ^jy occi 

 and Shah 'Alam II. 



(a) Mr. Whitehead 



Bahawalpur State Toshakhana " (Num.Supp. XI, 

 p. 333) mentions three muhrs of Shah k Alam Baha- 

 dur I from the mintMustaqirru-1-KhilafatAkbarabad 

 bearing the following inscription : 



v^jif c ){ * y^ o-y *r-^ u « [ **- «-^ u '° ] 



Instead of the first two words a&* «-f;lf* Mr. Rodgers 

 would read &£~» ^j jy. 



The same epithet Sahib QiranI also occurs on the 

 Akbarabad rupee, No. 3, on page 220 in the Lahor 

 Museum Catalogue, which, as Mr. Whitehead 

 points out, has been there erroneously attributed 

 to AlamgTr II. It is, one may confidently affirm. 



a coin of Shah 'Alam Bahadur I. 



{b) On both muhrs and rupees of Shah 'Alam II from 



Ahmadnagar-Farrukhabad and Daru-1-Khilafat 

 Shahjahanabad, and on that Emperor's rupees 

 from Mustaqiru-1-Khilafat Akbarabad, Barell 

 Qat', Muzaffargarh, and (perhaps) Jodhpur, we 

 meet with the following legend : 



III. Sahib Qiran thanl, ^iL> ^yi ^^U 



This title, ' the Second Lord of Conjunction, 5 was 

 adopted by the four Emperors, Shah Jahan I, 1 

 Shah Shuja', Muhammad Shah, and Akbar II. 



firs t 



on his coins, but M. Ed. Drouin has 



j j . • ^ — iii«"* ciiLureu un nts coins, uut jjl. £iu. i^iuuiii iw *»**- 



ucea interesting evidence which goes to prove that the title was as a 

 matter of fact bornft hv «h«v» T n us^ a f«fu. T^Ko^rrTr. 



" Les 



ult&n ( 



Jahangir 



jamais 



ment en 1605, disent 

 it lieu la aeconde con- 

 raais Djehan Gir n'* 

 a orotocoles. Je doi» 



