690 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1910. 



capitulation 



Mu gh al 



tion in the city, thinking to anticipate an inevitable sur- 

 render, caused the 1091 Hijrl rupees to be struck in the name 

 of the Emperor Aurangzeb. Or just possibly they may have 

 been issued from some mint accompanying the Imperial forces 

 in the field. Certainly no sufficient proof has come down to us 

 that the Mu gh al assailants did actually capture the city in the 

 year 1091 ; but no less certainly that year witnessed the circu- 



lation of Bijapur coins of Aurangzeb. 



Geo. P. Taylor. 



93, — On the half-muhr, No. 172 of the British 



Museum Catalogue. 



Mr. Stanley Lane- Poole, in his Catalogue of the Mughal 

 Coins in the British Museum, has suggested that the very inter- 

 esting gold piece No. 172, depicting a crowned archer followed 

 by a woman veiled, may have been struck in order to com- 

 memorate the submission to Akbar of Ibrahim II, king of 

 Bijapur, and the subsequent marriage of Ibrahim's daughter to 

 Akbar' s third son, the Sultan Daniyal Mirza. This interpreta- 

 tion of the coin rests, however, on very slender foundation. 

 The late M. Ed. Drouin, in an article contributed in 1902 to 

 the Revue Numismatique, describes, and gives a vignette of, a 

 half-muhr closely resembling this one in the British Museum, 

 save that the specimen in the Cabinet de France bears on its 



Obverse the legend, in Devanagarl characters, <;imj ?q Rama- 



a 



satya, c the Truth of Rama.' * Arguing mainly from this new 

 feature of the coin, M. Drouin arrives at the following con- 

 clusion : 



" Notre medaille represente done, suivant moi, le 

 <s prince Rama : reconnaissable a sa couronne, avec Tare 

 11 et les fleches celestes, suivi de Slta, la fille de Djanaka, 

 " roi de Mithila, ; la belle Mithilene,' comme l'appelle le 



poete, tous deux partant pour l'exil ; il ne manque 

 " que Lakshmana. 55 



If this explanation, so consonant with the legend on the 



coin, wins, as it well may, our acceptance, we must then 



surely relegate to the same class with it the sister coin, No. 172 



of the British Museum. That either of the two stands in 



any special relation to the 'Adil Shahs of Bijapur is very im- 

 probable. 



Geo. P. Taylob. 



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