1884.] J. G. Delmerick— On a Gold Coin of Kam Bakhsh. 91 



2. Muhammad Muazzam. Shah Alam Bahadur. He was the ute- 

 rine brother of Muhammad Sultan, and was born towards the latter end 

 of Rajab A. H. 1053, (A. D. September 1643). He was at Peshawar 

 when intelligence reached him of the demise of his father, and he as- 

 cended the throne at Lahore at the end of Muharram A. H. 1119 (April 

 1707 A. D.). 



3. Muhammad Azam Shah. He was born on the 12th of Shaban 

 A. H. 1063 (28th June A. D. 1653). His mother was Dilraz Banu 

 Begam, daughter of Shah Nawaz Safawi. Twelve days after the death 

 of Aurangzeb, while still in the Dakhin, he assumed sovereign rights by- 

 striking coins and ordering the Khutba to be read in his name. Shah 

 Alam Bahadur Shah defeated him in battle at Jaju Sarai between Agra 

 and Dhaulpur where he lost his life on the 18th Habi-ul-Awwal A. H. 

 1119 (10th June A. D. 1707). The coins of Azam Shah are scarce, but 

 one of them has been published by Marsden vide DCCCC, plate XLIII of 

 his Numismata Orientalia. 



4. Muhammad Akbar. Was born on the 12th Zil Hajja A. H. 

 1067 (12th September A. D. 1656). His mother had probably once been 

 a dancing-girl, for she had Jlo title, and was familiarly called Begam 

 which is a very common name among women of that class. When he 

 rebelled against his father by joining the Rana of Udipur, it was reported 

 that he had coined money in his name, but no such coin has as yet, at 

 far as I know, been discovered, and I suspect the report was purposely 

 disseminated by his brother Muhammad Muazzam to embitter his father's 

 mind against him. He fled from the Rajputs and after finding a tem- 

 porary asylum with Sambhaji, he escaped to Persia and died in Garmsir 

 towards the close of the reign of Aurangzeb. 



5. Muhammad Kam Bakhsh. He was born on the 10th Ramzan 

 A. H. 1077 (25 February A. D. 1667). His mother was Bai Udipuri. 

 He was put under restraint during the siege of Jingi by the Generals 

 Jamdat-ul-Mulk and Nusrat Jang for a threatened defection, but being 

 the favourite son of Aurangzeb, he was soon released. 



On receiving the news of the death of his father at Bijapur, he lost 

 no time in proclaiming himself Emperor. In the Khutba he was styled 

 Din-i-panah (Asylum of the Faith) aud his coins bore this title also. 

 On the 3rd Zil Kadah A. H. 1120* (4th January A. D. 1709) Shah Alam 

 Bahadur Shah met him near Haidarabad. A bloody battle ensued, 

 Kam Bakhsh was wounded and died of his wounds on the same day. 



I have recently seen a gold muhar of Kam Bakhsh struck at 

 Haidarabad in A. H. 1120 in the second year of his temporary assump- 



* From my copy of the Tdrikh-i-Muzafari — Elphinstone (page 595 of his His- 

 tory) is wroiig in his dates. 



