208 W. Irvine— Later Mughals (1707-1803. ) [No. 2, 
‘Jahandar Shah, king of kings, the champion, struck money in 
the realm like sun and moon.’ There is also the following variant of 
the first line. Ba zad sikkah-i-nugrah cin mihr o mah, ‘Struck silver 
money, like sun and moon.’ ! . 
Mint Towns. In the three collections at the British Museum, 
the India Museum, Calcutta, and the Panjab Museum, Lahor, I count 
up twenty-eight coins of this sovereign. On three the place of coining 
is absent or illegible. The rest belong to the following mints; Lahor 
(1), Shahjahanabad (5), Akbarabad (5), Lakhnau (2), Patnah (2), 
Cambay (1), Surat (3), Burhanpur (2), Aurangabad (4). I am very 
much surprized at finding Patnah in the list,a place where he never 
had any authority. The othernames represent fairly enough the local 
limits of his brief authority. 
Title after Death. His special title after his death was Khuld 
Gramgah, ‘ Peaceful in Paradise.’ # 
Character. His character has been perhapssufficiently disclosed in the 
course of our story, and it hardly needs further elucidation. In his earlier 
years, in the Dakhin and during his government of Multan, he seems to 
have been a fairly active soldier. Itis said that, during the struggle for 
the throne after ‘Alamgir’s death, the only thing that A‘zam Shah feared 
was Mu‘izzu-d-din’s soldierly qualities. But Jahandar Shah’s acquisition 
of the crown was more due to happy accidents than to his own exertions ; 
and his conduct during his few months of power showed him to be quite 
unfitted to hold rule over others, being unable, even according to the 
somewhat lax Eastern standard, to govern himself. He was the first 
sovereign of the house of Taimtr who proved himself absolutely un- 
fitted to rule. The only good quality left to him, in popular estimation, 
was his liking for and liberality to religious mendicants. In company 
with Lal Kunwar, he visited them and ‘kissed their feet.’ He was 
also fond of watching the fighting of elephants. He delighted in illu- 
minations and fire-works, himself setting fire to the Lanka, the mimic 
fortress of Ravan, the ravisher of Sita. The cause of his fall is likened 
by Warid truly enough to the case of the exiled monarch, who attributed 
his ruin to morning slumbering and midnight carousing? 
Wives. —Jahandar Shah was married on the 5th Shaban 1087 H. 
1B.M. “The Coins of the Mogul Emperors,” 175 and 571, C.J. Rodgers, J. A. 
§. Bengal (1888), vol. LVII, 29, zd. “ Coins of the Mogul Emperors of India” (Lahor 
Museum), 200; id. “Coins of the Indian Museum” (Calcutta), Pt. II, 52, 53; Hadz 
qatu-l-aqalim, 1381; Miftahu-t-tawarikh, 299. 
2 Blochmann, Azn, I, Genealogical Table at end, Miftdhu-t-tawarikh, 300. 
3 Han! cah shud, ba-go, zawdl-i-mulk 0 jah-at-ra sabab ? : 
Guft ‘Az khwab-ifdamsubh o shirdb-i-nim-shab,? 
Warid, 140 6; Yahya Khan, 119 a. 
