1869.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 167 



Other silver coins of 'Alauddin are, according to Marsden " from a 

 mint of an unascertained city, the name of which seems to commence 

 with the character _j*>, following the term itab." This may be 

 &a&j+» f <xb Baldah i Sarhind. 



IV. — Note on the fall of a Meteorite at Jiillunder, in April A. D. 

 1621, according to the Iqbalndmah i Jahdngiri ; by H. Bloch- 



mann, Esq. 



" At this time (RabCulakhir 1030, or March— April 1621) a dread- 

 ful explosion was heard in a village near Jullunder (Jalandhar). The 

 explosion proceeded from the east, and was so tremendous, that the 

 inhabitants of the place were in the greatest anxiety for their lives. 

 While the noise was going on, a lightning-like lustre shot along the 

 heaven, and descended to the earth, when it disappeared. It took 

 some time before the inhabitants recovered from their fright, and 

 regained their composure. They sent a courier to Muhammad Sa'id, 

 the Collector of Jullunder, and informed him of the event. The Col- 

 lector at once mounted a horse, and came to the spot. He found 

 that the ground to about ten to twelve yards square looked as if 

 burned, and the soil was still quite hot. Muhammad Sa'id then 

 ordered to dig up the burnt ground. The deeper they dug, the 

 hotter and crisper the earth became, till they alighted on a hot lump of 

 iron, which was so hot, that it seemed to have come that very moment 

 out of the oven. When it got cooler, the Collector took it home, put it 

 into a bag, sealed it up, and sent it to Court. His Majesty [Jahangir] 

 called TTstad Ddud, who was well known in those days for the 

 excellent sword-blades which he made, and gave him the order to 

 make the lump into a sword, a dagger and a knife. The armourer then 

 reported that the iron would not stand under the hammer, but crumb- 

 led to pieces ; but he could mix it with pure and faultless iron. This 

 His Majesty ordered him to do. He then took three parts of meteoric 

 iron {dhan i barq, lightning-iron) to one part of common iron, mixed 

 them together, and made of it two swords, one dagger, and one 

 knife, which he laid before His Majesty. After being mixed with the 

 other iron, the meteoric iron exhibited the same grain as is observed 

 in Tamani and Southern [Indian] swords. You could bend the 

 swords, and not a trace of the bending would remain. When the 



