1880.] C. E. Stiilpnagel — Coins of Ohids-ud-din, Sfc. 



29 



princes, his cousins, of whom Ghias-ud-din dwelt peacefully at Firoz-koh, 

 taking service with the Sultan Saif-ud-din, whereas the more adventurous 

 Prince Mu'az-ud-din proceeded to Bamian and there found employment 

 tinder his uncle Fakhr-ud-diu Mas'iid. But when Ghias-ud-din succeeded 

 to the throne of Ghor after Saif-ud-din's tragical death, Fakhr-ud-din in- 

 stigated his nephew Mu'az-ud-din to hestir himself and likewise acquire a 

 regal position. The latter accordingly started in all haste to his brother's 

 court where he was received in a friendly spirit. He served Ghias-ud-din 

 one year, after which the counti-ies of Kasr-kajurau and Istiya, between 

 Herat and Ghazni, were assigned to him ; and at a subsequent period he obtain- 

 ed possession of the city Takinabad, specially noted as the largest town in the 

 Garmsir. In 569 A. H. (1173 A. D.) Sultan Ghias-ud-din conquered the 

 town of Ghazni, but returned to Ghor after placing his brother Mu'az-ud- 

 din upon the throne, who secured in addition the territories of Ghazni and the 

 country round about in 570 A. H. In the third year after this time, Mu'az 

 ud-din led his forces to Multan, aiid henceforth his history becomes merged in 

 that of India. Of Sultan Ghias-ud-din scarcely anything more is known, 

 but it should be remembered in his favour that, instead of getting his bro- 

 ther murdered, he treated him with the greatest kindness, and always 

 associated his name with his own on the coins of the realm. Ghias-ud-din 

 died at Herat in 599, and Mu'az-ud-din was murdered by the Gakkars at 

 Eohtak in 602 A. H. 



Coins in the joint names of Ghias-ud-din and Mu'az-ud-din have already 

 been published by Mr. Edward Thomas in his " Chronicles of the Pathan 

 Kings of Delhi," two of which are of gold and two of silver, the latter being 

 ingraved in the first plate and numbered one and two, the latter beine; iden- 

 tical with the one described by Wilson in the Ariana Antiqm, XX, 29. 

 I have lately acquired eight specimens of dirhems of these Ghori brothers, 

 all of them different from those already described. Of these, three are 

 similar to No. 1, pi. I of Mr. Thomas's book ; see Plate IV. They are of 

 silver weighing, on an average, 74 grains and have their legends arranged in 

 three concentric circles, the patronymic occupying the centre. The first, 

 however, differs in this that the outer circle containing the date (597) is 

 found in the obverse with the name and title of Ghias-ud-din, and not on 

 the reverse as on Mr. Thomas's coin. I thought it at first just possible that 

 the engraver might have committed a mistake, and changed the outer circles 

 of the obverse and reverse, but such a supposition is unlikely from the 

 transcript of the coin in the body of the book, which clearly shows that the 

 date belongs to the reverse. Moreover it is totally immaterial on which 

 side the date is actually placed, and it is actually found on the reverse 

 together with Mu'az-ud-din's name, on two of the coins described in the 



