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took possession of the capital on the 14th Rajab of that year. From 

 then both the minister and king figure frequently in the accounts of 

 campaigns under both Akbar and his generals. I'timad and other 

 Gujarat nobles proclaimed Akbar's accession from the pulpits of the 

 mosques, and struck coin in his name, for which loyalty Baroda, Cham- 

 panir, and Siirat, were given to the former as tuyul, but subsequently 

 he fell into disgrace and was made a prisoner. In 982 H. he had been 

 released and was in chai-ge of the imperial jewels. Two years after he 

 went to Makkah, and on his return obtained Patan as ajdgir. In 990 H. 

 he was put in charge of Gujarat as governor, in succession to Shihabu- 

 d-din, but the latter's forces rebelled, and went over to Muzaffar, who 

 in I'timad's absence took Ahraadabad, and set up as ruler again in 

 991 H. Shortly after I'timad went to Patan, where he died in 995 H. 



Muzaffar abdicated in favour of Akbar in 980 H., when he was in 

 the first instance sent to Agra, but subsequently remanded to close 

 confinement. Some nine years after he escaped, and rekirning to Guja- 

 rat, collected a respectable force, defeated and slew Akbar's general 

 Qutbu-d-din Khan, and reascended the throne 991 H. (1583 A. D.). 

 Akbar then deputed Mirza Khan Khanan, the son of Bairam, to retake 

 Gujarat. Muzaffar was defeated the same year in a couple of pitched 

 battles, and fled to Jxmagarh in Kattywar. There he was pursued by 

 another of Akbar's generals Mfrza EMn-i-A'zani, who hunted him 

 down and captured him in Kachh in 999 H. No sooner was Muzaffar 

 handed over to the Mirza than he asked permission to retire for a minute, 

 and took the opportunity to cut his throat with a razor. With him 

 terminated the dynasty of the Muhammadan kings of Gujarat, the 

 kingdom then becoming a province of Dehli. The coin No. XXXI is 

 especially interesting as having been struck during the year in which, 

 for a brief period, Muzaffar managed to re-establish himself in Gujarat. 



In the British Museum Catalogue there is a coin of 963, ascribed 

 to Muhammad, a pretender, and No. XXVIII of the series now published 

 would seem to have somewhat similar titles and dates and also claim to be 

 struck by a son of Mahmud, viz. on the Rev. Qutbu-d-din Muham mad Shah, 

 {bin) as-Sultdn x 63, a,nd on the Obv. Ndsirn-d-dunyd-wa-d-din Abu-l- 

 Fath Mahmud Shah. On the other hand it is very similar in character 

 to No. IX of Mahmud Shah I., the son of Muhammad, and the reading 

 might be reversed, s being 8 instead of 9, but Muhammad I. called 

 himself Ghydsu-d-din and not Qutbu-d-din I have not been able to trace 

 any historical reference to the so-called " Pretender." 



In order to facilitate comparison of dates, descent, or contemporary 

 rulers, I add a genealogical tree of the Gujarat kings, and a table shew- 

 ing the contemporary rules in Malwa, Jaunpur, Kandaish, the Dekkan 



