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IBN BATUTAH IN SOUTHERN INDIA. 
of Muhammad Mustafa, and the other that of Mubarak Shah. 
As good luck will have it, each of these two coins, which I 
figure as Nos. 11 and IS, respectively, bears a date, while the 
latter helps us in fixing the names of the king's relations. 
The former bears on the obverse -^-^as^ and on the reverse 
<;Maa»» jU\ (?) (765) ; another othervsdse identical coin bearing 
date 764, while another with the same name but with a date, 
the last numeral of which is unfortunately gone, has on the 
reverse an inscription which I read tentatively '-^Z (jU=LJ^ ^ 
(son of the Siiltan Kerldah ?). Next in order on this 
side we find a coin No, 12 with on the obverse the name 
<^M>» (Mustafa) again, but here preceded by the word 
(slave, Ar.) instead of (Muhammad) and bearing the 
date 769 distinctly, but whether this is the name of a new 
king, or merely one of those titles they were wont to rejoice 
in, it is of course impossible to say. Whichever it may be, 
he certainly was the son of the same father as Muhammad 
Mustafa, the reverse of his coins proving this, and I certainly 
think it more probable that he was brother of, than identical 
with, Muhammad. 
Turning now to No. 13, the other coin to which I alluded 
above, we find on one specimen the date 763, and on all what 
looks like quite a little genealogy of kings. Unfortunately 
most of the coins available are much worn, but tentatively 
they appear to me to read as follows : obverse s^^W- 
sU (^\^ «U (Mubarak Shah, the son of Shah Jehan (?) 
Shah) and reverse i-^/ eH ^ (the son of Fakhr Shah, 
the son of Kerldah). I am as doubtful, however, about the 
reading of the last name ia these as in the last, and in not 
one of a dozen specimens I have is the name clear. Certain 
however it is that it is identical in both. Hence " then, 
foUoAving up the successors of Nasii-ad-din, we have, if these 
readings are correct, the following : — 
' Since this was written I have sent electrotypes of those coins to Mr. C. J. 
Eodgei-s, of Amritzar, and he agrees with the readings here given. 
