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[Danishmand Elian. ’All, in his Bahadur Shdh-ncimah , entry of the said 
date and Khafi Elian. Text II, 607], The passage in Danishmand Elian 
reads as follows : “The 1st Shawwal, 1st year, Gliasi Ram, principal 
‘‘ clerk to the Chief Intelligencer, or Wakiahnigdr-i-kul , made a report 
‘ asking for orders fixing the date from which the reign was to be 
reckoned, that the same might he entered in the official proceedings. 
“Orders issued to take the 18th Zu,l-Hajj, and a report was called for 
“ as to the New Tear’s day by the solar year. In reply this was stated 
to he the 1st Farwardin and a Sunday. That day was accordingly 
“ fixed and ordered to be recorded.” [B.M. Oriental MSS. No. 24, fol. 
95a.]. This may mean that the 1st Farwardin or the 18tli Zu,l-Hajj 
was adojited. If the former, that would be the 10th or 11th March, 
equal to the 5th or 6th Zu,l-Hajj, 1118 H. 
Jahandali Shah. As he did not survive to begin a second year’s 
reign, there does not appear to have been any order passed fixing an 
official date for his accession. He was enthroned in the plain east of 
Liihor on the 21st Safar, 1124 II. (29th March 1712) [Nur-ud-din, 
Multani, Jahanddr-namah and Kamwar Khan. Tdrikh-i-S.-i-Gh.'], his 
father, Bahadur Shah, having died on the 20th Muharram, 1124 H. 
(27th February 1712) [Kamwar Elian], 
Faebpkhsiyar. He heard of his father Azim-ush-shan’s death 
near Labor, when he was himself at Patnah-Azimabad. He was enthroned 
there, in the ha ah known as Afzal Khan’s, on the 29th Safar, 1124 H. 
(6th April 1712) [Muhammad Ahsan, Ijad, Farrulch-siyar-ndmah, B.M. 
Oriental, No. 25, fol. 40a.] On the 9th Jumadi II, 1125 H. (2ud July 
1713), he ordered that Jaliandar Shah’s reign should be struck out of the 
records and treated as non-existent. He directed at the same time that 
his own reign should be dated from his enthronement at Patna, namely 
the 29th Safar, 1124 H. [Kamwar Khan, Tdrikh-i-S.-i-Gh. : entry of 
9th Jumadi II, 1125, aud Khushal Chand, B.M. Or. 3288, fol. 397a.] 
Khafi Elian. II, 737, has the wrong year, 1123 instead of 1124. He and 
Khushal Chand have the 1st Rabi’ 1, which is, of course, the next day 
to the 29tli Safar, so that there is no practical difference, on this point, 
between them and Kamwar Elian. 
EafI’-ud Darjat. As he reigned for a few months only, no order 
was passed fixing officially the first day of his reign. He was enthroned 
in the palace at Dihli on the 9th Rabi’ II, 1131 H. (28th February 
1719) [Kamwar Khan, Tdrikh-i-S.-i-Gh: and Khafi Khan, II, 816]; 
he was deposed and sent back into the palace on the 17tli Rajah, 
1131 H. (4th June 1719), and he died there on the 24th of the same 
month (11th June 1719) [Kamwar Khan, and Khafi Kliaii II, 830]. 
Rafi’-ud-daulah. This prince was the next elder brother of the 
