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[No. 1, 
C. J. Rodgers— Couplets on coins of kings 
From a comparison of two rupees I have drawn and the one given 
in Mr. Delmerick’s paper in the “ Proceedings ” for May 1884, I build 
up the following couplet on the rupees and mohurs of Kam Bakhsli :— 
| ( f * J £ij 
alx) 
i. e., “ The emperor Kam Bakhsh, the protector of the religion, 
put (his) stamp on the sun and the moon, in the Dakkan, 1120.” 
1 have not seen a coin of Bahadur Shah with a couplet on it. Ja- 
handar Shah’s rupees have the following :— 
(1) 5$bo ^jp, <jbf ^ 
J$b*» ^Lg 
i. e., “ Abu-1-Fath-i-Ghazi Jahandar Shah put (his) stamp on the 
sun and the moon, throughout the world.” 
(2) Same as above with instead ofjJ in first line. 
(3) fj j* 
<sA j 
i. e., “ Jahandar Shah, the monarch of the world, put (his) stamp on 
gold (or silver) like the Sahib-qiran.” 
(4) Beale in his Miftahu-t-Tawdrikh gives the follow¬ 
ing : 
8bo J J^o cSlbc ^ 
cc jU 
i. e., 11 The victorious emperor Jahandar Shah struck coins in his 
dominion like the sun and the moon.” 
The author of the Mukhtasar Sair-i-GulsJian-i-IIind gives the follow¬ 
ing variant of the first line of No. (1) :— 
&bo j 
i. e. } “ Struck silver coins like the sun and the moon.” 
Farrukhsivar adhered steadily to one couplet:—■ 
3 ( 3 ^ j\ dj 
i. e., “ The monarch of water and land, Farrukhsiyar, put (his) 
stamp on silver and gold through the grace of God.” 
Rafi’u-d-Darajat, during his short reign of a few months, adorned 
his rupees with the following high flown bait :— 
Clb ACus 
i. e., “ The monarch of water and land, Rafi’u-d-Darajat, struck 
coins in India, with thousands of blessings.” 
