1888.] 
after the time of Jahangir. 
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According to Beale ’Alamgir II liad this simple couplet on his 
coins :— 
i. e., “ Azizu-d-din, Alamgir the second, put (his) stamp, like that 
of the Sahib-qiran, on gold (or silver).” 
But a coin of mine, struck at Akbarabad, gives the following variant 
of the second line :— 
i. e., “ Bahadur Shah Alamgir the second.” 
The MuJchtasar-i-Sair-i- Gulshar-i-Hind says that Alamgir the 
second was guilty of the following vanity on his coins:—> 
fcl/o j j* dj 
^ jxf Jip ***» 
♦♦ 
i. e., “ Shah Azizu-d-Din Alamgir, the victorious emperor, put 
(his) stamp on the seven climes, like the shining sun and moon.” 
As he gives the mint Shahjahanabad and the year ^1, I suppose 
he must have copied it from the coin. 
I follow the same writer in stating that the coins of Shall Alam II. 
had the following couplets on them :— 
I . * 
&Jf j *—dCwc 
i. e., “ The defender of the religion of Muhammad, Shah Alam, the 
emperor, through the aid of God, struck coins, like those of the Sahib- 
qiran, (or, as being in the position of the Sahib-qiran).” 
Or (2) <XjLuj j 'JL+SLJb j} 
i. e., “ The shadow of the divine favour, the defender of the religion 
of Muhammad, Shah Alam, the emperor, put (his) stamp on the seven 
climes.” 
The naughty children of Dehli, when poor Shah Adam was blind, 
and when the English held possession of the empire, parodied this 
couplet thus :— 
*• 
e., “ The defender of Christianity, the emperor Nikliattu Shah, 
(niJchattu — idle, earning nothing) struck (his) stamp on thatcli-roof and 
thatched house and made the fort desolate.” 
