82 
C. J. Rodgers —On the Coins of the Silchs. 
[No. 1, 
^ I regard as Punjabi Persian in which there is 
more jingle than either good grammar or clear meaning. 
Akal taJcht should mean the throne of the Timeless one , that is of God, 
and should go along with Amritsar . Maimanat bakht , both words mean 
the same, prosperity. BaJcht is usually preceded by an adjective when used 
in a compound word. The language of the Granth Dr. Trumpp tells us is 
full of such jingle in which we seek in vain for clear meaning. 
The term cf ■&'«*> comes for the first time, on this coin. Sachcha Shah, 
“true king,” is the title by which in the “ Sakhi Book” Gobind Singh is 
always addressed. Here it is used in the plural (I have shown this in 7 and 
8) and probably has to do with both Nanak and Gobind Singh ; for here 
Nanak is not preceded by the term Shah. 
The years between 1846 S. and 1856 S. must have been jmars of great 
distraction and disorder all over the Panjab. I find my cabinet, after my 
diligent search of years, without any rupees of this period except an Amrit¬ 
sar rupee of 1854. 
In June 1856 S. Ranjit Singh entered Lahore. Before that time the 
city had been in the possession of at least three Sardars, each of which held 
a portion of it. We do not need to give imagination much rein in order 
to conjure up a picture of what Lahore must have been during that period. 
The historian of the Panjab Rai Kanhiya Lall, C. E., has the fol¬ 
lowing passage in his history of the Panjab in Urdu prose, about what 
happened after Ranjit’s entry into Lahore. The poets being all present :—- 
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This is all wrong. The distich in question was used first, as we have 
seen, on the rupees of 1822 S. It was not made for the 1st year of Ranjit 
* History of the Sikhs. 2nd Edition, p. 179. 
