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cine quarrels lie left the city, and when the army of Akbar entered it he 
fled to the mountains. Muhammad Qasim having obtained possession of 
Srinagar extended his power over the provinces. Yaqub Shah collect¬ 
ing again an army opposed him. After many Mughals had been slain, 
Yaqub was defeated, but after a short time he collected an army with the 
intention of taking Srinagar. This time Muhammad Qasim not having 
power to oppose him fled to the fort of Irak and wrote a petition to 
Akbar asking for aid. The Emperor making Yusuf Khan Shahidi 
governor of Kashmir recalled Muhammad Qasim. When Yusuf arrived 
in Kashmir Yaqub Shah raised the siege and fled to the mountains, 
Yusuf there pursued him for two years. At length he was taken and 
being encouraged with hopes of the royal mercy he was sent to the 
Emperor. He was forgiven and the father and son, i. e., Yusuf Shall 
and Yaqub Shah becoming nobles of Akbar’s court obtained jagirs in the 
province of Behar. From this time the history of Kashmir is merged in 
that of the Emperors of Dehli and the province remained in their power. 
Before this for a thousand years Kashmir had never been conquered by 
any one of the kings of India. (Coins Ho. 26, pi. II, and Ho. 34, pi. Ill, 
are of Yusuf Shah. Hos. 35 and 37 are of Yaqiib Shah. These latter 
coins are dated 992 A. H. which agrees with the above account. Coins 
27, 28, 29, 30 are of Akbar before he had conquered the province. 
Coins 40, 41, 42 are Akbar’s after the conquest of the country. The two 
latter ones are full rupees. Ho. 40 is a dam. Srinagar continued to be 
a mint town of the Mughal Emperors as well as of the Abdalli and 
Sikh conquerors.) 
The Kings of the Sajfariun Dynasty of Nimroz or Sijistan .—■ 
By Major H. G. Raverty. 
I have read with some surprise a paper in the Proceedings for 
April last, p. 75, by Mr. C. J. Rodgers, on some coins from Kandahar, 
wherein he says :—- 
“ In mixed metal there was a great quantity of the coins of a king 
but little known to history, Tdj-ud-Din Muhammad Hardufi or Haruji 
or Khardufi , several of one equally little known, Harh, and one coin of 
Taj -ud-Din Nasr bin Bahrain Shah and, that, as some of the coins 
acquired at the same time bore the names of the “ mints Himroz and 
Herat, I had no hesitation, as the coins came from Kandahar, in assigning 
them to kings who at some time or other ruled in South and Western 
Afghanistan.” 
This is rather an unsafe theory to go upon, as the result shows. 
He also regards 4 4 the present find as one of some importance especially 
