[No, 2, 
r /g R. Burn— The Mints of the Mughal Emperors. 
identification with Mathura, but it is. still doubtful where the earlier 
coins, on which only the name Islamabad occurs, were struck. 
Asafabad Bareli. —In the catalogue of the Rodgers’ collection in 
the Lahore Museum, the late Mr. C. J. Rodgers has published a coin 
(No. 49, p. 231), of the Bareli Mint on which Lutfabad was restored for 
the letters .... A coin of Mr. Nelson Wright’s shows clearly 
that the correct reading is Asafabad. This coin is dated 30 julus and 
120(2 or 3) A H. In 1788, which corresponds to 1202-3 A.H., Lord 
Cornwallis executed a treaty with the Nawab Yazir, Asaf-ud-daula, 
permitting him to reimpose certain duties in Rohilkhand, but Asaf-ud- 
daula had obtained practical supremacy over that tract quite ten years 
before, so that earlier dates may be expected. 
Ilahabad. —On the copper coins of Akbar ascribed to this mint, 
the last letter of the name is “ s ” and not “ d, ” as is pointed out in the 
footnote on p. 331 of the B.M. Catalogue. The inscription, however, is 
clearly <js&b Ml and not &)], that is to say, it should probably be read 
Alhabas or Alhabas, not Ilahabas. The Ain-i-Akbari 1 says “ Ilahabad 
anciently called Prayag was distinguished by His Imperial Majesty by 
the former name.” In other places the name is spelt Ilahabas. Elliott 3 
quotes the Cahar Gulshan and other authorities for the statement that 
Shah Jahan changed the name to Ilahabad as the termination of has 
savoured too much of Hinduism. On this Beames remarks that it is far 
more probable that Ilahabad was the original name given by the 
Muhammadans and the lower classes of Hindus altered the final syllable 
to a form they understood. It may be added that the termination is still 
commonly pronounced has by villagers in the neighbourhood. 
It seems to me, however, that the most reasonable supposition is to 
take Alhabas as a purely Hindu name. All the copper coins I have 
seen are dated earlier than the year 40 Ilahi. On the other hand, on 
the well-known couplet coins of Akbar (or Jahangir in his father’s life¬ 
time), which are dated occasionally, the date is always in the forties, and 
the name is Ilahabad, as it is on the coin of Jahangir in the Pan jab 
Museum. The statement that Shah Jahan altered the spelling is thus 
incorrect Another point is that the oldest part of the city of Allaha¬ 
bad is several miles away from the fort and junction, and it is quite 
possible that a village called Alhabas existed near the site of the 
Khusru Bagh and the sarai outside it. Bas is not an uncommon ter¬ 
mination, and the first half of the name is obviously the same as that 
of the hero Alba who is well known in Northern Indian fable. 3 This 
1 Jarrett’s translation, Yol, II, p. 158. 
3 Memoirs, II, p 104. 
8 See Cunn. Survey Reports, Yol. Yfl. 
