1904.] William Irvine— The Later Mu gh als. 41 
“When the soul of the Lord of Lords, RafP-ud-darajat 
“ Sought the shade of the tree of goodness, 
“ Rizwan greeting him at the gate of Paradise 
“ Cried : ‘ Most blessed of abodes and asylums.’ ” 
(Jam-i-Jam, and Miftah , 304). 
Reign. He reigned from his accession on the 9th RabP II to his 
deposition on the 17th Rajah 1131 H., for a period of three months and 
nine days. 
Titles. —His style and title as Emperor was Abu-l-barakat, Sultan 
Shams-ud-din, Muhammad RafP-ud-darajat, Badshah, Ghazi. (Mirza 
Muhammad, Tazkirah, 470). 
Coin. —The distich placed upon his coin was : 
Zad sikhah ba Hind ba hazdran barakdt 
Shdhan-shdh-i-bahr-o-bar , Raftf-ud-darajdt. 
“ Coin was struck in Hind, with a thousand blessings, 
“ By the king of kings on land and sea, RafP-ud-darajat.” 
But on the second day of the reign Qutb-ul-mulk called on Fatlj 
Khan, Fazil, to provide a couplet which should allow of a different 
word for gold coins ( ashraji ) and silver coins (rupees), as was the case 
with ‘Alaragir’s coinage. The poet on the spur of the moment pro¬ 
duced the following lines: 
Sikhah zad Shah Rafi'-ud-darajat 
Mihr-mdnind ba yamm-o-barakat. 
“ The Emperor RafP-ud-darajat struck coin, 
“ Sun-like, with power and felicity. ” 
On the rupee the word badr (moon) was substituted for mihr (sun). 
It is not known whether these lines were ever actually brought into use, 
as we have no coin on which they appear; but there is another variant 
on one coin in the Lahore Museum: 
Sikkah-i-mnbdrik-i-bddshdh-i-ghdzt, Raf^-ud-darajat. 1 
There are twenty-three coins of this reign in the three public col¬ 
lections at London, Calcutta, and Lahore; four of gold and nineteen of 
silver, all circular in shape. All except one are dated according to the 
Hij ra or the regnal year, or both. All except one coin can be classed 
under the subahs in which their place of mintage was situated. These 
twenty-two coins belong to ten mints in eight out of the twenty-one 
provinces ; Kashmir, Tatthah, Ajmer, Gujarat, Malwah, Bengal, Orissa 
and the six Dakhin subahs being unrepresented. The number of coins 
l 1 British Museum Catalogue, p. 372, Lahore Museum Catalogue, p, 206, Kam- 
war Khan, 197, Mirza Muhammad, 470. 
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