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from each mint is: Kabul (1), Labor (4), Multan (1), Shahjahanabad 
(5), Akbarabad (5), Gwaliyar (1), Itawah (2), Mu‘azzamabad, i.e ., 
Audh (1), Kora (1), Patnah (1). It is curious that in such a short 
reign a distant province like Kabul should have issued any coin ; but 
the other places were well within control of the court. In the gold 
coins the weights are 160, 168, 169, and 169'5 grains, and the diameters 
*77, *8, *85, and *94 of an inch. For the silver coins the weight and the 
diameter are respectively 172 (2), 173 (4), 174 (1), 174*5 (2), 175 (5), 
176 (2), 177 (1), 178 (1), and 179 (1), grains, and ’82 (1), -85 (2), 
*90 (5), *95 (5), *96 (1), -97 (1), 1 0 (3), 1*03 (1) of an inch. Mr. M. 
Longworth Dames (“ Numismatic Chronicle, ” Fourth Series, II, 275- 
309) has three coins of this reign ; adding thereby two more mints to 
the above, viz., Burhanpur and Sihrind. 
Family .—The only reference to Rafi‘-ud-darajat’s wife or wives is 
to be found in the story given a page or two back, from which we 
learn the name of one wife, ‘Inayat Bano. He seems to have left no 
children. One notable point about him was his descent on both sides 
from ‘Alamgir, his mother being the daughter of prince Akbar, that 
monarch’s fourth son. With such an ancestry it is strange that he 
did not display more of the energy and ability characteristic of the 
earlier generations of his house. 
Chapter VI.— RafP-ud-daulah (1719). 
Section 1.—The Accession. 
On the 19th Rajab 1131 H. (6th June, 1719), Rafi‘-ud-daulah, 
middle son of Prince Rafl‘-ush-shan, third son of Bahadur Shah, ascend¬ 
ed the throne in the audience-hall at Dihli in succession to his brother, 
Rafi‘-ud-darajat. He was eighteen months older than his predecessor. 
He received the title of Shahjahan Sani, or the second Shahjahan. At 
his accession no changes took place, except the insertion of his name 
on the coin and in the Friday prayer. He remained like his brother in 
the hands of Qutb-ul-mulk’s nominees. His coming out and going in, 
his appearances in the audience-hall, what he ate and what he wore, 
his every act was under the control of Himmat Khan, Barhah. He 
was not allowed to attend the public prayers on Friday, to go hunting, 
or to converse with any noble, unless one of the two Sayvads or his 
guardian was present. His first formal audience was held in the ram- 
nah or hunting preserve of Khizrabad on the 24th Rajab (llfch June, 
1719) when the generals appointed for duty at Agrah were presented 
g,nd took their leave. After this the Khutbah was read at the great 
