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were impelled to their removal by the fear of being themselves invol¬ 
ved. Or, as some suggested, the Sayyads had resolved on killing out 
by degrees the whole of Taimur’s race. Wke# the way was open, they 
meant to claim the throne for themselves, Qutb-ul-mulk taking Hindu¬ 
stan, and Husain ‘All Khan, the Dakhin and Malwah. The author in 
question sums up in favour of the third supposition, and blames the 
Sayyads for forgetting that:— 
“ He who chooses to leave the beaten path 
“ Will never reach his journey’s end.” 1 
Appendix (RafI‘-ud-daulah). 
Length of reign. TtafWud-daulah reigned four months and sixteen 
days. As the month or year of his birth is nowhere stated in any first- 
class authority, we do not know his exact age. If he was eighteen 
months older than his brother, Rafi’-ud-darajat, he must have been 
between twenty and twenty-one years old at the time of death. 2 
Title. —On his accession he received the title of Shahjahan San! 
(the second), but his full style is nowhere given. 
Coin .—There are nineteen of this emperor’s coins in the three 
public collections before referred to ; three of gold and sixteen of silver, 
all circular. Except one, all are dated, bearing the year 1131 H. 
These nineteen coins come from ten mints in eight out of the twenty- 
one provinces: coins from Kabul, Kashmir, Multan, Ajmer, Audh, Alla¬ 
habad, Malwah, Orissah, and five out of the six Dakhin suhahs are 
absent. The mints from which there are coins are Labor (2), Tatthak 
(1), Shahjahanabad (6), Bareli (2), Surat (1), Akbarabad (2), Islama¬ 
bad (1), Patnak (1), Murshidabad (2), Aurangabad (1). Tatthah, 
strange to say, re-appears in the list of active mints after some inter¬ 
val. For the gold coins the weights are 167,168'5, and 169 grains res¬ 
pectively, and the diameters - 8, ‘85, and ‘9 of an inch. For the silver 
coins the weights are 172 grains (1), 173 (2), 174 (1), 174*5 (2), 
175 (3), 176 (1), 177 (3), 178 (1), 179*3 (1), 180 (1); and the diame¬ 
ters, *80 of an inch (2), *81 (1), *85 (1), -86 (1), -88 (1), -90 (3), *95 (5), 
10 (1), 1*03 (1). The inscription as given by Rodgers, “ Lahore Cata¬ 
logue,” 207, is Sikkah-i-mubarik-i-Badshah-i-ghazi Shah Jahan. I 
1 Ahxvzl-i-Jehawaqin , fol. 172a. 
Khilaf-i-mamarr lease rah guzid 
Kih hargix ba manzil na Jchwahad rasid. 
2 The Jam-i-Jam, a non-contemporary work, makes him a yrywnger brother^ 
and gives his birthday as the 5th Safar 1113 H. (11th July, 1701). 
