1887.] C. J. Rodgers— Notes on the corns of the Tabdqat-i-Ndsiri. 167 
lie had fallen out with his father and brought him to Court, and that 
she tended his son Prince Khusrau from his infancy. Elphinstone ac¬ 
counts for Salimah’s mediation by saying that she had adopted Jahangir 
after his own mother’s death, p. 460. But I do not know what authority 
there is for this statement. 
If the words wcdidah sabahi Jdiesh really mean “ own mother,” 
there can be no doubt that Salimah was Jahangir’s mother, for Muhammad 
Khan was in a position to know the facts. 
Jahangir speaks of Salimah’s having a daughter and calls the latter 
his sister, but as I have not the original to refer to, I cannot say if this 
means full sister. 
On the other hand, if this daughter was Shahzada Khanam, and 
if she was born three months after Jahangir (Blochmann, p. 308), Salimah 
cannot have been the mother of the latter. 
If Salimah was Jahangir’s mother, he ought to have been a better 
man than he was, for she was the most distinguished of Akbar’s wives • 
She was the niece of Humayun, being the daughter of his sister Gul- 
burgBegam (Akbarnama, II, p. 65) and of Mirza Nuru-d-din Muhammad. 
Akbar gave her in marriage to Bairam Khan in accordance with 
Humayun’s intention, and when Bairam was assassinated, Akbar married 
her himself. She died in 1021 A. H. (1611). Khafi Khan calls her 
Kliadije-uz-Zamani, the Khadija of the age and after reciting her virtues 
and accomplishments winds up with quoting two lines of her poetry, 
which however do not seen remarkable (Khafi Khan. I, pp. 253 and 276). 
Notes on the Coins mentioned by Major Baverty in his Notes to 
his Translation of the Tabaqdt-i-Ndsirt.—By Ciias. J. Rodgers, 
M. R. A. S., Assoc. M. A. S. B. 
There can be no doubt whatever about the amount of learned 
research displayed by Major Raverty in his translation of the Tabaqat- 
i-Nasiri, published by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. It is a book of 
1296 pages exclusive of memoir and additional notes and appendix. 
The actual translation in only a small part of the whole work. My 
attention has of late been drawn to his numismatic notes. 
Mr. Edward Thomas, as is well known, wrote a paper on the coins 
of the kings of Ghazni, and to this he added a supplement. He also 
wrote “ The Chronicles of tho Patlian kings of Dehli,” to which I have 
