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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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A.D. A.H.
(A.D. 943), was Mu'in bin Ahmad. But in all 725-726 107 9. Mansar bin Jamhur Al-Kalbf.
these cases, as indeed at Mansurah and Multan 10. Masa bin K'aab, Al-Tamimi,
themselves, the Khutbah, or public prayers, were overpowers Mansor. (The Tohfat ul Kiram attributes
conscientiously read in the name of the Khalif this victory to Daud bin 'Ali.)
of Baghdad. 757-8 140 11. Hishấm bin 'Amru Al-Taghlabi.
I bave one preliminary remark to make with 12. 'Amar bin Hafs bin 'Usman,
reference to the peculiarly local characterisHazármard; transferred to tics of the numismatio remains discovered by Africa in A. H. 151.
Mr. Bellasis in A.D. 1856, near the old site of 770-1 154 13. Roh bin Hâtim. (4.1. 160-1P). Brahmanâbâd and the identification of the 800 184 14. Daad bin Yazid bin Hâtim. Muslim town of Manşûrah, As tested by the
15. Bashir bin Daad (about 200 produce of the inhumed habitations hitherto A.1.-Reinaud).
excavated, in the fact of the very limited 828 213 16. Ghassan bin 'Abad.
number of purely Hindů coins found among the 17. Masa bin Yahia bin Khalid, Al multitudes of medieval Muhammadan pioces,
Barmaki (dies in 221 AH., and that the former, as a rule, seem to have been 836 A.D.)
mere casual contributions from other provinces, 18. 'Amrân bin Masa; killed by
of no individual uniformity or appearance of Umar bin Abd'ul Aziz).
age such as should connect them directly with 19. Fazl bin Mahan.
the ancient Hindd capital of that name.' 20. Muhammad bin Fazl; his brother Mâbân rebels, and even
The first coin admitted into the following list tually the native races regain
is not supposed to belong directly to the propossession of the soil.
vince of Sind. It has been inserted in this 257 'Yakub bin Lais, founder of the place with a view to trace the apparent proto
dynasty of the Saffäris. type, upon which the arrangement of the central In addition to the circumscribed kingdoms of reverse devices of the local coinage was based. Mansûrah and Multân, there were other quasi. A bû Muslim, 'Abd 'al Rahman bin Muslim, independent Muslim governments at Bânia, was virtually, within human limits, the king-maker where 'Umar, theson of 'Abdal'Aziz Habbari, of the line of the Abbaside Khalifs. His domiseems to have held sway, and at Kasdar, nant position as representative of the family where the governor, in Ibn Haukal's time of the Prophet, and effective master of Kho• Ibn Haukal, p. 231.
as follows :-Kodimah (ob. 337 A.H.), Journal Asiatique, • Gildemeister, De rebus Indicis, Boon., 1838, p. 171;
1862, p. 168: Vincent's Commerce of the Ancients, London, Col. Anderson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1852, p. 54;
1807, vol. I. p. 145; Gladwin's Ayen-s-Akbari, vol. II. p. Elliot's Historians, vol. I, pp. 87, 88.
137, et seq. Mardsid-al-Ittila', vol. II. p. 161; Istakhri "Amrou, fils de Mobammed fils de Cassem......
(A. H. 300 to 309), pp. 12 and 170; M. Goeje's new edition fonda, en deg du lac, une ville qu'il nomma Almansours. of the text, 1870; Oaseley's Oriental Geography, London, C'est la ville où résident maintenant les gouverneurs."
1800; Ibn Haukal (A. . 831 to 866)-M. Goeje's new Reinaui, p. 210. In a previous passage, Balozari tells us,
edition of the text (Lugd. Bat., 1873), p. 226, et seg.; "Ensuite Mohammed fils de Cassem, se porta devant la
al. Mokaddasi, of the same series. 1876, p. 475; Gildevieille Babmankbád, qui se trouvait à deux parranges de
meister de Rebus Indicis, Bonn, 1888, p. 166; Col. AnderMansoura. Da reste Mansours n'existait pas encore, et son's translation Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. XXI. son emplacement actuel était alors un bois.....
p. 42; Liber Climatum, Arabic text, J. H. Moller, Mohammed plaça un lieutenant Bahmanidad; mais Gotha, 1829 Sprenger's Post und Reiserouten des aujourd'hui la ville est ruinée," p. 198. See also Reinaud,
Orients, Leipzig, 1864, pl. XIV, "Karte von Indien nach quoting Albíráni's Tarikh-i-Kind, Fragments, p. 113. Ibn
Byrúdy'; Reinand's Géographie d'Aboulfeda, vol. I. p. Khurdadbah (A... 260) text and translation by M. B. de
886, &c.; Tabari, Paris ed., vol. III. p. $18; Reinand's Meynard, Journal Asiatique, 1865, pp. 277-8, 289, 292, &c.
Mémoire sur l'Inde, pp. 169, 192, 235, &c.; Ancient Masadi tells us, "I visited Multan after 300 A.R. when
Accounts of India and China, London, 1783; ditto,
Reinand's French edition, Paris, p. 212; Ariana Antiqua, there." "At the same time I vixited el Manítrah, X. p. 183; vol. XIV. p. 75; McMurdo, Journ. R. As.
Soc., vol. 1. p. 23, et seq.; Barnes' Bokhára, vol. III. p. all of the family of Habbár bin el Aswad," p. 885,
31; Dr. Bird, Joum. R. A. Soc., vol. I. p. 199; Postans
Observations on Sindh, p. 143; Pottinger's Beloochistan Sprenger's Translation ; M. Barbier de Meynard's edition, and Sinde, London, 1816, p. 381, Wood's Owus, London, text and translation, Paris, 1861, vol. I. pp. 151, 872, 877, 1841, p. 20; Mohammed Ma'sum's History of Sind, A. D. &c. With regard to the extent and importance of the 710 to 1590, Bombay Government Selections, New Series, kingdom we are informed that "All the estates and villages No. XIII, 1866 ; Mr. A. F. Bellasis, The Ruined City of under the dependency of el-Mansurah amounted to 800,000; Bralumandbad, in Sind, Bombay, 1866; Col. Sykes in the the whole country is well cultivated, and covered with Illustrated London News, Feb. 21 and Feb. 28, 1857, trees and fields," p. 386, ibid.
p. 187, with numerous illustrations of Brahman Abd and Further references to the geographical and the other engravings of coins of Mansur bin Jamhur (No. 8 of this questions bearing on the general subject may be citedsorios) and of Muhammad (No. 6).
السامي
was king ابوالداهات المنبه بن امد القرشی
ابوالمندر اور بن the king of that country was then
