On the death of Sháh-Jahán, his son, Mohei-ud-dín Mohammed Aurangzíb, otherwise named Khuld-Makání, succeeded to the government. He first commenced to date his reign at the

A. Hij. 1068.
1st Zú-l-kadah,
30th July, O.S.
A.D. 1558.

garden of Aiz Khán, on Friday the 1st of Zú-l-kadah, A. Hij. 1068;* and a second time, when the coins of the empire and the oration at the mosque were proclaimed

24th Ramazán,
A. Hij. 1069,
24th June, O.S.
A.D. 1659.

under his title, corresponding to Sun­day the 24th of Ramazán, A. Hij. 1069. This prince died at Ahmadnagar, a province of

27th Zú-l-kadah,
A. Hij. 1118,
19th Feb. O.S,
A A.D. 1707.

the Dekhan, on Sunday the 27th of Zú-l-kadah, A. Hij. 1118; and his body was sent from thence to Khuldábád, known by the name of Roza, where it was buried side by side of Burhánu-d-dín Auliá, in the mausoleum called after him. The length of his reign was fifty years, two months, and four days; during which time ten persons were sent as governors to Gujarát.

On the death of Aurangzíb, his son, Sháh Álam Bahádur, otherwise called Khuld-Manzal, succeeded under the title of Mohammed Moazzam; and, after his victory over Mohammed Azím, commenced his reign on the 19th of Rabí-ul-awal,

9th June, O.S.
A.D. 1707.

A. Hij. 1119, A.D. 1707, at the garden of Dhora, near Agra. He departed this

16th Feb. O.S.
A.D. 1712.

life on the 19th of Muharram, A. Hij. 1124; and was buried near the sepulchre of Khoájah Nasíru-d-dín, the lamp of Dehlí, which exists at Sháhjahánábád. The length of his reign was four years and nine months; during which time only one person came as governor to Gujarát.

Moizzu-d-dín Mohammed Jahándár Sháh, who now mounted the throne, commenced his reign

February.
A.D. 1712.

during the month of Muharram, A. Hij. 1124, in the neighbourhood of Lahore; and, dying one year, ten months, and twenty days after­wards, was buried in the mausoleum of Humá­yún Pádsháh. During his reign, only one person obtained the government of Gujarát.

Abú-l-Muzaffir Moínu-d-dín Mohammed Far­rukhsír, the son of Mohammed Azímu-d-dín, and grandson of Khuld-Manzal Bahádúr Pádsháh, after being victorious over his uncle, Jahándár Sháh, mounted the throne, in the neighbourhood of Agra, on the 13th of Zú-l-hijjah, A. Hij. 1124; at which time he ordered that the oration at the mosque should be pronounced, and coins struck in his name.

After having been put under restraint, he was

A. Hij. 1131.
Rabí-ul-awal,
26th January,
A D. 1719.

subsequently murdered on the 18th of Rabí-ul-awal, A. Hij. 1131;* and was buried in the mausoleum of Humáyún. The length of his reign, including that of Jahándár Sháh, was six years and twenty-five days; during which time there was no one honoured with the government of Gujarát.

9th May, O.S.
A.D. 1719.

On the 18th of Rabí-ul-awal, of the same year, Jannat-Arámgah Mohammed Rafí-ud-durját Pádsháh, son of Rafí-us-shán, and grandson of Khuld-Manzal Bahádur Pádsháh, mounted the throne, at Sháhjahánábád; and

9th May, O.S.
A.D. 1719.

died of a severe fever, on the 3d of Rajab following. He bequeathed the throne to his elder brother, after having reigned four months and fifteen days; and was buried in the mausoleum of Humáyún. During his reign, there was no change in the government of Gujarát.

His brother, Rafí-ud-dauláh, entitled Sháh Jahán II., another grandson of Bahádur Sháh, succeeded, according to the above will; and

26th May.

commenced his reign on Sunday the 20th of Rajab of the same year. With a view of quashing the rebellion of Mohammed Nekasír, having gone to Agra, he died in the month of

September.

Zú-l-kadah following. His reign lasted four months; during which time there was no change in the provincial government.

Násiru-d-dín Mohammed Sháh, a grandson of Bahádur Sháh, by his son, Jahán Sháh, next mounted the throne, and is otherwise styled Firdaus-Arámgah. When Sháh Jahán II. died, the minister Sayyid Abdallah Khán, with Hussein Alí Khán, chief of the nobles, and his brother Najjámu-d-dín Alí Khán, then governor of the province of Dehlí, wrote to Mohammed Roshan-Akhtar, requesting him to send, with all possible expedition, one of the princes who might fill the throne of his ancestors. The son of Jahán Sháh, having been accordingly selected, mounted the throne on the 15th of Zú-l-kadah, in that year, and assumed the title of Mohammed Sháh. He died in the month of Rabí-us-sání of the year Hijra 1161; and was buried in the sepulchre of Nizámu-d-dín Auliá, at Dehlí. The length of his reign, including the time from the first of Rafí-ud-durját, was thirty years and twenty-six days: during which period there were six per­sons who held the government of Gujarát.

His son, Mujáhidu-d-dín Ahmad Sháh, com­menced his reign at the station of Gondrah, on Sunday, the 1st of Jumádá-l-awal of the above year; after having returned from his victory over Ahmad Abdallí. In consequence of dis­sensions among the ministers, he was placed in

A. Hij, 1167,
May, A.D. 1754.

confinement, during the month of Sha­bán, A. Hij. 1167, A.D. 1754,* after a reign of six years, three months, and nine days, during which time Rájá Bakht Singh governed Gujarát.

On the very day that Ahmad Sháh was deposed, Arsh-Manzal Mohammed Álamgír II. was elevated to the throne, at Sháhjahánábád. He was subsequently murdered at the instigation of his minister, on Thursday, the 8th of Rabí-us-sání, of A. Hij. 1173, after having reigned five years, seven months, and twenty-seven days; during which time there was no governor sent to Gujarát, in consequence of Ballají Ráo Marat'ha having taken possession of it.

Succeeding this, Sháh Jahán Pádsháh III. was invested with the authority, on the very day of the murder; and with him ends our account of the descendants of Taimúr.