Muntakhab al-lubab 130.3

130.3

Shah 'Alam proceeded by regular marches to Lahore. Mun'im Khan came forth to meet him, paid his homage, offered forty lacs of rupees, and presented the soldiers, artillery and equipments that he had busied himself in collecting directly he had heard of the death of Aurangzeb. Shah 'Alam appointed him wazir. At the end of Muharram, 1119 (April, 1707), the Prince encamped at Lahore. There he remained over the new moon of Safar, and gave orders for the coining of money and reading the khutba in his name. The nobles in his retinue presented their offerings and paid their homage. * * Directions were given that the new rupee should be increased half a masha in weight, and lacs were accordingly coined of that weight; but as in the payment of tankhwah, and in commercial transactions, it was received at only the old rate, the new rule was discontinued.