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³ Firishta in his Introduction (Elliot and Dowson, vi, 55) records that ‘one year Ardeshīr Bābagān [A. D. 226–241] marched against India and reached as far as the neighbourhood of Sarhind. Jūnah was very much alarmed and hastened to do homage to him. He presented pearls and gold and jewels and elephants as tribute, and so induced Ardeshīr to retire’. The statement is confirmed by the existence of the coin from Jhelum District, described by V. A. Smith in *J. A. S. B.*, part i, vol. lxvi (1897), p. 5.