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 322 SOME INCIDENTS OF SHAH JAHAN'S KEIGN so long as Ms Majesty remained at Burhanpur, five thousand rupees should be distributed among the de- serving poor every Monday, that day being distin- guished above all others as the day of the emperor's A STREET SCENE IN AHMADABAD. accession to the throne; and on twenty Mondays one hundred thousand rupees were accordingly given away in charity. Ahmadabad had suffered more severely than any other place, and his Majesty therefore or- dered the officials to distribute fifty thousand rupees among the famine-stricken people. Want of rain and scarcity of grain had caused great distress in many