o unite
their forces with his own against their ambitions brother, Azim-ash-
Shan, whom they defeated and killed, Mu'izz-ud-din then destroyed his
two allies. [W. H. S.]

The above note is not altogether accurate. 'Azam, the third son of
Aurangzeb, was killed in battle near Agra, in June 1707. During the
interval between Aurangzeb's death and his own, he had struck coins.
Mu'azzam, the second, and eldest then surviving son, after the defeat
of his rival, ascended the throne under the title of Shah Alam
Bahadur Shah, and is generally known as Bahadur Shah. He was then
sixty-four years of age, his father having been eighty-seven years
old when he died. The events following the death of Bahadur Shah are
narrated as follows by Mr. Lane-Poole; 'The Deccan was the weakest
point in the empire from the beginning of the reign. Hardly had
Bahadur appointed his youngest brother, Kam Baksh ('Wish-fulfiller'),
viceroy of Bijapur and Haidarabad, when that infatuated prince
rebelled and committed such atrocities that the Emperor was compelled
to attack him. Zu-l-Fikar engaged and defeated the rebel king (who
was striking coins in full assumption of sovereignty) near
Haidarabad, and Kam Baksh died of his wounds (1708, A.H. 1120).

'In the midst of this confusion, and surrounded by portents of coming
disruption, Bahadur died, 1712 (1124). He left four sons, who
immediately entered with the zest of their race upon the struggle for
the crown. The eldest, 'Azim-ash-Shan ("Strong of Heart"), first
assumed the sceptre, but Zu-l-Fikar, the prime minister, opposed and
routed him, and the prince was drowned in his flight. The successful
general next defeated and slew two other brothers, Khujistah Akhtar
Jahan-Shah and Rafi-ash-Shan, and placed the surviving of the four
sons of Bahadur [i.e. Mu'izz-ud-din] on the throne with the title of
Jahandar ("World-owner"). The new Emperor was an irredeemable
poltroon and an abandoned debauchee.' (_The History of the Moghul
Emperors of Hindustan illustrated by their Coins_, Constable, 1892,
and in Introd. to _B. M. Catal. of Moghul Emperors_, same date.)

He was killed in 1713, and was succeeded by Farrukh-siyar, the son of
Azim-ush-Shan. The chronology is as follows:-

No. Sovereign. A.H. A.D.
VI. Aurangzeb Alamgir, Muhayi-ud-din . 1068 1658
['Azam Shah . . . . . 1118 1707
Kam Baksh .