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Bangala after some Rupees of Akbar, but we have the issues of 
Ttawa, Owsa (Asa), Satara, Karpa, and Kora. 
e name of the first of these five towns, is invariably 
spelt with a final ‘ha’ by all the earlier writers. (Abul Fazl, 
Ain, Bibl. Ind. Text, I, 443; Akbarnama, ibid., II, 100, 
115, 187, 270, 298; IIT, 19, 88, 278, 309, 415, 426; ’ Badishah- 
nama, tbid. I, 191; ‘Alamyirnama, ib., 127, 237, 440, 475, 
604, 705, 874, 885 ). 
he coins also, it is 354) before 1109 A.H. ; afterwards, it 
is es 1343. Mr. Whitehead says (P.M.C. Introd. xxviii) 
that the only exception known % Re = a rupee of Ahmad 
Shah in the ieee Museum (No. 2 
gain, a (Owsa of I. G. xx, he is spelt és in Abul 
Fazl’s o bapaaeh III, 800; Badishahnama J, i, 356 ; I, ii, 136, 
140, 151, 154, 158; II, 221, 709; ‘Alamgirnama, 1007, 1014 
and other works written before the year in which the order was 
said (1103 A.H.). But on the coins of Bahadur Shah Shah 
‘Alam I, Farrukhsiyar, Muhammad Shah, and ‘Alamgir II, itis 
always los! , ; 
; oalso, Abul Fazl writes 4) (Akbarnama III, 795), but 
on the coins of Muhammad Shah the name is |)liw, 
On the coins ‘Cuddapah’ is written 4 $ exactly in accord- 
ance with the rule laid down by Acirasroteb: though the earliest 
are of the XX XVIIth year—the year next succeeding the one 
in which the order was (according to Khafi Khan) for the first 
time issued. 
Lastly, Muhammad Kazim of the ‘Alamgirnama and others 
who wrote before 1103 A.H. affect the spelling 3° * but on the 
however, be invited to B.M.C., 829 and 831 which 
1 Attention may, abe 
Mr. Whitehead in- 
are dated 1114 and 1115 A.H., and yet have 94). 
forms me (February 1919) that the name is written in the old way ona 
rupee of Muhammad Shah also which is in his own cabine 
2 In the Maagiru-l-Umara which was commenced stout 1155 A.H. 
and completed in 1193 A.H., the name is thrice written ‘y!, Bibl. Ind. 
Text, I, 837; I. 196, 206. 
8 Both forms occur in the Maagiri-‘Alamgirt. We have %) on 
pp. 336, 413, 420 and 421; 1)4e on pp. 401, 412, 425, 444. The Maasgiru- 
1-Umara has 8) at I, 328 and II, 351, 503, 876 and }yline at II, 512 and 
III, 42. 
4 We have 3%) ae in Akbarnama, Text, III, 426, By) 95 i in Ain. Text, I, 
349, 430 and 895 in Maagiri-‘Alamgirt, 12 as well as ‘Alamgirnama, 241, 
71, 285. 
