1920.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXXIV. 199 
n the other hand, Hamilton (Description of Hindos- 
tan, ed. 1820, I, 554) says that the name signifies ‘‘ Fort of the 
names of persons and places, e.g. Amarsinh, Amarchand, Ama- 
rapura, Amaravati, Amarpattan, Amarkantak, Amargarh, 
Amarnath, etc. 
Whatever may be thought of either of these derivations, 
reading also, stand in need of reconsideration. One of the two 
specimens in the Indian Museum is figured on Pl. IV. (I.M.C. 
No. 371). I must confess my inability to discern the ‘ alif’ 
anywhere on the obverse, and Mr. C. J. Brown informs me 
that the letter is not visible on the specimen in his possession. 
Perhaps we may have to go back to the old reading Sherkot.' 
In his Summary of the Imperial Rent-Rol], Abul Fazl mentions 
Sherkot as the chief town of a mahal or pargana in the Sarkar 
of Sambhal. Its Revenue was 4,921,051 dams. (Jarrett, 
Ain, Trans. II, 105, 290, Bibl. Ind. Text, I. 370, 523). Sherkot 
is now in the Dhampir tahsil of Bijnor district, United Pro- 
vinces. Lat. 29° 20’ N., Long. 78° 35’ E. (Imperial Gazetteer, 
8. N.). : 
S. H. Hopivaua. 
BANGALA. 
35.) The publication by Major Vost of several other “speci- 
(See Mr. Beveridge’s article, J.A.S.B. 1898, p. 315). BS 
2 
» Pp. 320. 
I am afraid the matter is not so easily disposed of. The 
princess Gulbadan, also writes the name gS yee in her Humayiin-Nama, 
cd 
Hajipar ( y9g 4s! ), and a dam from Sherkot SS yp. Both these 
coins were issued in the reign of Akbar I lor Set ee, of 
the Bombay Branch, Royal Asiatic Society, Centenary Memorial Volume, 
42¢. 
