1920. } Numismatic Supplement Ne. XXXIV. 201 
now when . saw the muslin coif 1 did not recognise you.’ 
Ibid. p. 138. 
It will - observed that Gaur is spoken of here as if it 
were a country (<.Y,),* and also as a city, and it is besides not 
at all easy to say whether ay , § or alti, ) oF (with the izafat) 
signifies ‘Gaur (the country or city) w which is also called 
Bangala’ or ‘ Gaur (the city) which is [situated] in Bangala ’. 
Double names of this type are of frequent occurrence in 
the Persian historians, but their true import is often far from 
clear, and they are likely to mislead the unwary. The first 
ro) 
second; some times the second name stands merely for the 
larger tract or country in which the first is ae in other 
instances again, it is the designation of som lace in its 
Pp 
vicinity which is coupled with it in order 8: distinguish it 
from other homonymous localities. 
Fathpuir-Sikri, Fathabad-Dharir, Pattan-Nahrwala, Mu‘az- 
zamabad-Gorakpar, ‘Azimabad-Patna belong to the first class ; 
‘Gaur Bangaéla’ and ‘ Gaur’ are so mixed up in the first two pas- 
— that it might be as well to cite the very words of the authoress. 
wea fury aby S yo% ceeds MEY 9S aldol, af ohay SF eryy9 
WIE po ood ally ) 8 aagie sof Gof 5 aod onde wyte wo ont 
) a Boys yal} gorse pe apd Hod sifis y9hr slOoly 25 caasts 
Caled Biog1 oF yo gl edhe IR Goled 9 oh pry oh LAK apd poy Bye? 5 
- ae OS Lyxde |, ty’ 3 ogy 2S olieys fy a9 yoy y WIS 
Text, pp. 39-40. 
VE ed CS abot oyy5 aS Gay ald) sibay Bay5 G95 wt 
ainas we ils IAF y9 sty 4) wyypSsuT Io,9 odis,§ wl Cole» 
ty 98 9 bogs gf cus ye slo ad U ois,F 1) 98, ois wi, ae 
adau,S tye} WE sgad pie aS disq2 v9 0 egy SL oda F eb obT Ede 
# dS gale JH |i 402 
Text, p. 40. 
* was the name of the town as well as of the provi : vince. 
name isa stone of the ancient Gauda, meaning, it is believed, ‘ aa : gid 
of sugar,’ a name applied to : —_ part of Bengal, and “specition ly o the 
Portion where the remains [of Gaur] lie.” Yule and Burnell, Ho pe 
Jobson, ed, Crooke, p. 390. So, Lakhnauti was the name of the town, bu 
Musalman writers frequently speak of it also as ied) ws , the Coun- 
try of Lakhnauti. Jbid., 85. See also Thomas, Chronicles, 107-8, note. 
‘* The 
