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It is worthy of consideration whether we have not in the 
Mint-name Banga/a an example of the custom of calling the 
town which happened to be the capital at the time, by the name 
of the country, and whether the rupees under discussion were 
not struck, in the newly-founded capital of pe riegs instead 
of the deserted and depopulated Gaur:! 
It may be perhaps necessary to say that the chief city or 
capital of a province or country was, even in at acne 
recent times, loosely designated by the same name as the 
latter, though the real or specific name of the city was ‘differ. 
ent. 
Thus Abul Fazl speaks of ‘Gujarat’ when he means, as 
Mr. Beveridge points out, ‘ Ahmadabad, the capital.’ (Akbar- 
nama, Tr. IIl, 66; Text, UI, 47, 1. 3.) The Emperor Jahangir 
also writes that « trustworthy men divided” a large sum “of 
money which he had set apart for distribution to the poor and 
necessitous for the repose of the soul of his father, ‘* among the 
twelve chief cities, such as Agra, Delhi, Lahor, Gujarat, etc.’ 
There can be no doubt that ‘ Gujarat’ here means Sake ree 
(Vizuk-i Jahangir, ed. va Pa Ahmad Khan, 1864, p. 61, 1. ¢ 
Rogers and Beveridge, Tr. I , 128.) Elsewhere, he informs us 
that a eunuch named Wafadar “ entered Ahmadabad and took 
possession of the city of Gujarat.” 
Papees | 4 cayaie ty lye pes X47 ~ ol} dOal 
(Tizuk, Text, 362, ll. 10-11; Trans., II, 262). The author 
of the ‘ Alamgirnama twice spikes of ‘ Gujarat’ as if it were a 
city. (Text, 411, ll. 8-9 and 775, Il. 2-5.) Tieffenthaler also 
pace oe the village of Sarkhej near Ahmadabad, and its 
si re Ahmad Khattt in the ae words : 
Giarate: ”” (Description de L’ Inde, I, 377.) anucci, too, 
has ‘ city of Gnaae levine. Tr. Storia, WV. 271.). Itis scarcely 
necessary to do more than refer to the parallel case of Srinagar, 
which is, throughout the Mughal period, more frequently spoken 
as ‘ a: of eenvauik or ‘ Kashmir’ only than by its true desig- 
natio 
1 I may also note, for what it is worth, the fact that the double name 
alley Be) pS! occurs once in the Maagiru-l-Umara I, 664, 1. 2. 
2 Abil Fazl writes in one place of Sistan as if it were a city, and 
Bayazid Biyat leaves no doubt as to his meaning by spe y as Mr. 
Sistan.’ Akbarnama, Trans. I, 415, and note. Raverty explains that 
** Zaranj was the capital city of the territory called § Sijistan by the 
Arabs,....and the name of ‘ city 0 of Sistfin ’ or ‘ Sijistan,’ applied to coat 
city, is after the same — as styling Urganj, Khwarizm.” Tabagat-i- 
Na@stri, Trans., 1123, 
