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and the fact that Tanda is separately mentioned in the Ain-i- 
Akbari in or about or the 42nd year, may be, not unreasonably, 
said to have nothing to do with the matter. The separate 
mention is, moreover, easily accounted for. The Ain passage 
was written, as I have shown elsewhere, after the foundation of 
- the new capital of Akbarnagar in 1002-3 AH. Tanda had then 
ceased to be the ‘seat of royalty or government’ (Slot sto), and 
town which had now become the ‘ first city’ in the province, 
and acquired the right of coining gold also. 
Briefly, there would appear to be fairly good grounds for 
thinking that Bangala was not the real or fixed name of any 
town or city, but an alternative or honorific designation by 
which the capital of the province at the time being was known. 
Thus the Bangala of Mun‘im Khan’s time might have been Gaur, 
and it is not impossible that during the subsequent twenty 
years the name was sometimes applied to Tanda. he 
Bangala of the coins of the 39th and following years of Akbar’s 
reign would, by parity of reasoning, be Akbarnagar. 
in the Ain (Blochmann, Trans., I, 31), te. about the forty- 
second year. Now we actually possess coins of Akbarnagar in 
all the three metals. At least, two Muhrs of the Ilahi type 
are known. They are unluckily “peculiar in exhibiting no 
i A”. 
One of these is in the Lakhnau Museum, to the Curator of 
which (Mr. K. N. Dikshit) my acknowledgments are due for 
the 50th year (Tir). The date of the copper coin in the White 
King collection (994 A.H.) lays it open to suspicion, and it is not 
masters of Akbar’s day appear to have seen nothing absurd or 
incongruous in the practice. Here we have rupees of Bangala, 
the latest of which, be it noted, is of 1011 A.H. and undated 
gold coins, silver pieces of the 50th year and a doubtful copper 
coi ar. So we have a gold muhr of Kashmir and 
silver as well as copper coins of Srinagar. The parallel case of 
