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p. Ixxxiii.)' Mr. Nelson Wright also is not sure that the 
ascription to Strat is ‘free from doubt.” (I.M.C. Introd., 
xxvii.)? Dr. Taylor goes a little further, and is of opinion 
that if it is Sarat at all, it is not the well-known town on the 
Tapti that can be meant. (B. B. R. A. 8. Journal, 1907, p. 249, 
Note.) 
What then are we to think? I beg to point out that 
“90 is not so inadmissible or incorrect a way of writing the 
Th are in all 
writers spell in different ways, and at times, the same writer 
would appear to have seen nothing objectionable in the use of 
both forms. 
An examination of the editions of the writings of the 
Musalman chroniclers in the Bibliotheca Indica leaves the 
impression that Strat was one of them. us the name 
is written wy se at least once in the second volume of 
Badaont’s Muntakhabu-t-Tawartkh (p. 249, 1. 3). The same 
form occurs once in the ‘Alamgirnama of Muhammad Kazim 
(p. 134, 1.21) and four times in the Muntakhabu-l-Lubab of 
Khafi Khan (II, 248,1. 13; 251, 1.18; 444, 1. 18 and 938 1. 
In the Lakhnau Lithograph of the Tabaqat-i-Akbari, we 
have on the same page oy —~ &al3 in one line (p. 197, 1. 13), 
yy0 Sal3 in two others (Il. 12 and 16), and wy»e only in 1. 22. 
yg Sal5 again occurs at p. 298, |. 20jand wy, dels in the very 
next line. At p. 299, we find > Sal in 1. 14, but eyyo dal 
in the line following and ey,~, only in Il. 17 and 20. In the 
twelfth line of the following page we have +)» éal3 again (300, 
1. 12). The’commoner form )9~ arrests attention at p. 304, 1. 
20, but then eye recurs close upon its heels, I. 21. 
I may also say that the name of the city 1s sometimes 
i in old Parsi writings on “ese 
js nuscript Persian 1 
eee ae ay (168s “A.C.) ae Hirbad Mihrnush 
Kaiqubad Mahyar Rana of Navsari (18 miles from Strat) in 
aa dis ae 
| Mr. Whitehead informs me (February 1919) that a second speci- 
men of this rupee on which the name of the mint is written “)~ 1s now 
in his own cabinet. 
Mr. Panna Lal has described another rupee of the same year (38 R) 
on which the name of the town is written in the usual way with a cy. 
The month is Aban. Num Sup., XXVI, Art. 161. 
