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entertained on account of the spelling of the name of the town 
are not well founded. It is true that the prevailing form is 
wygw, and good Persian writers generally adhere to this as the 
more correct form, but the rule is not without exceptions, and 
the other form with the initial Ve is neither unaccountable nor 
inadmissible. The rupee was probably struck in the seventh 
month (Mihr) of the 38th year, and would seem to be a proof- 
pattern or trial-piece which, for obvious reasons, did not meet 
with approval. It is certainly curious that Mr. Panna Lal’s 
coin is not only square, and bears exactly the same legends, 
but is of the same year and of the month immediately follow- 
ing (Aban). 
The College, Junagadh. S. H. Hopiva.a. 
SAHRIND AND SARHIND. 
I have said that wy 0 is another or alternative form of 
y9~ which is admissible, but is generally held to be less 
correct. Similarly, we have the double form Nae OF Nyy. 
The name of the town would seem to be written in both ways in 
the manuscripts of the works of Badaoni, and Abil Fazl and 
other historians on which the Bibliotheca Indica editions were 
based.! The same diversity is observed on the coins. On the 
Muhrs and Dams of Akbar the spelling is always diese, On the 
rupees of Aurangzeb and “ all the succeeding Emperors as far 
as ‘ Alamgir II,” the mint-name is written oye. Khafi Khan 
informs us that it was Shah Jahan who first set the seal of 
official sanction on the latter form, and at the same time 
enables us to realise the idea at the back of the Emperor's 
mind. 
BSt ers) ws Di yuo Giles ly ye" as ol ale * =e gies a 
39? (5938 cable Bal city og! dupe Cdble 52 diye G ely! ws? 
Slo wits) wy'0y8 as goa Xx» PF gant Pe aan lL eo! Dido pr! 
asly Nolo welys wheal sf,0 ee wley? » wclbl Pe pega Cnty gn 
Ee ee ee argc aee 
| We have 03,0 in Ain, Bibl. Ind. Text, I, 369, 515, 549 and Akbar 
nama, ib., 11, 31, 32, 66, 75, 99, 113, 114, 121; TII, 249, 345, 346, 372, 468, 
578, 647, 696, 747, but Xi@y0 in Ain, I, 527, 528 and Akbarnima, IIT, 501: 
The Bibliotheca Indica text of Badaoni’s Muntakhab has oy OP 
I, 248, 286, 288, 290, 309, 332, 375, 385, 427, but Aid yas at I, 306, 405, 
459, 460 and IT, 14, 42, 91, 155, 187, 210, 266, 293, 312, 323, 381 and 389. 
