238 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (N.S., XVI, 
occurs frequently, in several cases as an alternative name on 
the coins of the Sir dynasty, and fortresses built by Sher Shah 
near Dehli, Bhakkar, Rhotas in Bengal and Qanauj were all 
given the name cf Shergarh. 
It is not easy to say where the Shergarh of these issues of 
964 and 966 A.H. was situated. Bhakkar may, with good 
reason, be put out of court on the ground that it was taken by 
Akbar only in 981 A.H. Dehli also may be eliminated as we 
have rupees of Hazrat-i-Dehli of 964 A.H. (I.M.C., III, No. 180) 
and Dams of Dehli alone with the date 966 (Jbid., No. 391). 
Mr. Whitehead has suggested that ‘‘ the Shergarh of Akbar’s 
coins was probably in Bengal ” (P.M.C. Introd., Ixxxviii). I beg 
permission to point out that this is extremely unlikely, as the 
Eastern Provinces were then in the hands of the Afghans and 
were not incorporated in the Mughal Empire before 981-2 A.H. 
We have then to consider Qanauj. The following passages 
\ riter. 
“Upon arriving at Agra, the Emperor was informed that 
Khan Zaman was besieging the fort of Shergarh, four koss dis- 
tant from Kanauj, in which fort Mirza Yisuf Khan was shut 
up.... When he [scd. the Emperor] reached the pargana of 
Saket, ‘ Ali Kuli Khan [i.e. Khan Zaman] decamped from before 
Shergarh, and fled to his brother, Bahadur Khan, who was in 
Manikpur.” (E.D.V., 319; Tab. Akb. Lakhnau Lithograph, 
279, ll. 14-17). Lowe’s translation of the corresponding passage 
in Badaoni is as follows :— ; 
more Badaoni tells us that ‘in the month of 
Jamada’l-akhir, while the camp was at Shergarh (otherwise 
called Qannouj), a book called Singhasan Batttsi, which is a 
series of thirty-two tales about Rajah Bikramajit, King of 
Malwa, and resembles the Tatin@mah, was placed in my hands; 
and I received his Majesty’s instructions to make a translation 
of it in prose and verse.” Jbid., 186; Text, 183, ll. 17-21. 
The siege of Shergarh-Qanauj is put by both writers into 
974 A.H. and the Translation of the Thirty-two Tales about 
Vikrama was cntrusted to Badaoni in 982 A.H. It follows 
that Qanauj was popularly known as Shergarh down at least 
to the year 982 Hijri, and we may see in the fact grounds for 
assigning these rupees to the Qanauj mint. On the other 
