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248 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
places that sometimes one, sometimes another of the suffixes 
caught the popular oom and acquired vogue to the exclusion 
of the original terminatio 
Thus, Abul Fazl tells u us that when Akbar founded the great 
city at Sikri near Agra, ‘“‘H.M. gave it the name of Fathabad 
and this by common use was made into Fathpir.” Akbar- 
nama, Trans., 11, 531. eb i b% ) sit wladle wl}. (Text, IL, 
365.) Manuccialso speaks of the town as ‘ Fateabad.’ (Storia, 
T, 132.) The Venetian is not always accurate or reliable, and 
the statement may be due to some inadvertence or a lapse ) 
the memory, but it is sat impossible that he may have picked 
it up from some person much more correctly informed than 
himself about Akbar’s doings. 
Elsewhere, Abul ae informs us that the Emperor laid 
the foundations of a fortress on the site of an old city near 
Amber, and called it Manaharnagar (Akbarnama, Trans., ITI, 311, 
see also ib. , 362). The place is = miles N.N.E. of Jaipar and 
is now called Manoharpur. It is the Monoarpur of Tieffen- 
thaler who says it is 15. leagues aes of Jaipur, and adds that 
it was a well-known town and possessed a fort. (Description de 
VInde, 1, 323; see also Imp. Gaz., , 200).! 
There is ‘the exactly similar case of Jaipur itself. It is 
common knowledge that it was at one time called Jainagar, 
and that form of the name occurs in several Hindu as well as 
Muhammadan writers. [Harnam Singh, Sa‘adat-i-Jawid (c. 
1810) in Elliot and Dowson, VIII, 344; Harsukh Rai, Maj- 
mau-l-Akhbar (c. 1800 A.C.), Ibid., 365, 367 ; Maasiru-l- Umara 
(1779 A.C.), II, 83; Allahyar Bilgramt, Hadiqatu- -l-Aqalim, 
(c. 1776 A.C.), tans Lithograph, P. 170, 1.43} “Its now 
known only as Jaipur and the -‘ nagar’ has, in this case also, 
been cast out in favour of -pir. It is also fairly well known that 
Ghaziabad in Mirat district was formerly called Ghaziu-d-din- 
nagar (Imp. Gaz., XII, 221), and that the original name of 
i gol was Aniipnagar. (E.D., VIII, 147, 170; Num. Sup., 
XIX, 410.) There is also the analogous case of Mankot and 
Mangarh (N.S.; XX XI, 362-366),? 
1 The name of the town is er as Manoharpur by Badaoni. Bibl. 
Ind. Text, 252; Lowe’s Trans. II, 259. It is Manohargadh in the 
nag 8 v i ,4 e learn from 
the Maasir-i-‘Alamgiri that one of the wives of Kambakhsh was a sister 
of Jagat Singh, Zamindar of Manoharpar, Bib ext, 1 
ere are other instances also afarabad, the chief town o 
Babriawad, ‘derives its name from Sultan Muz: of Gujarat, who 
built the fortifications; hence the town was c ffarabad, by 
contraction Zafarabad and Jafarabad as it is now invariably called.” 
Se bene Vol. VIII (Kathiawar), p. 452. 
quently mentioned by the early European travellers. 
Thomas sate calle it ‘ Madafeldebar.’ (Journal in Purchas, His Pilgrimes, 
