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[N.8.] 
ward faces a wall of great height. The streets are so thronged 
with the concourse and traffic of people .... that the 
cannot force their way past. A great part of the houses of 
this city are stately and well-wrought buildings.’’ 
De Barros calls the city Gaur, after the name of the 
country. It is curious to find that the 
old name of the city, Lakhnauti, dis- 
appeared altogether, surviving only in the sarkar. In the coins 
Lakhnauti was replaced by the words Khazanah (the treasury) 
or daru-l-zarb (the mint). In addition the following mint- 
places appear :— 
Mahmid Shah (I)—Mu’azzamabad, Catgaon, Mahmu- 
dabad, Fathabid, Nasratabad ; 
Barbak Shah—Jannatabad (?) ; 
Fath Shah—Fathabad, Muhammadabad ; 
Firoz Shah (II)—Fathabad ; 
Muzaffar Shah—Barbakabad ; ; 
Husen Shah—H usenabad, Fathabad, Jannatabad, 
Muzaffarabad, Mu’azzamabad, Muhammadabad ; 
Nasrat Shah—(besides the three in his early coins), 
Husenabad, Fathabad, Khalifatabad, Nasratabad, 
Muhammadabad ; 
Firoz Shah (111) —Husenabad ; and 
Mabhmiid Shah (II1)—(besides the three in his coins ot 
93 Husendbad , Kbalifatabad, Nasratabad, 
Muhammadabad and probably Fathabad. 
The majority of these names appear in the Ain as sarkars, 
e.g., Mabmudabad or Muhammadabad, Khalifatabad, and 
Fathabad in the delta of south-east Bengal, Catgaon in the ex- 
treme south-east, and Barbakabad north of the Padma branch. 
The same list of the Aim also mentions the towns of Fathabad, 
Catgion, Barbakibad, and the suburban tract of Khalifatabad. 
Mu’azzamabad, mentioned, too, in inscriptions,’ lay In east 
Mints. 
of the “in. Jannatabad appears in the Ain as a title of sarkar 
Lakhnauti, given by the emperor Humiyin. But the mint is 
much older. and is evidently the name of some other place. In 
the Brahmanda section of the Bhavisyat-Purana Janahabad is 
after reigning Sultans; but Nasratabad could not have been 
tamed alter the con of Hussn Shah, as. i6 appeats in 001n® of 
Mahmad I. 
1 See the inscription of Sunargaon, dated 689 H., J.A.8S.B., 1873, 
p. 286, and of Silhat, dated 911 H., ibid., p- 294. 
2 Ind. Ant., xx, pp. 419, 421. 
