330 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [August, 1909. 
Chattar Sal, and nephew of the celebrated Prithvi Raja. The 
present town is said to have been built about the year 1000 A.D. 
by Raja Reo or Rawat, who called it after the name of his 
daughter Rewati. In Mughal times, although Rewari was the 
headquarters of a Sarkar or district of the Empire, its Rajas 
appear to have enjoyed a large measure of independence, paying 
tribute but coining their own money. They built the fort of 
Gokulgarh, some of the bastions of which still remain as indica- 
tions of the former strength and size of the place. 
The mint of Gokulgarh is included amongst those of the 
silver coins of Shah’Alam II only, in Mr. Burn’s ‘The Mints 
of the Mughal Emperors.’ It appears to have been published for 
the first time in ‘Some Novelties in Mughal coins’ by Major 
Vost and Mr. White King—see Numismatic Chronicle, 1896, 
p. 155. The coin itself is No. 41383 in the Third Part of the 
White King Catalogue. 
n the Numismatic Supplement No. VIII contained in the 
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for August, 1907, 
Dr. Taylor has attributed a coin of Kam Bakhsh to Gokulgarh, 
but adds that it cannot be the Gokul near Muttra. It also can- 
not be identified with the town which is the subject of this note. 
Mr. Nelson Wright’s Introduction to vol. iii of the Cata- 
logue of the Coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, contains a 
brief notice of the mint Gokulgarh. He there notes that it does 
not occur as a Mughal mint till the reizn of Shah’Alam II. In 
A.H. 1202 the latter besieged and captured the town, but rupees 
of earlier dates are known. 
In the Dehli bazar I came across a find of some forty 
Gokulgarh rupees of Shah ‘Alam II, which had been sent from 
Rewari. Unfortunately there were two coins only which ex- 
hibited the entire name. and it was by their aid that I was able 
to read the name of the mint on the remainder. This find also 
A rupee of Shah ‘Alam II, Mint Gokulgarh. 
Obverse. . Reverse. 
ob pile sls d—ss0 al} x3 S58 
HT AA 1s wy? 
we uals Was alos cprile lene 
aes eRe 5s m” che 
R. B. WHITEHEAD. 
