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that given by the earlier European travellers, though it dis- 

 agrees with that indicated for the korl bv Capt. Hamilton in 

 a.d. 1744. 



The author of the Mir'at-i-AhmadI also gives some interest- 

 ing details in his list of the sarkars of the Gujarat Saltanat 

 drawn from the records of the hereditary record- keeper Mul- 

 chand (Bayley's Gujarat, p. 19). 



In a.h. 979 (a.d. 1571), the year before Akbars con- 

 quest of Gujarat (Bayley, op. cit., p. 5), the revenue of the 

 ports of Surat, Bharuj, and Khambhaiat were reckoned in 

 rupees. We should now call these port- re venues imperial, as 

 distinct from the district or provincial revenues. Mahmudabfid, 

 Nadiad (now both in Kaira (Kheda) district) and Bander (Surat 

 district), as well as the parganas of Ahmadabad, were also 

 assessed in rupees. Baroda, on the other hand, and the sar- 

 kar or district of the port of Surat, excluding the port itself, 

 were assessed in Changlzi Mahmudis. Bharuj pargana, i.e. the 

 town and environs, but not the port, was assessed in Chan- 

 glzls, and so also were the numerous parganas attached to the 

 Sarkar of Bharuj, including Orpad, Mandvl (Char-mandavl) 

 and Tadkeshvar (Tarkesar) now situated in the Surat district 

 (Bayley. p. 13). 



The Champanir Sarkar corresponds very closely to the 

 Panch Mahals district when combined with the Godhra Sar- 

 kar (Bayley, p. 14). 



These sarkars, which are accurately covered by the areas 

 under •« Surat , Brodra, Broitchia, Cambaya and those parts ' ' of 

 de Mandelslo, are likely to have been assessed in the coin most 

 generally current in their areas. The author of the Mir'at-i- 

 Ahmadi, while supporting de Mandelslo's statement that the 

 Mahmudi was the standard currency in South Gujarat and that 

 Mughal rupees were also used, does not consider it any in- 

 consistency to say elsewhere that the Mahmudi was also 

 in use in Ahmadabad, although the district and its environs 

 were assessed in rupees. 



In any case the ChangizI Mahmudi of a.h. 979 could 

 not be identical with the coin of Gujarat Fabric, which was 

 minted, as far as we know, after the conquest and which 

 bore Akbar's name. 



The fluctuation of the value of the ChangizI Mahmudi 

 in the time of Muzaffar III corresponds very nearly with 

 that found in the European writers of the early seventeenth 

 century. 



The values given for different districts of Gujarat by 

 the Mir'at-i-Ahmadl range from \ to | of a rupee. The 

 Surat details give a very high appreciation at \\ of a rupee, 

 but for other reasons (Bayley, p. 12), the figures are suspicious 

 and it is safer not to make use of them. 



To sum up my conclusions, I have attempted first to 



