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ihow that the coin of Gujarat "Fabric could not be consi- 

 dered to have an exclusive claim to the term Mahmudi — then 

 that it is the Na van agar korl and its congeners that have 



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the real right to the name. But I have not entirely rejected 

 the possibility that the coin of Gujarat Fabric may have 

 been classed with the Mahmudi. 



The Mughal emperors minted alien corns into rupees, as is 

 shown in our extract from the Mir'at-i-Ahmadland by Ovington. 

 who says (Voyage to Suratt, p. 220) that Aurangzlb's officers 

 melted down and converted into rupees c strange coyn\ And 

 it is just possible that Akbar deliberately struck the coin 

 of Gujarat Fabric in an attempt to oust the Mahmudi and 

 it was perhaps shown to de Mandelslo by the Surat officials 

 as the Mahmudi, which they hoped it would replace. It 

 resembles the Mahmudi closely, but is rather heavier and 

 would lead the way to the introduction of a half rupee, to 

 which it so nearly approximates in weight. It would be 

 the most likely coin to supplant the Mahmudi korl. 



I owe this conjecture to the concluding remarks of Dr. 

 Taylor's article, but that the coin of Gujarat Fabric may 

 have been known as a Mahmudi and may have been minted 

 in Surat, is only a conjecture and needs further evidence to 

 justify. 



July 1914. 



A. Master 



Note upon the Eponym of Changizi. 



The Mir at-i-Ahmadl tells us that the Changizi is an 

 alternative term for Mahmudi and was used principally in 

 Baroda. Baroda was the Jaglr of Clianglz Khan, son of Imadul- 

 Mulk (Bayley Gujarat, p. 12). He was for the ten conclud- 

 ing years of Muzaffar's reign the most important person in 

 Gujarat and it was his assassination in a.d. 1571, which led 

 indirectly to the fall of the Gujarat Saltanat. His assassin 

 "ujhar Khan was thrown beneath the feet of an elephant 

 at Akbar' s orders on the prayer of his widow. 



He was not a HabshT, as the Mir'at-i-Ahmadi states, 

 but most probably of Turkish extraction, as the name Rumi, 

 used by his father, indicates. It was a HabshI, who assassin- 

 ated him ; hence probably the mistake. 



The korl Mahmudi was minted just when Changiz Khan 

 was at the zenith of hi3 power and his name was naturally asso- 



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ciated with the new coin. 



A. M. 



