480 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1914. 



and the Reverse as : 







Pattan, to-day commonly called Kadi Patan, or Patan of 

 the Kadi prant of the Baroda State, is said to have been found- 

 ed in a.d. 766. During the next six hundred years it wit- 

 nessed many vicissitudes, capitulating to Mali mud of Ghazni in 

 1025, and again in 1297 to ' Alau-d-din's general Ulugh Khan, 

 while in the first quarter of the 15th century it surrendered 

 its proud position as the Capital of Gujarat to the fast-rising 

 city of Ahmadabad. It is interesting to note that the copper 

 coins which in the reign of Akbar issued simultaneously from the 

 mints in these two cities were of one and the same type. 



Indian Museum Catalogue, Vol. Ill, Nos. 349. 352, and 

 plate IV. 



Tradition tells that Anhil was the founder of the city 

 Pattan, which hence received the name Anhil-pur or Anhil- 

 vada. The latter form would supply successively the variants 

 Anhal-wara, Nahalwala, Naharwala, and finally Nahrwala. 



Of Pattan in the zenith of its prosperity a graphic but exag- 

 gerated description is given in the Kumar Pal Charitra. It 

 states that the city measured twelve kos in circumference, 

 while its wards numbered eighty-four, also that it contained 

 a mint whence issued both gold and silver coins and that of 

 the eighty -four bazars one was reserved for the money-changers. 

 Of this coinage, if it ever existed, it would seem no specimen 

 has survived to the present day , unless indeed it be represented 

 by the debased Gadhaiya, then current in silver and copper 

 but not in gold. 



Geo. P. Taylor. 



