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(iv) Ganepour (?) [ Gangixor |. 
Among the rarities in the British Museum is a diminutive 
gold coin (wt. 22 grs.) of the 5th year of Farrukhsiyar, with a 
mint-name which was read by Mr. Lane Poole as pS 
(B.M.C. no. 902). The Indian Museum contains a small piece 
in the same metal (wt. 43 grs.) bearing on the obverse the name 
98 ul, and on the reverse a mint-name read in the same 
way by Mr. Rodgers (I.M.C. No. 10908, p. 76). Mr. Nelson 
Wright has pronounced the opinion that this reading ‘“ cannot 
be supported,” and suggested that it is probably e,Sisus, with- 
out saying where Kanjankot is to be found. (1.M.C., 1908, 
IIT, No. 2281la, p. 270 Note.) 
May I be permitted to state that the true reading is og Saif 
Ganjikot, the name by which the famous fortress of Gandikot 
in the Kadapah district of the Madras Presidency is repeatedly 
mentioned by several writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth 
centuries? twill be seen that I take the fourth letter of the 
name to be an ¢¢ and not a wy, and the first to be the Kaf-i- 
Farsi, or Gaf. It may therefore be perhaps necessary to say 
that the inferior dots of the cs are clearly marked in the British 
Museum coin. 
Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah we read: ‘ The army takes Cur- — 
nool and Nundial-marches and reduces Gundicotta (Ganjicotta), 
ae ' “There is in Gandikot,’’ Tavernier informs us, **& pagoda ire 
considered to be one of the principal in India, where there are many idols, 
me being of gold and others of silver.” Ed. Ball, II. 290. 
