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certain.” Others have proposed “ Lanji”’ and ‘‘ Lakhi.” It 
seems to me that all these decipherments are untenable, inas- 
much as they overlook the stroke of the S which is clearly 
visible on the plate, and which I have seen also on the coin it- 
self in Dr. Taylor’s possession. The second and third letters of 
the name are undoubtedly a w and a ¢ respectively, and the 
dots of both are carefully marked in the lower part of the field, 
the other twelve points being accounted for by the ten dots in 
two clusters of five dot h. and the superior and inferior Nugtas 
of the éand the Gof Gye. This ensures the rejection of Lachi as 
well as Lakht, which are inadmissible on other grounds also ; the 
first in that no place of that name is known, the second because 
though a Lakhi or Lakhi Jangal is frequently mentioned in the 
Musalman chronicles, the name is never spelt with a ¢ but invari- 
ably occurs in the form a (Ma‘asir-i-‘ Alamgiri , Bibl. Ind. Text, 
450, 712, 826; III, 311, 373; Badshah-Nama, Bibl. Ind. 
Text. Vol. I, Pt. i, 288, 476; I, Pt. ii, 10, 64; II, 236, 477; 
Ain-i-Akbari, Bibl. Ind. Text, I, 382, 556; Akbarnama, Bibl. 
Ind. Text. TIT, 601, 608). 
_This remarkable consensus not only militates decisively 
against this particular reading, but must bring home to our 
minds the necessity of carefully noting the orthographic usage 
m regard to place-names, which appears to have been fairly 
uniform, at least among the superior class of writers. 
then it is impossible to accept any of these suggestions, 
what is the true reading? I submit that it is y=i* Kanji. Kin- 
fi or Kunji, according as the diacritical mark is supposed to 
have been a zabar, a zir or a pish. Fit was the name by 
which Kanchi, the modern Conjeeveram (which is itself a cor- 
Tupt form of Kanchivaram or Kanchipuram), was known to the 
ughals. 
oo) Jn the chapter devoted to ‘Ali Mardan Khan Haidarabadi, 
— Biographical Dictionary called the Ma‘asiru-l-Umara, we 
en: 
S97 sbfous Elly erst yt 2008 WSs) alo pb gina 
Bere BS aldol juile wis on ge ee 
EFS os abled at BF od GE yloyesle thd 5 4 
yale S) emis y go le Gil: itsipe ab fue US tte 
Boel oreo ( og) alasl eo d slewe js as (wie fas Bot pat! 
