1918. ] Numismatic Supplement No. XX XI. 361 
“Holy Places” of the Hindus, the other six being Maya 
(Mayapur, close to Hardwar], Matura, Caxis [Kashi], Evantica 
[Avanti, i.e. Ujjain], Puris [Piri or Jagannath in Orissa] and 
Darahotis [Dwaravati, ie. Dwarka in Kathiavad]. Jhid., IT, 
244-5. He also refers to ‘Ali Mardan Khan’s capture by “an 
officer of the Shiva Ji called Santangape” [Santaji Ghorpadé] 
and attributes it to the treachery of his own chief, Zul‘figar 
Khan, who hated him. Jbid., III, 273. 
One word more as to the spelling of the name as it appears 
on the coins, may perhaps be not altogether out of place. It 
may be urged that the correct form of the name is Kanchtivar- 
am or Kanchipuram with a long ‘a’ after-the first consonant, 
and that we ought to have had (,sUlf and not ,,=iS(without an 
‘alif’) on the coins. I may be permitted to say that this difficulty, 
which has seemed insuperable to a very friendly critic, admits 
of an easy solution. That solution is that sts is only one of 
many place-names, which drop the long ‘a’ which they have 
in Sanscrit or in the popular pronunciation. when transliterated 
a Persian and written in books or inscribed on coins. 
us :—. 
Kanyakubja becomes z3, Kashmir 05, Mandi’ ,01~, 
Varanasi (»)ls, Baglana (ataeTa) oS, Satara (erat) (in Mah- 
atti) (ie, Patan (Guj. Wew) wily, Pathri yey, Arikan id), 
Bajaur y,su, Tapti ws, Champaner lis, Manjra ss, ! 
There is therefore nothing out of the common in the form 
wi, and we may take it that the coins under discussion were 
issued from the town which is now known as Conjeeveram at 
Some time after the conquest of the dominions of the kings of 
Gulkanda by the Mughals in the thirtieth year of the reign of 
Aurangzeb. It is perhaps necessary to,.add that this Kanji or 
Kinji (or Conjeeveram in Chingleput) is not identical with 
' Imp. Gaz., XIV, 370, S.V. Kanayj. 
Tb., XVII, 171, 30L0 on coins, P.M.C. Intr., ex. 
Imp. Gaz., VI, 190, 192, ask in Khafi Khan, I, 247, 274, 280, 399; 
Ma‘asiri-+Alamgiri, 470. 
Imp. Gaz., XXII, 128: | bine Ma: agir-i-- Alamgiri 336, 420. 
Pathri in Parbhani District, Haidarabad State, Imp. Gaz., XX, 30, 
<soely in Ma‘agiru-l-Umara, I, 356, 489, 700. 
Sid} in Ma‘asir-iAlamgiri, 30, 31, ‘Alamgirnama, 484, 556, 560 ; 
Bajaur 1.G., VI, 219, 
gs) in Khafi Khan, 11; 555, 619, 854, 875. 
; 2 Saeirk River in Haidarabad State, [.G., XVII, 197; Badshahnama, 
