362 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIV, 
Ginji or Gingee in South Arcot. The name of the great fort — 
ress which defied the arms of Aurangzeb for nearly eight years, 
and was afterwards captured by Bussy, is written Ginjee a 
Ginji by Grant Duff, Mill and other Anglo-Indian historians, but — 
the spelling found in the Musalman writers is always ges 
(Ma‘asir-i-A lamgiri, Bibl. Ind. Text, 339, 344, 350, 352, 30), 
359, 362, 364, 391, 400, 502), or seize (Khafi Khan, Il, 404,41, 
418, 450, 534; Ma‘asiru-l-Umara, II, 94, 270, 500, 875; Hl - 
855, 856). It is also not unworthy of notice that og is the 
form found on coins (Num. Sup. XIV, 570). s 
Junagadh. S. H. Hoprvais. 
(vitt) MANGARH. 
appears to me to be the correct one. 
But supposing that the name is ‘ Manghir,’ it seems 
very hazardous to identify it with Mongyr or ‘ Monghyt 
Bihar. The name of that town is never spelt by any + 
' writer of reputation except as ys or phic or phe. a 
Fazl mentions Mongyr several times in his works, but he ie 
writes it in one or other of these three ways and in 10 Bibl. 
(4in-t-Abbars, Bibl. Ind. Text, I, 417, 419; Akbarnam@, a. 
Ind. Text, TI, 22, 107, 141, 307, 308, 324, 334, 398.) 
ont’s spelling is Sie in Muntakhabu-t-tawarikh, Bibl. Ind. 
I, 349 as well as in IT, 289. Nizimuddin Ahmad also ™ 
the “h’ and adheres to the form ySiyo (Labagat-i-4 
not depart from the older spelling, and ,saKle receives n0 © 
tenance from any one of them, We have fic in the 2° 
