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garh, a second Islamgarh, a third Rashidgarh, a fourth Firoz- 
garh ; the fifth retained its original names of Mankot and Man- 
garh.” (Elliot and Dowson, IV, 494.) The Tarikh-i-Dauli was 
written, it is true, some time after the accession of J ahangir, and 
is, strictly speaking, not a contemporary authority ; but it ap- 
pears irom a note at the foot of the page that this particular 
These quotations from contemporaneous historians furnish, 
I venture to think, just the sort of testimony which is indispen- 
in the times of Islam Shah, and the first years of Akbar’s reign, 
to which last the coins belong. We know that it was the com- 
panion stronghold to the Western Rohtas erected by Shér Shah, 
and built with the same object of holding the Ghakkars of the 
Salt Range in check. It is common knowledge also that it was 
to Mankot that Sikandar Sir retreated after his defeat at Sar- 
hind, and that the fortress fell only after a siege of little less 
than six months on 27th Ramazan, 964 a.n. (Tabagat-i- 
4 titan each with a stone fort.” - (Ain., Tr. Jarrett, II, 321). 
). 
467) says that Mankot or Manghar “ was on the farthest out- 
skirts of the Siwalik mountains,” and ‘‘ composed of four or five 
on a inen 
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rs tory of the, state of Kashmir. It is now known as Ram- 
Ot” 
Junagadh, S. H. Hoprvana. 
8th October, 1916. 
(tx) [MunlABAp} Puna. 
R Among the rare coins in the Panjab Museum, there is a 
"pee of the 15th regnal year of Shah Alam II, which bears 
