370 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIV, 
cited of a fifth-rate town like Porbandar having been exalted 
to the dignity of issuing gold coins in two reigns and silver coins 
in three or four. 
It is possible that any one of these arguments taken singly 
may not possess such force as to ensure the rejection of the 
Porbandar theory, but it seems to me that their cumulative 
weight is by no means small, and one can scarcely fail to be 
impressed by the hazardous character of the decipherment when 
all the facts are taken into account. 
Well, then, if Porbandar will not do, is it possible to read 
the letters in'some other way? I submit that it is, and I beg 
to suggest a name to which no exception can be taken on his- 
torical or other grounds, and which satisfies all other conditions 
besides. This is to;3 Parenda or Purenda, a town in the Os 
h was 
ct the : 
Nizamshahi officers having declared Moortuza, the son of Aly, 
