




1925.] Numismatic Supplement No, XX XVII. N. 77 
244. THe Mint PangnaGaR (BHUJNAGAR). 
In Num. Supp. XXVIII, I made an admittedly tentative 
attempt to locate an obscure mint-name which had _ been 
rea s ‘ Panjnagar’ by Rodgers, and acquiesced in by 
Mr. Whitehead and others, only because it was ‘‘ not possible 
to suggest any other.”’ 
It was merely the conduct of a forlorn hope and I felt then 
that the true reading was “ still to seek.’’ Indeed, I declared 
that the attempt had been made only “in the hope of its 
helping towards” a satisisfactory identification if the reading 
proved cerrect’’ (Ibid, p. 79). 
have since had the question very frequently under 
consideration and am inclined to think that in these six minute 
and beautifully-inscribed, but cryptic symbols lies hidden the 
name of the capital of the Rao of Cutch—Bhujnagar. 
In setting out the reasons which have led me to offer the 
Suggestion, I wish to invite attention to the fact that this 
curious half-rupee of Jahangir has certain points of resemblance 
to the same emperor's mintages of Ahmadnagar and Zafarnagar, 
which are too striking to be ignored. In the first place, the 
legends, both on the obverse and reverse, are exactly the same 
The style of script, the shaping of the letters, which is peculiar 
and unlike that of any other issues of the emperor, is identical. 
The ornaments, i.e., the flowery decorations in the field, which 
envelop the inscriptions are of exactly the same type. It is 
hardly possible to resist the impression that : (1) all these issues 
are efforts to reproduce (with minor alterations as to date, 
‘place of striking,’ ete.) one and the same model, (2) that the 
engraver or engravers were instructed to imitate some original or 
archetypal die, and (3) that this was due to these coins or rather 
historical medals—for they are al] memorials in metal of notable 
political events—having been issued by the directions of one 
m or Shah 
Jahan, for whom that influential personage successively 
obtained the titles of Ray Rayan and Raja Bikramajit—the 
highest that could be conferred on any Hindi subject of the 
empire (7'azuk, Trans., I, 402). The marrow of the matter is 
this. That prince, in his first expedition to the South, com- 
pelled Malik Ambar and the Dekkanis, by a show of irresistible 
for te come to terms and restore the fortress of Ahmad- 
nagar and territories, yielding a revenue of fourteen krors of 
dams, which had been wrested from the Mughals during the 
decade of mismanagement and slackness, that immediately 
