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1923.] Numismatic Supplement No. XX XVII. N. 8) 
Brief notes relative to the Kutch State,’ published by the 
Government of Bombay in 1855 (Bombay Government Selec- 
tions, New Series, No. XV), His Highness the Rao saying in 
reply to a question put to him by the Political Agent of the 
Province : ‘‘ Bhooj Nuggur is the name of the Capital founded by 
Rao Shree Khengarjee * * * in Sumvat 1605 (A.D. 1548)” 
p. 206. The author of the ‘ Ras Mala’ also, in telling the tale 
of Jug Dev Parmar, speaks of “ Bhoojnuggar” as the place 
“where Raja Phool reigned.”’ (A. K. Forbes, op. cit., Reprint 
1878, p. 114. 
The generality of Anglo-Indian authors employ the shorter 
form and write ‘ Booge’ or‘ Bhooj’ or Bhaj. (Hamilton, East 
India Gazetter, Ed. 1815, p. 322; Mac Murdo, Transactions, 
Literary Society of Bombay, II, 229; Thornton, Gazetteer. 
- 1858, s.v. ; Imperial Gazetter, Ed. 1908, s.v.) ; but James 
Burgess leaves no doubt as to his preference for ‘ Bhuj’ with 
the vowel short (Antiquities of Kathiawad and Kachh, pp. 200, 
212). It is not easy and perhaps hardly worth while to say 
which form, ‘ Bhuj’ or‘ Bhaj’ is correct. But it may be pointed 
out that the etymology of the name is in favour of shortening 
the vowel. The Rao of Cutch informed Mr. Ogilvy, the Polli- 
tical Agent of the State in 1850. that the town was so called 
because it was founded after the Rao Khegarjee expelled Jam 
Rawal from Kachh by the force of his arm (4s). (Memoirs 
relative to the Kutch State, Bombay Government Selections, 
207. i me 
it is certain that Ra, arm and Ysa, snake are both spelt with 
the short vowel in Gujarati as well as in Sanskrit. As for the 
form Bhujnagar, 1 may say that ‘Bhuj’ is not the only 
Indian place-name to which the adjunct nagar, ghar, gadh or 
pur is indifferently prefixed or affixed at times. Thus Dhar 
'S sometimes called ‘* Dharanugger”’; Forbes, Ras Mala, Ed. 
1878, p. 147; 

| Tieffenthaler says: ‘* Bhoudj (ou Bhodj) iat la capitale du district 
de Catsch * * Cet Pres a a recu son nom d’un serpent car beaucoup de 
Personnes assure le fait est méme tres certaine, que l’on revere ici 
wn Serpent, et que tous les jours on lui sert du lait et du ris. Il 
~ oud} 6 signifie: le t long de cinquante-deux 
; af ide of the hill 
The city is situated on a plain on the S.W. side of the 
called Bhoojia, * * * the cusbcnih a the mountain, * * * is a temp 
tledicated to the worship of the Nag or hooded snake,’’ (Macmurdo, 
9c. cit.) 
