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sacred to HatakeSvara, Raghunathji’s a oni On his 
return to Kathiawad, having completed the nuptials of his son, 
and performed the "Ma harudra Yajfia, he retired from the 
world, and engaged in the worship of his god, but, the record 
significantly adds, ‘‘ Jam‘dar ‘Omar Mukhasam’ Ss enmity 
towards him did not abate.’’ The attractions of office, how- 
ever, eventually proved irresistible, for on the Jam‘dar’s 
expulsion from Junagadh ‘‘ with concealed face and bare feet,” 
the Diwani was again ‘sadiharte don Raghunathaji. On this 
occasion Captain Ballantyne, Political Agent of the Mahi 
Sarkar Company Bahadur that he should permanently settle 
the office of Diwan in the family of the Diwan Sahib Amarji. 
This re-investment would seem to have taken place in 1816 or 
1817, yet but a few months later the Nawab’s favour was again 
alienated, whereupon Raghunathaji finally retired into private 
life. Now at length the time had come when he could devote 
himself to religious outetusmakseH and in the seclusion of his 
retreat recall to memory the varying vicissitudes of his eventful 
career. Thus, in marked contrast to the storms he had en- 
countered ever since his boyhood days, his last two years were 
years of quiet and calm. Of his death the Tarikh-i-Sorath 
records :—‘‘ In Sarivat 1875 in Aso Sud 10th (29th September 
1819) the Diwan Sahib Raghunathaji, successor to the Diwan 
Amarji, departed to Kailasa S the age of fifty-six years....... 
He was a worshipper of ankara, literal brave, be ate 
veracious, skilled in sary a protector of the ra 
The world bewails his loss, and a t Banaras several Sasnieats 
dabeict Cappo at his Genaiee 
s little coin equally with the common silver coin of. 
icant bears the name of Kori, but, if by Kori we are 
to understand a coin struck for the State currency, then most 
assuredly is the term inapplicable o our silverling. This 
cannot anced rightfully claim to be r ed a coin at all. 
As defined in the New English (Oxford)  Distiekes. a coin is 
‘a piece of wibkal (gold, silver, copper, etc.) of definite weight 
and value, usually a circular disc, made into money by being 
stamped with an officially authoritative device.’? Now the 
ruling power at Jinagadh was a Muhammadan, and the 
Nawab a Babi deriving from Afghanistan: and it is thus 
incredible that he should have officially anthoeuad for impres- 
sion on the current coin of his State a legend i aS honour- 
ing Siva, the third member of the Hindu Tria _ Also it 
letter Then n an coin issued as currency 1 
comparatively modern times we should expect to findengraven 
ruler’s name, or e of the mint-town, or the year 
th y' 
of issue, be it Hijri or Samvat or the regnal year: but the 
