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It may be true that the coins of all the Emperors after 

 Akbar are marked by the " uniform use" of the name " Kash- 

 mir ' ' for the city , but it is also a fact that Srinagar, as the name 

 of the capital, never actually disappeared from either the popu- 

 lar or the official cognition after the death of Akbar. The 

 Emperor Jahangir, who apparently was the first ruler to ban- 

 ish Srinagar from the mints, himself states in his Autobiogra- 

 phy, that " the name of the city was Srinagar" (Tuzuk, Trans. 

 by Rogers and Beveridge, Vol. II, p. 141), and this he does in his 

 account of the fifteenth regnal year (1029-30 a.h.). 1 The 

 Khulasat-ut-Tawarikh, as well as the Chahar-Gulshan, which 

 were both compiled from official records of the seventeenth and 

 eighteenth centuries, agree in recognising Srinagar as the capi- 

 tal of the country. (Sarkar, India of Aurangzeb, pp. Ill and 

 132). But granting that the chief city of Kashmir was never 

 spoken of as Srinagar between the year of Akbar' s death and 

 the conquest of the province by the Sikhs in 1818 a. a, this 

 does not at all affect the point at issue, for the coins before us 

 are the coins not of any of Akbar's successors, but his own. 



The fact is that both names — Kashmir as well as Srinagar 

 — were used for the metropolis, even in Akbar 9 s time. Badaoni 

 speaks in a passage, which Lowe has misunderstood, of the city 



of Kashmir {j$*~Jjt" %J>i& )* "near the city of Kashmir"). 



Text, Vol. II, pp. 369-370. 2 In the Tabaqat-i-Akbari also, 

 Kashmir is spoken of both as a city and a country. (Elliot and 

 Dowson, Vol. V, pp. 464-5), I submit therefore that there is no 

 reason for not attributing the Srinagar issues of Akbar to the 

 metropolis of Kashmir, and we must take it that one city was 

 called by two different names on the coins — a phenomenon to 

 which several parallels can be found in Indian numismatics. 



S. H. Hodivala. 



Junagadh . 



178. Bahadurgarh. 



"Bahadurgarh, with its alternative names of Nandgaon 

 and Bikapur {sic), is given by Jadunath Sarkar in his u India 

 of Aurangzeb'' as one of the forts in the province of Auranga- 

 bad." (Whitehead, P. M. C. lvii). Mr. Sarkar's authorities 

 are the Chahar Oulshan and Tieffenthaler (I. 479). The former 

 oaaoH-a f.Viaf. f.hft old name was Bikapur (Sarkar, p. 163). The 



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Ten thousand Rupees were given for the expenses of the bulghur- 

 khana of Kashmir to the wakil of Mirza *Ali Beg, the governor of that 

 place, to send to Srinagar." Tuzuk, Tr. Vol. I, p. 77. 



2 Lowe read this «fe*&^.j** (^.^A anc * translated it as M near one of 



the cities of Kashmir," but he saw that it was Srinagar that VM meant 

 (II, p. 381 and note). 



