76 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. | N.S., XIII. 



179. 'A* AZAMN AGAR. ' 



"The earliest coin published of the rare Southern India 



dated 



§ 



exactly resembling those already mentioned, l>ut where the 

 mint name is accompanied by a second name, and this latter 

 name, mainly on the strength of two published coins of Kam 

 Bakhsh , has been read as Gokulgarh. This place which must 

 have been in the Dakhan should not be confounded with the 

 Gokulgarh near Delhi." (Whitehead, P.M.C., p. xli). 



I may be permitted to state that A'azamnagar was the 

 name given by Aurangzeb to the fortress of Belgam. The 

 statements of Khan Kb.an and the Ma'asir-i-'Alamgiri leave 

 little room for doubt on the subject, though the blundering 

 carelessness of copyists is responsible for errors which may 

 apparently obscure the issue. In the first place, then, Khafi 

 Khan says that Prince Muhammad A'azam Shah, when on the 

 way to the conquest of Adoni in 1099 a.h., passed by the for- 

 tress of M algaun y&i* which was one of the famous forts sub- 

 ject to Bijapur. « ' He was told that the governor of the fortres 

 was dead, and that the garrison had pal forward his son, 



Oil 



Orders were 



issued for investing the fort, and the besieged after making futile 



delivered 



stronghold, after the presentation of which it was renamed 

 A'azamnagar" *iiLl, v~r"j& ^' b *«15 of lA* *« (Bib. /*<*■ 

 Text, Vol. II, p. 372, 11. 3-9). 



It is true that the name is written in the body of the text 

 ,*«!*, but a footnote adds the variant reading >KX» . The 



same 



event, including the story of the boy-commandant 

 recorded in the Ma'asir-i-'Alamgiri, with this difference that 



the old name is clearly written c^KL (Balgaun), and the new 

 name A'azamabad. A footnote records at the sam lime the 

 readings ^y^Lc an d /i ,Jb, (Bib. Ind. Text, p. 315, 11. l-«- 

 These discrepancies would be perplexing bat for the occurrence 

 of the double name A* azamnagar- Balgaon in another passage. 



li'-'J 



(Bibl. Ind. Text, p. 474, 11. 1-3). 



teer, ed. 1908, VI, 194. 



ed 



<j. S i ,:■ ' ""•» o'o ui ine reigns ot *>an»u«i »«-- 



»hah Alam I, Jahandar and Farrukhsiyar, that is. several year, earlier 



