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but it seems to me permissible to suggest that the true reading 

 of the Mint-name is "A'azamnagar Gokak" and not "A'azam- 

 nagar Gokulgarh." I venture to add that this new reading 

 agrees with the excellent specimen which I have seen in Mr. 

 Thanawalla's cabinet and also with the traces of the name on 

 Dr. Taylor's coin {Num. Sup. XIV, Plate 86, Fig. 11). 



S. H. HODIVALA. 



Junagadh . 



180. Pan jn agar 



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The mint-name ' Panjnagar,' which appears on a single 

 Half-Rupee of Jehangir's, is very difficult to identify. Mr. 

 Whitehead says that " the reading~is to some extent tentative, 

 as the place is unknown , but no other name suggests itself. 

 (P.M.C. lxiii). It is possible that the discovery of other speci- 

 mens may prove the incorrectness of this reading. Meanwhile, 

 I may be permitted to say that a place of the name of Panch- 

 nagar is mentioned in the Ain-i-Akbari as being included in the 

 Sarkar of the Rechnau Doab in the Subah of Lahore. ( Jarrett 



Ain. Tr. II, 320). The place must have been of some importance 

 as it is stated elsewhere to have given its name to one of the 

 sixteen mahals into which one of the eight sawads (districts) 

 of the whole Subah was divided. {Ibid., p. 110). The name 

 itself reminds one of t Hashtnagar ' , which is popularly derived 

 from the "eight towns which are now seated close together 

 along the lower course of the Swat river." (Cunningham, 

 Ancient Geography, p. 50). It is perhaps not unworthy of note 

 that another locality with a similar name * Panchgrami * ( €< fi ve 



villages" ?) is found in the Bari Doab list (Ain, II, 318), and is 

 also mentioned once in the Akbarnamah, in a manner indicat- 

 ing that it was somewhere near Lahore and Kasur. (Bibl. 

 Ind. Text, III, 529). 



The letters, however, which have been supposed to stand 

 for c nagar,' are far from clear and it is at least equally pro- 

 bable that the correct reading is Punch or perhaps "Punch- 

 nagar" — written with a Pesh or Zimrna only, instead of a 

 4 wdw.' The Punch or Pakli pass into Kashmir, says Vigne, 

 which quits §< the road on the second day from Bhimbur, and 

 joins the Baramula pass at Uri, two days from the valley, i*j 

 rarely closed, either for horse or foot, all the year round.' 

 (Travels in Kashmir, Vol. I, 147). It was situated " on the high 

 road of the Mogul Emperors from Lahore into Kashmir' 

 (Vigne, 1, 234), and there can be no doubt that Jehangir himself 

 passed through it at least once in his life. " As the purpose of 

 visiting the eternal spring of the rose-garden of Kashmir was 

 settled in my mind," says the Imperial autobiographer in his 

 account of the Fourteenth regnal year, "I sent off Nuru-d-dm 

 Quli, to hasten on before, to repair, as far as was possible, th* 



