648 Account of the Ruins and Site of [Aug. 



greatly by rendering the roads secure to merchants and all kinds of 

 travellers, whereas they had before been much infested by tigers, and 

 other beasts of prey. 



Pedigree of Sah Gujee Rai. 



Sah Guje'e Rai. 



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Bhopal Singh, Anop Singh, Abdood Singh, Mohun Singh, Burjore Singh. 



I II I 



Futteh Singh, Hemraj, Jugut Singh, Inderjket. 



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Luchmun Singh, Tilok Singh. 



I 



VlKRAMAJIT. 



N. B. A list of the Gurha Mundala rajas derived from an inscription trans, 

 lated by Captain Fell in the I5thVol. of As. Res. page 437, has 47 in lieu 

 of 48 names to Sanguama Sa'h whose Son Vi'rana'ra'yana was killed in a 

 battle with Akber's troops. That list terminates with the reigning monarch 

 Hridaye\swara in A. D. 1667. It differs immaterially from the present list. 



II. — Account of the Ruins and Site of old Mandavi in Raepur, and legend 

 of Vikrama'ditya's Son in Cutch. By Lieut. W. Postans, Bombay 

 Engineers. 



On the edge of the creek (khdri) which runs inland in a N. W. direc- 

 tion from Mandavi at the distance of about 2 miles from that Bunder, 

 are to be traced the remains of a place of some extent called by the na- 

 tives of the country Ra?pur, or Old Mandavi, (this last word signifies 

 custom house.) They relate that Raepur was formerly the Mandavi 

 of the Gulf of Cutch : the sea washed its walls and it carried on 

 greater trade than Mandavi (or as it is styled in all official documents 

 of the country) Raepur does at the present day. Old Mandavi is how- 

 ever now nothing more than a deserted and desolate spot, and with 

 the exception of the foundations of its brick buildings, nothing re- 

 mains to denote where a flourishing city is supposed to have once 

 been. It is curious that the art of brick-making has either been lost 

 or completely fallen into disuse, hence the natives use these ruins to 

 provide bricks to assist in building the houses of neighbouring vil- 

 lages, and in digging for these the small copper coins have been 

 found, which are known in Cutch as the *Ghadira pice from the im- 



* I annex a sketch of one of the most perfect impressions I have yet seen. 

 I have in my possession 12 of these coins, some of which I found myself 

 amongst the ruins of Raepur. The natives say they are often found after the 

 rains when they are more easily distinguished from the stones, &c. which sur- 

 round them, owing to the sand being whiter at that season — the antiquarian 

 would no doubt be rewarded if he were to dig to some extent in this spot. 



