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[No. i, 
W. Vost— The Log dm Mint . 
liis History says, “ Mr. Rodgers and Mr. Oliver ( Journal , Asiatic Society , 
Bengal , LV) have read the mint as Doganw: but, while 
. it is most probably the same name, there can be no question that the 
last letter on the copper coins Nos. 263, 27 J, is ^ not y. Several places 
called Deogaon are mentioned in Abu-l-fazl’s list of Todar Mai’s rent 
roll.” 
The coins of this mint now shewn were all, with the exception of 
Fig. 14, stated to have been found at Dogao and were obtained at Bah- 
raicli and Niinpara by me. I have one dated 984 H. with the epithet 
and others beginning in 986 H. with a second epithet, so that 
between these years there was a change in the title for some reason. In 
the Lahore Museum Catalogue (1891) one is given with the epithet 
Daru-l-khilafat, dated in 986 H., and also another dated in 989 H. with 
the same epithet. I think the title, or date, on the latter may have 
been incorrectly read. If there be no doubt about the one dated 986 H., 
then the change of epithet would appear to have actually taken place in 
that year, for I think there can be no question that on coin Fig. 1 of the 
plate illustrating this paper Daru-l-khilafat cannot be read. Specimens 
with the second epithet are much more frequently seen. It has usually 
been read From the obverses of Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the plate 
it can be seen that there are not four alifs , and, therefore, that reading 
must be incorrect;. The right reading appears to be At one 
time I believed the Abode of Meditation, was the epithet, or 
possibly I preferred the former, for I took what seems the 
last letter on Fig. 2 to be ^ and not p. To the eye this letter is like, 
all but the curved part, the ^ in Dogaw on the same coin. Moreover, 
Figs. 3 and 9 shew above the first letter of what I thought was a 
mark, like an inverted V, which I believed might represent the two 
dots of that letter. A mark nearly the same is used in writing at the 
present day for that purpose. I have seen very few with the mark I 
describe. Some have a cluster of dots, like Fig. 1, while others are 
without marks of any kind. 
Between the Gliagra and Raptl rivers there is a belt of com¬ 
paratively high tableland. “ On the edge of this same tableland 
and on the bank of the Sarju, about 4 miles west of the present 
town of Nanpara, there exist the remains of a very large and most 
substantially built town. The houses, (for the ruins appear to be 
merely those of private dwellings and not of temples or tombs), are 
built of burnt bricks and it must have been a place of considerable 
importance. It bears the name among the country folk of Dugaon 
and is unmistakeably the same city as that mentioned by Abu-1-fazl 
in the Ayln-i-Akbaii as a commercial centre of mark, the trade with 
