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The Bajrarjggarh Mint and Coins.—By Richard Burn, I.C.S. 
(With Plate XXXIV.) 
[Read May, 1897.] 
The coins of this Mint are all struck in the name of Jai Simo-h at 
Jainagar, the year (regnal) varying from 15 to 24 on specimens I have 
seen. 
Jainagar is the name of a town, otherwise called Bajraqggarh, about 
5 miles from the cantonment of Guna in Central India. Locally, the 
former name is always, or generally, used for the town. It is the head¬ 
quarters of a Subah of the Gvaliar State, which is known as Bajraqggarh 
and never of course as Jainagar. The Khlcl branch of the Cauhan 
Thakurs to which Jai Simgh belonged has always been renowned for its 
valour, and is one of the chief of the twenty-four Sachae given by Tod, 1 2 
into which the Cauhans were divided, and their territory was called 
the Khlcivara. 8 This particular family, which claims descent from 
PirthI Raj of Delhi, was at first settled at Gagrun or Gagrar in Malva, 
and first came into prominence in the reign of Akbar, 3 when one of the 
family was made governor of Multan and received a jagir at Sironj. 
The son of this chief, Lalji, founded Raghugarh, the present capital of 
the state of that name, and when the Mahrathas invaded Malva first, 
a grandson of the latter, Balbhadar Simgh was Raja. Balbhadar Simgh 
and his father Dhnruj Simgh had made themselves respected by force of 
arms amongst their turbulent neighbours, and were connected by marri¬ 
age with the Rajas of Jaipur and Udaipur. 4 The Peshwa Baji Rao 
while at Sagar had a difference with Balbhadar Simgh, who was consi¬ 
dered then one of the most powerful of the Rajput princes, but this was 
subsequently composed, and Balbhadar Simgh actively aided the Mah¬ 
rathas till his death about 1780 A.D. His son Balvant Simgh, who 
1 Rajasthan I, 91. 
2 See map in Malcolm’s Memoirs of Central India, Yol. I. 
3 Malcolm, op. cit. I, pp. 45, 46. 
4 Malcolm, op. cit. I, pp. 463 et seq., from which this account is condensed. 
