1921.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXXV. 79 
cslet Goray! and yyy 8% coycy!, and there can be little doubt that 
in both cases the reference is to what Abil Fazl calls, the 
392 Gyélyw, the mint-establishment which accompanied the 
monarch on his progresses and expeditions. 
ok xoid,s ‘Of happy foundation’ is found inscribed for 
the first time on the Haidarabad coins of Shah ‘Alam J. 
There can be no doubt that the new title was invented by 
Bahadur Shah himself. Khafi Khan explicitly says as much. 
skal yte wKe ole Xe pes 3 on ly olf yaaa as Sg90,9 as> 
# WSL ald) 0 able oly O58 oikass (0 
Text, IT, 646, ll. 4-5. 
‘* He [scil. the Emperor] gave orders that Haidarabad 
which had been, after its conquest in the days of Khuldmakan, 
[the after-death title of Aurangzeb] written Daru-l-Jihad, 
should henceforth be styled Farkhunda buniyad-i-Haidara- 
bad.” 
The alteration isnot perhaps, difficult to account for. The 
battle in which Kambakhsh had been defeated and killed in 
Zil-Qa‘ada, 1120 A.H. had been fought within three koss of 
Haidarabad, that is to say, in the immediate vicinity of the 
city (Khafi Khaa, II. 621). That battle had removed the last 
important cities 
Haidarabad. His father had given the former the distinctive 
ft 
time having the same import as the designation of the rival 
1 Mr. Lane Poole has done justice to this side of the Emperor’s 
character. ‘‘He was then (i.e. at his accession) a man of sixty-four ; 
should have recommended him to his kinsmen, the refractory Rajputs. 
His philosophical studies indeed Jaid him open to the charge of being too 
a Hindu for the approbation of honest Muslims. (B.M.C. 
Introd. xxxtii). 
