1918. ] Numismatic Supplement No. XX XI. 351 
Boye) dad 1) LET pSla allo Gl pfeil one aibl Gyale 1) ole 
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(Bibl. Ind. Text, I, 612, Il. 12-15.) 
officers over the district, returned to his capital.” Memoirs of 
Hyder Aly Khan, prefixed to the Catalogue of the Library of Tip- 
poo Sultan, pp. 24-5. See also pp. 26-7. 
peaking of events which occurred about fifteen years later, 
he same events are thus described by Grant Duff :— _ 
_ “The army of Nizam Ally, with the two Madras battalions 
which continued to the northward, took Gandicottah on the 
Pennar, and laid siege to Gurrumcondah.” [1791.] Bombay 
Reprint, p. 490. 
James Mill’s account is as follows :-— 
“ By the army of the Nizam, only two objects had been 
effected during the war: the reduction of Gunjicottah, and that 
(7 Repaul.” Mill and Wilson, History of British India, ed, 1858, 
Lastly the Imperial Gazetteer thus puts the matter :—* It 
Was here [Gandikot] that Fateh Naik, the father of the great 
Haider Ali, first distinguished himself. Haidar improved and gar- 
