68 N. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
it, yields sense, but it will not scan and he appears to have 
Sees it. The truth is that the measure is one of those 
rarely used, viz., Vyilels adic. cllels , Side 
and the metre that which is known in books on Persian 
prosody as Muzar‘a-i-Akhrab-i-Magsur. In the circumstances, 
the correct reading of the distich must be 
the ye we She oak sto Sy 
is Gla Qj pie Ets 
No. 70 is another difficult eat and Lam unwilling to 
say any thing positive about it, as the coin itself has not been 
figu red. But as the metre is, in all probability, Ramal-i 
Musaddas-i-Magstir Jlc& Qiicb Qivel, the true order of the 
words must be as follows : 
wie Hd Io Gale sl 
Before leaving the subject, it may be as well to point out 
some minor mistakes or overs sights. ‘In No. 10, gy! is a typo- 
graphical or clerical error for w). The first word of the first 
line of Nos. 8 and 41 is jay wh> (not iy eS Be ; and should, 
in both cases, be rendered by some such phrase as * world. 
illuminating.” In the second hemistich of No. 18, the ali/ of 
the initial word Fi is redundant and should be deleted, and the 
word sl should be added, so that the line would read, like the 
closely parallel verse (No. 35) 
pSI AS LS hile GAR 
In No. 47, Wk is a misprint for le and the words are best 
ordere 
St BLS opt phile we Quo the sly 
ermit me to give one more instance. On the mubrs and 
ueat of Tipi Sultan, the following words have been deci- 
phe 
and the rendering. offered by Dr. See is, ‘The religion of 
Ahmad is illumined in the world by the victory of Haidar 
(Coins of Tipa Salta, p . 24). This is ~ roe vement of the 
old Latin version of Mar sden as we the more “tind 
English paraphrase of Capt. Tufnell {eels of Mysore 
Coins, 1889, No. 112), but it still leaves much to be desired in 
the way of accuracy 
