a 
em 
~oomey 
- ii LOTTE, pg, — mm nag 
NN — nhs 
ai 
1923.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXXVII. N. 69 
In the first place, the legend is metrical, and the words 
should be ordered on the measure 
Poo FSS ee. 
weld SMe MEE SMe 
the metre being Ramal-i-Musamman-i-Magsir. The true 
reading therefore must be 
caw! = ers erty wt> >) dea! gre 
In the second, the translation also is not quite correct. 
ra here is not a common noun governing )»= but a part of - 
the name of Haidar ‘Ali himself, to whom his son appears to 
have been desirous to pay a compliment after death. 
Mr. Bowring informs us that the name of Haidar’s father 
was Fath Muhammad (Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan, p. 12). 
We are further told that the Peshwa Balaji Rao invaded 
Mysore in 1757 A.C. and sent in 1759, a force under Gopal Hari 
to annex the districts, surrendered in pledge, for the ransom of 
thirty-two lakhs, which had been promised, but the payment of 
which was subsequently evaded. Haidar was now placed in 
command of the Mysore army, and his energetic and skilful 
Strategy compelled Gepal not only “ to abandon the blockade 
of Bangalore but to withdraw his troops from the pledged 
districts and come to terms.”’ On the departure of the Mara- 
thas, ‘‘ Haidar * * * received from the grateful Raja the title 
of Fatah Haidar Bahadur in recognition of his services on this 
occasion. This style he invariably used afterwards on all 
grants made by him. Previously he had been known simply 
as Haidar Nayak.’ (Ibid, 30.) 
_ This is not all. The legend itself is an imitation or re- 
miniscence of the first line of the couplet inseribed on Haidar’s 
public or “Great Seal.” According to the contemporary 
biographer Mir Husain ‘Ali Kirmani, this was as under :— 
MEET yore Fabs 2 5 pes yt 
LAWNS MW ie I gle Mid 
“ Futteh Hydur was manifested or born to conquer the world. 
There is no man equal to Ali and no sword like his (recte, like 
Zulfiqar).”! His pocket seal bore the words, joan (History 
: a Naik, Tr. W. Miles, Orient. Trans. Fund, 1842, 
Now there is no room, here at least, for doubt or amphi- 
bology. It would be impossible to take the eon this 




' The inscription on the Seal is also given by Beale, Miftahu-t- 
T awarikh, (Kahnpir Lithograph, 1284 A.H.) p. 370. 
