38 N. Journal of the As. Soc. of Bengal. {[N.S., XVIII, 1922.| 
I came upon the following verse on page 21, which confirms my 
reading :— 
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Goat Oe ee ee ee a a ee a6 
we oF oly? ole pb 9 eye Sp 
Go-Go Ae 2) ee eee: CO pte Oe 
6 gi pails on 3 QL Li yy be 2 yal 
Transhteration: Tirlok japat tuwa nanw pawin paran ki 
puran 
Acharju mahabir abala bali tinhin sanchu autar. 
Translation: ‘“‘ Three worlds repeat thy name (at thy feet, 
oh breath of old !). 
O Wonder! O Great Hero, friend of the weak, thou alone 
art the true incarnation.’”! 
I leave comment on the true significance of certain words 
in the above anira to a later paper on this MS., but there can 
be no other meaning of the word abala bali, which is the real 
point of this discussion. At the risk of rendering this note 
rather lengthy, I may be permitted to quote the following line 
from Basatinu-s-Salatin, the standard history of the ‘Adil Sha- 
his of Bijapir. The author while discussing the word »)y3 
Nauras, which was much favoured by Ibrahim II says on pp. 
249-250 (Hyderabad Edition):— 
BL ay TIT y al: NG auope api) Eyed Gly: af GUS , 
w 
* owl 5 ro CH Gls = one! Zaye 3 
‘And a book, written in the language of Dharpat on the 
art of music, is assigned to the King and is known as nauras. 
And ulus (pice) which are current from that date up to this 
time, are also known by the (name) of fals-i-nauras (the nauras 
pice).’” Now we find the fals-i-nauras (these very coins) have a 
legend on them which is, or the like of which, is given in the 
Kitab-i-nauras, the title of the book quoted above, and both 
these belong to the same period if not the same year 
_ _ Thus the epithet used on the copper coins of Ibrahim II 
is abala balt [.s4 %!] which means the “‘ Friend of the weak.” 
Muap. IsmMAIL. 
9th March, 1922. 

' Professor N. B. Divatia of Elphinstone College, Bombay and Mr. 
G.V. Acharya of the Prince of Wales Museum helped me to translate the 
above couplet, save the words provisionally translated in brackets, which 
are doubtful. These may be cleared up by an expert in Hindi. 


