1 917.] Numismatic Supplement No. XX VIII. 99 



ary of the famous names of the entire Mughal period. In its 

 account of Ghazi-ud-din (Chin Qulich Khan), Bahadur, Firuz 

 Jang, it says : 



Vol. II, p. 875, IL 2-3 (Bibl. Ind. Text). 



"And after [the fall of Bijapur in the 28th Regnal year], 

 he took by main force the fortress of Ibrahimgadh alias Ikar 



variant, inHrji^i), which was [thereafter] named Firozgadh." 



The same writer informs us in another place that this 

 Ibrahimgadh was, in his own time, called Ahangadh (ib. 9 II, 

 p. 503, 11. 17-18; see also II, p. 746). Then again, we learn from 



the Ma,asir-i- : Alamgiri, that this Chin Qulich Khan, Bahadur, 

 Firuzjang, received on the 25th of Zil-hijjah, 1097 a.h., orders 

 from the Emperor to march to the conquest of the fortress of 



Ibrahimgadh, one of the dependencies (e»l*Lio) of Haidarabad 



(Bibl. Ind. Text, p. 284, 11. 4-5). We are next told by the same 

 writer that Firuzjang had performed the task and returned 

 before the 24th of Rabi'a I, 1098 (lb., p. 288, 11. 8 13). We may 

 take it then that the old name of Firuzgadh actually was 

 Ibrahimgadh. The fall of the fortress, which took place before 



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that it fl strengthened the foundations of the courage of the 

 Ghazis and uprooted the prosperity of the ill-fated enemy' * 

 (p. 288, 11. 12-13). It is therefore easy to understand why it 

 received the punning name which signified that it was an omen 



of victory ( isjxrt? )> anc * at the same time recalled the title by 



which the great Captain to whose arms it had succumbed was 

 most familiarly known. 



But where was this Ibrahimgadh or Fir uzgadh or Ahangadh ? 

 It is not easy to say, but the local Hindu name Aikar (variant 



j±&\ Ankir or j&\ Atkir ?)* indicates that it is the Yadgir 



(jx{j\ ) of the Imperial Gazetteer Atlas — which is in the near 



neighbourhood of the four other forts mentioned in the Chahar 

 Gulshan. Bhalki or Muzaffarnagar is about 25 m. N.-W. of 

 Bidar (Elliot and Dowson, VII, p. 28 note) and about equi- 



distant, in a northerly direction, from Kalyiini and Bidar. 

 The latitudes and longitudes will clearly show this : 



1 Etgeer ( jxih\ ) is mentioned frequently as a fortress of some 



strength in Ferishta's annals of the Dekkan. Briggs, Rise of the Mahome- 

 dan Power in India. Calcutta Reprint III. 46, 126, 325, 326, 330; see 

 also pp. 353,361, 375, 376. 



