100 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bmgal. [N.S., XIII, 



Yadsir . . 16°46' N. and 77°9' E. 



Bidar . . 17°55' N. and 77°32' E. 



Bhalki .. 1S'3' N. and 77°12' E. 



Kalyani . . 17°53' N. and 76°57' E. 



Yadgir is now in Gulbarga district, Haidarabad state, and 

 possesses a fort built by an old Yadava king. Imperial Gazet- 

 teer XXIV, p. 400. In the statement of Maratha Revenues 

 appended to Scott Waring's History of the, Marattds, the Sircar 

 of Firozgurh or Yadgeer is the second of the seven Sarcars of the 

 Subah of Moohumudabad or Bidur (pp. 249, 251). The other 

 Sircars are Havely {i.e. Bidur itself) , Nanderee, Akulkote, Kalian, 

 Ramgeeree and Moozufurnugur. The statement is said to have 

 been "made out from Maratta records shortly after the cam- 

 paign of my Lord Cornwaliis," and may be taken to be decisive 

 testimony of the identity of " Firuzgarh " and "Yadgir." 



Junagadh. 



S. H. HODIVALA. 



183. *'A Silver Dirham of Bastham." 



May I be permitted to make a few additions and correc- 

 tions in the descriptions of the silver coin of Bistam, and the 

 history of this re"bel, published in the Numismatic Supplement 

 No. XXVI, article No. 154, under the heading of " A Silver 

 Dirham of Bastham (Vastham) Sassanian Ruler in Khorasan in 

 Persia" by Mr. Thanawalla. 



The silver coins of the Sassanians and those issued by the 

 Arab governors of Persia after the Sassanian type can only be 

 described correctly by the name of drachme, while those of the 

 Arabs bearing a Kufic legend are properly called dirhams. 



Bistam did not belong to the house of Sasan and therefore 

 he cannot strictly be styled a Sfissanian. 



The true name of Kobad II (25th February 628 to Sep- 

 tember 628) is Sheroe (diminutive of Sher, "lion"), Si/xte- 

 %<ipoirj<i and 2i//)d^s among the Byzantines, Syriac Shiroi an 

 Armenian Sheroi (Noeldeke, Tabari, p. 361, and Justi, Irani* 

 ches Namenbuch, p. 297). Masudi speaks of him as Qobad 

 Shlruyah el-ghashum. On mounting the throne he took the 

 name of Kobad, which we find on his coins with the epithet 

 firOch as Firochi Kavatu, ** Kobad the victorious." TT 



The epithet kadi or gadi is adopted first by Yezdegerd U 

 (438-457) on his coins, then by Firoz I (459-484) and again by 

 Kobad I (488-497 and 499 -13th September 531). We find « 

 also on the obverse of the coins of S_hapur III (383-388). 



Bartholomaei and Dorn (Melanges asiatiques, 1858, P; 3 " ,. 

 find that the word is derived from the Semitic gad, "felicity, 

 whence gadi, "fortunate" ; the meaning of the word therefore 

 being " the fortunate" and not the " King " as is translated- 

 The pronunciation too should be gadi rather than kadi. Tm9 



