640 A. D, 



1242 



643 



1245 



664 



1265 



695 



1295 



721 



1321 



682 Continuation of notes on Hindu Coins. [Dec. 



Aid ul-din, may be Masaud, the son of Firoz, A. H. 

 Ndsir ul-din, denotes M ah mud, son of Altamsh, 

 Ghias ul-din, Balban, has the full name also, 

 Aid ul-din, Muhammed Shah, bears its own date, 

 Ghids td-din, Toghlak Shah, cannot be mistaken, 



It is not from these names, however, but rather from the Hindu 

 ones, that we must seek to fix the locality of the bull and horseman 

 insignia, and the readiest mode of arriving at the truth is to proceed 

 backwards, the best chance of verifying the names of Rajas being 

 through their preservation, even in a corrupt form, in the pages of 

 Moslem history. Hamiras, the name common to so many of the 

 series, is admirably adapted for our purpose. He can be no other 

 than the Hamir* of the Mewdr chronicles, who, born and nui tui-ed 

 in the forests of Ondwa, was destined to revive the glory of Chitdr, 

 even after it had succumbed to two successive assaults under the 

 unsparing Alla. We find it recorded in Ferishta''s history, (A. D. 

 1304,) that " at length finding it of no use to retain Chitdr, the king 

 ordered the Prince Khizr Kha'n to evacuate it, and to make it over 

 to the nephew of the Raja. This Hindu Prince, in a short time, 

 restored the principality to its former condition, and retained the 

 tract of Chitdr as tributary to Alla-ud-din, during the rest of bis 

 reignf." According to Tod}, " Hamir succeeded to the throne in 

 Samvat 1357, (A. D. 1300.) and had sixty-four years to redeem his 

 country from the ruins of the past century, which period had elapsed 

 since India ceased to own the paramount sway of her native princes." 

 These 64 years would include nearly the whole reign of Alla I., and 

 that of his successors Omar, Mubarik, Khosru, Toghlak, his son 

 Muhammed, and Firoz. On the coins themselves, we have found 

 the obverse of Hamira coupled with the stamp of Mohamad Same, 

 Shams ul-din, Alla ul-din, Ndsir ul-din, and Fatah ul-din ; three 

 of whom are clearly anterior to the reign of Ala-ud-din; as 

 Altamsh alone bore the cognomen of Shamsh ul-din; his son 

 that of Ndsir ul-din ; and Mahammed Ghori that of Same. We 

 might indeed read the latter word Sam, and so apply it and the 

 title of Ndsir ul- din to Muhammed II. the son of Toghlak, whose 

 cognomen is not recorded. But still Shamsh ul-din, remains unex- 

 plained, and the apparent anachronism cannot be accounted for. It 

 should be noted that the name of Hamir is not mentioned in Ferishta ; 

 but only the " nepbew of the Raja Ratan Sinh." The cognomen 

 Fatah ul-din is not to be found in the whole line of the Patdn Sultans. 



* Humberdew of Brigg's Ferishta, Amir deo of Dow, when speaking of the 

 siege of Rintimpore : he is not mentioned afterwards by name, nor as of Mewdr. 



f Brigg's Ferishta, i. 363. t Rajasthan, i. 269. 



