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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[SEPTEMBER, 1891.
No. 14. ST. Copper. Oby. Elephant, facing the right; above it, the sun and the moon, and the Nagari syllable Dé.
RiyagaRev. Tis* jagamdabhe
rumda. Above the legend is a sceptre, the top of which faces the right.
No. 15. STH. Copper. Obv. Elephant, facing the right.
(trum RayagaRev. Mit jagamdabhêlos
ruída. Sir W. Elliot's No. 92, a copper coin of frequent occurrence, is connected by type with the preceding Nos. 9 to 15. It has, on the obverse, an elephant which faces the right (or, more rarely, the left), with the Kanarese syllable Ni above. The reverse bears the following legend :
(sur
Mana(?)Rev. 90 dağayaol
karu. Danayakarw is the honorific Kanarese plural of dandyaka,” which is perhaps a corruption of dandanayaka, the title of the Hoysala chiefs of Tonnur near Srirangapattanam ; see Elliot, p. 81.9
No. 16. S. Copper. Obv. Bull, facing the left; above it, the sun and the moon. Rey. Saf
SriDéva
try . raya. Above the legend is a sceptre, the top of which faces the right.
No. 17. STH. Copper.
Oby. Same as No, 16. • Rev. Same as No. 11.
No. 18. STH. Copper. (Prinsep's Essays, Vol. I. Plate xxxv. No. 21.)
Obv. Same as No. 16. Rev. Same as Nos. 11 and 17, but the conch on the left and the discus on the right of the sceptre.
No. 19. T. Copper. Obv. Bull, facing the right, with the moon above and a conch in front. Rev. (4619
Pratâ pa-De. "lara
Våraya. Above the legend is a sceptre, the top of which faces the right.
* The slightly different form dan dyaka (or, in Tamil, dandyakka) appears in Dankyakkan-kottai, the name of fort in the Satyamangalam TAlukA of the Coimbatore District, and in Dandyakana-katte, mentioned in Mr. Rice's Gaxetteer of Mysore, Vol. II. Appendix I. p. 5.
The Madrns Museum possesses an unpublished Hoyaala gold coin. Its obverse bears the figures of two lions, like Elliot's Nos. 90 and 91. The legend on the reverse is [1]), [2] 20 [3] , Srl-Malaparouganda, 'the glorious hero among the bill-chiefs. Malaparol ganda or Malaparoļu ganda was a surname of the Hoya la kinga Vinay Aditya (Mr. Rice's Mysore Inscriptions, pp. 307 and 829) and Vishnuvardhana( bid. p. 263, and Inscriptions at Sravana Belgola. No. 58, 1. 18 f.), and of their successors.
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