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SEPTEMBER, 1891.)
COINS OF THE KINGS OF VIJAYANAGARA.
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a. The Ikkêri pagoda. (Marsden, No. 1074. Hawkes, pp. 4 and 19. Bidie, No. 13. Elliot, No. 114.)
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Sri. Rev. ETET Sadasi
lova. This is the spelling on two copies in the Madras Museum, one of which is figured by Dr. Bidie. On Marsden's and Elliot's copies the legend is corrupted into Sri-Saclásivá, Sir W. Elliot attributes this coin to Sadasiva, the first Nayaka of Ikkeri.13 The omission of the surname Pratapa may be adduced in favour of this supposition.
b. - Haidar's Bahadurî pagoda. (Marsden, No. 1082. Hawkes, p. 4. Moor, No. 16. Bidic, No. 27.)
Rov. Haidar's initial on a granulated surface.
c. The pagoda of Krishnaraja of Maisûr (A.D. 1799 to 18tit). (Marsden, No. 1072. Hawkes, p. 9. Bidic, No. 30. Elliot, No. 115.)
SriRev. 157 Kộishiņaराजा
raja. 14 There exists also an Ikkêrils and a Bahaduri fanam; see, respectively, J. 18. Soc. Dengul, Vol. LV. Part I. Plate vi. No. 10, and Mr. Thurston's Catalogue of Mysore Coins in the Madrus Museum, Plate i, No. 7. Dr. Bain possesses i Bahadurî half pagoda and a half pagoda of Krishnaraja of Maisûr.
THIRD DYNASTY.
VII. Tirumalaraya. No. 33. BT. Gold. Pagoda.
(Elliot, No. 182.) Oby. Lakshmaņa standing, Râma and Sitâ seated. (श्रीति
Sri-TiRev. ETT runalara
yulu. Riyulni is the honoritic Teluga plural of ruya. No. 34. MTH. Gold. Half pagoda.
(Bidie, No. 14.)
Same type as No. 33. In the Madras Journal, New Series, Vol. IV. Plate i. Nos. 12 to 17, Sir W. Elliot has tigared eye-copies of copper coins with a boar on the obverse and with the legend [S][/uraTir[u]malar[aya) on the reverse. Sâļuva, 'the bawk,' occurs as a birula of kings of the third and second dynasty of Vijayanagara; see my South-Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I. pr. 86, 131, 132.
VIII. Venkata.
No. 35. T. Gold. Pagoda. (Marsden, No. 2073. Wilson, No. 96. Bidie, No. 15. Elliot, No. 105.)
13 In the Sagar Taluka of the Shimoga District in Maisûr.
14 Read rija. 10 This fanam bears the corrupt legond Sri-Sud isivi; scotbo remark on the Ik keri pagod
