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SOUTH INDIAN COPPER COINS.
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SOUTH-INDIAN COPPER COINS.
BY E. HULTZSCH, PH.D.; BANGALORE. A s far as I can ascertain, the majority of the coins which form the subject of this paper, A a re now published for the first time. Others (Nos. 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 24, 27, 30) were included, because the previously published readings of their legends were more or less capable of improvement. Most of the coins form part of those which were selected from the collection of the late Mr. T. M. Scott, of Madura, for the Government Central Museum, Madras, by me and Mr. C. Rajagopala Chari. The abbreviations are the same as ante, Vol. XX, p. 301, with the following additions :
Atkins = The Coins anil Tokens of the Possessions and Colonies of the British Empire, by James Atkins; London, 1889.
Thurston = History of the Coinage of the Territories of the East India Company in the Indian Peninsula, and Catalogue of the Coins in the Madras Museum, by Edgar Thurston ; Madras, 1890.
Traoy = Pandyan Coins, by the Rev. James E. Tracy, M. A.; Madras Journal of Literature and Science for the Session 1887-88.
Tufnell = Hints to Coin Collectors in Southern India, by Captain R. H. C. Tufnell, M. S.C.; Madras, 1889.
Mr. B. Santappah, Carator of the Mysore Government Museum at Bangalore, has again obliged me by preparing the plaster chats, from which the accompanying Plates were copied.
I. VIJAYANAGARA COINS.
No. 1. Harihars. M. Obv. A bull, facing the right; in front of it, & sword. On a specimen belonging to Mr. Tracy, a four-pointed star is visible over the back of the ball.
Pratápa-Ha
rihara. The legend is surmounted by symbols of the moon and the sun. This coin is a variety of the coin No. 3, ante, Vol. XX. p. 302.
Ray
TV
Rev.राहर
No. 2. Mallikarjunaraya. MH. Obv. An elephant, facing the left; above it, the Kanarese syllable Ni. 300
MaliRev. Tomussa
kajunard1 ಹುರು
yarn.s
No. 3. Ditto. M. Same type as No. 2, but the elephant on the obverse faces the right.
This and the preceding coin closely resemble Sir W. Elliot's No. 92, on which see ante, Vol. XX. p. 304. Mallikarjana was a son and move or of Devariya II., whose latest date is Saka-Savat 1371 expired, the ayolie year Sukla. An inscription of Mallikarjanadēva, the Bon of Davariya, on the loft of the entrance into the first práiledra of the Aralala-Perumal temple at Little Kinchi is dated in Sake-Sanvat 1387 expired, the oyolie year Parthiva. Ho appears to have been succeeded by his brother Virpikshadēva, whose inscription on the South
1 Read. Harihara.
* Read Malukarjunariyary.
Bowl Indian Inscription, Vol. I. No. 81.
