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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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No. 20. MH. Obv. A kneeling figure of Garnda, which faces the right.
Bri-a. tev. 303
namta, It is not known to which of the rulers of Madura the names Virabhadra and Ananta on the reverse of Nos, 19 and 20 refer. But the style of the kneeling figure on the obverse connects the Grantha coin No. 19 with the Tamil coins of Bhuvanaikavira (Elliot's No. 138) and Samarakólahala, and the Kadarese coin No. 20 with the Nagarl coins of Krishnaraya and Sadasivaråya (No. 5, above).
No. 21. H. Oby. A lion, facing the right.
Rev. Miņa
(Tamil.) lțchi, Minakshi is the name of the goddess of Madara. According to Mr. Sewell's Lists of Antiquities, Vol. II. p. 203, queen Miqâkshi of the Nayaka dynasty ruled from A. D. 1731 to 1736. The reverse of the coin may refer to the goddess, or to the queen, or to both at the same time.
No. 22. MH. Obv. Same as No. 21.
Rev. Madu. (Tamil.) rai.
No. 23. MH. Obv. Dopo
Madhara.
Rev. Same as No. 22. The obverse of No. 22 connects this coin with No. 21. The bilingual coin No, 23 agrees with No. 22 in the reverse, which bears the Tamil name of the city of Madura, while its Telugu equivalent occupies the obverse. IV. BRITISH BAST INDIA COMPANY COINS,
No. 24. MH. (Tufnell, No. 49; Thurston, Plate zü, No. 1).
Oby. De Sri.
Rev. Kum(Tamil.) I pini.
No. 25. MH. Obv. An eight-pointed star.
Rev. Same as No. 24. The reverse of Nos. 24 and 25 is an early attempt to transliterate the word “Company in the vernacular character. The auspicions monosyllable Śr (Fortune) appears to be inserted on the obverse of No. 24 from similar motives as the word Sriranga on Nos. 26 to 29.
No. 26. H. Obv. An orb, surmounted by a cross, Soe
Srt
ಗರಂಗ ramga. 1 On some specimens of this and the next soins, the second line of the legend reade od instead of dox through s mistake of the engravor of the die. See Nos. 96 b and 28 of Plato ii.
