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(26) Dhammachéti's Bell.
TWO INEDITED CEYLON COINS. Its weight was 3,000 tulas or 120,000 viss. It We have come in South India across two measured 8 cubits at the mouth and 12 in height. remarkable in edited coins of the Kandyan kings, At the beginning of the 17th century the Porta- which have since been given to Mr. Bell of the guese adventurer, Philip de Brito y Nicote, alias Ceylon Civil Service, Archæological Commissioner Maung Zinga, who held his court at Syriam, of Ceylon. among his other acts of vandalism, removed this huge bell and put it on board a ship which sank
(1) a gold fanam-- with its sacrilegious cargo at Dòbûn near
Obverse. - Standing Sinhalese man. Rangoon.
Reverse. - (Någari legend) Vijayabahu, (27) The Paradha.
(2) a copper quarter massaThis wind is also called Parija. My Burmese Obverse. - Standing Sinhalese man. assistant tells me that its latter appellation is
Reverse. - Dharmaśokadêva (in Nagari). due to the following fanciful derivation :"Parijetiti Parajo" = because it occasions loss
Mr. Bell, though an ardent coin collector, had
never met with these in Ceylon, and gave us in or ruin ! (28) Nagapattana.
exchange for the copper piece the gold coin Nagapattana is, no doubt, the modern Negapa
inscribed Lankesvara (Nos. 1, 2, 3 or 4 in Mr. Rhys
Davids' Plate, in the Numismata Orientalia, tam (q. v in Hobson-Jobson).
Ancient Coins and Measures of Ceylon). Professor (29) The Cave of the Emperor of China. Rhys Davids evidently was unaware of the exist. The cave constructed by command of the
ence of the gold fanam and the quarter massa Maharaja of Chinadêsa must have been made
abovementioned; for he makes no mention of them wben Ceylon was under temporary subjection to
in his essay on Ceylon coins, explaining the abovethe Emperor of China in the 15th century
mentioned Plate. Mr. Tracy of Periyakulam, (Tennent's Coylon, Vol. I. pp. 621-625).
Madura District, is known to possess a duplicate
of the gold fanam of Vijayabahu, and we possessi (30) Navutapattana and Komalapattana.
duplicate of the quarter massa of Dharmasökadova These places are ports on the Coromandel - a bad specimen, the one given to Mr. Bell being Coast, but have not as yet been identified.
in excellent preservation. (31) Nagarasi.
During a tour that we made lately in the eastern Nagarasi is Negrais (q. v. in Hobson-Jobson). part of the Madura District, we came across many The Burmese name is Mòdingarit.
coins of the Kandyan kings. A gold Lankesvara.
in company with a gold Rajaraja (No. 165, Plate (82) The Mahabuddharapa.
IV. of Sir Walter Elliot's Numismata Orientalia, The great image here referred to may be iden- Coins of Southern India) were acquired for us tified with the colossal recumbent image of at Parmakudi, a town on the banks of the Vaigai, Gautama Buddha between the Kalyanisima and not far from Kilakarai, which is said to be one Mahâchetf at Pegu. It measures 181 feet in of the capitals of the Påndya Dynasty. From length and 46 in height (ante, Vol. XXII. pp. 46
all these facts it is patent that considerable interand 347).
course has existed between South-Eastern India (83) The Mudhavamahachétiya.
(the Påndya country) and Ceylon, for the last This shrine is the modern Shwemddo Pagoda
we 800 years, at least across the pearl-laden seas
which divide them. of Pegu (q.v. in my Notes on an Archeological Tour wl through Ramaññadesa, ante, Vol. XXI. p. 365).
T. M. RANGACHARI. Taw Sein-Ko.
T. DEBIKACHARI.
NOTES AND QUERIES. LAL BEG AND THE MUSALMAN CREED. said -"Yes, there is a small chance in favor of An amusing anecdote, apropos of these words, Muhammadans who practically, although unwitis often related. A scavenger was once boasting tingly, invoke the name of the Lal Gurd in their that none but the followers of LAI Bêg would be creed by saying id ildha ill' illdhu (there is no saved. He was asked to reflect and find if there god but God)." was the slightest chance of salvation for men of Any other faith. After some hesitation he J. G. DELMERICK in P. N. and Q. 1883.
