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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(DECEMBER, 1898.
The lion appears on the coins of the Hoysalas 20 and of the Kadambas of Goa. Bat the legend of No. 28 suggests that this coin was struck by one of the Western Chalukya kings who bore the surnamo Trailokyamalla.
No. 20.- M. 6 specimens. 571 to 59 grains. Ninc punch-marks, of which five represent a lion, two the syllable be dri, one woda jaya, and one des déva.
This coin I attribute with some hesitation to one of the Western Chalukya kings named Jayasinha. The blank reverse of most specimens of Nos. 28 and 29 shews an irregular network of raised straight lines. Mr. Santappah suggests that these are due to scratches which were purposely made on the anvil, - & simple device which the Indian goldsmiths are practising to the present time in order to prevent the slipping of the beaten metal.
No. 30.-H, Gold fanam. 6 grains. Obv. - A recumbent ball, facing the proper left, with a conch in front and a crescent above. Rev. (in two lines) - Samvat*] 3.
No. 31. - H. Gold fanam. 6 grains. Obr. - A recumbent ball, facing the proper left and sarmounted by a crescent. Rev. - Sa[ivat] 4.
No. 32.-H. Gold fanam. 61 grains. Obv. - A recumbent ball, facing the proper left, with a linga in front and a crescent above. Rev.- 2 Samvat*) 7.
No. 38.-H. Gold fanam. 61 grains. Obv. - A recumbent bull, facing the proper right with the sun (?) in front and a crescent above.
Rev. - * Sa[invat*] 5.
Nos. 30 to 33 were obtained by Mr. F. Fawcett, when Superintendent of Police in the Gañjám district.23 These coins have to be assigned to the Ganga dynasty of Kalinganagara, the modern Mukhalingam in the Gañjam district, whose crest was a bull.25 Perhaps they belong to the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th years of Ananta varman, surnamed Chodaganga, who ascended the throne in A. D. 1078,30 and whose numerous inscriptions at Mukhalingam are dated both in regnal years and in years of the Saka era.37
No. 84. - M. Copper. Obv.-Within a dotted border, a lion, facing the proper left. Above the lion is punched on the legend - ವಿದಸಿದ್ಧಿ
Vishamasiddhi. Rev.-Within a border of rays, a double trident, surmounted by a crescent and flanked by two lamps.
20 Ante, Vol. XX. p. 804, note 8.
31 Sir W. Elliot's Coins of Southern India, p. 152c. 22 A similar coin has twice dra and omits jaya. A mistake of the same kind was referred to in note 19.
» Sir W. Elliot's No. 83, a gold fanam of 6) grains, seems to belong to the same series; but the date on its obverse is indistinct. *4 Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 188.
# Dr. Fleet's Kanarere Dynasties, second edition, p. 299, note 8. » Ante, Vol. XVIII. p. 162.
* See my Annual Report for 1895-96, p. 6.
