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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[NOVEMBER, 1913
mas
patak
Coins in use. (a) Earopean and Indian. Peninsula; Bintang (K. 320) = Singapore: Jaya; Batavia (K. 100, M. 864).
(6) Sp. dollars. Borneo; Sakadana (K. 119, M. 417); Mompara (M. 418).
(c) Nativo. Java; Batavia (K. 100), patak and cash.
Scale, 4 cash
8 mas (...24 cash
patak) 8. Kough Conditions.
No Coinage.
Currency of Accounts. (a) Tin. Peninsula; Tocopa (K. 112), bahar of tia (476 lbs.): Junkceylon (K. 106) "pieces of tin shaped like the under part of a cone," (see ante. p. 19).
(6) Measured linen cloths and paddy16 (rice in husk). Sulu Archipelago (K. 107, M. 424) : Philippines; Magindanao (K. 107, M. 417) in kangen (coarse cloth) and paddy.
Coins used by Europeans. (a) Chinese cash. Philippines ; Magindanao (M. 417), 160-180 to a langan.
(6) Sp. dollars. Peninsula; Kedah (M. 296), Pahang (M. $20), Pakanga River, Rian (M. 321), Patani (M. 894): Borneo; Pontiana (M. 417) Sambas (M. 419), "Borneo Town" (M 420).
(6) Sp. dollars and Portuguese coins. Jaya; Deli (M. 386).
(To be continued.) . MISCONOEPTIONS ABOUT THE ANDHRAS.
BY P. T. SRINIVAS IYENGAR,M.A.; VIZAGAPATAN. MB. Vincent A. Smith, in p. 194 of his Early History of India, 2nd edition, says, " In the days of Chandragupta Maurya and Megasthenes, the Andhra nation, probably · Dravidian people, now representel by the large population speaking the Telugu language, occupied the deltas of the Godavari and Krishna rivers on the Eastern side of India... The capital of the State was then Sri Kakulam, on the lower course of the Krishna.” The only authority for this statement seems to be a passage from the Trilingánusdsanaw of Atharvaņacharya, quoted by Campbell in his Telugu grammar, where he calls the book Athurvana vyaourunum. The passage as translated by Campbell runs as follows:-"Formerly, in the time of Manu Svayambha, in the Kali age, Hari, the Lord of Andhra, the great vishnu, the slayer of the Danava Nisumbu, was born in Kakalam, as the son of the monarch Suchandra, and was attended by all the gods as well as reverenced by all maukind. He having constructed a vast wall connecting Srisailam, Bhimesvaram and Kalesvaram, with the Mahendera bills, formed in it three gates, in which the three-eyed Isvara, bearing the trident in his hand, and attended by a host of divinities, resided in the form of three lingams. Andhra Vishnu, assisted by augels, having fought with the great giant Nisumbu for thirteen yagas, killed him in battle, and took up his residence with the sages on the banks of the Godavari, since which time this country has been named Trilingam. The adherents of Andhra Vishnu who then resided on the banks of the God ivari spoke tatsama words. In the course of time, these words, not being properly articulated by the unlearned, by the change or obliteration of letters, or by being
* Spelt paly by Milburn,
