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SOME SOUTH INDIAN GOLD COINS
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(seal) of Ganapati was a boar. 30 The rrudra 21 (seal) of Pratâpa Rudra Dêva was a boar. On the east face of the pillar on which the Anumakonda inscription" of Prola, grandfather of Ganapati, is engraved we find a Jaina figure flanked by a cow and a calf on one side and a dagger and a shield on the other. Thus the mudra of Prôla too contains a cow, and we nowhere find a bull among the seals of grants or inscriptions of any of these kings. It is not therefore easy to understand how Sir Walter Elliot came to make the statement that the emblem of the Kakatiyas was a bull.
However this may be, in the coin under investigation we find lions in and around the contre. From the foregoing discussion I have come to the conclusion that Ganapati's en - blem was a boar. We usually find kings using on their coins the same emblems as they use for their seals in their grants, and therefore it is matter for consideration how lions came to be on Ganapati's coins. It is very likely that he accepted coins that were current before his time, and had his own name punched on them to indicate that he recognized thern as legal tender. The formation of the punch marks on the coin and the fact that a portion of the legend overlaps a portion of the lion, show that the legends 'kati' and 'Gana' were punched on old coins of kings who had lions for their emblem.
Class III. There are twelve gold coins in this class. They are all round with diametets varying from 4 to .45 of an inch, weighing all alike 5.75 grains each. The metal is 16 carats fine. All these have the legend Sung ' in old Tamil script on the obverse side. Just below the legend there is also a number in the same old Tamil script, which very likely denotes the regnal year in which each was issued. On the reverse there is a bow, a tiger in sitting posture and some other symbols which are indistinct and are incapable of exact identification. In the case of one coin there is a legend 'Kanchi' and some others have
N&' in old Tamil script. In some 'Ne' is in an inverted form. Therefore these coins have to be sub-divided into five different classes, as under :
Obverse-Sung.' [No. 9 of the Plate.) Variety No. (1)
Reverse-Tiger, Bow, and indistinct marks, Kanchi.'
Obverse- Sung.' (No. 10 of the Plate.) » No. (2)
31. Reverse-Tiger, Bow, some indistinct marks, 'Nê.'
T. Obverse— Sung.' [No. 11 of the Plate.] No. (3)
31. ('Reverse-Tiger, Bow, some indistinct marks. 'Ne' inverted.
Obverse-Sung.' [No. 12 of the Plate.) | Reverse-Tiger, Bow, some indistinct marks.
Obverse-Sung.' [No. 13 of the Plate.) » No.(5)
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L' Reverse-Tiger, Bow, some indistinct marks and dots. In the case of coins in which the number 31 appears there is also some mark which may be a simple line or a portion of the Tamil letter. In either case it appears to be something distinct from the numeral and was perhaps intended to represent some symbol which is unfortunately indistinct and cannot be identified.
The emblems tiger, bow, and something else indistinct and the legend Sang' appear on all the coins. It is evident therefore that these coins have been issued by some king or kings of a dynasty which had for its emblem, among other things, the tiger and bow. The legend Sung' was very probably intended to denote the particular king who issued them. There can be no doubt that 'Kanchi' denotes the place from where, or the mint from 30 Ind. Ant., vol. XXI, p. 200. 31 Pratd parudriya, by Vidyanatha, Kavyapra karaga, verse 10. 33 Epi. Ind., vol. IX, p. 267.
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