Indian Antiquary Vol 25

SR No.: 032517
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 366
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 14 MB

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DECEMBER, 1896.]
MISCELLANEOUS SOUTH INDIAN COINS.
319
060.-{
m
Rev.
Rev. —
SOT
qfa
(
Rev. -
5T
No. 10. - H. Copper. 06. - A plant. Rev. - Same as No. 9.
No. 11.-H. Copper. Obo. - A star or flower, Rev. - Same as No. 9.
No. 12. - H. Copper, Obu. -The sun within a crescent. Rev.-Same as No. 9.
No. 18.-H. Gold fanam. 5grains.
Sri.
Rájá Chhetra
pati. This coin was first noticed in Captain Tufnell's Hints to Coin-Collectors in Southern India, p. 79, from information supplied by myself.
No. 14.-H. Copper.
Sr. 06. NT
Raja (For
SivaChhatra
pati. This very common coin was already published by Marsden, Numismata Orientalia, Plato xlvii. No. 1068. It is here figured again in order to shew its connection with the fanam No. 13. The title Chhattrapati, lord of the parasol,' was borne by the Mahratta kings of Satara ; sec Dr. Codrington's paper on the Seals of the late Satara Kingdom;' Journ. Bombay Br. R. d. 8. Vol. XVI. p. 126 ff. Hence the coins No. 13 and No. 14 may be ascribed to the first Mahratta king, Sivaji (A, D, 1674 to 1680).
No: 15.- T., H. Copper. Obo. - God and goddess, seated.
Raghuनाथ This coin may be attributed to Raghunaths, the third of the Nayakas of Tanjavar (Manual of the Tanjore District, p. 750 ff.). The Dame Raghunatha occurs also among the Setupatis of Râmnad and the Tondaimâns of Pudukkottai; see Mr. Sewell's Lists of Antiquities, Vol. II. pp. 228 and 225 f.
No. 16. - T., H. Copper. Obo. - AT
Mudra.
Måhåरज
raja. This piece professes to be a coin (mudré)" of a Mahárdja who does not condescend to acquaint us with his name. . Read Chhattra. • Another specimen reads patt insthad of pati.
Read Mahardja. . The same term is used on a rapoo of Jeswant Rao Holkar; soo Prinsop's Unful Tables, edited by Thomas, . 00, note 1, and Cunningham's Coins of Kodiaval India, Plate , No. 19.
Rev. -
natha,
Rec. - STET