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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JANUARY, 1894.
"I will go home now," said he. “Give me the food and clothes you had promised me," said Deyi.
Then the Balla! said, "Before I give you food and clothing, I must ask the opinion of him who is esteemed to be the wisest in (my) brotherhood."
She replied, “The other day you could not get your friend to protect your life, bat now to fulfil your promise you want to ask his opinion!"
But as she was going away, one Abby said :“She has saved your life; you must needs give her food and clothes." When he said this, she was called back :
“ To you I shall give oil, all kinds of ear-ornaments, a silk gown and a nose-ornament set with emeralds, the rest I shall reserve for the child that shall be born of yon," said the Balla!. Then, doing him every kind of honour, she set out from the house.38
(To be continued.)
SOME INEDITED COINS OF THE KINGS OF VIJAYANAGARA.
BY T. M. RANGACHARI, B.A.;
AND
T. DESIKACHARI, B.A., B.L. It is an admitted fact that the chronology and succession of many of the princes of the last great Hindu kingdom of the South are still enveloped in obscurity, in spite of the numerous efforts that have been made in recent times to add to the existing stock of information relating tin their history; and the value of coins in clearing up this obscurity will be gathered from a perusal of Dr. Hultzsch's "Coins of the Kings of Vijayanagara," ante, Vol. XX. p. 301 ff. The list given in that article was an attempt to bring together and present in one view all the available information relating to the coins of the princes of this kingdom, as will be evident from the number of the cabinets that were examined, and the numismatic publications that were consulted, during its compilation. Subsequently, in a further note on South Indian Soins (ante, Vol. XXI. p. 821 ff.), some Vijayanagara Coins that had not been referred to in the previous list were described. As, however, the coinage of some of the Vijayaragara kings embraced a period of many years, and as some of them had apparently a fancy for issuing coins of various types, the articles above referred to were necessarily not exhaustive, and served only as landmarks for coin collectors, to enable them to distinguish between coins that had already been edited from those that have still to be presented before the numismatic public.
On comparing Dr. Hultzsch's lists with the coins in our cabinet, which had been classified by us as belonging to this series, we discovered that many copper coins in our possession bad not been referred to by the learned doctor, and we have accordingly ventured to supplement his lists by the following notice of some of the inedited coins in our cabinet. Only such, however, of our inedited coins, as to the readings of the legends on which there was no doubt or uncertainty, have been taken up now, the rest being reserved for examination and notice at a future time.
First Dynasty.
Déva Raya. Fig. 1Obv.-Standing bull, facing the left; the Sun and Moon above; the whole encircled by a
ring of dots.
# The story is after this continued as the song of Kôți and Channayya.
