Numismatic Gleanings: Being Descriptions and Figures of the Coins of Southern India |
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ancient ankus appears Bactria Bijanagar boar BUDDHIST COINS bull called Canarese Central Museum century chaitya chakra or wheel chakram Chalukya chavalas Chola coin from Dipaldinni copper coin Curumba date S. S. dehgope Déva die-coins dugalas dynasty Eastern Chalukyas elephant emblem exhibits figure gold gunja Guntoor Hindu honna indistinct Indo-Scythian inscriptions Jaina James Prinsep Jaya Sinha Jour king Kìrtti Varma kula leaden coin legend letters lion passant lotus Mackenzie collection máda Madras Malla Masulipatam metal modern Nagari Nagari characters Nellore numbers obverse occurs old Telugu padma pagoda Pallava pieces pillar Plate prince Prinsep race Rája Raja Raja Rajahmundry Ráya represented resembling reverse plain rude Sálva sank'h scroll seal silver similar Southern India specimens stamped sun and moon sword symbol Tamil Tanjore Telingana Telugu temple Tripati varaha Vengi Vijayàditya Vikramaditya village Vishnu Vard'hana weighs grains weight Wilson word
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Page 9 - being well known that, at first, coins were impressed only on one side. No device that could be imagined, was so well adapted to the peculiar necessity of the case, or so likely to satisfy the public mind, as the impress, by public authority, of the symbol of the tutelar divinity of their city or
Page 37 - The junior branch extended their territories northwards from Vengi to the frontiers of Cuttack, and ultimately fixed their capital at Rajamahendri the modern Rajahmundry. More than one revolution appears to have occurred in the course of their history, but the old family always contrived to regain its power, until the kingdom passed by marriage to
Page 36 - and Vishnu Vard'hana. On attaining to man's estate, he renewed the contest with the Pallavas, in which he was finally successful, cementing his power by a marriage with a princess of that race, and transmitting the kingdom thus founded, to his posterity. His son and successor was named
Page 37 - Chola. On the death of his uncle Vijayaditya who had been viceroy of Vengi-desam, the king deputed his son Raja Raja to assume the office, but after holding it for one year, AD 1078, he resigned it in favor of his younger brother Vira Deva Chola,
Page 40 - Chola. 28. Vikrama Deva Kulottunga Chola. 29. Raja Raja Chola, viceroy for one year. 30. Vira Deva Kulottunga Chola or Saptama Vishnu Vard'hana. Viceroy from AD 1079 to 1135. The Chalukyas were of Lunar race and apparently worshippers of Vishnu. The fact of Raja Sinha having been educated by Vishnu Bhatta Somayaji, a Vaishnava
Page 37 - But in AD 973 the dynasty of Kalyan was restored in the person of Tailapa Deva and ruled with greater splendour than before till its extinction in AD 1189 by Bijjala Deva, the founder of the Kalab'huriya
Page 6 - which all people by the king's permission, may and do make : the shape is like a fish hook, they stamp what mark or impression on it they please.
Page 9 - silver was derived from the common application of a seal to wax. The earliest coins may be therefore looked upon as pieces of sealed metal; which in fact they are,
Page 38 - who assumed the title of Kulottunga Chola. His grants are found in great numbers from AD 1079 up to the year 1135 when a partial restoration of the Chalukya line appears to have taken place, and they maintained a
Page 37 - century, and the emigrant prince or his son, succeeded by marriage in AD 931 to the throne of Anhalwara Pattan in Guzerat, which his descendants occupied with great glory till AD