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The only explanation seems to be that a quarrel had taken 

 place between husband and wife in consequence of the previ- 

 ous year's incident and that S'iva Simha, to assert his marital 

 authority, had reverted to coinage in his own name. In the 

 following year, 1651, a compromise seems to have been arrived 

 at, for from this year date the square coins in Persian script 

 minted at Garhganw, in which the regnal year of the King (15) 

 duly appears , but the coins have the curious legend Ba hukrn 

 Begam Pramathewari Shah, i.e., they were struck in the name 

 of Siva Simha but " by order of Queen PramatheSvarl." 1 The 

 next and following year, however, the coins again appear in the 

 name of Pramathesvari " Chief queen (mahishi) of King Siva 

 Simha ' \ and the regnal year is omitted. The non-existence of 

 coins of Siva Simha and Pramathesvari after 1653 confirm the 

 statements of the Buranjis that she died in that year. The 

 Buranjis then narrate that the King married Phule£vari's sister 

 Deopadl and made her Bar Raja, with the name Ambika. 

 Before, however, Ambika was installed, S'iva Simha again issued 

 coins in his own name — this time with the addition of the reg- 

 nal year — and regnal years continued to appear on the coins 

 until the end of S'iva Simha's reign. Ambika 's coins end in 1659 

 R.Y. 24 ( = 1737 A.D.), so that this date, and not 1663, must be 

 taken as the date of Ambika's death. Coins of Siva Simha in his 

 own name again re-appear for about a year, but in 1661 (R.Y. 

 25) he married Enadarl ( € Nobody's darling '), who was re-named 

 Sarvesvarl, and she appears to have survived him. Both 

 Ambika and SarveSvarl on their coins simply style themselves 

 " the much beloved (udvallabha) of King Siva Simha. 9 ' 



(«) 



conclusion 



reasonably have been drawn that PhuleSvarl and Pramathesvari 

 were different people, and it is evident from the coins that 



cease 



at least two years after she adopted the name Pramathesvari. 

 On the other hand the further story of the Buranjis that the 



was 



converted several Gosains to Saktism, is supported by the 

 change in name. PhuleSvarl is another name for Rati, the wife 

 of Kama, the Hindu Cupid, while PramatheSvari is a synonym 



of Durga. 



happened 



in 



be married to a King called Siva who arrogated to himself the 

 title of God (Svarga deva), would naturally be inclined to change 

 her name to one of the names of Durga. Her example ' 

 respect was followed by her successors, whose names on their 

 coins are also synonyms of Durga. A reproduction of PhuleS- 

 — ~'s rupees of 1649 will be found as Fig. 2, Plate XXVI of this 

 er, and the obverse of a rupee of the same year with legend 



1 Vide Indian Museum Catalogue, I, p. 301 ; and Allan, Num. Chron., 

 IV, Vol. IX, Plate XXIV, Fig 1. 



