182 O. Codriiigton — Hindu and Muhammadan Coins. [April, 



3. On the Lizard in Indian Superstition and Folk- Medicine. — By 

 pARAT Candra Mitra, M.A., B.L., Corresponding Member of the Anthropo- 

 logical Society of Bombay. Communicated by the Anthropological Secretary. 



The paper will be published in the Journal, Part HI. 



4. Note on Dr. Hoernle^s paper on New and Hare Hindu and Muham- 

 madan Coins, No. IV. — By 0. Codrington, M.D., F.S.A. Communicated 

 by the Philological Secretary. 



No. 15, plate VI, 1897, is a well-known Hindu coin. Marsden 

 figured it No. LXVIII in Numismata Orientalia and correctly read 

 the legend. 



The coins are known in Western Indian bazars as Chatrapati or 

 Satara pice, are found commonly in almost any collection of copper 

 coins met with in the Konkan or Western Dekkan, and are said, I think 

 quite rightly, to be the coins of the Satara State founded by 9i^^ji' 

 Two varieties are recognized and called the old and new paisa. The 

 one figured by Marsden is one of the former sort, the lettering on the 

 latter sort is bolder and the coins are larger. The legend which as 

 usual is seldom or never complete on any one specimen is — 



Obv. ^ Rev. W^ 



It does not vary on any of the older sort, but on some of the newer the 

 last line of the Obv. is a little different. I have some on which it is 5^ 

 and one which reads X\^. The older are, I think, coins of f ambhaji 

 Chatrapati ( A.D. 1681-88) son of pivaji, if not of that great man him- 

 self, the newer may be attributed to fivaji fahu, the third ruler (A. D. 

 1708-49) and his successors, the coin having the last line TXff being 

 possibly one of Ram Raja the fourth king (1750-77). 



A large number of the official Seals of the Satara kings and their 

 ministers were deposited in the Museum of the Bombay Asiatic Society 

 in 1875 by order of Government, of which I gave a full description in 

 Vol. XVI, of that Society's Journal after having made a good deal of 

 search and enquiry at the Alienation Daf tar at Poona where a large 

 collection of documents connected with the Satara State is stored. 

 On these seals the name of fivaji is always fi][^ not fini^Ifadt ; the title 

 Chatrapati is on many of them, and the dynasty is commonly spoken of 

 as the Chatrapati Rajas. 



H. H. Wilson, Grant Duff and the Borribay Gazetteer all state that 

 Civaji struck silver coins, Wilson adding that in all probability the 

 lai'in was the form adopted by him, for that was the chief silver currency 



