46 Miscellaneous. {JsNe 
Mackenzie at Dipaldinna. No. 3, according almost exactly with the pre- 
sent copper coin, “‘ is a drawing of one found at Kandya in Ceylon.” 
Mr. Wilson does not attempt to explain them further, than they 
evidently belong to a Hindoo dynasty, either on the island of Ceylon, 
or in the south of the peninsula. The letters are distinctly Hindi in 
all, although it is difficult to make out their ig The word “ Sri” 
1s also evident in all of them. 
Description. 
No. 1. A gold coin, weighing 60 grains. 
Obverse. A male figure, seated in the Indian manner, with dhof?. 
Left hand raised, and face looking to the left: on the 
side, the Nagari characters 3t wa ac, Sri Lankeswar ? 
Reverse. A rude standing figure, with a flowing robe, right hand 
extended over two emblems ¥ + 
Left hand supporting a crown or globe? Beneath a scroll, with cir- 
cles or flowers on the right. 
No. 2. A copper coin, very similar, but more rude. The inscrip- 
tion on the obverse is, At Wat aay, Srig nya dy m th? 
On the reverse, the standing figure as before. 
In Davy’s Ceylon, page 245, will be found a drawing of an antique gold 
coin, called a Dambadinia Rhatra (rhatra, gold), which was found in the 
neighbourhood of Dambadinia, in the Seven Korles, a place of royal resi- 
dence (no doubt identical with Dipaldinna of Col. Mackenzie.) The. 
drawing of this coin is precisely similar to those of Plate V. and to the 
one now before the Society, and so is the copper coin alluded to by Davy’ 
as the Dambadinia chally (chally, means copper.) 
Davy does not seem to have comprehended either the device or the 
characters on his coin, for he has reversed the engraving of the side 
bearing the inscription, and he supposes both to be mere hieroglyphics. 
To an eye accustomed to such objects, however, the standing and sitting 
figures are very evident, as are the Nagari characters, although their 
purport is not so clear: indeed, of the half dozen, to which we can 
now refer, no two seem to bear the same name, nor are we acquainted 
sufficiently with the ancient history of Ceylon, to be able to fill up the 
doubtful names on the coins from any well certified list of princes of the 
Hindi dynasties in Ceylon of the Soorea-wansé (or Stérj-banst) race. 
VII.— Miscellaneous. 
1.—Hot-spring at Pachete. By C. Betts, Esq. 
As a correspodent of the Journal is desirous of knowing the localities of any hot- 
springs met with in India, I beg to put on record this notice of one found by me 
in the river Damuda, near the TAntotya village, and about six miles distant from the 
Pachete hills. In the cold season, when the river is very low the thermometer plung- 
ed into it rose to 190° Farh. The spring is slightly chalybeate. 
