78 



Numismatic Gleanings, [no. 7, new series. 



specimens in copper having been obtained from Masulipatam and 

 one from Tanjore. 



According to Chinese authorities, the Yuchi (who appear to be 

 the same as the people called Tocharihy the Greeks,) retained their 

 hold on India, certainly till A. D. 222* and probably for some time 

 longer. But their power appears to have been then on the wane. 

 There is nothing improbable therefore in the circumstance of some 

 adventurer having penetrated either through Gondwana or Cut- 

 tack to the site of Jogad'h and there having established a petty 

 principality, such as is indicated by the coins under notice. The 

 secluded nature of the country, cut off from intercourse with the 

 interior by the pestilential jungles of Khondistan, the Kolhana 

 and Gondwana, is particularly favorable to the continued existence 

 of a small independent state, which in such a situation might long 

 have eluded the observation and cupidity of more powerful neigh- 

 bours. 



Whether the grounds slender as they are, on which a Scythian 

 origin is attributed to these coins, be sufficient, it is for others to 

 say. Should they fail to be accepted, I am unable to indicate any 

 other class of Indian money to which they can be assigned. 



Among the objects employed as distinguish- 

 The Boar Type. ing symbols on the coins of the south, by far 

 the most celebrated is that of the Boar. Origi- 

 nally the badge of the Chalukya families of Kalyan and Rajah- 

 mahendri, it passed from them to the later Cholas, was subse- 

 quently adopted by the Rayar dynasty of Bijanagar, and is still 

 found on the seals of some of the petty local chiefs in the Carnatic. 



Previous to the arrival of the first Chalukya in the Dak'han, the 

 Pallavas were the dominant race. In the reign of Trilochana 

 Pallava an invading army headed by Jaya Sinha, surnamed Vija- 

 yaditya of the Chalukya-kula, crossed the Nerbudda, but failed to 

 secure a permanent footing. Jaya Sinha seems to have lost his 

 life in the attempt, for his queen then pregnant, is described as 

 flying after his death, and taking refuge with a Brahmin called 

 Vishnu Somayaji, in whose house she gave birth to a son named 



• J. A. S. B. VI. p. 63. 



