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Fig. 12 to 17. Five copper coins all of similar design. Obverse, 

 a boar with a sword and the sun and Nagari legends on the reverse. 

 The letters are in horizontal lines on 12, 13, 16, but in vertical lines 

 on 1 7. Most of these are much worn and very indistinct but the 

 plainest 12 and 13, appear to read Salava or Chdlava Tiramal 

 Ray a. 



But no such name occurs in the lists, and it cannot refer to the 

 hula devata or household god of the king, for in that case the word 

 deva would have been substituted for rdya. A king of this name 

 is found in the Bijanagar dynasty between A. D. 1564 and 1572. 

 The princes of this race which as will be shown presently, adopted 

 the boar ensign, always used the Nagari character in their inscrip- 

 tions and the letters on these coins are of a comparatively modern 

 form. The addition of the sword further favors this supposition. 

 But if this symbol is to be taken as exclusively characteristic of 

 the Rayars, it will be necessary to assign fig. 11 to them also, which 

 is certainly of greater antiquity and presents other marked discre- 

 pancies besides. Their weights are grains 53*275, 43'3, 55-05, 

 44-95 and 43-8. 



Fig. 18. A copper coin much defaced. Obverse, a boar standing 

 in front of a pillar, the rest too indistinct to be clearly made out. 

 Reverse, a legend in Tamil also illegible. This has much the 

 aspect of a Pandyan coin. See fig. 26. Weight, 60 grains. 



Figs. 19 and 20 are two copper coins both belonging to the same 

 prince. Obverse of 19, a boar, with an imperfect Tamil legend ; re- 

 verse, a rudely represented sitting figure, such as is found on the 

 numerous class of southern coins first brought to notice by Prinsep 

 in his " Ceylon series," and with the Nagari letters under the arm 

 Sri Rdja Raja ; weight grs. 52-225. The obverse of fig. 20 exhibits 

 also a boar, which is ornamented somewhat in the style of that in 

 fig. 4 and stands on a support like that in the seals in plate II. Re- 

 verse, the same sitting figure as in fig. 19, with the name Rdja Raja 

 under the arm. This coin is in the collection of Col. Frederick 

 Clerk, late of the 3rd or C. L. I. Regt. They were probably struck 

 by Raja Raja Narendra the 26th prince in the eastern line, or by 

 his great-grand -son, the 29th, who after his resignation of the vice 



