236 Numismatic Gleaning*. [no. 6, new series, 



the two indentations conjectured to have been fixing-points, occur 

 near the edge of both. Dr. Bird reads the legend balya sri, but 

 it more nearly resembles the Canarese word sri-ga or sri-ma. The 

 scroll on the reverse he appears also to have considered to be let- 

 ters, which he reads as giving the name Rudra and hence identi- 

 fies them with Pratapa Rudra Deva, the last King of the Kakateya 

 dynasty of Warangal. We consider however that these coins be- 

 long to an earlier ^ age than the 13th century, the period during 

 which Pratapa Rudra nourished and should be inclined to ascribe 

 them to some of the older dynasties, as the Kadamba, which about 

 the fifth or sixth centuries ruled at Banawassi and other places 

 on the western* coast, in which quarter all the specimens hitherto 

 discovered have been found. The weight of all is stated to be 

 about 63 grains. 



Figs. 38, 39, 40, 42, 45, 46, 47, are gold fanams from various 



parts of the country. 



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Fig. 38, obverse; alion passant with a sword in front. Reverse ; 

 ** legend in an old form of Nagari which may be read usli£a word 

 to which no meaning attaches. 



Three of these were found at Bezwada in making excavations 

 for the anakat and were received from Captain Orr. They belong 

 to the same type as fig. 48 — 50, and weigh exactly grains 6 8. 



Fig. 39, obverse ; a lion passant, reverse the Telugu'letter o, 



This was obtained from Cuddapah and weighs grains 5*85. We 

 also possess an example in silver precisely similar in device and 

 weighing grains 5*45. 



Fig. 40, obverse ; a lion passant gardant, reverse a legend in 

 old Nagari {) ^ 8 which may be read sri deva or sri dema. 



These are from the ancient city of Chandragiri, near Tripati. 

 They weigh 3 grains. [See No. 47.] 



Fig. 41, by an error of the artist in engraving the numbers, a 

 single No. 36, has been affixed to two distinct coins which have 

 therefore been subsequently distinguished as a and b y and No. 41 

 >ias been omitted altogether. 



