jan. — mar. 1858.] Numismatic Gleanings. #37 



Fig. 42, obverse ; a lion passant : reverse ; a Telugu legend, very 

 indistinct; from Vengipuram ; weight grains 5 95. 



Figs. 43 and 44, two silver coins ; obverse ; a lion passant : re- 

 verse ; the words which from a collation of three specimens appear 

 to be raj ad' hi raja in somewhat modern Nagari character. Thes'e 

 are from Canara and weigh grains 10*7 to 11. 



Fig 45, obverse ; a lion passant : reverse ; in old Telugu the % 

 word mba for mba y a name of Parvati or Du?gi. 



It has been worn as an ornament, and the weight grains 7- 525, 

 does not give its true value. 



Fig. 46. A lion passant. Reverse, the Canarese letter ^ °h e > 

 which may stand for Chella or Chellappa Raya, a name of Vishnu : 

 under which he is worshipped at Melkottai in Mysore.* 



Fig. 47, obverse ; lion passant gardant : reverse ; plain. This be- 

 longs to the same type as fig. 40, but has been represented much 

 too large ; it weighs only 3 grains to 3*1. * 



Figs. 48, 49, 50, 52, belong to a type of copper coins occurring 

 extensively in the Masulipatam district and corresponding with fig. 

 40. The locality and general character lead us to attribute them to 

 the early Buddhist dynasty of Vengi, the ancient name of southern 

 Telingana, the capital of which was situated near Ellore.f Of these 

 early sovereigns we possess scarcely any historical traces. The 

 names of two of them Rajah Vachi Varma and Nandi Varma are 

 given in the inscription printed in the volume of Madras Jour- 

 nal already referred to. The Chalukyas of Rajahmundry, an offset 

 from the dynasty of the same race already established at Kalyan, 

 appear to have effected their entrance into Telingana Balaghat* by 

 the conquest of Vegi about the 6th century. 



* Taylor's Cat. Rais. Or. MSS. I. p. 510. 

 f See a notice of this ancient city in Madras Journal, vol. XI, p. 304. "We 

 have since visited the spot which is about five miles north and a little west of Ellore 

 on the road to Nagpore, via Badrachalam and exhibits extensive remains of walls 

 and fortifications with the ruins of the Chitrarat'ha Swami-gudi still bearing the 

 same name. Two small modern villages occupy a trifling portion of the an- 

 cient site which are still called Pedda Vegi and Chinna Vegi. 



