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elephant have an ankus or elephant-goad, a bow or other implement. 

 They were found at the village of Kurupad in Guntoor. A similar 

 square coin of lead with a lion on the obverse and the reverse blank 

 like fig. 51, was obtaire-d from Dipaldinni. 



Fig. 55, is a gold coin copied from Moor* who saw it in the 

 cabinet of Major Price by whom it was purchased at the sale of 

 Tippoo's property after the capture of Seringapatam. It was 

 probably therefore found in Mysore. , 



Observe ; a nondescript animal which Moor calls a lion, but which 

 resembles father the fabulous monster having the body of a lion 

 with an elephant's trunk and tusks, in Tamil called y&li ; in Sanscrit 

 Sarah' ha a sword or mace over the back and a cross or flower under 

 its feet. 



Reverse; a legend inCanarese which having been copied by one 

 ignorant of the language is too incorrect to be read although se- 

 veral letters are recognisable. 



Fig. 56, a copper coin ; obverse, the face of J a lion : reverse, a 

 sword between the sun and moon. The sword is of the peculiar 

 short form so often represented on Hindoo sculptures. 



Fig. 57, a square leaden coin from Dipaldinni resembling fig. 53, 

 but without the tree symbol. 



Leaden coins of this description are very common in the neigh- 

 bourhood of D'haranikotah and Amaravati, of all sizes, often like 

 fig. 51, with the reverse plain. Wilson has figured two from the 

 Mackenzie collection of this description! said loosely to have been 

 found at Mahamallaipuram and Nellore, but more probably at 

 Amaravati* The lion bears a striking resemblance to that on the 

 coins of the Bactrian kings Agathocles and PantaleonJ and again 

 on those of their barbaric successor Azes. But Wilson calls the 

 animal on the coins of the former a panther and that on the latter 

 only, a lion. The former however both in attitude and general 

 form is almost identical with the animal represented on these leaden 



* Hindu Pantheon, P. 434, PL 104, Fig. 7. 

 f As. Res. XVII. PI. v. Figs. 117, 118. 

 % J. A. S. B. III. PI. ix. Figs. 17, 18. Wilson Ariana Ant. PI. vi. Figs. 7, 8, 9, 

 11 and PI. vii. Figs. 8, 9. 



