Numismatic Gleanings. [no. 6, new series, 



Several "specimens of this type have been found at Dipaldinni, 

 Gudiwadah and other places in the Guntoor and Masulipatam dis- 

 tricts, and in 1826, a large hoard was discovered in the lands of 

 the village of Magalli, within three or four miles of kasbah Nandi- 

 gam. The head of police on the 4th August reported to the ma* 

 gistrate that the Muneru river, having overflowed its banks, had 

 washed away the soil and laid bare some earthern pots filled with 

 leaden coins which weighed altogether about 105 lbs. They were 

 sent to Masulipatam and lay for many years in the treasury. The 

 greatest portion consisted of the elephant type, but a few were 

 found with the figure of a bull. 



Fig. 73, obverse ; an elephant passant : reverse ; a female figure 

 seated holding a lotus in either hand, this appears to be a repre- 

 sentation of the Buddhist deity Padmavati. 



The important position occupied by the bull 

 both in Buddhist and Sivaite mythology renders 

 it a favorite symbol with the votaries of both creeds. Accord- 

 ingly we find a great number of coins impressed with its image. It 

 was early adopted by the successors, of the Greek conquerors of 

 Bactria, appearing with a conspicuous hump on a square copper 

 coin of Philoxenes about 130 B. C. and a few years later on the 

 more elegant round and square hemidrachmas of Apollodotus with 

 an elephant on the reverse.*. Jt occurs frequently on the coins of 

 Azes, also associated with the elephant and again with the lion, 

 camel See. and on those of Kadphises the first Indo Scythian prince, 

 standing behind a figure of Siva.f With the extension of the SU 

 vaite creed in India its symbolic adoption became almost universal. 



Fig. 75, is a leaden coin found in the sea shore between Maha- 

 mallaipur and Madras with a bull on the obverse, and the reverse 

 plain : weight 88 grains. 



Figs. 76 and 77, are copper coins belonging to the so called 

 Vengi series. They are found in the same part of the country but 



* Wilson, Ari. Ant. PI. H. fig. 18, PI. iv. figs. 14,15, PI, vn. fig?. 8—10. J. A. 

 S. B. Vol. IV. PI. xxi. fig. 2, PI. xxii. figs. 1-8. PI. xxm. fig. 28, PI. xxvi. 



fig- 5. 



t Ar. Ant. P. 350, PI. xi. 



