90 



Numismatic Gleanings, [No. 7, new series. 



Fig. 5. Obverse, a boar with the sun and moon above ; reverse, 

 a chahra or wheel. This is more rudely executed than the last. The 

 symbols on the reverse of both exhibit indications of Buddhist in- 

 fluence. 



Figs. 6 to 10, appear to be gold chavalas and form part of a con- 

 siderable hoard which was discovered in a nullah at the village of 

 Revada in Vizagapatam in 1853, accompanied by some of smaller 

 size and by several others with the figures of fish, and of a fish and 

 panther, symbols of the Pandyan princes and of a bull couchant. 

 From this, I conclude, that they must have been deposited subse- 

 quent to the union of the Chalukya with the Chola race when the 

 latter having swallowed up most of its rivals to the north and south, 

 had absorbed both the Pandyan and Chalukyan territories, in the 

 11th century. 



The design on all these is nearly the same ; obverse, a boar over 

 which is an anku'sa or elephant-goad; reverse, the letter Xj with 



the numerals pj 00 j°r or 3, 11, 13, respectively, referring 



probably to the year of the king's reign in which they were 

 struck. The letter appears to be an old Telugu or Canarese form 

 of s and might be supposed to refer to the initial of the reigning 

 sovereign's name, but it is found also on the Pandyan pieces dis- 

 covered at the same time. The two heaviest weigh grains 6 '95. 

 Two very much smaller pieces forming part of the same deposit and 

 weighing grains 1*35 and 1*5 are probably dugalas. The smallest 

 has a boar in form exactly resembling the rude outline in the cen- 

 tre of fig. 1. The reverse is indistinct but appears to contain a 

 Nagari letter. The other is a miniature copy in all respects of the 

 chavalas above described, with a similar reverse, viz : the character 

 s and the numerals 1 1 . 



Fig. 11. A copper coin ; obverse, a boar, above which are a sword 

 and the sun : reverse a legend in old Telugu or Canarese characters 



/T^Jm v 2^<3 j '0*31<? j in three lines, the upper one of which ap- 

 pears to contain the Telugu figures 15 and the two following ones 

 may be read 'firman Rdma, Weight 57 grains. 



