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and one or two even as far north as Nellore. From these facts, 

 coupled with the discovery of the coins, under consideration, it 

 may be concluded that he assumed the insignia of his vanquished 

 foe and struck coins bearing the dominant symbol of the age. 



The remaining three figures represent seals, on rings uniting 

 plates of copper, on which are engraved grants conferred by the 

 earliest princes of the Western Chalukya dynasty. 



Fig. 32. Is the seal on a grant of Satya/sraya the seventh in the 

 list. It bears date S. S. 534 corresponding with A. D., 612. 



Fig. 33. Pertains to a grant by Vikramaditya Satya sraya or 

 Vikramaditya I. the tenth in the list and the great grandson of 

 the above. The originals of both these grants are in possession of 

 Mahendra 'Santi a Jaina Guru at Hyderabad and were sent to me 

 for inspection by General Fraser when resident at the court of the 

 Nizam. 



Fig. 33. Is the seal on a grant made by Vinayaditya Satya's- 

 raya the son of Vikramaditya I, with the date S. S. 613. (A. D. 

 691.) It belongs to a person in the Kurnool district. I was 

 enabled to copy it through the kindness of the late Capt. New- 

 bold, Asst. Commissioner. 



The first three figures in plate II. represent 



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seals of the Eastern Chalukyas. 



Fig. 1. Represents a seal on a grant, engraved on 4 plates, of 

 certain villages conferred on Brahmins by one Ambod'hi Raja un- 

 der sanction of Vishnu V ardhana in S. S. 974 or A. D. 1052. The 

 term employed to designate the king is the generic one, which 

 though specially assumed by certain princes of the dynasty, seems 

 to have been more or less common to all and may perhaps refer 

 in this instance to Raja Raja Narendra, the son of Vimaladitya, 

 and son-in-law of Rajendra Chola. 



The seal contains in the centre the words 'Sri Tribhuvan anku'sa, 

 which may be rendered " the auspicious elephant-goad of the three 

 worlds," implying that the owner of the seal controlled the uni- 

 verse as the ankas restrains an elephant. 



Above the legend is the figure of a boar, with a chank shell and 



