IN SOUTHERN INDIA. 
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He, being a man of parts, duly conquered his enemies 
nominally reinstated the rightful king, but put himself in 
to act, and then, more antiquorum, confirmed himself and be- 
came sole ruler. He on his coinage followed the custom of 
the country and retained the two fish and sceptre of the 
Pandyan, inscribing his own name around it. But few coins 
of the Nayaks seem to be found, but those that do occur 
usually have on the obverse a figure of Garuda or Hanuman 
with inscriptions (almost invariably too worn to be legible) 
on the reverse. As far as I can learn, no gold coin of the 
Nayaka dynasty has yet been discovered. 
The Oheras, as 1 said above, supplies the coin -collector 
with but very few specimens. Two types only occur which 
may with some degree of reason be attributed to them. 
The first of these shows on one side the 
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"katar " or native long -handled dagger, 
and on the other the bow — the coins being thin and 
in appearance not unlike those of the Curumbars, of 
which I have already spoken. The other type belongs 
evidently to a later period, and is a round dumpy piece, 
having on the reverse a design regarding the identity of 
'3 Sir Walter Elliot, in his recent contribution to the " Numismata 
Orientalia," figures a coin as No. 144 bearing these same emblems, and an 
exactly similar one in my own collection, found at Madura, is very distinct. 
Regarding this and the coin which follows it in his sequence, he says : 
■" This is a coin with the Ceylon type on both sides with the addition on the 
obverse of two fish and a crozier, and on the reverse, under the arm, letters 
which appear to read ' Terumalai ' and may refer to a Nayak of Madura. 
Another coin has the recumbent bull and the word 
* Ketu ' and the standing figure on the obverse, but as there is no fish it is 
doubtful whether a Pandyan reign can be assigned to it." Now regarding 
the first of thesu two coins, this issue bears the undoubted name of the first 
Nayaka Visvanatha ; hence, as this one hails from the same place, bears the 
same marks, and so nearly the name of one of the greatest kings of the same 
dynasty, we may with a fair show of reason assigTi it to the great Tirumala, 
"the builder of the famous palace at Madura. The reading on the latter coin 
is " and not Ketu" in two specimens that I have, the first letter 
"being plainly Q,g^^ and the piece I attribute to the Setupathis, or rulers of 
Ramnad, I came across some of the same type, and in two sizes, in Ceylon. 
