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the same position as for the elephant, it is just possible to recognize the 
figure of a bull (or a horse, or a lion), to the right, in the same recumbent 
position as seen on the so-called “ Bull and Horseman ” coins. See 
obverse of No. 15 on Plate IX. What was before the upturned trunk 
of the elephant, are now the fore legs of the bull turned under his 
body. A part of what might be the liowdah (?) is now the head of the 
bull (or other animal), near the right hand margin. 
I may add, that holding the coin in the position, now described, 
the akshara met presents itself upright, which renders it probable 
that this is the proper position in which the coin should be held. See 
No. 17 on Plate IX. 
All this requires some exercise of the imagination, and I will leave 
it to more experienced numismatic eyes to determine the real nature 
of the obverse figure. Only one thing appears to me impossible : to 
recognize in it any figure of the goddess “ Durga, four-armed, seated 
to front.” And in this respect, the coins of the present finds still 
appear to me very noteworthy. For all coins of the Kalachuri dynasty 
that hitherto have become known, show on the obverse the figure of 
Durga, which is also said to have been “ the cognizance of the Haihaya 
or Kalachuri Princes of Chedi.”* 
It is impossible to say, to which of the kings of the above given 
list the coins may belong. Ratna Dova and Prithvi Dova, both occur 
three times, and Jajalla Dova occurs twice. Coins (gold, silver and cop- 
per, see Archceological Survey Reports, Yol. X, p. 25) of the Kalachuri king 
Grangeya Deva are known ■ so also gold coins of a Kalachuri king, Prith- 
vi Devaf (see Prinsep’s Indian Antiquities, Yol. I, p. 292, and Thomas’ 
Chronicles, No. 17, p. 19.) All these, however, are of a different typo. 
They show, on the obverse, the figure of Durga, seated to front. No 
coin of any other Kalachuri king has become known before the finds 
now described by me. Gangeya Deva’s date is about 1120-1140 A. D. 
There is an inscription of his, dated in (789 K. S.) 1038 A. D.J He 
must, therefore, have been a contemporary of Ratna Deva I. General 
Sir Alex. Cunningham has shown ( Survey Reports, Yol. XVII, p. 71) 
that a Kalachuri king Gayakarna Deva was reigning in (866 K. S., or) 
1115 A. D., in the very same year as Jajalla Deva I ; and that, therefore, 
there existed two distinct kingdoms of Chedi, the one having its capital 
at Triplin', on the Narbada, in Western Chhatisgarh ; the other in Ratan- 
pur, in Northern Chhatisgarh. Gangeya Deva was a king of Western 
* Archseolog. Survey Reports, Yol. X, p. 25. 
t That, this is the Kalachuri Prithvi Deva, and not a Chandol king, is shown by 
the form of the name. The Chandol is called Prithvi Varmma. 
1 Archgeolog. Survey Reports, Yol. XXT, p, 113, 
