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1872.] Fryer — Note on an AraTcanese Coin. 
Crokanna, Danda-nayaka, Kesa-dhatu, and Loka-wunga, collected their forces 
at the Western gate,* and broke in, each through a different rampart or 
gate, and entered the city, and slaughtered an immense host of Tamils and 
their cavalry. Kulasekhara then became afraid, and escaped through the 
East gate in disguise, and got away. So the Sinhalese destroyed many 
Tamils, and took much plunder, and put up flags of victory, and celebrated 
a festival of victory, and made Wirapandu king with great ceremony. 
Note on an AraTcanese Coin. — By Captain Gf. E. Fetee, Officiating 
Deputy Commissioner of Sandoway. 
The subject of this paper is a small silver coin of about the size of a 
four-anna piece (Fig. 1) bearing the following device, obverse, a bull cou- 
Fig. 1. 
chant, caparisoned, Nagari characters imperfect : reverse, the sun, and crescent 
moon and trident within a circle, outside of which is a row of round dots. 
The coin is smaller than those described by Captain Latter in the Jour- 
nal for February, 1846, but is of precisely the same type as two therein 
figured, one of which is here reproduced (fig. 2). 
Captain Latter thought that they were “ Shivite coins probably apper- 
taining to a time when the emblems of the wmrship of Shiva and those of 
* The name of the city being not given, there must I think be a misreading in 
the word Siyft-nandawu-rata, translated above 11 to their own countries. (Srya, 
one’s own from siua). Nagara in Sanskrit is nuwara in Sinhalese, and to. is the sign 
of the dative case; the latter half of siyanandawu- rata should therefore perhaps be 
nmvam/a and the former half the name of the city, Siyana or Siyata (there being 
s o distinction made in my MS. between t and n), or Some such name. 
