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tions of the coinage of the Kulachuri kings of Chech, which appears to 
have been first issued by liaja Gangaya Deva, who was reigning in 1030-1 
A. D. # 
It seems evident that Kirtti Varmma after his conquest of Chedi 
adopted the system of coinage there practised. 
With reference to the date of the Deogarh inscription and of Kama 
Kulachuri’s reign I would provisionally date the conquest of Chedi and the 
first issue of Chandel coins in 1070 to 1080 A. D., some twenty years or 
more before the close of the reign of Kirtti Varmma I. 
It is possible that the fort of Deogarh may have been built or rebuilt 
by this king, and called after him under his name of Deva Varmma Deva. 
(XII.) $ allaJcshana Varmma Deva. (Probable date 1100-1110.) 
Unluckily, both in the Mau-Chhatarpur inscription and in Maisey’s 
No II, there is a lacuna in the genealogy where the name of the successor 
of Kirtti Varmma I, alias Bhiimipala, should come in ; but, as General 
Cunningham has satisfactorily shown by an examination of the later verses 
of the Mau-Chhatarpur inscription, the missing name must have been 
Sallakshana. 
I may add as further proof the argument that coins of Sallakshana 
(Hallakshana) are extant, and that verse 37 of the Mau-Chhatarpur inscrip¬ 
tion speaks of Sallakshana as “ the sovereign ruler,” and, that the rest of 
the Chandel genealogy being known with certainty, there is no other gap 
but this to be filled up by the name of a Baja Sallakshana exercising the 
regal privilege of coining money. 
The Mau-Chhatarpur inscription, which is here much injured, appears 
to state that Vatsu, Vamana and Pradyumna, sons of Kirtti Varmma’s 
minister Ananta, all served under Sallakshana. 
The reign of Sallakshana was certainly short, for his predecessor was 
reigning in 1097 A. D. and his successor in 1116 A. D. 
(XIII.) Jaya Varmma Deva alias Kirtti Varmma II. 
{Probable date 1110-1120.) 
This prince is mentioned under the name of Jaya Varmma in the 
Lalaji inscription, the supplement to which was inscribed in his reign, in 
the year 1173 = 1116 A. D. 
* Arch. Report, IX, 106 and II, 458. In 1871 only 36 specimens of the Chandel 
coinage were known to have been ever discovered, and of these 13 had been lost in the 
mutiny. I have not heard of any being found of late years. Of the 23 remaining, I 
possess two, for which I am indebted to the generosity of General Cunningham. In 
the course of six years residence in Eundelkhand I have not succeeded in discovering 
a single specimen. 
