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Coins in the possession of Lt. Col. E. G. Pythian Adams. No. 16.

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Copper, round. Obverse : Elephant to right. Above some marks which may be a portion of legend. Reverse : Blank or the device obliterated.

Do.      No. 17

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Copper, round. Seems to be a North Indian tribal coin. Damaged.

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Copper, round. Seems to be a cast (tribal) coin of North India. Damaged.

Do.      No. 19

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Copper, round. Seems to be a North Indian local coin. Obverse : Hill with six peaks surmounted by a crescent ; Svastikā on both sides. Reverse : Blank or device obliterated.

TIRUCHIRAPPALLI  DISTRICT
TIRUCHIRAPPALLI  TALUK

Śrīraṅgam.—Räyagōpuram, huge stone pillar in the passage, proper right.

Records the gift of the villages Vīdiviṭaṅkan and Pāchchiyūr, situated in Tiruchchirāppaḷḷi-uśāvaḍi in Chōḷamaṇḍalam, to sixty Śrīvaishṇava Brāhmaṇas of Ādivarāhapuram by Viśvanāthanāyaka-Chokkanātha-nāyaka, on the occasion of a lunar eclipse, the former for colonising by the donees and the latter for the śirappukkaṭṭaḷai service to the god.

Tirukkuraḷappan (Vāmana) shrine, north wall.

Damaged and peeled off. Records an assignment of land to the  Śrīvaishṇavas for being reclaimed and cultivated for offerings to god on certain specified occasions in the 12th regnal year of Vīrarājēndradēva. Śrīraṅganārāyaṇadāsan figures as the signatory of the record.

Damaged and peeled off. Commences with the introduction Samasta-bhuvanāśraya, etc. Registers a gift of land as sarvanamasya   (tax-free) to the Brāhmaṇas of Kāliṅgarīyachaturvēdimaṅgalam by Śivanindākālan alias Kāliṅgarāvan of Chelavāttūr with certain stipulations (details lost).

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