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INTRODUCTION. 15His silver coinage consisted of :1. A rupee, half and quarter rupee, bearing an inscription in Hindustanion the obverse and reverse, which were originally coined byPurnaiya, but afterwards recoined by Krishna Raja (PL III, 6-9).2. A quarter rupee bearing on the obverse the figure of Chamundi,and on the reverse the date and inscription^ ^_s^^y^>^ } g^ ^-^(KishenRaj Wodeyar: struck at Mahisur) (PL III, 10, 11).3. The Adda or half fanam (PL III, 12),4. The Haga or quarter fanam (PL III, 13).The two latter coins bear on the obverse the figure of Chamundi, andon the reverse the Kanarese inscription Mayili hanna. They are alsoknown as the large and small Mayili 28 or Cali fanams.On the accession of Krishna Raja, a small copper cash was struckbearing on the obverse an elephant with the symbolsof the sun andmoon, and on the reverse the Nagari inscription &ri Krishna Edja(PL IX, 3).The next coinage bore the same obverse with the addition of theword n ; while the reverse bore the inscription" F." " X." or " XXCash" " " "(Eng.) May Hi kdsu 5," 10 or" " 20 (Kan.) (PL IX, 5-7).A later coinage had the English characters of the reverse below theKanarese ;and still later the word Chd (in Kanarese for Chamundi)was added above the inscription on the reverse, and in a subsequentissue the entire word Chamundi (Kan.) was inserted above the elephanton the obverse, and theword Krishna (Kan.) added to the inscriptionon the reverse (PL IX, 8).The next step was the substitution of the lion of Chdmundi for theelephant, and the modification of the inscription on the reverse, whichnow stood as follows on the 25 cash pieces: in the centre Krishna (Kan.)surrounded by the inscription " XXV Cash " (Eng.), " Zerb Mahisur"(Hind.), " Mat/Hi kasu 25 " (Kan.) (PL X, 1). The smaller coins hadmerely the word " Krishna " (Kan.), " Zerb Mahisur " (Hind.), togetherwith the numeral 5 or 10 in later issues.The following list of coins, issued by Krishna Raja Wodeyar, isgiven by Rice.2928 Rice " says (op. cit., app., p. 7) The meaning of the word Mayili is not very clear.It may be connected with an old Kannada word Muyyi, signifying token, exchange ; unlessit refers in any way to Mayiliapur (St. Thome) at Madras."23Op. cit., app., pp. 2-7.