Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c27.12

c27.12

(1) *Koṅgudeśa*. "The western part of Maisur as far as Nandidrug, together with Coimbatore and Salem" (E.CSI. p. 111). To this district have been assigned certain gold and copper coins on which the Cera emblem, a bow, is usually found together with other symbols. The date of these gold coins, the chief type of which is the elephant (**Plate V, 12**), is limited to a period before c. 1090 A.D., as they are imitated by Harṣadeva of Kashmir (v. sup. § 112). This coinage is apparently actually noticed in the Rājātaraṅgiṇī, VII, 926 — *Dākṣiṇātyābhavad bhaṅgīḥ priyā tasya vilāsinaḥ, Karṇāṭānuguṇas ṭaṅkas tatas tena pravarttitaḥ*. C.CMI. p. 35, translating Karṇāṭa as = Karnatic has accordingly changed the attribution of these coins; but Karṇāṭa seems to denote rather a district in the centre of the peninsula which included certainly a part if not the whole of Koṅgudeśa (L.IA. I, p. 170).