The Colas c31.16

c31.16

In an inscription of the thirty-third year of Parāntaka I from the Madura district,³⁷ we are told that the *Īḻak-kāśu* was the equivalent of 7½ new *akkams*. What sort of a coin the *akkam* was is not easily decided. It is again mentioned in a record³⁸ of Āditya II, but without any relation to other units. In the days of Rājarāja, however, the *akkam* was definitely a twelfth of the *kāśu*,³⁹ and therefore a twenty-fourth of the *Kalañju*. It is obvious that the term *akkam* is applied to coins of different value in the Madura and the Tanjore inscriptions of Parāntaka and Rājarāja; for there is much support, as we have seen, from epigraphy for holding that the *Īḻak-kāśu* of Parāntaka's time and Rājarāja's *kāśu* were of the same value and fineness.⁴⁰