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The buried treasure which was unearthed in 1922 at Rāchapaṭnam in the Kaikalur tāluk of this Krishna district throws further interesting light on this subject. This find consisted of forty-three of the gold coins known as *padma-ṭaṅkas* bearing the legends Siṅghaṇa, Kaṇhapa, Mahādēva, and Śrī Rāma in the Dēvanāgarī script.¹ Attempts have been made on the evidence of these coins to build up a theory supporting the existence of Sēuṇa rule over the coastal Āndhra country at this time.² Any such theory is, however, utterly untenable. No territorial claims can be put forward on the evidence of the place where the treasure trove has been found. Coins are remarkably migratory; they often travel vast distances from the places where they were minted.³ And it is in fact by no means unlikely that the hoard of Sēuṇa coins discovered at Rāchapaṭṇam actually represents a part of the money which Rudrāmbā, according to the *Pratāpacharitam*, received from Mahādēva as war indemnity and distributed among the officers of her army.