Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.2676

c6.2676

(IE 8-8), name of a coin; sometimes called dīnāra (q.v.); cf. ūr-kāśu (EI 28), vīrapañcālaṅ-kāśu (SITI), sambiraṇippalaṅ-gāśu; also iḷa-kkāśu (EI 28), ‘the Ceylonese coin’; śoḷiya-kkāśu (SITI), name of a copper coin believed to have been introduced by the Coḷas; palaṅ-kāśu, nat-kāśa, nal-kāśu (SII 12); generally regarded as 1/80 of a paṇam; cf. triśūla-kāśu (SII 3).