Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.6757

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c6.6757

*vīsa* (IE 8-8; EI 5), name of a coin (*JNSI*, Vol. XXVI, pp. 127ff.); cf. *lokkiya-vīsa*, probably meaning ‘a *vīsa* minted at Lokkiguṇḍi’; Sanskrit *viṃśa*, *viṃśaka*, *viṃśatika*, or *viṃśopaka*. (*Ep. Ind.*, Vol. VI, p. 232, note 6), Telugu-Kannaḍa; 1/16 of a *haṇa* (*paṇa*); but 1/20 of the standard coin in value essentially.

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Śevilimeḍu Inscription of the Sixteenth Year — Sanskrit