Indian Epigraphical Glossary c9.185

c9.185

*pagoda*, also called ‘star *pagoda*’; Anglicised form of the name of the gold coin called *gadyāṇa*, *hūn* (*hon*) or *varāha*; since the word *pagoda* also meant ‘a temple’, the coin seems to have been so named owing to the representation of a temple or a deity on it; *pagoda* may be a corruption of *bhagavatī* meaning ‘the mother-goddess’.