Indian Epigraphical Glossary c9.214

c9.214

*pruḍ*, a variant of *mṛḍa* (q.v.). Cf. *pṛḍa*. *pulli-guḷikai-varāhan*, see *guḷikā* and *varāha*. ‘punch-marked’, name applied to old Indian coins of copper and silver, on which the symbols were punched by different punches as was not the case with the die-struck and cast coins. Similar coins were sometimes cast from dies also.