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# Indian Epigraphical Glossary c9.214

Indian Epigraphical Glossary c9.214

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### [c9.214](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.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.

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