Indian Epigraphical Glossary c9.217
Indian Epigraphical Glossary c9.217
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c9.217
*rekai-ppon*, regarded as the name of a gold coin of the Vijayanagara times so called probably for bearing linear marks (*rekhā*); may be ‘revenue income in cash’. *rekhā*, cf. *rekai-ppon*. *rudradāmaka*, ‘*kārṣāpaṇa* issued by Rudradāman’; name applied to the silver coins issued by the Śaka rulers of Western India; its later imitations were called *rūpaka*, *dramma*, etc.