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 THE LAST OF THE ANDHRAS 195 victories of his father-in-law, and survived until 170 A. D. The next two kings, Siva Sri and Siva Skanda, who are said to have reigned each for seven years, seem to have been brothers of Pulumayi H. Nothing is known about them, except that the former struck some rude leaden coins in his eastern provinces. The most important and powerful of the last seven kings of the dynasty evidently was Yajna Sri, who reigned from 184 to 213 A. D. for twenty-nine years. His rare silver coins, imitating the satrap coinage, cer- tainly prove a renewal of relations with the western satraps, and probably point to unrecorded conquests. It would seem that Yajna Sri must have renewed the struggle in which Pulumayi n had been worsted, and recovered some of the provinces lost by that prince. The silver coins would then have been struck for cir- culation in the conquered districts, just as similar coins were minted by Chandragupta Vikramaditya when he finally Chattered the power of the Saka satraps. The numerous and varied, although rude, bronze and leaden coins of Yajna Sri, which formed the currency of the eastern provinces, confirm the testimony of inscriptions by which the prolonged duration of his reign is attested. Some pieces bearing the figure of a ship probably should be referred to this reign, and suggest the inference that Yajna Sri's power was not confined to the land. His successors, Vijaya, Vada Sri, and Pulumayi m, with whom the long series of Andhra kings came to