Angavijja

SR No.: 001065
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Punyavijay, Vasudev S Agarwal, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Prakrit Granth Parishad
Publication Year: 1957
Total Pages: 487
Language: Prakrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, Jyotish, & agam_anykaalin
File Size: 15 MB

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ANGAVIJĀ
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सेतेसु णि सु य रुप्पं बूया चउरंसेसु णि सु चित्तेसु दढेसु काहावणं बूया।
[अंगविज्जा, ch.Xp. 134]
तंबेसु सुवण्णकं दिळं बूया सुक्के रुप्पं वा काहावणे वा बूया। सुक्केसु दढेसु रुप्पं बूया। चित्तेठ सुक्केसु दढेसु य काहावणे बूया।
[अंगविजा, ch. XLII, p. 189] It is evident from the above that a full contingent of coin. names as presented here is the following: 1. सुवण्ण मासक
(सुवर्ण माषक) 2. रयय मासक
(रजत माषक) 3. दोणार मासक
(दीनार माषक) 4. णाण मासक
(नाणक माषक) काहापण
(कार्षापण) 6. खत्तपक
(क्षत्रपक) 7. पुराण
(पुराण) 8. सतेरक
(Stater) सुवण्ण काकणी
(सुवर्ण काकणी) 10. मासक काकणी
( माषक काकणी) 11. सुवण्ण गुंज
( सुवर्ण गुंजा) 12. दीणारि
(दीनार Denarius) 13. आदिमूल काहावण also called पुराण 14. उत्तमकाहावण
(उत्तमकार्षापण) 15. मज्झिम काहावण
(मध्यम कार्षापण) 16. जहण्ण काहावण
(जघन्य कार्षापण) 17. बाल काहावण
(बाल कार्षावण, also called नवकार्षापण) 18. णाणक
(नाणक) 19. मासक
( कायमंत, of big size) 20. अद्धमासक
( मज्झिमकाय, of medium size) 21. काकणि
(मज्झिमाणंतर काय, of small size) 22. अट्ठा
(पञ्चवर काय, of minute size) We may now offer some explanation of these coin denominations.
1. सुवण्णमासक-This seems to refer to the gold माषक coin which was a submultiple of the standard gold coin called goof. According to the traditional weight standard the gall coin was of 80 rattis and a माषक was one-sixteenth part of it, hence weighing 5 rattis:
पंच कृष्णलको माषस्ते सुवर्णस्तु षोडश । ( मनु ८।१३४) Kautilya had laid down that a सुवर्ष and कर्ष each was equal to 16 सुवर्णमाषकs and that the latter was 5 rattis in wt.:
___ सुवर्ण माषकः पंच वा गुंजाः । ते षोडश सुवर्णः कर्षों वा। (अर्थशास्त्र II. 19) The gold coins of the Guptas are mentioned both as hard and gooi in their inscriptions." The gaul standard of 80 rattis was frankly adopted in the reign of Skandagupta only, whose coins
1. J. Allan, Catalogue of the Coins of the Gupta Dynasties, p. cxxxiv, of. Fleet, C II, ii, No. 64.
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