Chronology of Gujarat

SR No.: 006799
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M R Majumdar
Publisher: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Publication Year: 1960
Total Pages: 494
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 10 MB

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KSATRAPA PERIOD
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A.D. 223-37
C. 225
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surmised that the Sandanes of the Peripluis and Ptolemy's North Konkan Sadans are the Gujarat Ksatrapas-( Bom. Gas. I, p. 44-45, footnote).
After the reign of Mahākṣatrapa Dāmasena ( 234-39 A.D.), the potin coinage of the Kardamakas, which is usually attributed to Malwa or some district of that country, seems to have discontinued. This currency is associated with the Mahāksatrapas. The Kșatrapas, who probably held sway in Saurāṣtra and Gujarat, and not in any part of Malwa, did not issue coins in potin. The discontinuance of this coinage is suggested to have denoted that about that time, part of Malwa was lost to the Kārdamaka Mahākṣatrapas, or that the potin currency previously circulating in that district was superceded by the widely used silver coinage. (The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 188).
An inscription of King Isvarasena, the son of Abhira Sivadatta and Mathari (ie. whose mother was of the Māthara gotra) is found in the Nasik cave No. 154 Vide, EI, VIII, p. 38).
Isvarasena is put in the first half of the 3rd century A.D.-(Vide, The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 222).
Ś. 147–Potin coins bearing the figure of an elephant on the obv. and the usual symbols of eternity on the rev. which were struck in this year, apply to the reign of Dāmasena.--(Ibid., 113).
The Sonpur hoard of silver coins contains year ( 1(4)7] on the coins 'struck by Mahākşatrapa Dāmasena.-(G. V. Acharya, JRASB, NS. XLVII. 96).
S. 150-Coins were struck by Mahākṣatrapa Dāmasena.--(D. R. Bhandarkar, op.cit. 227 ff.).
S. 151-Dāmasena struck silver coins as Mahäksatrapa.--(Ibid., 109).
Ś. 153-Mahäkșatrapa Dāmasena struck coins in silver (Ibid., 110 ) and in potin.--(Ibid., 114).
$. 154 : Silver coins were struck by Mahākṣatrapa Dāmasena.--(Ibid, 110). Potin coins, struck during this year, also fall within the reign of Dāmasena. --(Ibid, 114).
Silver coins were struck by Dāmajadśri II, son of Rudrasena I as Ksatrapa. The legend is ist H8141999 a 131 4794 Emira: --(Ibid, 115).
Ś. 155: Silver coins were struck by Dāmasena as Mahākṣtrapa--(Ibid, 111); and by Dāmajadasri II as Ksatrapa.-( Ibid, 116; D. R. Bhandarkar, op.cit. 227 ff.).
S. 156: Silver coins were struck by Damasena as Mahāksatrapa.--(Ibid, III) and by Viradāman as Ksatrapa.-(Ibid, 117). The legend on the coins of the latter is 11 H14749 cthan 979 9719 atelia: 1--(Ibid, 117).
· Viradāman, son of Dāmasena seems to have succeeded his cousin Dåmajadaśri II as Ksatrapa, either in this or in the previous year.
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