Early History of Orissa

SR No.: 006922
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Amarchand Mittal
Publisher: Jain Cultural Research Society
Publication Year: 1957
Total Pages: 506
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCES
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too late to be placed in the epoch of Khāravela). But these confirm to the fact that Punch-marked coins continued to be minted and were in circulation in Orissa at least as late as the third Century A. D.
Therefore, while supposing that Punch-marked coins? might have been issued by Khāravela, it is not obligatory to place him nearer the period of the Mauryas and the Gungas simply on that ground. On the contrary, the above arguments tend to place him in the last quarter of the first Century B. C.
Art & Architecture in the Udayagiri-Khandagiri
In the absence of the undoubted date in the Hāthigumphā record or in that of Khāravela's Queen and of his successor in the Mañchapuri Cave, we should endeavour to determine the age of these monuments from other sources of information.
Sir John Marshall, fixing the chronology of the caves
1. As already mentioned, Dr. A. S. Altekar has published a counterstruck coin of BỊihaspatimitra II (JNSI, Vol. IV, 1942, p. 143 ; Plate XIII, 24) with the following description : Obverse : In the centre tree within railing, counterstruck with the
symbol of a V-topped banner with two proaged to right, enclo. sed in a railing of two storeys. To left, Ujjain symbol below and a V-topped banner above. To right a wavy line, below the ramnants of the original legend Bahasatimitra (letters timita completely wiped out by the lower portion of the coun. terstruck symbol. Letters baha are quite clear in the plate
and the concluding sa ia faintly visible). Reverse: Completely blurred. Metal copper, roughly circular, 6 inches
in diameter, 46 3 grains, die-struck, found at Kosambi. Here, it is Brihaspatimitra's coin which has been restruck and that too with a symbol which in some shape or the other is found in the Hathi. gumphã record. Can we conclude from this that the coin in question was restruck by Khäravela after having defeated his rival as has been mentioned in his inscription ?
2, CHI, Vol. I, pp. 638-42.