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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
આ સબન્ધી મોડર્ન રિવ્યુ ઈ. સ. ૧૦૪ જૂન માસના અંક પૃષ્ઠ ૬૪૭ માં પટણના સુપ્રસિદ્ધ પુરાતત્વજ્ઞ શ્રીમાન બાબુ કાશીપ્રસાદ જાયસવાલ એમ. એ. બાર–એટલે બારિસ્ટર નીચે પ્રમાણે વિશેષ પ્રકાશ પાડી પુરાતત્વજ્ઞ જનતાને જાગ્રત કરી છે.
Cunningham in his Ancient Coin of India has published a coin of the Taxila mint ( Coin No, 20 on Plate II, opposite page 60 ). This coin has not been attempted to be read,
On the reverse the legend is in Kharoshthi and reads: (Line 1 ) ART ( Sampra ) (Line 2 ) ( di )
There is a moon-on-hill monogram of the Maurya dynesty placed on the top of a standard. The other symbol is of the four-quarters ( Tatra) denoting Empire by the standard the letter di. On the obverse side the coin has the same moon-on-hill symbol which started with the reign of Chandragupta and was a monogram on his name (Chandra, moon ). There is a svastika below the monogram, as on Asoka's inscription at Jangad, where it is placed on a standard. By the side of these symbols there two aksharas in Brahmi #t and zat (Mourya ), but the yyo is placed above Mour.
We have thus a second signed coin of the Mauryas. The earlier Mauryas gave only initials of their names on their coins which have been discovered at Patliputra (Excavations ). I am showing this in my book on Maurya coins.
I may add that the form Sampradi is correct, while Samprati of the Purans, meaningless. The Divyayadan gives Sampradi.
Samprati (correct Sampradi) was a grandson of Asoka. This coin and that of Dasaratha (already published ) prove that both Dasaratha and Sampradi ruled, one after another, just as the Purans state. That their empire included Taxila, like that of their grandfather, is now established by these frontier coins of Dasaratha and Sampradi, bearing legends in Kharoshthi, for circulation in Afghanistan and the neighbourhood.
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