Agarchand Nahta Abhinandan Granth Part 2

Author(s): Dashrath Sharma
Publisher: Agarchand Nahta Abhinandan Granth Prakashan Samiti

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of the tribe, but it appears to have been intended to be Malaya or Malava. The legends which are generally met with on the Mālava coins are Malavānām jayah? (i. e. 'let the Mālavas be victorious') and its variant Malavaganasya jayah (i. e. let the Mälava-gana be victorious' ). The legends are paralleled by those on the coins of the Arjunāyanas and the Yaudheyas.? The significance of them is understandably clear, But expressions like Bhapaṁyana, Gajuva, Gojaua, Gojara, Maha ( a ) rāya ( ma is not clear ). Jamaha, Jamapaya, Magachha, Magaja, Magajasa, Magojaba, Majupa, Mapaka, Mapojaya, Maraja, Masapa, Pachha, Paya, Yama ( may be read backwards as Maya ) and Maraja found on a distinct group of Mālava coinage (the attribution of these coins to the Mālavas is not only on the basis of provenance, type and fabric. but also on the explirit occurrence of the tribal name along with one of the above-mentioned legends, infra have for a long time been a riddle to scholars. Attempts have been made by scholars to solve the riddle, though without any substantial success as yet.
While Carlleyle4 first discovered the Mālava coins in thousands at Karkotanagar, he recognised in these legends the names of about forty Mālava chiefs, Smith traces only nineteen or twenty (if Yama is read as Maya or Maya as Yama, the number will be nineteen) such names on the coins all of which he regards as of foreign origin. If these legends stand for names at all, as Carlleyle and Smith think, it is true that they sound rather un-Indian. And if they are regarded as names of foreign rulers, it is a problem, to use the words of Allan, "what invaders could have struck them. They are too late for the Hüņas; in addition, out of over twenty names, not one bears any resemblance to any Śaka or Hüņa name." Allan' further points out that these legends cannot be regarded as names of rulers
1. Mälava coins, generally being small, legends on them are mostly incomplete
or found in shortened form. Thus we come across Malava jaya or Mālavana jaya, Sometimes Malavahna jaya is met with, which seems to be a mistake Similarly Malava java or simply Māiava appears to be a shortened form of a completes legend like Malavānām jāya. The lack of space if the obvious reason
for such shortened forms. 2. For the Arjunāyana coins, see CCBM, p. 121. pl. XIV, 10-11, and CCIM. p.
165, pl. XX. 10; for the Yaudheya coins, see CCBM, p. 265f, pls. XXXIX-XL; CCIM, P, 180f, pl, XXI; INSI, II. XIII, XVIII etc. Also see my article on the
Arjunāyanas, 'ournal of the Oriental Institute, June, 1971 ( in press ). 3.. KP. Jayaswal reads Bhampāyana, Hindu Poliiy (henceforth HP, third
impression ), p. 381. 4. CCSR, TI, p. 174. 5. CCIM, p. 163. 6. CCBM, p. cvi. 7. Ibid., p. cvii.
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