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AN EARLY HISTORY OF ORISSA
Ahichchhatra, Aonla, and Badaon;' which constituted the northern Pañchāla. Ahichchhatra was the capital then. According to Cunningham these coins are very rarely found beyond the limits of northern Pañchāla. V. A. Smith,? however, found them common in eastern Avadh and in the Basti district. Carllyle obtained about a hundred at Bhuila in the Bastar district, mostly of Agnimitra and Indramitra. Several coins of the 'mitra' kings were found at Pindari about two miles south-east of Buila Tel. A coin of Indramitra was found at Kumra har near Patna. Col C. E. Shepherd's coins of Rudragupta and Dhruvamitra come from Ramnagar, the ancient Ahichchhatra. Allan' thinks that while the coins are found over a wider area than Cunningham first states, there is no doubt that the main source for them is Ahichchhatra, from where Rivett-Carnac also obtained a considerahle number and variety of them. Quite a large number of rulers -- about a score, are known from coins with names ending with 'mitra' and hence ascribable to the Panchāla series
Dr. R. K. Mookerji, on the other hand, wrote that the so-called 'mitra' coins of Pañchāla have been found in regions outside Pañchāla-in Avadh, in Basti district, and even in Patliputra. The narnes of two ‘mitra' kingsBrahmamitra and Indramitra,10 are inscribed on two pillars
1. CÁI, p. 75. 2. CIM, Vol. I, p. 184. 3. JASB, 1880, p. 21. 4. ASR, XII, p. 153. 5. ASR, 1912-13, p. 85. 6. JASB, 1902, pp. 42-43. 7. CAI, p. cxx. 8. JASB, 1880, pp. 21.28 and 87-90. 9. AIU, Ch. VI, p. 100.
10. Rivett-Carnac (JASB, 1880, pp. 21-23) and K. P. Jayaswal (JBORS, 1917, pp. 476 f) have tried to identify these rulers with those of the Sunga and the Kāņva dynasties.
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