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which go against his suggestion and tries to prove a doubtful point by another doubtful point. He seems to be a master in the art of making a mountain out of a mole hill which actually does not exist. He has committed the same error here. For a full discussion on the problem whether the Vākāṭaka coins exist cf. Shankar Goyal, 'The Myth of the Vākātaka Coins', paper presented at the 90th Annual Conference of the Numismatic Society of India at Santiniketan, December 1-3, 2006. Also see later portion of fn. 45.
53. Hans T. Bakker, The Vākāṭakas: An Essay in Hindu Iconology, Egbert Forsten: Groningen, 1997, 2. 54. Ibid., 3.
55. Ibid.
56. Ibid., 3-4.
57. Ibid., 4-5, 87-88.
58. Ibid., 6.
59. Hans T. Bakker (ed.), The Vakataka Heritage: Indian Culture at the Crossroads, Egbert Forsten: Groningen, 2004. 60. Hermann Kulke, 'Some Thoughts on State and State Formation under the Eastern Vākāṭakas', in Hans T. Bakker (ed.), The Vakataka Heritage: Indian Culture at the Crossroads, op.cit., Egbert Forsten: Groningen, 2004, 1-9.
61. Nandini Sinha Kapur, 'State Formation in Vidarbha : The Case of the Eastern Vākāṭakas', IHR, XXXII, 2, July 2005, 13-36.
62. Kusumanjali Book World: Jodhpur, 2005.
63. Kusumanjali Book World: Jodhpur, 2006. When one turns to writers such as Raghavendra Vajpaeyi the evaluation of the Vākāṭaka-Gupta relations can sometimes fall into comic absurdity (cf. his article in Churning the Indian Past, ed. B.P. Roy, K.P. Jayaswal Research Institute: Patna, 2003, 217-27).
64. For details also see S.R. Goyal, Ancient Indian Inscriptions: Recent Finds and New Interpretations. Kusumanjali Book World: Jodhpur, 2005, 221-25. This monograph of Goyal seeks mainly to acquaint the scholars and researchers with important ancient Indian inscriptions discovered in the last few decades. Among such inscriptions are also included all the recently found Vākāṭaka inscriptions including the Ramtek PrabhāvatĪguptă Memorial Stone Inscription which has made a thorough revision of the history of the Väkäṭakas and the Vākāṭaka-Gupta relations imperative.
65. Bakker, The Vakatakas, 2.
66. Jayaswal, op. cit., 104-05.
67. Bakker, op. cit., 3.
68. Bakker, The Vākāṭaka Heritage, v.
69. Cf. Shankar Goyal. The Myth of the Vākāṭaka Coins', IHR, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2, July 2007.
70. Walter M. Spink, 'The Vākāṭaka Caves at Ajanta and Their Successors, in Reappraising Gupta History for S.R. Goyal, eds. B. Ch. Chhabra, P. K. Agrawala, Ashvini Agrawal and Shankar Goyal, Aditya Prakashan: New Delhi, 1992, 248.
71. Ibid.
72. K.M. Shrimāli, 'Religions in Complex Societies: The Myth of the 'Dark Age', in Irfan Habib (ed.), Religion in Indian History, Tulika Books: New Delhi, 2007, 36-70.
73 Smith, op. cit., 292.
74. Jayaswal, op.cit., Foreword, 2; Shrimali, op. cit., 37.
75. Shrimāli, op.cit., 62-63.
76. Jayaswal, op.cit., 48-49. 77. Ibid., 49.
