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Kalacuri king and may have imitated the coins of the Kashmirian kings like Jayāpida Vinayāditya (c. 750-80 A.D.).17
In connection with the probable issue of coins by the Caulukya king Mūlarāja I, we have to refer the attribution of certain dramma coins to king Visala or Viśvamalla (c. 124462 A.D.) of the Caulukya-Vāghela dynasty of Gujarat. Thus it has been said, “In the epigraphic records there are references to Visalapri-dra, Vīsalapriya-dramma, Visa-dra and Visalapuri-dra, The Likhapaddhati calls these both Visvamallapriya- and Visalapriya-dramma. These coins have most likely to be ascribed to king Višaladeva of the Vaghelā dynasty (of Gujarāt]."13 We have, however, elsewhese tried to show that Visala or Viśvamalla, associated with the issue of these coins, was not the Caulukya-Vāghelā 'king who flourished in the middle of the thirteenth century A.D, but that he was really a Śreșthin who was the lessee of the mint issuing the said coins. 19 In addition to our argument against the identification of the issuer of the coins with the CaulukyaVāghelā king of the same name, we may now point out that the coins are described in the Lekhapaddhati20 as produced at the mint (tanka-śālā) at Srimāla which was also called Bhillamāla and is the same as modern Bhinmal in the Jodhpur Division of Rajasthan. It seems that the Bhinmal region of Jodhpur did not form any part of Visala's dominions. Even during the greatest expansion of the Caulukya kingdom under Kumārapāla (1144-73 A. D.), the said area formed a border chieftaincy far away from the centre of the Caulukya king's power. Haribhadra's statem ent, however, suggests that Mūlarāja I had a tanka-śālā at his capital.
17 Smith, op. cit., p. 269.
18 L. Gopal, The Economic Life of Northern India, p. 197; cf. JNSI, Vol. XVII, pp. 72f. ; Lekhapaddhati, pp. 33, 37, 39, 42, 55. See also A. R. Ep., 1957-58, Nos. 490-92.
19 Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXVII, pp. 277-78; cf. S. Bandyopadhyay, JNSI, Vol. XXX, pp. 96ff.
20 See ''p. 20, 42.
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