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meyPadmacalita” based on Räma story. This Mallavā. disüri lived sometime between 317 & 397 A.D. He wiote
Padmacarita" consisting of 24000 veises. Thus Mallavādi. *ūti is carlier than Vimalasuri and therefore the ciedit of Jaina version of Rāmāyana goes to Mallavādi and none other.
4 Scholars generally opined that the Kshatrapa rule endcd in oi after Saka Era 310 i.e. 388 A D., the date which is published by Prof Rapson. Then in 1960), K. V. Soundararajan published two lead coins of Swami Rudrasimha 3rd, bearing the date Saka year 3/4 i.e. 392 AD But here in this thesis the writer has cited and published onc Kshatrapa coin found from a private collection of S. M. Shukla of Bombay, which is dated in Saka year 320 i.e. 398 A.D. Till today this is the last known date of the Kshatrapa chronology. Conclusion is that the end of the rule of Western Kshatrapas may be placed sometime after the Šaka year 320 ie. 398 AD.
5 It is welknown fact that coins do help a lot to know the Historical Geography of a King or Dynasty. But this writer in this thesis has questioned this very popular belief and tried to show some limitations which do come in the way : The modern places of coin-hoards may well fall within King's territory who issued them is rather exaggerated. Sometimes it so happens that a king, who issued coins, may be a fudatory chief of some great king, giving latter the rich tribute in currency of his own normally every year. In this condition it is quite possible to find a coin-hoard of that fudatory chief within the boundaries of his overlord. So from this one cannot casily fix up the historical geography of any king or dynasty just with the help of coins. Likewise, the question comes in our way while using the coin boards either from public places, hill resorts or places of religious impor. tance. In the same way circulation of currency from one state to another in the absence of exchange system is also possible. In such circumstances it is very difficult to fix boundaries just from coin-hoards.
