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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... all subsequent coins Nagari inscrr. only are found. The coinage throughout this period is chiefly of silver, but specimens in billon and copper are also known (e. g. C.CMI. PI. I, 7--12). 82. Inscrr. on Ksatr. Coins.--The long rev. inscrr. regularly give the names and titles both of the reigning satrap and of his father. The data thus afforded, when taken in conjunction with the dates on the obv. (v. inf. 8 83), make it possible to reconstruct the outlines of this dynasty with an unusual degree of precision (v. Genealogical Table in C.CML p. 5). An interloper, named Isvaradatta, who takes the title mahaksatrapa and strikes coins dated in the first and second years of his own reign, is probably to be placed between the fourteenth and fifteenth members of the dynasty, Vijayasena and Damajadasri III (v. inf. 84). There is a coin of an otherwise unknown Ksatrapa, Satyadaman son of Damajadasri I, in the collection of Col. J. Biddulph. This coin is remarkable ns having its inscr. in pure Sanskrit. For a coin of Arjuna, who may possibly also be a member of this dynasty, v. Smith, JBA. 1897, p. 9, PI. I, 15. 83. Dates on Ksatr. Coins.--The inscriptional dates begin with the year 72 of Rudradaman's Junagadh inscr. (v. sup. 80). The coin-dates (Plate III, 3; Damasena, date 153) begin with the year 100, in the reign of the 5th satrap, Jivadaman, and continue regularly to the end of the dynasty. The last known dates are those of Rudrasimha, 310, and of his sister's son Simhasena, 304 (bh.jras. 1890, p. 662; C.CVII. p. 4). In determining the era to which these dates should be referred, it should be borne in mind that they probably do not mark the extreme limits of the dynasty. In the period of confusion, when the kingdom...