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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
COINS many as 350 of them the name of the Traikūtaka king appeared as Dahragana, and only on three, as Dahrasēna. Rev. Scott thought that Dahrasēna started his career as a feudatory of the Western Kshatrapas whose names usually ended in sēna, and later on, when he emancipated himself from the yoke of the Kshatrapas, he altered the termination of his name from sēna to gana. The Kāzad hoard contained four coins of Vyāghrasēna also, but the royal name on all of them appeared as Vyāghragana. In a note which Mr. A.M.T. Jackson appended to Rev. Scott’s article, he announced that he had obtained a Traikūtaka copper-plate grant from Surat, in which the king’s name was clearly given as Vyāghrasēna. Finally, in the Catalogue of the Coins of the Andhras, etc., (p. Clxiii) published in 1908 Prof. Rapson admitted that gana (perhaps intended for gana) would be a more natural reading than Sēna on most of the known coins of Dahrasena and on all of those of Vyāghrasēna, but he contended that what appeared as ga might quite possibly be a conventionalised form of sa. This view seems to be the correct one in view of the undoubted readings Dahrasēna and Vyāghrasena of the royal names in the Pārdi and the Surat plates respectively. If Dahrasēna had purposely changed his name to Dahragana, he would not have named his son Vyāghrasēna. A coin of Dahrasēna. Pl. A, NO. 1. AR. Size in diameter-.5”. Weight-34.4 grs. ObverseâHead of the king with mustaches to the right, without any date. Reverse-Chaitya with the sun to the left, and the legend along the edge inside a circle of dotsâ
Mahārāj-Andradatta-putra-parama-vashnava-śra-Māhārāja-Dahra [sana] representing Mahārāj-Ēndradatta-putra-paramavaishnava-śrī-Mahārāja-Dahrasēna. On some coins the sun appears to the right of the chaitya. A Coin of Vyāghrasēna. Pl. A, No. 2. AR. Size in diameter-.5”. Weightâ32 grs. ObverseâHead of the king with mustaches to the right, without any date. ReverseâChaitya with the sun to the right and the legend along the edge inside a circle of dots, viz., Mahārāja-Dahra[sana]-putra-paramavashnava-śrī-Mahārāja-Vyāghra[sana], representing Mahārāja-Dahrasēna-putra-paramavaishnava-śrī-Mahārāja-Vyāghrasēna. As stated before, these coins were found in Southern Gujarat, and the Poona and Satara Districts of the Bombay State. They were evidently imitated from the Kshatrapa coins which had been current in Maharashtra and Gujarat during the rule of the Ābhīras. we have no means of knowing their denomination, as they are nowhere referred to in the inscriptions of the Traikūtakas. Perhaps, like Kshatrapa coins, they also were known as kārshāpanas. The Coins of the Kalachuris. The coins of this king were first discovered about 1870 in the village Dēvlānā in the Bāglān tālukā of the Nasik District. The hoard comprised 82 coins, which were sent to Dr. Bhau Daji for examination. He published his account of the hoard together with facsimiles of five of the coins in the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. XXI (1876), pp. 213-14. All the coins were of silver and round in shape. They varied in weight from thirty to thirty-four grains.
In his article Dr. Bhau Daji drew attention to the similarity that the coins bore to the
silver coins of Kumāragupta and especially to those of Skandagupta, but he read the legend
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