Records of the Gupta Dynasty; Illustrated by Inscriptions, Written History, Local Tradition, and Coins; To Which Is Added a Chapter on the Arabs in Sind (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ... It is given on the coin, but we do not know that he reigned. Though no coin intermediate between Nahapana and Chastana has yet been found, I am sure that several years intervened between them. The difference of type and execution observable between their coins is certainly greater than that which exists between that of the former and the coins of the Indo-Bactrians. I have, therefore, adopted a longer interval, and hope that coins of at least two or three kings between Nahapana and Chastana may yet be found. It does not appear that Nahapana's or Chastana's coin bore a date, and it is almost certain that none was marked on the copper coin of Jaya Dama. If the interval which I have placed between Nahapana and Chastana and the reigns which I have assigned to Chastana and Jaya Dama be considered too long, I should be led to shorten these rather by assigning to them and all the subsequent sovereigns of the Sah series earlier dates than by bringing down Nahapana to a time further removed from the Indo-Bactrians. "I see no reason to modify in any respect the results arrived at in my paper of 1862 as to the succession of the Guptas to the Sahs, the Valabhi kings to the Guptas, and the Indo-Sassanians to the Valabhi line. "The limits of the Gujarat sovereignty in Nahapana's time must now be extended beyond the territories which I was enabled in the paper above referred to to assign to the dominion of the Sahs. The extent, however, of the districts held in subjection probably varied from reign to reign." t Journ. R. As. Soc. vol. XII. p. 37. See also Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1855, p. 569, and the Paris Journal Asiatiqtie, 1863, p. 383. THE SAH KINGS OF SURASHTRA. Nahapana. No. 6. Silver; weight 31 gr. Unique, trilingual. Mr. Newton. Obverse.--King's head...