Ancient Indian Coinage - Couverture souple

Jain, Rekha

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 812460052X ISBN 13 : 9788124600528

Editeur : D.K. Print World Ltd, 1997

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* is unmistakably a landmark invention - considering its indispensable role in economics and, more specially, in the commercial sphere of man's existence anywhere in the world. However, we have yet to have final answers to some of the fundamental questions: When, where, and how was * - shaped as 'coins' or as 'pieces of stamped metal' - first introduced to human civilization? Its genesis in India is traced back to the sixth century bc: during the second urban revolution, when coins came to be manufactured here independently, indigenously. ysing in depth an astonishing mass of numismatic and kindred data, published in different catalogues, archaeological reports, journals and elsewhere, this book investigates the evolution of ancient India's * economy: in terms of its 'coinage', through six successive periods: janapada, Maurya, post-Maurya, Gupta, post-Gupta, and pre-medieval - which, in their togetherness, span nearly two millennia. Covering the entire subcontinental sprawl, Dr. Jain considers the whole variety of coins: local, universal standard, and even foreign, with metious descriptions of coin types, symbols, legends, fabric and metrology. In her thematic effort to reconstruct the history of ancient Indian coinage (and, thus, * economy), from its first beginnings in high antiquity to about the twelth century ad, the author has drawn on wide-ranging primary and secondary sources. And has also tried to establish linkages between different ancient coins and their references/descriptions in Vedic/Buddhist/Jaina texts, Panini's Ashtadhyayi', Kautilya's Arthashastra, epical literature, Dharmashastras, foreigners' travelogues, old-world mathematical treatises, and numerous contemporary inscriptions, among others writings.

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