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Ancient History of the Deccan

1920

tract of country which is bOunded on the north by the Narbadit and. the Alaletnadi on the east by the Bay of Bengal on the west by the Arabian Sea on the south by the Nilgiri Hills and the Southern.Pennar ( which reaches the sea near Cuddalore and.which is the northern boundary of the Chi:4a country according to the poetess Auvaiyar). [...] The alphabet of the inscriptions in the Nanaghat cave seems almost to belong to the same epoch as that of the KW - ravela inscription; and all the authors have admitted the possibility of identifying S'atakarni of NanAghilt with the one mentioned in the Kharavela inscription — 14 — NO. [...] The latter hypothesis will explain the extraordinary diversity in the effigies ; the most ancient coins bear the image of the Nahapána that reigned at this epoch and the less ancient ones contain the image of some figure made to vary according to the fancy"— 19 — of the coiner. [...] In short the coinage paleography and the style of the monuments prove that at the beginning of the Christian era there reigned on the shores Of the Gulf of Cambay one or more princes bearing the name of Nahapana. [...] (a) Archzeology shows us that the architectural style the ornamental design and the costumes of the personages of the epoch of Nahapana clearly point to an archaic epoch very near the beginning of the Christian era and that it is impossible to place Nahapana in the 2nd century A. D; (b) Numismatics shows that Nahapana was the conteporary of the Satraps Hagiina and Hagamasha that the coins of
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Frontmatter
1-4 G. Dubreuil view
Introduction
5-8 G. Dubreuil view
Chapter I. The Early Kings
9-15 G. Dubreuil view
Chapter II. The Śaka Priod of the History of the Decan
16-45 G. Dubreuil view
Chapter III. The Pallavas
46-70 G. Dubreuil view
Chapter IV. The Dynasties of Central Deccan
71-79 G. Dubreuil view
Chapter V. This Dynasties of Western Deccan
80-82 G. Dubreuil view
Chapter VI. The Dyasties of Estern Deccan
83-94 G. Dubreuil view
Chapter VII. The Dyasties of the Kanarese Districts
95-114 G. Dubreuil view

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