Journal of the Gujarat Research Society July 1942

One of the most characteristic features in the names of the descendants Chashtana is the word däman which appears as 1. A Buddhist bronze seal-stamp of the time of the beginning of the Christian era is of particular interest in presenting its inscription. [...] The obverse of the Nahapana coins bears the head of the king always facing to the right of the observer. [...] A modern belief however ascribes the foundation of the Shaka era to a king Shalivahana of Pratishthana the modern Paithan on the Godavari in the Aurangabad district in the north-west of the Nizam's dominion. [...] The dates which appear in the inscriptions of the Nahpana family and in the coin-legends and inscriptions of the Western Kshatrapas are all in the era which starts from the beginning of the reign of the last king of the Nahapana dynasty in A. C. 78. [...] The inscription is dated the full-moon day of the month Kärttika when there had elapsed five centuries of the years of the anointment of the Shaka king to the sovereignty " that is the year A. C. 578.