Lectures on Ancient Indian Numismatics (Carmichael Lectures, 1921) c7.26

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¹ Ibid., VI. 186. 3. The phrase *hirañña-suvaṇṇa* occurs also in Jāt. VI. 69. 18, which is translated by ‘gold and coin’ by Cowell and Rouse (p. 38). The same phrase is met with in Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra (p. 243) also but in its Sanskrit form, and is rendered by Mr. Shama Sastri as ‘bar gold and coined gold’ (p. 305). Compare also JRAS., 1901, p. 879.