Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c21.14

c21.14

§ 47. Janapada. — No satisfactory explanation has yet been given of the coins which bear the legend *Rājña Janapadasa*, sometimes written in Brāhmī and sometimes in Kharoṣṭhī letters. C. suggests (loc. inf. cit.) that this may be a place-name = Rājasthān, or perhaps the name of the inhabitants of this place = the Χατριαῖοι, i. e. Kṣatriyas, of Ptolemy (VII, 1, 64; cp. LIA. III, p. 141). To judge from style, the coins bearing an inscr. in Kharoṣṭhī characters (**Plate III, 18**) seem to belong to an earlier period than the others which are in fabric like the coins of the Satraps of Mathurā (**Plate III, 19**).