Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c21.16
Indische Paläographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c21.16
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§ 48. Kāḍa (**Plate III, 7**). — The attribution of the coins of cast copper, which bear the legend *Kāḍasa* in Brāhmī characters, is uncertain. BÜHLER explains *Kāḍasa* as the genitive of *Kāḍa*, the name of a king, a N.Indian form = Sk. *Kāla* or Pali *Kāḷa*, "black", and for the equation --- N.Indian ḍ = Sk. l · - compares forms found in the Girnār edicts, e. g. *mahiḍāyo* = Sk. *mahilāḥ* "women". The coin figured in C.CAI. Pl. V, 6, was found among coins of the Kuṇindas, and this fact led C. to conjecture that it may belong to the ancestors of the present Kaḍaik branch of the Kunets (C.CAI. p. 71; v. also § 50).