Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c21.20

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§ 50. Kuṇinda. — The territory of the Kuṇindas would seem to be the hill districts, on both sides of the Satlej, occupied by the Kunets of the present day (C.ASR. XIV, 126). Their coins are of two periods. The earlier, which, like those of the Audumbaras, have legends in both Brāhmī and Kharoṣṭhī characters, and like them too are found in company with hemidrachms of Apollodotus (v. sup. § 43) are probably as early as B.C. 100 (**Plate III, 9**). The later, which seem to show the influence of the large copper money of the Kuṣanas, and which bear inscrr. in a later form of Brāhmī characters, may, perhaps, belong to the 3^rd or 4^th centuries, A.D. (**Plate III, 10**). The fact that the coins of the Yaudheyas also fall naturally into similar classes (§ 60) would seem to show that these Hindu states, and probably others, rose in power as the Greek and Kuṣana supremacies successively declined.