Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c21.37
Indische Paläographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c21.37
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§ 59. Vaṭasvaka (**Plate III, 6**). — The coins bearing this legend in Brāhmī characters similar to those on the square copper coins of Pantaleon and Agathocles (c. 190 B.C.) are also connected by identity of type with some of the 'single-die' coins found in the neighbourhood of Taxila (cp. C.CAI. Pl. II, no. 17 with no. 14). As coins of Pantaleon and Agathocles are imitated from these earlier single-die coins, the date of the Vaṭasvaka coins is probably at least as early as B.C. 200. BÜHLER has explained this name as denoting the Vaṭa (or Fig-tree) subdivision of the Aśvaka tribe (Ind. Stud. III, p. 46).