The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c12.s3.15

c12.s3.15

This pottery with its focus in Western India has been very well-dated to the Kshatrapa Period (the first four centuries of the Christian era) by the excavations at Baroda, Timbarva (Karvan), Variav, Vadnagar, Amreli and Vasai by the association of large number of coins. Fortunately, we can trace its further expansion all over the country by the widespread occurrence in small quantities of a very characteristic diagnostic type—a narrow necked "sprinkler type"—right from Rupar in the Punjab to Bangarh in Bengal and Chandravalli in Northern Mysore. This occurs nowhere before the Christian era and inspite of a number of sites where they occur together, it is nowhere reported to overlap with the N. B. P.²