India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s6.t1.13

c9.s6.t1.13

¹ I once thought that an *aḍḍhamāsa* of silver (of 1 *ratti*=1.8 grs. theoretical weight) would be too minute to be handled and did not exist. Recently a number of minute coins were brought to me, obtained by the gold-washers in the Indus near Jahangira. The lot contains several specimens of silver *ardha-māshakas*, weighing 1.518, 1.132, 1.577, 1.22 grs. etc., and .160" dia. in size. One silver specimen weighs .4783 grains and is .102" in size. Nevertheless it is a regular specimen with a symbol consisting of seven globules on one side. It is an *ardhakākaṇī* coin in silver. I am inclined to believe that a *kākaṇī* and an *ardha-kākaṇī* coin in silver also existed. This would be true of the post-Pāṇinian, or the Mauryan epoch. For these and other specimens from Ujjain, see *J.N.S.I.*, XIII, 164-174.