The Rashtrakutas and their Times c22.61
The Rāṣṭrakūṭas and their Times c22.61
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c22.61
The epigraphical records from Karnatak and Tamil provinces usually mention Kaḷanju, Gadyāṇaka and Kāsu as the current coins of the land. These were all golden coins. Kaḷanju is really the name of a prickly climbing species of Cœsalpina, the weight of whose seed varies between 45 to 50 grains. The average weight of the early punch-marked golden coins of the south also varies between 45 and 50 grains. The normal weight of a Kaḷanju coin of our period may therefore be presumed to be more or less the same. It was.