Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c11.40

c11.40

²³ The nether portions of the letters *chaturapanasa* only are impressed on the coin so that the reading is somewhat doubtful, but *panasa* is distinct enough Paṇḍit Bhagvânlâl puts *Chaturapanasa* at the beginning of the legend and reads *Chaturapanasa Gotamiputa Kumâru Yañña Sâtakani* which he translates "Yajña Sâtakarṇi, son of Gotamîputa, and prince of Chaturapana," and states his belief that Chatura pana was the name of Yajña Śrî's father But to connect Kumâru, which forms a part of a compound with the genitive, Chaturapanasa, is grammatically not allowable, while the genitive which is always required to show whose coin it is, is wanting Hence Chaturapanasa is the last word and the whole is a compound, Kumâru is probably a mistake for Kumâra and Yañña Sâtakani is the father's name placed before Chaturapanasa to show that he was his son (*Jour B B R A S*, Vol XV, pp 305-6)