History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c14.s4.7
History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Nāga–Vākāṭaka Imperial Period c14.s4.7
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c14.s4.7
As we shall see in § 26 B below ‘the Kauśāmbī coins’ are really Bhāraśiva coins. Several of them bear names ending in ‘-Nāga’. This N a v a N ā g a of our coins seems to me to be no other than the king after whose name the Purāṇas designate the Nava Nāga or Nava Nāka Dynasty. He was the founder of the Nava Nāga dynasty whose official title was Bhāra-śivas. The letters on his coins being in form identical with those of the Huvishka-Vāsudeva records, we should take him as a contemporary of Vāsudeva and assign him approximately to 140-170 A.D.