History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c15.s2.2

c15.s2.2

But evidently there was an exception made in the case of Prithivī-shena I, the son and successor of Rudrasena I, who got his son Rudrasena II married to the daughter of Chandra Gupta II. It seems that we have his coin—in the small, neat coin with a well-executed bull figure on the reverse, reproduced by Dr. V. Smith on plate No. XX, as fig. no. 4, in *his Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum*¹. The obverse which bears the well-known tree of the Bhāraśiva coins (Kosam mint) and the representation of a mountain, has a Brāhmī legend. It was read by Dr. Smith (p. 155) as *Pavatasa*, ‘of Pavata’. The first letter, however, is *Pri*, not *Pa*; the *ri* is at the bottom of the letter. The second letter is a conjunct with a [*v*] below a Guptan *th* (which has a clear dot in the middle); there are traces of *i*-mark on the top; it is to be read as *th* [*v*] *i*. The letter read by Dr. Smith as *ta* is *ś* with an *e*-mātrā on the top The next letter is *na*. The whole name seems to be: