History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c15.s2.6
History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Nāga–Vākāṭaka Imperial Period c15.s2.6
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In the same classification (‘Coins of Kosam’) Dr. Smith has illustrated another coin on the same plate (XX) as fig. no. 5. This has not been read by him.² It has the same five-branched tree but in an idealized and conventionalized form, and has the same mountain representation as on the coin of Prithivīshena I (fig. no. 4).² The mountain is evidently the Vindhya Hill. It has the same Vākāṭaka wheel which is inscribed on the Durehā pillar and on the Vākāṭaka inscriptions at Ganj and Nachnā and also on the coin of Pravarasena I of the year 76 (§ 30). The reverse has a lean bull facing a *dhvaja* or standard as on the Pallava seals (S.I.I., II, p. 521).³