History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c17.s1.t1.13

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160. Under these conditions the Junior Dynasty—the Chuṭu Kula—along with a few other subordinate dynasties came into existence. To this period probably the ‘Chuṭu-kulānanda’ coins are to be assigned. The Junior Dynasty guarded the sea-coast on the west. Their capital was Vaijayantī in the Province of Vanavāsī (Kanara). We find their inscription at Kanheri in the North, and we find their coins in the South at Karwar on the sea-coast in the province of Vanavāsī. On the coins, read as of *Chuṭu-kuḍānanda* (No. G.P. 2),² although the letters look earlier than those of 150 A.D., the form of ‘*ku*’ with a thickened head, and the treatment of *anusvāra* placed just on the top of ‘*na*’ and the form of ‘*sa*’ are later. It seems that archaic forms lingered on the coins, which amongst themselves show a period of hundred years as covered by them. It is to be noticed that the coins were not struck in the personal name of any member of the Chuṭu family but their official title—the Chuṭu Kula [*Raṇo Chuṭukuḍānamdasa* ‘(coin of) the Pleaser of the Chuṭu Dynasty’]. And we find the same characteristics on the coins issued by the governor [of the Muṇḍaraṣṭra] Muṇḍānanda. Muṇḍarāṣṭra was a province in Andradeśa according to the Pallava inscriptions.¹