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⁴ See *Advance*, March 10, 1935, p. 9. The coin belongs to the Mahākosala society of Raipur (C P.). It bears the figure of an elephant with Brāhmī legend on the obverse. The reverse is blank. On numismatic grounds the place of this ruler is according to Mr. K. N. Dikshit, more with the later kings of the dynasty than with the earlier ones as indicated in the *Purāṇas*. For the late date of Hāla of the Kuntala country see *R.G. Bhand. Com. Vol.*, 189. *Cf.* Reference to Rādhā in the *Saptaśatakam* (*Ind. Ant.*, III 25n.). Mr. K. P. Chattopādhyāya deduces from the discrepant lists of the *Matsya*, and *Vāyu Purāṇas* and from epigraphic and numismatic evidence, certain Nāyanikā and a brother-in-law of Sātakarṇi (No. 3 of the list) and a son of Mahāraṭhi Tranakayiro. This is negatived by the Nānāghāt epigraph which refers to the Mahāraṭhi as *Aṁgiya* (or *Ambhiya*) *kulavardhana*, whereas both the Sātakarṇis belong to the family of Simuka Sātavāhana according to Purāṇic evidence. Gautamī-Balaśrī who is turned into a sister or clan-sister of Śivasvāti (JASB, 1927, 590) refers merely to her position as a *badhū*, *mātā*, and *pitāmahī*, but never for once suggests that she herself sprang from the family the restoration of whose glory is referred to in exulting terms.