Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c18.s3.101
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c18.s3.101
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⁴ See JRAS, 1912, pp. 1003, 1004. The Elamite (Sumerian? Hastings, 5, 827) goddess Nana possibly gave her name to the famous Nāṇaka coins (cf. Bhand., Carm. Lec., 1921, p. 161). For the influence of the Mithra (Mihr, Mihira, Miiro) cult on Kushān India, see Sir R. G. Bhandarkar, *Vaishṇavism, Saivism and Minor Religious Systems*, p. 154. According to Professor Rapson (*Andhra Coins*, xii) the diversity of coin-types does not show religious eclecticism, but reflects the different forms of religion which prevailed in the various districts of the vast empire of the Great Kushāns. *Cf.*, Asāvari and Bednur types of coins of the time of Iltutmish and of Hyder Ali.