Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c10.14

c10.14

¹ But this so-called lighter Attic weight might have been influenced by the Indian *dharana* or *purāṇa* standard after all. It is the smaller denominations of the imitations of the Athenian ‘owls’ procured in the regions near the extreme north-west border of India, which are usually based on the 58 grains standard which is also the weight of a large mass of silver punch-marked coins.