History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c18.s1.t2.10

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Some specimens of billon (copper) and base silver coins (containing on the obverse a horseman with the indistinct legend Madana or Madanapāladeva, or sometimes simply Mada or Śrī Ma, and on the reverse the figure of a recumbent humped bull with the legend Mādhava Śrī Sāmanta or Mādhava Śrī Sām, or sometimes Sāmanta or Mādha) have been discovered, and they have usually been attributed to Madanapāla of Kanauj.³ The point to be noted is that these coins confirm by their bull-emblem the testimony of inscriptions, which describe the Gāhaḍavāla kings as “Parama-māheśvara” or devotees of Śiva.