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¹ Dr. S. K. Aiyangar has argued (ABORI, iv, 49) that the lead currency which was introduced in the Kshatrapa kingdom during the period A.D. 360-72 may indicate that the debacle during A.D. 351-64 was caused by the intervention of the southern Vākāṭaka power, to whom this type of currency was, it is said, familiar. The southern power from whose intervention the Kshatrapas suffered at this time, was, however, not necessarily that of the Vākāṭakas, which in fact, as far as we know, had not then introduced a lead currency into their territories.