Tribes in Ancient India c63.61

c63.61

There is generally one distinguishing mark of the coins current in Ujjain; but on some of the rare coins the word ‘Ujeniya’ is incised in Brāhmī characters of the second century B.C. Generally on one side is a man with a symbol of the Sun and on the other is seen the sign of Ujjain. On some coins, a bull within a fence, or the Bodhi-tree, or Sumeru hill, or the figure of the Goddess of Fortune, is seen on one side. Some coins of Ujjain are quadrangular while others are round.¹ The class of round coins found at Ujjain display a special symbol, the ‘cross and balls’, known from its almost universal occurrence on the coins of ancient Malwa as the Ujjain symbol.² Square copper Mughal coins were struck at Ujjain up to the time of Shah Jahan I.³ kingdoms of the Śibis, Vṛṣadarbhas, Madras, Kekayas and Sauvīras, thus occupying the whole of the Punjab except the north-western corner.¹ According to the *Agnipurāṇa* (Chap. 200), the river Devikā, but, according to the *Bhāgavatapurāṇa* (verse 10), the river Ikṣumatī flowed through Sauvīra.